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INRA has signed a cooperation agreement with the Institution of Agricultural Research and Higher Education (Tunisia)

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Marion Guillou, President of INRA and Mr Abdelaziz Mougou, President of the Institution of Agricultural Research and Higher Education (IRESA) have signed a framework cooperation agreement. The agreement was signed on 16 May 2008 in Tunis at the Ministry of Agriculture in the presence of Mr Mohamed Habib Haddad, Minister of Agriculture and Hydraulic Resources and Mr Abderrazak Daâloul, Secretary of State for Fisheries. The CIRAD will soon be associated with this agreement.

This agreement aims at reinforcing scientific exchanges, researcher mobility and joint projects between the two establishments.  It establishes a programme of calls for proposals for joint research projects.

Tunisia, represented by IRESA, is part of the ERA-net project on agricultural research in the Mediterranean area coordinated by INRA and which will be soon underway.

Marion Guillou also met Mr Ridha Ben Mosbah, Secretary of State for Research on the same day.  They discussed in particular researcher mobility, evaluation and the development of biotechnologies.

Written by :  International Relations Department, Bernard Charpentier
Label for the news :  Article
Date for the news :  2011.03.08
Date of creation : 28/05/2008
Date of last update : 30/05/2008

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