NATAE (Fostering Agro-ecological transition in North Africa through multi-actors design, evaluation and networking) is a newly awarded project under the Horizon Europe programme.
The Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Montpellier (CIHEAM Montpellier), one of the four institutes of the International Centre for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies (CIHEAM), is an intergovernmental organization whose mission is the development of higher education and lifelong learning, research and cooperation in the Mediterranean area. Within the scope of the NATAE project, CIHEAM Montpellier offers a position of Public Policy Expert.
Job specifications
- Starting date: ideally July 3, 2023;
- Contract duration: fixed term contract of 10 months (40 weeks);
- Location: Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Montpellier
Closing date of the call for applications: June 11, 2023
Context
NATAE (Fostering Agro-ecological transition in North Africa through multi-actors design, evaluation and networking) is a newly awarded project under the Horizon Europe programme. Based on a multi-actor and interdisciplinary approach, this four-year project will generate new insights for assessing practices that are inspired by agro-ecology in a multidimensional way and at multiple scales (from production systems to territory and value chains). The aims are to identify, evaluate and eventually promote the best observed and experimented combinations of practices inspired by agro-ecology in North Africa (i), and to set up a Mediterranean agro-ecological network for knowledge exchanges and advocacy at regional level (ii). The approach is based on Multi-Actor Labs (MALs), as territories that are anchored in specific agro-ecosystems of North Africa. Production of scientific data and analyses in the field of agronomics, sociology and economics will inform on the potential for agro-ecological transition in the region. NATAE will support the co-creation and co-learning with multiple actors in MALs as well as concrete policies by informing largely with the opportunities provided by an agro-ecological transition perspective. It will also organize the capitalization and transfer of generated knowledge to education and extension. NATAE will further develop an Atlas platform on the performance of practices inspired by agro-ecology with regards to the farms, the landscape and the food systems.
> Job description
Analysis of the dynamics of socio-economic and environmental transition that regulate the relationships between agricultural production, local food and the ecosystem through the mobilization of indicators, tools and multidimensional and spatial approaches to build more sustainable and resilient territorial food systems in Occitania.
PROFILE REQUIRED:
Background required: Master 2 in economics (agricultural, rural, development) or engineering degree specialized in economics (bac +5)
Expected prerequisites:
– Strong background in agricultural, agri-food, rural, territorial, or development economics
– Scientific curiosity, autonomy, taste for data work, ability to work in a team
– Appetence for fieldwork (participatory practices) and for data processing and analysis in R
– Excellent writing skills.
French: Excellent / Very good
English: Very good
Closing date for applications: June 11, 2023
Selection date for interviews: June 15 and 16, 2023
Starting date: October 1, 2023
Thesis direction and supervision :
– Tristan Berchoux (Supervisor, Scientific Coordinator of the Horizon Europe GRANULAR project), Lecturer-Researcher CIHEAM-IAMM, UMR TETIS (Territories, environment, remote sensing and spatial information)
– Paolo Prosperi (PhD supervisor, HDR in economics), Lecturer-Researcher CIHEAM-IAMM, UMR
MoISA (Montpellier Interdisciplinary Center on Sustainable Agri-food Systems)
> Job description
NATAE Fostering agroecology transition in North Africa through multi-actor, evaluation, and networking: Expert in Public Policy – focus on North Africa
Within the framework of its NATAE project, the CIHEAM-IAMM launches a call for tenders for the realisation of an expertise in the field of public policy analysis in North Africa, on the basis of the following terms of reference.
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After the co-design of the first workshop entitled “Mobilising your research results in teaching-Invitation to active pedagogies” in June 2022, the CSIP and the CIHEAM Montpellier are collaborating once again to offer you an IDEON workshop, on Thursday 25 May 2023 from 1.30 to 4.30 pm at the Institut de Botanique – Université de Montpellier.

Animated by:
- Brigitte Lundin, Head of the Pedagogical Innovation Support Centre,
- Céline Avenel, Pedagogical Coordinator of the Centre de Soutien aux Innovations Pédagogiques.
- Myriam Kessari, Teacher-researcher, CIHEAM-IAMM
We have all experienced long, drawn-out oral presentations at conferences! The aim of this workshop is to provide techniques to help you boost your scientific communication.
For whom?
- teachers-researchers,
- researchers,
- doctoral students.
Why?
- To develop your scientific communication skills,
- to discover techniques to identify the “essence” of your message,
- to create an effective, impactful, and interactive pitch.
Finally, the workshop will aim to discover methods you can use in writing (a paper or an article) and in the oral presentation itself, but also in your pedagogical thinking and thus transfer them into teaching situations with your students.
How do you do it?
- Acquire a state of mind rather than techniques.
- The workshop is based on interactivity, interdisciplinarity, and learning by doing.
- In short, discover by doing and by creating together, whatever your field of research may be.
Number of participants: 20 maximum. If there are less than 9 participants, the workshop will be cancelled.
The workshops are free of charge, but registration is mandatory.
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The second SCOOP seminar (SSE and Food Systems Cooperatives) of the UMR MOISA will takes you on a journey through the SSE on Tuesday, May 9th from 2pm to 5pm at the Institut Agro Building 11 room 101, and in hybrid mode, on the theme “Institutional contexts and constraints for SSE organizations – A world tour in 180 minutes”

With as speakers :
- Nadine RICHEZ-BATTESTI, Aix Marseille University SSE Europe: “How do contexts play a role in the development of the SSE?”
- Yasmine BOUGHZALA, Higher Institute of Management of Tunis, “Social entrepreneurship in Tunisia: its constraints in an unconsolidated institutional context”.
- Fabio BURIGO, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina-UFSC “Trajectories of rural and solidarity cooperatives in Brazil: what roles for the State and civil society?”
Registration is free but mandatory before Friday, May 5th, 2023.
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