Examples of French-South African
projects for Environment and
energy
Dr Pierre Lemonde,
Attaché for Science and Technology,
Embassy of France in South Africa
A number of Projects
 Private sector: Soitec Silicon, EDF, Alstom, Areva, GDF-SUEZ, Ciel et
Terre…
 Loans and technical assistance from the French development agency
(AFD):
 Municipalities: project with Ethekwini (2006, 6M€), waste to electricity conversion.
 Banks and private sector: credit line of 120 M€ for IDC, ABSA and Nedbank for
the support of private initiatives on energy efficiency and renewable energy.
 Public operators: partnership with ESKOM for a 100 MW wind farm in northern
cape. 100 M€ complemented with funding from World bank, AfDB, CTF.
 Public agencies and research inst.: technical assistance to Central Energy Fund,
to SACCCS, and DBSA
A new collaborative instrument
of the IRD
 ICEMASA is a joint French-South African Research and
Education initiative
on Marine Science and Global Change impacts
in the Southern Ocean, African margins and Tropical
Indian Ocean
 Two major packages:
 Oceanic research
 Education and training
Partnership
 South Africa
 DEA “Oceans and Coasts”
 DAFF “Fisheries Division”
 UCT/MA-RE
 To be expanded :
 CSIR (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research)
 NRF (National Research Foundation)
 Other universities (UWC, CPUT, Zululand, SUN, etc)
 France
 IRD (Sète, Brest)
 UBO (Brest)
 CNRS-INSU
 To be expanded :
 UM2 (Montpellier)
Dpt. of Env. Affairs
At the crossroad of 3 oceans
 Indian, Atlantic
and Southern
oceans
 Highly dynamic
ocean circulation
 Local changes
but global scale
impacts on
climate change
processes
Research package
 Regional climate and oceanography
 Regional downscaling of IPCC climate change scenarii and OGCMs
To capture interactions at mesoscale and enhance climate
forecasting
 Inter-oceans exchanges and the Meridional Overturning Circulation
The Southern Ocean as a climate change regulator at a global
scale
 High resolution modelling of Benguela and Agulhas regions
Signatures of recent warming in the coastal domains
Research package
 Regional climate and oceanography
 Ocean biogeochemistry and climate interactions
 Distribution and role of TEI (Ra, Ac, Th) in biogeochemical fluxes
TEIs as tracers of exchanges
 Iron, DMS, bromoform and their interactions with climate variability
Their potential role in trends of global warming
 Biogeochemistry modeling and plankton dynamics
Sub-mesoscale processes driving planktonic changes
Research package
 Regional climate and oceanography
 Ocean biogeochemistry and climate interactions
 Global change impacts on marine ecosystems
 Habitats , dynamics of resources and fisheries
Structural properties, individual processes, adaptive strategies
 Trophic pathways
The role of biodiversity in resilience of ecosystems
 Tools for MPA-based management
The challenge of MPAs for mobile demersal and pelagic species
 Ecosystem effects of fishing
End-to-End modelling of exploited ecosystems
Related projects
 International
 MEECE (EU FP 7)
 CLIOTOP (IMBER)
 National
 ACCESS (SA - DST)
 BASICS (SA – UCT/MARE)
 MACROES (FR - ANR)
 Regional
 GOOD-HOPE (CLIVAR)
 SAMOC
 IndiSEAS
 SCOR WG 136 Climate
Importance of the Great
Agulhas Current
 SWIOFP (World Bank)
 ASCLME (UNDP)
 Bilateral
 IRD PEERS : SAFCOMS. (F. Shillington/S. Herbette), 32 k€
2011-2012
 PROTEA : Iron Speciation in the Southern Ocean.
(A. Roychoudury/E. Bucciarelli), 20 k€ 2011-2012
 MOCA : Associated team project with Mozambique (50 k€)
Education and Training package
 To build up a high-level education for African
students, focusing on quantitative approaches
 MSc and PhD students exchange programme (co-badging) between UCT
and Univ. Bretagne Occidentale (Brest) ; UCT and Univ. Montpellier II
 Specialist lectures and tutorials in the UCT-MARE “Applied Marine
Sciences” Master
 Conferences and workshops
 ACCESS workshop “How to build an habitable planet” (Jan 2011)
 SCOR WG 136 “Climate Importance of Great Agulhas System” (May 2011)
 Contribution to the Nansen-Tutu Winter School (June 2011)
 ICEMASA Winter School : E2E modeling in marine ecosystems (Sept 2011
and June 2012)
 Public outreach
 Conferences to broad audience (fishers, French Day at UCT…)
ICEMASA
Co-badging
To allow Master and PhD students to do a course and/or research work at the host university,
to get credits at the host university that are recognized by the home university, and to get a cobadged certificate from both universities
Signed on 9 Nov 2011 between Universite de Bretagne Occidentale and UCT
To be signed in 2013 between Université Montpellier-II and UCT
PhD programme
(11 students)
Year of completion of the PhD thesis
Research
theme
Physical
Oceanography
2012
2013
2014
2015
Σ
1
1
1
1
4
Mozambique
UK
Ivory Coast
France
Biogeo
chemistry
1
Mozambique
Ecosystem
modelling
Fisheries
Total
1
1
1
3
Peru
S. Africa (2)
France
1
1
Mauritius
Mozambique
3
3
4
2
4
11
Master programme
Research
theme
Physical
Oceanography
Biogeo
chemistry
Ecosystem
modelling
2012
2013
2
4
Mozambique
Gabon
S. Africa (3)
France
2
1
6
1
South Africa
1
5
Σ
2
South Africa
Fisheries
Total
(10 students)
South Africa
1
5
10
Countries of origin
South Africa
Mozambique
Ivory Coast
PhD
Master
2
3
1
7
1
Gabon
Mauritius
Peru
UK
France
TOTAL
1
1
1
1
2
11
1
Male
Fem
PhD
64%
36%
MSc
50%
50%
10
62% of the students supervised by ICEMASA-MARE
are from Southern Africa
Staff (French side) : 11 posted in CPT
Staff
Affiliation
Period
Research area
Francis Marsac
(Director)
DR1
IRD
2009-2015
Fisheries/
Ecology
Yunne Shin
DR2
IRD
2009-2014
Ecosystem modeling
Olivier Maury
CR1
IRD
2009-2014
Ecosystem modeling
Pierrick Penven
CR1
IRD
2010-2013
Ocean modeling (physics)
Steven Herbette
MC
UBO
2010-2013
Ocean modeling (physics)
Eva Bucciarelli
CR1
UBO
2010-2013
Bio-geochemistry
Philippe Verley
IT CDD
IRD
2012-2014
Ecosystem modeling
Vincent Guri
IR VIE
IRD
2012-2014
Computing
Stephane Pous
MC
MNHN
2013-2015
Ocean modeling (physics)
Julie Deshayes
CR1
CNRS
2013-2015
Climate change modeling
CR CDD
IRD
2013-2015
Hydroacoustics
TOTAL
2010-2012
Oil rigs meteo. dataB
IRD
2010-2012
Computing
Ainhoa Lezama-Ochoa
Ayant achevé leur contrat :
Remy Estival
IR VIE
Jerome Guiet
IR VIE