Governance
AND STRUCTURING PROGRAMME
STRUCTURING
NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT
Since 2013, the Montpellier Ecotron has been part of the AnaEE-France (Analysis and Experimentation on Ecosystems) research infrastructure, supported in part by the ANR Investissement d’Avenir.
The main missions of AnaEE-France
Courtesy of AnaEE France
The experimental approach of AnaEE-ERIC
Courtesy of AnaEE Europe
THE CNRS COMMITTEE FOR VERY LARGE INFRASTRUCTURES (TGIR)
Through its TGIR committee, the CNRS manages major international scientific facilities (telescopes, particle accelerators, the Large Hadron Collider, aeronautical services, etc.). Each year, this committee funds the construction, maintenance and, in part, the operation of these major instruments, most of which are included in the roadmap of the National Strategy for Research Infrastructure. This committee provides most of the annual budgets for the Ecotrons (Montpellier + Ile-de-France).
GOVERNANCE STRUCTURE
The Ecotron’s governance structure comprises an executive management committee, a steering committee, a local committee of experts and a scientific infrastructure committee.
The executive management committee comprises the scientific director and the technical director.
Since 2021, when the AnaEE France infrastructure joined the European Ecotron in Montpellier, the AnaEE France steering committee has become the de facto steering committee.
For situations where project selection is necessary, the Montpellier Ecotron also has a local committee of experts who participate in the evaluation of submitted projects.
Le comité scientifique est composé de 5 scientifiques français et de 4 scientifiques internationaux, et son rôle est de donner des conseils sur les aspects scientifiques et les politiques de recherche qui peuvent concerner l’Écotron.
The scientific committee
Jay Arnone – USA
Dries Bonte – Belgique
Mark Gessner – Allemagne
Bernhard Schmid – Suisse
Nadine Lebris – UPMC, LECOB/CNRS Banyuls
Irène Till-Bottraud – CNRS, GEOLAB Clermont-Ferrand
Bernard Genty – CNRS, BIAM Aix-en-Provence
Jean-Marc Guehl – INRAE, Sylva Nancy
Philippe Normand – CNRS, UMR 5557 Lyon
AnaEE FRANCE
A project to develop experimental research infrastructure for ecosystems (AnaEE-France) has been selected as part of the French government’s Investissements d’Avenir programme. The AnaEE-France project covers 11 research entities spread across France (mainly CNRS and INRA). These entities comprise 25 experimental sites and analytical or modelling platforms. This Investments for the Future Programme is funded for 10 years. It was launched on 14 February 2013. In Montpellier, this project co-financed the construction of the Mesocosmes platform.
AnaEE
AnaEE (Analysis and Experimentation for Ecosystems) is a European programme aimed at building a distributed experimental infrastructure to study and predict the functioning of ecosystems in changing environments. This programme is in the preparatory phase (2012-2016) of the ESFRI (European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures) programme. For more information: www.anaee.com. This programme does not directly fund national infrastructures; it provides services mainly through a central node and supranational nodes for technology, data modelling, and interface and synthesis.
OCCITANIE REGION
Through two State-Region Plan Contracts (CPER 2000-2006 and 2007-2013), the Occitanie region and the CNRS co-financed (50/50) the main Ecotron building and the Macrocosmes platform.
EUROPEAN REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT FUND (ERDF)
The construction of the Mesocosmes platform was 66% funded by the ERDF Regional Competitiveness and Employment Programme 2007-2013.
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MACROCOSMS, MESOCOSMS, MICROCOSMS, ISOFLUX