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National and international partnerships

Research generates and necessitates exchange, collaboration, lateral relations and formalised partnerships.

This may involve for example:

• a networking of skills and competence. This is the case of the involvement of the Clermont-Ferrand - Theix Centre in:
  • poles of competitiveness (in French): the Centre is involved in 2 of the 3 poles of competitiveness which exist in Auvergne: the Meat and Meat Product Pole (Innoviandes) and the Innovation in Cereals Pole.
  • the Health Auvergne Federative Research Institute (in French): in which the Human Nutrition, Microbiology and Animal Product Quality Units of the Clermont-Ferrand - Theix Centre participate.
    
  • the Agri-veterinary pole of Rhônes-Alpes-Massif Central region: in which the Clermont-Ferrand - Theix Research Centre is involved, is a pole of competence instigated by the Ministry of Agriculture in 2004.
    
  • the Human Nutrition Research Centre (in French): with its Human Nutrition and Comparative Nutrition Units, the INRA Centre of Clermont Ferrand-Theix is an essential partner of the Human Nutrition Research Centre of Auvergne (CRNH), set up in 1992.
    

• throughout the year, the Centre welcomes a large number of foreign students and researchers from different countries (Algeria, Germany, Brazil, Great Britain, Morocco, Syria, China, Venezuela, Togo, Vietnam, etc). There are about 40 at any one time and they stay anywhere from a few weeks to 3 years.
  
  
  

• researchers from the Centre regularly go to research laboratories and universities abroad (United States, Great Britain, China, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, etc) to learn techniques, develop partnerships or to collaborate in research. Their stay can last from a few days to several years.
  

• involvement in editorial committees of international journals: for example the new international journal: ANIMAL - The International Journal of Animal Bioscience launched in 2006 by INRA, The British Society of Animal Science (BSAS) and the European Association for Animal Production (EAAP). Michel Doreau, researcher at the INRA Centre of Clermont-Fd - Theix in the Herbivore Research Unit, is the chief editor of this new journal.

• scientific twinnings with research centres abroad: two research centres based in Aberdeen in Scotland have signed twinning agreements with the INRA Centre of Clermont Ferrand-Theix. They are the Rowett Research Institute (RRI) and the Macaulay Institute (MI). Moreover, Clermont-Ferrand and Aberdeen are twinned.

Written by: Communications Office
Date of creation: 28/04/2006
Date of last update: 29/08/2006