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Main axes of research

EVA has developed multidisciplinary expertise in environment and agro-biotechnologies, following 4 strategic lines of development and innovation:

• the sustainable management of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems: ecology, ecotoxicology, microbiology, ecotechnologies, nature conservation, bioindication and biodiversity;
• the application of biotechnologies in agricultural, wine-growing, horticultural and forestry sectors: plant biology, integrated agriculture, conservation of genetic resources, phytopathology, entomology, production of molecules that are of biomedical and nutritional interest, renewable energies, biomaterials;
• the sustainable management of geohydrosystems and territory development: hydro-climatology, hydrogeology, pedology, bioclimatology, climatic change, natural risks, remote sensing, environmental modelisation, hydrogeochemistry, water, soil and air pollution;
• nutrition and toxicology: food safety, nutritional quality, agro-food, environmental toxicology, public health.

Application domains

As EVA is a multidisciplinary department, it has many application domains such as: agriculture, forestry and horticulture (improvement of plant production, study of stresses, biodiversity, optimisation of biomass production systems, etc.), decision-making assistance for environmental issues, wastewater treatment, nature conservation, risk assessment,  management of natural resources, sustainable land-use management, remote sensing, food industry (food safety, environmental toxicology, nutritional quality of food, etc.).

Areas of competence

Environment, Life Sciences, health and biotechnology

Technology keywords

Agro chemicals - Air Pollution/Treatment - Analytical Chemistry - Aquaculture - Assessment of Risk - Biochemistry/Biophysics - Biocontrol - Biodiversity - Biotreatment/Compost/Bioconversion - Cellular and Molecular Biology - Crop Production - Databases, Database Management, Data Mining - Detection and Analysis methods - Ecology - Environmental Engineering/Technology - Environmental Medicine, Social Medicine, Sports Medicine - Food Additives/Ingredients/Functional Food - Food Microbiology/Toxicology/Quality Control - Food Technology - Gene Expression, Proteom Research - GIS Geographical Information Systems - Horticulture - Imaging, Image Processing, Pattern Recognition - Inorganic Chemistry - Liquid biomass - Mathematical modelling - Measurement and Detection of Pollution - Meteorology/Climatology - Microbiology - Moisture sensors - Natural Disasters - Nutrition and Health - Organic Chemistry - Plastics, Polymers - Remote sensing technology - Soil Pollution - Solid biomass - Statistical Analysis - Sylviculture, Forestry - Toxicology - Tracability of food - Water Pollution/Treatment