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03 September 2025

By: g.chataigne

GreenFoodTech 2025 – 1st European Edition

BioEcoAgro is co-organizing the fourth edition of GreenFoodTech, the first to be held in Europe.
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07 March 2025

By: Gabrielle Chataigné

LAI - SOPHYA

Creation of an International Associated Laboratory "Soil Microbiome and Physiology of Agricultural Plants" (LAI - SOPHYA) result of te collaboration between Chic41H teams and the company Florimond Desprez
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06 July 2023

By: COM INRAE HdF

ProteinoPepS Industrial Chair launch day

Watch the video of the ProteinoPeps Chair launch event on September 15.
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27 January 2025

By: Com INRAE HdF

Biocontrol 4.0: a portfolio of Franco-Belgian projects to develop organic alternatives to pesticides

At a time when French and Belgian farmers are expressing their dismay at changes in their working conditions, 43 partners from Franco-Belgian institutions are mobilizing to try and provide them with robust, sustainable solutions for reducing pesticide use in the cross-border region.
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03 September 2024

By: DH

SOSPECT Project

Description of the SOSPECT project
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06 September 2024

By: DH

International collaboration

International collaboration
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18 July 2024

By: Com INRAE HdF

Training milk proteins

Training - Preparation and characterisation of a hydrolysate : the case of milk proteins
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15 July 2024

By: Com INRAE HdF

French final of the BISC-E competition

A group of students from the Erasmus+ Master BIOCEB wins the French final of the BISC-E competition.
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22 January 2024

By: Com INRAE HdF / LH

The UMRt BioEcoAgro teams meet in Lille for its General Meeting

On December 18, 200 members of the French and Belgian structures that make up the Unité Mixte de Recherche Transfrontalière (UMRt) BioEcoAgro met and exchanged ideas for a day.
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11 April 2024

By: Com INRAE HdF

PEAMAGE

How to select frost-tolerant peas in a changing climate?
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14 December 2023

By: Com INRAE HdF

BEJAIA-AMIENS: Visit of Khalida Bougoffa-Sadaoui to the BioEcoAgro lab in Amiens this Thursday 14/12/2023

After several visits to France during her Thesis, between 2007 and 2011, Khalida Bougoffa-Sadaoui came back to France, …with her recent HDR Habilitation.
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14 December 2023

By: Com INRAE HdF

Focus on the MisTigation project

Launched in 2023, MisTigation is a national research project focusing on miscanthus, a perennial grass native to Asia and studied by INRAE.
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06 July 2023

By: Com INRAE HdF

MetaSP network

Members of BioEcoAgro took part in the MétaSP network meeting in Reims on May 4 and 5.
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04 September 2023

By: Biopi - BioEcoAgro

Josip Safran in Chile

As part of the ECOS C21B04 project entitled "Mucilage synthesis as a read-out to unravel the effects of heat stress on plant cell wall polymers", Josip Safran from the UPJV-UMRT BioEcoAgro team went to Chile in July.
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10 March 2025

By: G Chataigné

Participation of the ProteinoPepS Industrial Chair in the study day "Crossed Views on Valorization and Scientific Mediation in Companies and Universities"

On Friday, February 28, 2025, the study day "Crossed Views on the Valorization and Scientific Mediation in Companies and Universities" was held at the Lilliad Learning Center Innovation in Villeneuve-d'Ascq. This event, organized by the Geriico research unit (University of Lille), is part of the SAPS-Merlin project and the "Sciences With and For Society" roadmap of the University of Lille
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03 September 2025

By: G Chataigné

VALORIS project

The VALORIS project explores this challenge in bioeconomy through a field-based approach at UMRt BioEcoAgro.
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26 April 2023

By: INRAE COM HdF

Participation of BioEcoAgro in a workshop on "Metabolite studies: what potential in agro-nutrition"

On Thursday, December 10th, BioEcoAgro participated in a workshop organized by the NSL Cluster on the theme "Metabolite studies: what potential in agro-nutrition".
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02 July 2025

By: G Chataigné

Pr Valérie Leclere Joins the Scientific Committee of the 1st International Congress on Biosolutions

Professor Valérie Leclere is a member of the scientific committee for the 1st International Congress on Biosolutions, taking place from September 23 to 26, 2025, at the Palais des Congrès in Perpignan, France. Organized by the BioV Network, in partnership with COST MiCropBiomes and RMT Bestim, the event will bring together researchers and professionals to explore the latest developments in biocontrol, biostimulation, and agroecological immunity. The congress will feature scientific talks, B2B meetings, and networking opportunities to foster collaboration between research and real-world applications for sustainable agriculture.
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10 June 2025

By: G. Chataigné

New Publication on Chicory By-Product Valorization by the Laboratory in Discover Plants

The laboratory has recently published a new review in the journal Discover Plants, focusing on the valorization of chicory by-products. This publication highlights recent research on the reuse and transformation of these often underutilized plant residues into high-value resources. The study explores potential applications in the agri-food, cosmetics, and health sectors, emphasizing the environmental and economic benefits of adopting a more circular and sustainable approach within the chicory industry.

Cross-border BioEcoAgro UMR

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The BioEcoAgro Joint Cross-Border Research Unit is a new structure which brings together around 400 researchers, technicians and PhD students from both sides of the Franco-Belgian border. Its ambition is to develop an international center of excellence in the field of biological engineering applied to agriculture, biotechnology, agri-food and the environment. Designed like a laboratory without walls bringing together researchers from INRAE, the University of Liège, the University of Lille and the University of Picardie Jules Verne, it focuses on the combination of (eco) systemic approaches and molecular for

  • understanding the functioning of plants and ecosystems in natural or controlled environments and in the context of climate change
  • decryption and control of the synthesis or the bioproduction of active biomolecules (specialized metabolites and polymers of plant origin, enzymes and secondary metabolites of microbial origin, active peptides from the hydrolysis of food proteins)
  • biopreservation and food formulation.

The complementary multidisciplinary skills of the BioEcoAgro transboundary UMR also allow it to develop cross-disciplinary research such as the development of new biocontrol agents for plant diseases: from high throughput screening to their evaluation in the field through the understanding of their mode of action and the development of bioprocesses to obtain them.

The UMR is closely involved in the development of platforms of excellence such as the Realcat equipex, the FoodIsLife, AgricultureIsLife and EnvironmentIsLife (Ecotron) platforms and the national long-term observation and experimentation system on the ACBB environment (Agroecosystems, Biogeochemical Cycles and Biodiversity) in its field crops component. It manages two measurement stations labeled with the European infrastructure ICOS (Integrated Carbon Observatory System).

Invested in upstream research on an international scale, the cross-border BioEcoAgro UMR is also distinguished by its numerous collaborations with companies and actors from the agricultural world of the cross-border region.