The Montpellier Process
Pooling collective intelligence for action · 19-20 march 2024

Transversal days

Two days entirely dedicated to the intersection of reflections, experiences, subjects mentioned above.

Development through Higher Education

Facilitation:   Jérôme Thonnat , Agro Institute​

​Franco-Ivorian Hub

  • Moussa Diaby , Institut National Polytechnique Houphouët Boigny, Ivory Coast
  • Taina Loum * & Dabone Yacouba * , students

Franco-Senegalese Campus

  • Serigne Magueye Gueye , Managing Director
  • Diarra Diouf & Mohamed Rassoul Diouf, students

​ADEFSA and PEA programs

  • Elise Kaba , Agrhymet
  • Ndéyé Coumba Toure Kane , USSEIN

C2D and public-private partnerships

  • Siaka Koné , Institut National Polytechnique Houphouët Boigny, Ivory Coast

​Double degree partnerships

  • Abdoulaye Samb , Cheick Anta Diop University, Senegal

​What achievements and what trajectories for development through Research?

Facilitation: Astou Camara , Senegalese Institute for Agricultural Research (ISRA), Ludovic Cocogne (IRD) &  Philippe Petithuguenin (CIRAD)

​Laureates of the “Tremplin” prize for bilateral research cooperation – Africa:

  • Aïda Bouratbine , Institut Pasteur de Tunis
  • Gerald Spaeth , Institut Pasteur de Paris

Experience feedback: impact of research projects in terms of development

  • Tahina Solofoniaina Raharison , GSDM – Agroecology Professionals
  • Alpha Kabinet Keita , Guinea Infectious Disease Research and Training Center
  • Maryam Muhammad * , National Veterinary Research Institute of Nigeria

​What prospects and trajectories for development through research

  • Abdoulaye Touré , Guinea Infectious Disease Research and Training Center
  • Alioune Fall , Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa
  • Bertrand Walckenaer , AFD
  • DG INTPA , European Commission
  • Elisabeth Claverie de Saint-Martin , Cirad
  • Valérie Verdier , IRD

Facilitation: Laetitia Mahé , IRD

  • Hambani Masheleni *, African Union Commission
  • Bouna Kane , Simplon Africa
  • Koumba Maï Koné , Nangui Abrogoua University, Abidjan, Ivory Coast
  • Antoine Reské Diomandé, Cémoi
  • Philippe Nérin , SATT AxLR
  • Awa Caba , Sooretul

Building together the intelligence of tomorrow for Africa and for the world (round table)

Facilitation: Patrick Caron , University of Montpellier

  • Lindiwe Sibanda , University of Pretoria, South Africa
  • Habiba Chaabouni , Academy of Sciences Tunisia
  • Edgar Morin * , Unesco Chair, France
  • Achille Mbembé , University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Competitive funding, evaluation, impact, accountability: independence or complementarity of actors and approaches?

Facilitation: Didier Hoffschir , Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation

  • Thierry Damerval , ANR
  • Thomas Mélonio , AFD
  • Yazdan Yazdanpanah , ANRS | Emerging infectious diseases 
  • Léonard Mizzi , European Commission (to be confirmed)
  • Aldo Stroebel , National Research Foundation, South Africa

Conclusion of the Montpellier Global Days

  • Philippe Augé , University of Montpellier
  • Sophie Béjean, Rector of the Academy of Occitanie
  • Michaël Delafosse , Montpellier Mediterranean Metropolis & City of Montpellier