List of INRAE's centres

Ideally located in one of Europe's major agricultural regions, our teams are committed to meeting the challenges of healthy and sustainable food by supporting the agroecological transition and promoting the development of different agricultural models.

Our centre conducts multidisciplinary research focused on agroecology, food and taste, and development in rural and periurban areas.  Its research is at the heart of society’s major concerns and the challenges of the future.

The Corsica Research Centre plays a major role in its region where it constitutes an asset that is well-regarded and respected by both the public authorities and local actors for its numerous contributions. It has a reputation for producing scientific knowledge of international utility as well as findings that address issues of importance to the region.  Through its many relationships on both shores of the Mediterranean, the Centre has an important and strategic role to play. Its scientific positioning is truly original with respect to the major changes currently under way, such as climate change, market differentiation, sustainable resource management, genetics, health challenges and partnership and participatory research.

With its two sites in Guadeloupe and Guiana, the Centre well represents the agri-environmental issues specific to island and continental conditions in tropical regions. Its teams are organised in multidisciplinary consortia which can respond to the regional challenges of reinforcing food and environmental safety under the innovative concept of science and impact. The vulnerability of tropical agroecosystems means that the Centre offers an excellent laboratory to analyse how the climate is changing in response to current planetary shifts, and most particularly the conversion of conventional to ecologically intensive agriculture. Through its policy of welcoming doctoral students and postdoctoral scientists, the Centre is also closely involved in training in and through research for young people in the Caribbean and intertropical regions.

Our teams carry out research on the adaptation of forest, agricultural and urban ecosystems and soils to global changes, and the sustainable management of these territories. We are contributing to the ecological transition, producing plant and microorganism-based materials and biomolecules.

The teams in the Hauts-de-France centre conduct their work around two main research axes, the multi-performance of field crop systems for a sustainable bioeconomy, and the hygiene of agrifood processes.

INRAE, the French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment, is a major player in research and innovation and the result of the merger between INRA and IRSTEA on January 1, 2020. INRAE ​​brings together a community of 11,500 people, with just over 200 research units and around forty experimental units located in 18 centres across France.

In an exceptional academic and scientific environment, the INRAE ​​Île-de-France - Jouy-en-Josas - Antony research centre conducts research on animal biology, microbiology, food sciences, waste management, continental waters and wastewater.

The Île-de-France - Versailles-Saclay Research Centre produces knowledge and know-how in the fields of plant biology, agriculture, ecology and food.

In the heart of a large agricultural and forestry region, the INRAE ​​Nouvelle-Aquitaine Bordeaux centre conducts innovative and targeted research in the fields of plant sciences, ecology and environment, human and social sciences, neurosciences and nutrition.

INRAE's Occitanie-Montpellier Centre plays a major role in the region's inter-institutional agricultural research cluster and builds its identity around its research in agriculture, food and the environment. Internationally oriented with a majority of publications co-signed with at least one other country, it is characterized by its openness to southern countries and its Mediterranean specificity.

At the heart of an agricultural, horticultural and agrifood basin of prime importance in Europe, the INRAE ​​Pays de la Loire centre has built its identity around the sustainable management of the health of agricultural production (plants and animals), processing sustainable use of agro-bioresources (food and materials) and the health and nutritional quality of food. These themes respond to human health issues.

Located in thirteen sites in the heart of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region, the INRAE ​​Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur centre focuses its research on issues specific to the Mediterranean region: agroecology and adaptation of agriculture and forests to climate change, water resources, natural risks, human nutrition.