Sponsors

	INRA: The National Institute of Agriculture
	In today’s complex climatic, demographic and energy context, agricultural research must deal with major issues on various scales. Preparing worldwide food availability and security by 2050, reducing greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture, and promoting alternative agricultural and forestry practices that can respond to non-reversible climate change are challenges the entire world must face. Some of the many underlying concerns that must be tackled include understanding individual behaviour on a regional or market level; studying the relationships between plant, animal and human health; researching new ways of producing energy and materials from agricultural sources; and limiting overall environmental impacts. To deal with these issues, the French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA) produces scientific knowledge and works for economic and social innovation in the areas of food, agriculture and the environment.
	Inria
	Public science and technology institution established in 1967, Inria is is the only public research body fully dedicated to computational sciences. Combining computer sciences with mathematics, Inria’s 3,400 researchers strive to invent the digital technologies of the future. Educated at leading international universities, they creatively integrate basic research with applied research and dedicate themselves to solving real problems, collaborating with the main players in public and private research in France and abroad and transferring the fruits of their work to innovative companies. The researchers at Inria published over 4,800 articles in 2010. They are behind over 270 active patents and 105 start-ups. In 2010, Inria’s budget came to 252.5 million euros, 26% of which represented its own resources.
	Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche
	The Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche (LOV) is internationally recognized as a leading marine research institute and educational facility. LOV brings together approximately 30 scientists from a variety of disciplines in oceanography including biology, biogeochemistry, geochemistry and physics.
	Region Languedoc-Rousillon
	Region Languedoc-Rousillon is one of the 27 regions of France. It comprises five departments, and borders the other French regions of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Rhône-Alpes, Auvergne, Midi-Pyrénées on the one side, and Spain, Andorra and the Mediterranean Sea on the other side. It is the southernmost region of mainland France.
	Grand Narbonne
	Grand Narbonne is an administrative structure composed of 37 cities situated near Narbonne, in the South of France.
	Mairie de Narbonne
	Narbonne is a commune in southern France in the Languedoc-Roussillon region. It lies 849 km (528 mi) from Paris in the Aude department, of which it is a sub-prefecture. Once a prosperous port, and a major city in Roman times, it is now located about 15 km (9.3 mi) from the shores of the Mediterranean Sea.
	Médiathèque Grand Narbonne
	Mediathèque Grand Narbonne is the library of Grand Narbonne, where one can borrow books, music, DVDs, newspaper as well as enjoy many art expositions.
	VLAG Graduate School
	The Dutch acronym VLAG stands for: Voeding, Levensmiddelentechnologie, Agrobiotechnologie en Gezondheid. Founded in 1993, the Graduate School VLAG (Advanced Studies in Food Technology, Agrobiotechnology, Nutrition and Health Sciences) is a partnership between Wageningen University, Maastricht University Medical Centre and five research institutes (TNO, NIZO food research, Wageningen UR Food & Biobased Research, the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), and RIKILT). The disciplines covered by the graduate school are: nutrition, food sciences, agro-biotechnology and health sciences. VLAG's two major tasks are to provide its PhD students with a research and education programme of academic excellence and to provide added value to its programme by funding research projects and by acquiring external funding for large-scale multidisciplinary research projects.
	Salinalgue
	Salinalgue is a research project (2011-2014) funded by the French single interministerial fund studying the possibility to produce bioenergy and other byproducts from microalgae culture in salt mashes. Dunaliella salina, a native microalgae, is cultivated at industrial scale in open ponds, which are old salt marshes used in the past to produce salt. Salinalgue project is lead by La Compagnie du Vent, a French company producing renewables energies such as wind energy or photovoltaic solar energy.

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