Research News - March / April 2021 #3

The OLIVE4ALL research project, "Olive heritage for sustainable development: raising community awareness of a living heritage", winner of European funding

Julie DeramondDoctor in Contemporary History, lecturer in Information and Communication Sciences at Avignon University and researcher at the Centre Norbert Elias, has received funding from the European Commission's JPI CH programme (Joint Programming Initiative on Cultural Heritage and Global Change) to run her OLIVE4ALL project until 2024. The OLIVE4ALL project is one of 6 selected and funded by international experts (out of 90 applications received).

The OLIVE4ALL project (Olive Heritage for Sustainable Development: Raising Community Awareness of Living Heritage) aims to study how to put heritage and its enhancement at the heart of regional development proposalsto meet the challenges facing society today.

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A 5-year partnership with the Cultural Foundation "The Route of the Olive tree" and the Fédération des Musées d'agriculture et du Patrimoine Rural (AFMA) around the "Heritage of the Olive Tree" supported by the Centre Norbert Elias (CNE).

A framework agreement has just been signed between the Fondation Culturelle "The Route of the Olive tree "a Greek partner based in Kalamata and currently chaired by France, the French Federation of Agricultural and Rural Heritage Museums (AFMA) based in Paris and Avignon University on behalf of the Laboratory Norbert Elias Centre (CNE) on the Heritage of the Olive Tree "The aim is to promote the cultural heritage of the olive tree in France's southern Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur and Occitanie regions.
This project is supported by Julie Deramond for the CNE, for a period of 5 years.

The objectives of this partnership are

• to jointly undertake initiatives aimed at better understanding and promoting this unique cultural heritage for the benefit of the local community through the creation of an inventory of the olive tree heritage in Mediterranean France;  
• to work together to implement initiatives to promote the civilisation of the olive tree in France in the southern Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur and Occitanie regions;  
• to undertake initiatives aimed at raising awareness of the olive-growing heritage in other Mediterranean regions: Europe, Eastern Europe and the Maghreb.

A number of specific agreements (collaboration, internships, theses, studies) will be signed to formalise the various initiatives undertaken to promote olive heritage.

March 2021

On the occasion of the international women's rights day on 8 March 2021, we wanted to highlight the portraits of 4 personalities who work every day for the supporting research at Avignon University. Their areas of expertise are varied, ranging from finance to biology and information systems administration.

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February 2021

For the month of February, we're sharing a portrait of Benjamin Derhy Kurtz, PhD and ATER in Information-Communication.
It studies the creative industries and cultural institutions: in particular the television, film and music industries.

>> See his portrait

Registrations open for the International Master's Degree in Agrosciences

Applications for the International Masters in Agrosciences (IMAS) are still open.

>> Go here

Signing of an international research project agreement between Avignon University and the University of British Columbia (Canada)

This signature will support a new Franco-Canadian international research project (IRP) entitled "Maxwell - Berger Low-Noise Underground Research Laboratory (MBL) PROJECT. This is a highly innovative project, bringing together researchers from different disciplines developing imaging methods ranging from geophysics to medicine.

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Results of the Agorantic RFP 2021 call for projects

This year, 7 research projects have been selected by the Research Committee for the Agorantic RF.

>> Find out more here

Call for entries: Fête de la Science

A national benchmark event for scientific, technical and industrial culture, the Science Festival is one of the highlights of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region.

In 2021, it takes place from Friday 1 to Monday 11 October 2021 for the 30th edition.

The University lecturers, students and staff can take part by proposing an operation aimed at disseminating scientific, technical and industrial culture in a wide variety of ways: exhibitions, workshops, demonstrations, meetings, visits to companies, laboratories, etc., readings of scientific stories, readings of texts, lectures, etc.

All the sciences, including the humanities and social sciences, are welcome.
The operations are aimed at school or to general public.

To get involved (conferences, screenings, exhibitions, etc.), send a message to :

• com-recherche@univ-avignon.fr  until 20 May 2021!

Over the next few months, Platform 3A will be deploying a new information management system developed by Agilent Technology. This software package will be used to manage the various instruments, methods, users, stocks of consumables, laboratory workload (unit time per analysis, equipment capacity), as well as managing costs and recording incidents in order to plan maintenance on all the analytical platforms making up Platform 3A at the INRAE and Avignon University sites. This tool, which will be accessible via a dedicated internet portal, will help to raise the Platform's profile and boost internal and external scientific research activity.