AGROCAMPUS OUEST

Higher education and research

Agriculture • Food sciences • Life sciences • Environment • Sea and Seashore • Horticulture •

Landscaping

Localisation

Rennes

Angers

Beg Meil

Paris

350 km 2h high speed

train

300 km 1h40 high speed train

AGROCAMPUS OUEST

A newly created university founded on 2008, July 1st, by two graduate Institutions in Sciences and Engineering :

•Agrocampus Rennes•Institut National d’Horticulture (Angers)

The only one in France with such a wide range of activities (education, research and application) in the field of Life Sciences

Global staff 350 - Teaching & Research staff 150

350 scientist partners (joint research units)

1890 students

2 centers•Rennes (agriculture, food, life sciences, sea and seashore, environment)•Angers (horticulture, landscaping, environment)

AGROCAMPUS OUEST

In a major agricultural Region in Europe Member of national clusters

• Pôle Mer Bretagne (sea and seashore)• Valorial, l’aliment de demain (food)• Végépolys (horticulture)

Founding member of 3 consortia : • The European University of Brittany• The Nantes – Angers – Le Mans University• The «Consortium national pour l’agriculture, l’alimentation, la santé animale et l’environnement » AGREENIUM

Certified ISO 9001:2008 • for all activities in education and research

Organisational structure

Départements

10 departments of education and research / 3 « Pôles »

Angers :- Agriculture engineering,- Biological sciences,- Sciences and horticultural Production engineering,- Economy, Data processing - Communication,- Landscape

Rennes- Agriculture, Environment and countryside- Food sciences,- Rural economy and management,- Animal sciences,- Engineerings- Languages

Halieutic « pôle »Agriculture, Environment, Territories « pôle »

Food sciences « pôle »

Degree programmes

Curricula M 4 « ingénieur » degrees (Master grade)

Agricultural sciences Food science & technology Horticulture Landscaping

16 Master degrees in the above specialities 1 Master Erasmus Mundus « International Master of Rural Development » 3 double degrees (Germany, Spain and China)

Master programmes16 spécialities of master

- Food, milk, innovation and management- Applied biology to production and animal health - Integrative Biology: gene, plant, agrosystem - Territorial dynamics and landscape - Eco-engineering of the wetlands and biodiversity- Functional, behavioral and evolutionary ecology- Space and environment- Mediterranean and tropical horticulture – HORTIMET- Hydrogéology, hydrobiogeochimy, hydropedology- Environmental Engineering - Modeling of the biological systems- Policy of the resources of agriculture, sea and environment- Statistics for agriculture and food sciences- Companies’stratégy of the plant sector- Plant technology and specialized productions

- Master Erasmus Mundus « International master in rural development » - IMRD

Degree programmes

Curricula DDoctorate degree within 6 doctoral schools in the following areas:

Life, Agricultural and Health Sciences Physics and Chemistry Mathematics and Electronic systems Economics and Social Sciences Plant, Environment, Nutrition, Food Sciences Rules and Regulations, Economics Management Sea Sciences

S1-S2

S3-S4

S5-S6

S7-S8

S9-S10

S11-S12

S13-S14

S15-S16

Secondary education (age 18 – Baccalauréat diploma)

Outgoing student flow per year (number of graduates)

Semesters

120 50 185 110

Doctorate

Ingénieur agricultural

sciences-

horticulture-

landscaping

MasterIngénieur

-food science & technology- horticulture- landscaping

propedeutic phase

Degree programmes

S1-S2

S3-S4

S5-S6

S7-S8

S9-S10

S11-S12

S13-S14

S15-S16

Recruitment routes for foreign students

Semesters

Doctorate

Ingénieur agricultural

sciences-

horticulture-

landscaping

MasterIngénieur

-food science & technology- horticulture- landscaping

propedeutic phase

Degree programmes

Recruitment routes

International

Compulsory mobility abroad for French « ingénieurs » students, mainly in semester 7 (internship or study period in a foreign university)

More than 10% foreign students mainly at Master or PhD level

80 international partners

Participation in International Education Programmes

European programmes Life Long Learning Program -Erasmus (since

1988) Erasmus Mundus (since 2004) Tempus (since 1996) Cooperation with US (since 2004)

Research a partnership strategy

Universities Rennes,

Angers INRA

IRD IFREMER CEMAGREF CIRAD

CNRS

15 Research units

Research

7 areas – 18 units• Livestock Production Sciences (dairy production, animal and human nutrition)

• Horticulture, Crops and Seeds (genetics, plant pathology, biotech.)

• Environment, Landscape and Sustainable Development (ecology, soil science)

• Bio-industries (milk and egg) and food Safety

• Sea and Seashore (sea resources and aquaculture, coastal management)

• Economics and Policies (environment, agriculture and marine resources)

• Biomathematics (sensory analysis)

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