Partnership Chairs

The Chairs

Creating or taking part in an AgroParisTech partnership chair is an opportunity to bring complementary expertise together to serve a shared objective, an effective process for grasping complex issues. Together, we can develop innovative long-term solutions to confront the major challenges that lie ahead.

The collaborative establishment of a tailor-made partnership chair—a process covered by the AgroParisTech Sponsorship Charter and Ethics Charter—enables us, working hand in hand, to address issues of general interest that serve the community at large.

Setting the Course Together

And taking time to achieve our goals. Whether it involves identifying the subject to be dealt with by the chair or designing the chair’s project (defining objectives, activities, resources, budget, performance indicators), the guiding principles for the process should always be flexibility and collaboration, as they are vital to ensuring that partners remain on the same page so that the major challenges facing the planet can be overcome.

Ten Partnership Chairs to Collaborate and Innovate Between Complementary Partners

• Environment Research Lab
  (VINCI)
  Producing decision-making tools to help reduce the environmental impact of buildings and infrastructure. 

• Water For All
  (Suez Initiatives Foundation, SUEZ Environnement, AFD) 
  Contributing to access to essential services in the Global South. 

• Food, Nutrition, and Eating Behavior
  (Danone Research, Bonduelle Foundation) 
  Disseminating information on food and health to promote healthy, sustainable, and balanced diet for all people. 

• Prospective Modeling for Sustainable Development
  (Adème, EDF, GRT Gaz, Renault, Schneider Electric)
  Consolidating a long-term platform of prospective modeling tools to meet the challenges of sustainable development. 

• Urban Agriculture, Ecosystem Services and Urban Food Supply
  (Fondation Carrefour, Greater Paris Metropolitan Area, City of Paris) 
  Supporting the development of urban agriculture to create more resilient cities. Relocating production and processing infrastructures closer to cities. 

• Grignon Positive Energy
  (Crédit Agricole SA, Sofiproteol/Avril, Arvalis, Cetiom/Terres Inovia, Cniel, InVivo, AESN, Terrena Poitou, Coop de France, Glon/Sanders, BASF, Casdar, Ademe) 
  Measuring the environmental, economic, and nutritional performance of farms and supporting producers in the transition toward more sustainable production systems. 

• Ecological Accounting
  Contributing to the development of an environmentally sustainable socioeconomic system by involving stakeholders at every level (national government, local governments, corporations, etc.). 

• InterActions – Territories and Transitions
  (National Regional Natural Park Federation, RESOLIS) 
  Helping public and private stakeholders pursue changes and reforms that will have an economic, environmental, and social impact on their region.

• H@rvest: Technology in the Service of Agriculture 
  Providing support to farmers through technology to optimize the strategy, management, and operation of their farms and maximize their economic, social, and environmental performance.

• CoPack
  Offering support to the packaging industry to help it limit its environmental impact.

• Cosmétique 
  In the heart of the French cosmetics industry, alongside academic and economic industry stakeholders from the Centre-Val de Loire region, combining research, teaching, and knowledge transfer activities to craft educational offerings that meet industry needs and foster innovation, entrepreneurship, and business creation. 

• Sustainable Demand Supply Chain (ended December 31, 2018) 
  (Avril, Système U, Terrena, GS1 France) 
  Putting sustainable development at the core of the strategies for managing demand and the supply chain, in order to bring about shifts in the way the agriculture and food sector is organized and managed. 

• Forests for Tomorrow (ended in 2017) 
  (National Office of Forests – ONF) 
  Making the forestry and wood industries more rational and environmentally friendly in the face of environmental and climate-related challenges.