Work on the above four axes enhances the profile of Montpellier SupAgro, both in France and abroad, drawing attention to our training programs, research projects, and partnership networks.

Montpellier SupAgro’s scientific activities are promoted and intensified through partnerships. Some reinforce actions within one area. Examples are the corporate sponsored research chairs, AgroTIC services, and our experimental farms. Others contribute to all four priority axes, such as the Agro Valo Mediterranée business incubator and the DEFIS expertise service.

Our education and research departments and research units are engaged in cutting-edge research, contributing to advances in our fields of specialization, and challenging education programs. The research undertaken by faculty members forms a solid link between Montpellier SupAgro and the 22 research units associated with us, most managed in collaboration with INRA and CIRAD.

Our three Institutes work closely with the departments to propose education programmes in their areas of expertise. They also provide consultancy services which serve as a bridge between training programmes and real life challenges. Finally, they set up multi-partner projects highlighting the reputation of Montpellier’s poles of expertise. One such example is the Vine & Wine Pole of Expertise.

Links with academic partners in the joint research units are reinforced at a local level through Agropolis International and the Languedoc-Roussillon Group of Universities (COMUE Languedoc-Roussillon Universités). Montpellier SupAgro is a founding member of the Agropolis Fondation  and is involved in I-Site MUSE with Montpellier University. At the national level, Montpellier SupAgro is a member Agreenium (l’institut agronomique, vétérinaire et forestier de France).

The professionalization of our training courses is being developed in close cooperation with socio-economic partners, some of whom are particularly active through their work with the Business chairs.