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
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