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- >Reinforce the visibility and attractiveness of basic research
Consolidate the three priority areas in horticulture and seed production
- Sustainable management of plant health
- Seed biology, quality and health
- Qualities and valorisation of horticultural products
Accelerate the increase in growing approaches and research fields such as
- Omics (genomics, metagenomics, metabolomics, isotopomics...), modelling, big data treatment
- Epigenetics
- High-throughput plant phenotyping
- Integration of plants in urban and peri-urban areas
Main results expected by 2020:
- An European or international leadership on the priority areas
- An increase in the workforce:
- + 10 % of teachers-researchers, researchers, engineers
- more PhD or post-doc fellowships
- More interdisciplinary research projects with other regional or national research teams
- A prominent international influence, visible by:
- a successful candidate at the European Research Council grant (ERC)
- the setting up of strategic international partnerships
- an increased participation in international networks
First results:
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60 research projects (PhDs, post-docs, starters) launched since 2014 to develop new research topics and new skills (total amount of funding: 5.4M€)
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3 interdisciplinary projects: 1 coupling genetics, history and mathematics, 1 with the sea cluster, 1 with the health cluster
- An increase in the number of permanent scientists (research managers, research directors, teacher-researchers, engineers): + 25 positions between 2014 and 2019 (+ 17%)
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3 "Connectalent" regional grants to host 3 senior scientists (2.3 M€) for new projects on epigenetics, high-throughput phenotyping of plants and isotope and metabolic biomarkers of seed quality:
E. Bucher, ERC BUNGEE laureate, D. Rousseau and G. Tcherkez
