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Joining forces to become a key player in the environmental transition
Our ecosystem
The ITEM institute draws on research teams within 13 research units and connects around 250 staff from Aix Marseille Université, the CNRS, the IRD, the IRSN and also the Collège de France, the INRAe, SciencePo Aix, the universities of Avignon and Toulon.
Research units
- European research and teaching centre in environmental geosciences (CEREGE)
- Comparative and European international law (DICE)
- Study of structures, adaptation processes and changes in space (ESPACE)
- Mediterranean institute of marine and terrestrial biodiversity and ecology (IMBE)
- Laboratory of environmental chemistry (LCE)
- Interdisciplinary laboratory for urban planning (LIEU)
- Population environment development laboratory (LPED)
- Mediterranean institute of oceanography (MIO)
- Risks, ecosystems, vulnerability, environment, resilience (RECOVER)
- Aix-Marseille biosciences and biotechnologies (BIAM)
- Aix-Marseille centre for management studies and research (CERGAM)
- Mediterranean centre for sociology, political science and history (MESOPOLHIS)
- Time, space, language in southern Europe and the Mediterranean (TELEMME)
Our research initiatives
The ITEM institute proposes a number of actions to help researchers, teacher-researchers, engineers, postdoctoral students, PhD students and its laboratories:
- Support for key themes: energy transition, sustainable water and waste management, sustainable land use, biodiversity dynamics, green cities, multiple risks.
- An annual “Transition in Action” call for projects to support integrated, innovative, interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary research projects
- One “Incubator” call for projects to test innovative research themes or concepts
- Recruitment of PhD and postdoctoral students
- Access to 10 state-of-the-art platforms and observatories
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Calls for projects and offers
Calls for projects and other opportunities, awardee catalogue, current and future initiatives...
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Testimonials
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Anne Marie Farnet Da Silva
Lecturer HC, HDR, IMBE | PI of the ALCOVE project (AgricuLture bioContrôle biOfertilisant ViticolEs)
Thanks to financing from ITEM, I led the ALCOVE project, a significative step forward in our understanding of the impact of sustainable viticultural practices on the soil-vine continuum. Its success is based on a genuine synergy between environmental sciences (biotechnologies, chemistry, ecology and genotoxi-cology) and human sciences (psychosociology, geography). By being perfectly anchored in the socio-professional sphere, this project contributes to the adoption of new paradigms and new practices to meet the challenges of the Environmental Tra [...]