Digital and Environment Programme

Changed on 28/11/2023

The Digital and Environment Programme is based on four pillars: digital for the environment, eco-responsible digital, scientific mediation, and the environmental impact of our organisation, our way of working and conducting research.

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Associated national strategy: Eco-responsible digital, Agroecology, decarbonisation industry/mobility/agriculture

National coordinator of Digital and Environment Programme: Jacques Sainte-Marie

Structural public funding:

PEPR Future of agroecology
So.Num project (Digital Sobriety – with ADEME and EcoInfo) on the development of educational content for training/awareness raising on digital sobriety and eco-design
Possibly: PEPR Digital eco-responsible (under arbitration)

Verbatim

One of the main challenges of our Digital and Environment Programme is to learn to work in a more constrained world, with limited resources. A world where we will have to build things that are much more sustainable, more recyclable and resilient. And digital technology must play a part in this. We are not just talking about optimisation. We need deep changes in upstream design, including fundamental computing, to build an eco-responsible and resilient world. This considerably shifts the focus of our research activities and forces us to ask ourselves new questions: what digital tools and services?

Jacques Sainte-Marie

National coordinator of Digital and Environment Programme

Preferred national partner organisations: INRAE, IFPEN, CNRS, CEA, ADEME, AgroParisTech, IRD

Preferred partner universities: Bordeaux, Montpellier, Rennes, Paris-Saclay, Côte d’Azur, Grenoble Alpes, Cergy

Large-scale projects in support of public policies:

Framework agreement with ADEME
Framework agreement with INRAE
Framework agreement with IFPEN
Framework agreement with BRGM
Partnership with IFREMER (joint project team ODYSSEY)
Joint Inria "Road-AI" challenge with CEREMA, on the use of AI for asset management of road infrastructures
Joint project with IGN on the "digital twin of France" (under construction)
Mobility Data Hub (being set up with IFPEN and CEREMA)

Major industrial infrastructures:

Measurement and analysis of the electrical power consumed by a microprocessor PowerAPI
Software suite for operational numerical simulation in oceanography CROCO
Plant and disease identification, biodiversity characterisation Pl@ntNet

Major industrial partnerships:

EDF (joint project team)
Total (joint project team)
OVHCloud (joint Inria challenge) and Qarnot Computing (joint Inria challenge)
EONA-X (Amadeus, Air France-KLM, SNCF...) - data space for sustainable mobility in the framework of GAIA-X

European dimension:

Operational oceanography project with ECMWF (COPERNICUS programme)
TEF (Testing and Experimental Facilities) project on agricultural robotics
ERC Synergy STUOD (Stochastic ocean dynamics)
ERC GATIPOR (Numerical simulation of flows in porous media)

International dimension:

Inria OceanAI Challenge (Inria Chile, Tara Océan) – Artificial intelligence, data and models to understand ocean dynamics and climate change impacts
Associated team CONCAUST (University of California) – Ecosystem Trajectory – COMCAUSA)

Training actions: