Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur

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.

Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Centre

The INRAE Provence-Alpes-Côte d´Azur research centre is the fourth largest of INRAE' 18 centres with a consolidated budget of €71 million, including €14 million in autonomous resources. It has a staff of 1,300, including 710 permanent staff members located on 12 sites: Avignon, Sophia-Antipolis and Aix-en-Provence le Tholonet, and nine other sites including Aix-en-Provence Arbois, Marseille Luminy and La Timone, Gotheron, Cape Town Antibes, Nice, Les Vignères, Manduel l'Amarine.

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Key figures

12 locations
710 permanent staff, including 340 researchers and engineers;
310 contractual staff;
439 staff from partners and associated organizations;
16 research units, including 7 joint research units;
4 experimental units and 2 services units;
6 joint technological units and around twenty platforms.

Results

~555 publications per year in peer-reviewed journals;
38 research contracts signed per year with a socio-economic partner (+ 1 SATT contract) and 19 patents in progress (3 per year for the last two years) and 5 licenses.