The French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development is a public research institution defending an original model of equitable scientific partnership with the countries of the South. It is committed to interdisciplinarity and citizen science, with the view to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.
The IRD office in La Réunion opened in 1987 to implement the first marine environment monitoring program linked to the growth of tuna fishing in the Indian Ocean. The teams have now grown to organize and implement various research programmes connected with the territory’s issues.
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9th July 2020Regional focus: Infectious diseases in the centre of the scientists’ target
Their names are Florian, Muriel, Andres, Veerle, Louis-Clément... Each morning, a community of IRD researchers working in Southern, Eastern Africa and the Indian Ocean wakes up with a simple idea in mind: fighting communicable diseases which have significant effects on the region’s populations.
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2nd July 2020Sustainability science: a priority of IRD governance
Valérie Verdier, President and CEO of IRD, presented the changes in its governance to the Board of Directors on June 26, 2020. She reaffirmed the priority of Science, as part of an equitable partnership with the South and French Overseas Territories, and the increasingly important role of...
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3rd April 2020A COVID-19 interdisciplinary and partnership-based scientific committee at IRD
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23rd March 2020Covid-19 : expertise and IRD's partnership against the pandemic
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12th February 2020Valérie Verdier is IRDs new Chairman of the Board and CEO
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