The Institute of Research for Development (IRD) is celebrating its 80th anniversary this year by organising events in France and abroad, focusing on the challenges of international scientific cooperation for sustainable development. The press conference organised at IRD headquarters in Marseille ended on Tuesday 6 February with a tour of the CEREGE, focusing on IRD's major themes: understanding water resources, partnerships and technology transfer, water and carbon cycles in tropical zones and responsible mining.
"As a French public research institution, the IRD defends an original model of equitable scientific partnership with the countries of the South and an interdisciplinary and socially responsible science, committed to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. www.ird.fr
On the various CEREGE technology platforms, such as theNational Instrument Aster, the 2D and 3D X-ray imaging platform MATRIX or the Platform for the Analysis of Stable ISotopes PANISSResearchers, engineers, doctoral students and post-doctoral fellows from the IRD at CEREGE addressed a range of issues linked to major societal challenges:
. Consessing water resources. Cosmogenic isotope analysis and modelling.
Speakers: Souleymane Abba, doctoral student (AMU), Pierre Seraphin, geophysics researcher (IRD), Pierre Deschamps, research fellow (IRD)
. Lowcost partnership and technology transfer: microscopy, sensors.
Speakers Laurent Drapeau, Research Engineer (IRD), Thomas Stieglitz, Hydrogeologist and water geochemist, Research Director (IRD) and Camille Godbillot, post-doctoral researcher (IRD).
. Water and carbon cycles in tropical zones: isotopes, palaeoclimate, palaeoecology, water cycle and floods. Projects in Congo and Chad.
Speakers Yannick Garcin, Research Fellow in Environmental Physics and Chemistry (IRD), David Au Yang, Chemical Analysis Engineer (IRD) and Julie Aleman, Research Fellow (CNRS).
. Responsible mining: from diagnosis to solutions for developing secondary resources and supporting mining regions in their efforts to reconvert in a fair manner. Site in Morocco.
Speakers Blanche Collin, researcher (AMU) and Perrine Chaurand, research engineer (AMU) on the work of Clément Levard, DR CNRS on IRD assignment in MOROCCO, as part of the LMI AMIR ("Mines and sustainable management").
