CIRAD`s Montpellier Research Centre

CIRAD’s Montpellier
Research Centre
Languedoc-Roussillon
Regional Office
CIRAD
> A flagship agricultural research centre
A gateway to the world—CIRAD’s main research base in Montpellier is a
network hub linking all CIRAD stations in developing countries.
D. Louppe
CIRAD
The Montpellier Centre hosts two-thirds of all CIRAD staff members and includes many laboratories, technical platforms,
advanced research infrastructures and specialized equipment.
> Reception, training and
scientific research
Yearly
> Over 1000 research partners are hosted, with almost 2/3 from foreign
countries
> 300 PhD students conduct research in CIRAD laboratories
G. Reffray
> Around 100 scientific events (conferences, workshops, seminars)
> Many events are open to the general public—films, documentaries,
debates and exhibitions.
> Part of an international agricultural and
environmental research platform
of Montpellier pools many research institutions and universities.
CIRAD’s outstanding scientific environment
A community
is accessible to all partners in developing
of 2300 scientists
countries.
T. Erwin
World capital of agricultural research, the city
This substantial scientific community, represented by Agropolis International and-ortium since 2011, thus heightening its
Global
global visibility.
CIRAD
visibility
CIRAD’s Montpellier
Research Centre
Languedoc-Roussillon
Regional Office
> A few figures and touchstones
Four sites in Montpellier and vicinity
• Lavalette Campus
60 000 m2 of offices and research infrastructures,
including 4000 m2 of greenhouses.
• Technology Park
• Agropolis Science Park
CIRAD
P. Lajous-Causse
Over 26 hectares,
• Baillarguet Campus
3
31
1600
scientific
departments
research
units
staff members,
including
750 senior scientists
Yearly,
the CIRAD
LanguedocRoussillon
Regional Office
hosts
Research infrastructures and
specialized equipment
20- 30
official
delegations
Reference laboratories (food, water, soil, animal health)
Technical platforms and facilities (biomass-energy, plant genomics,
cell imaging, etc.)
80
Agrifood technology platform
Experimental greenhouses and quarantine service
dissertation and
HDR (accreditation
to supervise
research) defenses
CIRAD
Plant and animal germplasm collections (biological resource centre,
herbarium, xylotheque, etc.)
Reception and service facilities
Libraries
Hundreds
D. Louppe
Meeting rooms, videoconference facilities, auditorium
of visitors
Guest office
Two on-site canteens
Towards Baillarguet Campus
Prades-le-Lez
Towards Clapiers
Castelnau-le-Lez
Towards Montferrier-sur-Lez
Agropolis
Science Park
La Lironde
Roundabout
D65
PNF
River Lez
Lavalette Campus
Towards Montpellier
Euromédecine
Agropolis
Towards Montpellier
Hospitals - Universities
J.-F. Breton St.
Campus Agropolis
Towards Montpellier Lunaret Zoo
Tram line 1 to Saint-Eloi stop,
then bus no. 13, direction Universités
© CIRAD, May 2014
CIRAD Montpellier Languedoc-Roussillon
Regional Office
Avenue Agropolis, TA 178/04,
34398 Montpellier Cedex 5 - FRANCE
tel.: +33 4 67 61 49 34
fax: +33 4 67 61 49 42
e-mail: [email protected]