Tunisia

Higher Agronomic Institute of Chott Meriem,  The University of Sousse    

The university was founded in 1986 and brings together 17 faculties and higher institutes. The university has over the last few years promoted indexed research, certified training, and accredited education in its institutions. The University of Sousse has developed an international profile of partnership and cooperation all over the world. It took part in Tempus (25 projects), and it is currently actively involved in Erasmus+ KA1 program with 28 signed inter-institutional agreements and Erasmus + KA2 capacity building program with 15 accepted projects since 2015. The Higher Agronomic Institute of Chott Meriem (ISA-CM) is a part of the University of Sousse. It is also supervised by the ministry of Agriculture (IRESA) It was created in 1975. The ISA-CM is organized into five departments 1) Department of Animal Resources, Agri-Food and Rural Development 2) Science Horticulture 3) Biological Sciences and Plant Protection,4) Engineering of Horticultural Systems and Natural Environment, and 5) landscape. The institute provides agricultural higher education to engineers according to a multidisciplinary and integrated training pathways. It is also involved in master’s and doctoral studies in Agronomy and Environment. Five disciplines are concerned 1) Vegetable Productions and Biotechnologies 2) Animal Production and animal products quality. 3) Landscape. 4) Soil, Water and Environments 5) Plant protection and environment. Moreover, the institute is involved in research concerning sustainable agriculture. It is also implicated in research concerning organic farming. These research are managed under six research structures. The research laboratory “Animal production and sustainable development in semi-arid regions” is one of them and support the Project. Its research activities concerned mainly development of sustainable animal production systems in semi-arid and arid regions, exposed to high climate change risk. ISA consolidated collaboration with several partners from Europe, Asia and Africa through international projects (PRIMA, H2020, COMON, KAFACI, PHC, Cross-border Project), in order to promote research. ISA collaborates with different technical centers, development organizations and associations to promote the different agricultural sectors, and especially livestock sector. It was also implicated in assuring training for technicians and engineers. ISA-CM is implicated in different Erasmus projects (CLICHA, GEOMAG, MEHMED, PHD) dealing with training and capacity building in higher Education (KA2). It encouraged also higher education student and staff mobility, through Erasmus + KA1 program

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