We consider that student mobility (for studies or traineeship), teacher mobility and staff mobility are a factor of improvement for all the participants, for our institution, and for the European education system.Based on this consideration, our aim is to promote and to develop all kind of mobility. We put efforts on communication to explain the interests of mobility and to present the different helps they can receive on pedagogical, administrative and financial aspects. We also put efforts to clarify the procedures from the idea to make a mobility to the return after the mobility.We do not have objectives in terms of number. We want to improve the mobility experience of all participants, in order to start a virtuous process that will lead to an increase the number of mobility. As an example, in 2014/2015, 193 students participated to SMS, and in 2015/2016, we will reach the number of 260, and we guess that this rising is due mainly to our policy.More, we pay a lot of attention to teacher and staff mobility, it is known that there is a direct consequence between teacher/staff mobility and student mobility.We also take care of our partners and we have the ambition to have less partners, but with more agreements.

A pesticide is defined as any substance used to kill, repel, or control certain forms of plant or animal life that are considered to be pests. They include herbicides for destroying weeds and other unwanted vegetation, insecticides for controlling a wide variety of insects, fungicides used to prevent the growth of molds, disinfectants for preventing the spread of bacteria, and rodenticides used to control mice and rats. Undoubtedly, the use of a wide range of pesticides has increased crop yields, controlled disease vectors and reduced postharvest losses. However, practically all pesticides are poisons and some of them pose long-term danger to the environment and humans through their persistence in nature and body tissue. Ideally a pesticide must be lethal to the targeted pests, but not to non-target species, including man. In the search for new alternatives, several researches paid attention towards the marine environment. Indeed, marine organisms are in constant competition with other species and any organism being able to produce compounds providing it with an evolutional advantage will prevail. Such products have been optimized through evolution to be highly efficient and represent as many opportunities for us, researchers, to develop "greener" tools to answer the increasing demand for environmentally respectful chemicals. The main goal of the project I propose is to assess the potential of specific marine organisms to produce prototype ecofriendly agrochemical agents, especially herbicides and fungicides, and to further evaluate the potential hits. In parallel, I will investigate the biosynthetic pathway of the natural compound as well as its ecological role towards other marine organisms. I envision to cover several cutting-edge areas both in fundamental and applied research, from bioprospection to ecotoxicology and including biological testing, chemical ecology and medicinal chemistry.

What is the role of contemporary Indigenous artists, and non-Indigenous artists engaging with Indigenous people knowledges, in making ocean and space pollution visible? How are Indigenous knowledges, know-how, histories, and memories mobilised to address current environmental crises? Strongly grounded in anthropology and the arts, OSPAPIK is both pluri- and interdisciplinary. It offers innovative approaches to pollution, Indigenous knowledges, and the arts through its systematic focus on materiality and on the relationship that people have with waste. It intends to develop novel, critical, and ethnographically-informed analyses of the socio-environmental life of waste by investigating how creative and artistic expressions allow the artists themselves, scientists, expedition project organisers, and audiences to better understand how marine ecosystems and (outer) space are impacted by pollution. It will also interrogate whether the study of arts provides means to better understand the different professional sectors and actors involved in depolluting. The whole project is designed to rigorously analyse conjointly 1/ the motifs and patterns used by Indigenous artists and non-Indigenous artists collaborating with Indigenous people and 2/ the ways these artists use ocean and outer space waste and debris as artistic material. It focuses on the ocean and space, where pollution can be invisible to the eyes, and which are spaces that are often deemed sacred according to Indigenous cosmogonies, but have been perceived, according to dominant Western modern conceptions, as uninhabited. The project aims to study comparatively affective, professional, sensorial, and historical relationships to marine, nuclear, and space debris and waste, through an analysis of Indigenous artistic practices and non-Indigenous practices engaging with Indigenous knowledges.

Climate change by the early-to-mid century will attract great social, economic, political and scientific attention. Countries will be faced with elevated sea levels, changes in drought and precipitation, alterations to marine ecosystems, and economic insecurity as a result of Earth’s changing climate. In order to make practical and prudent decisions about economic aid to developing and developed countries alike, the European Union (EU) must predict global change with increased accuracy. While climate models are consistently improving in predictive skill, their computational demands necessitate parameterization of sub-grid-scale processes. In oceans, one such process is centrifugal instability (CI) occurring near topographic boundaries in the abyssal oceans. The research proposed here, “Centrifugal Instability in the Orkney Passage (CIOP)”, aims to improve our predictive capability of climate by representing a small-scale turbulent mixing process occurring in and around steep topography, and that is believed to impact global ocean circulation through modification of dense water properties. This study will focus on the analysis and interpretation of moored observations and model simulations of Orkney Passage (OP). As the OP is a region where dense water that is formed within the Weddell Sea is modified prior to joining the deep ocean circulation, it is a prime candidate for such study. As part of CIOP, the applicant will (1) enhance understanding of energy and buoyancy fluxes by closely examining mooring and high-resolution model data, (2) identify a relationship between volume transport and fluxes within OP and (3) identify regions conducive to CI. Three outcomes of CIOP will be (i) work toward representing such fluxes in coarse-resolution models and communicated through open-access publications, conferences and meetings, (ii) development of the applicant’s modelling skills and (iii) strategic collaborations between French, British, and American institutions.

The open ocean is the largest biome on Earth, yet it is the least protected. A major obstacle to its conservation lies in the fine-grained understanding of how marine organisms are affected by the ocean dynamics. In the last decades remote sensing and bio-logging drastically increased our understanding to how phytoplankton (that can be observed from space as ocean color) and large marine animals (that can be followed with sensors directly attached to them) responds to oceanic turbulence down to the mesoscale (few weeks-months, 10-100 km). A major knowledge gap still concerns the so-called "intermediate trophic levels" (ITLs, i.e. zooplankton and micronekton,) and how mesoscale currents (such as fronts and eddies) affect them. This is the focus of the MECODIHR project. The project uses an unprecedented combination of remote-sensing, and modelling on a multi-disciplinary in-situ database collected in the North-West Atlantic to identify patterns in the distribution of ITLs, relate them to physical structures and biogeochemical observations and make hypotheses about why such relationships arise. High-resolution state-of-the-art modelling allows to test the validity of the formulated hypotheses, clarify the mechanisms behind observed co-localisations and expand the extent of findings. High resolution in-situ measurements and modelling allows to approach how submesoscale dynamics (and its inter-seasonal variability) affect the distribution of ITLs. The MECODIHR results, acquired between the two multidisciplinary highly-reknown oceanographic laboratory of the University of Washington (outgoing phase : 2 years) and the Université de Bretagne Occidentale (incoming phase : 1 year), will provide critical information for open ocean conservation. The MECODIHR project will also train Dr. Della Penna with a rare combination of skills (including scientific, communicative, technical and transferable skills) that are fundamental to face the future challenges of marine sciences.