By founding “Agreenium”, six major agronomic and veterinary research and teaching organizations (INRA, CIRAD, AgroParis Tech, Montpellier Supagro, Agrocampus Ouest and the National Veterinary School of Toulouse) aim to strengthen the links between higher education and research and to make their action more visible at national and international levels. This new public scientific cooperation institution (EPCS) brings together and coordinates the resources and skills of its members at the interface of Research, Education, Development and International action (REDI). Its aim is to promote and set up concrete actions meeting the needs of its founder members and their agents and the expectations of its partners in France and abroad.

Our first priorities are to:

-    Strengthen the international role of French research and training by bringing together the means of support, the partnerships with foreign universities and research organizations, and French involvement in international organizations and projects, under a single operational management system.
-    Support actions which gain from combining the four basic REDI components and which involve a real change of position through pooling approaches and resources.
-    Organize events and promote the activities of Agreenium on the national and international stage.
-    Set up a joint information and service platform.

We are sure that our action will be strengthened through operating in networks and through constant discussions and interactions with all those involved in the projects and in governance structures. We are confident that through these actions we will be able to bring our professions closer together, to assert our international outlook, and to meet more effectively the challenges of the need to increase food production and of sharing and optimizing knowledge about agriculture, food, animal health and the environment.