Sustainable development goals

10/05/23

IRD will be present at the United Nations Climate Solutions Fair in Bangkok

From May 15 to 19, the 79th Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) will take place at the United Nations in Bangkok. The theme of this meeting is "Accelerating climate action in Asia and the Pacific for sustainable development". On this occasion, IRD will present some of its...

08/05/23

The symposium "One Health in Practice in Southeast Asia, What's Next?" was held at the Hanoi University of Science and Technology

From April 24 to 26, 2023, the restitution and capitalization colloquium of the Solidarity Fund for Innovative Projects One Health in Southeast Asia, "One Health in Practice in Southeast Asia, What's Next?" was held at the Hanoi University of Science and Technology (USTH).

27/04/23

Sustainable Fish Farming in the Peruvian Amazon

The IRD, the Instituto de Investigación de la Amazonía del Perú (IIAP) and the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (UPCH) have joined forces to develop a sustainable food project using black soldier fly (BSF) larvae as a substitute for the industrial product (fishmeal) usually used for fish farming...

21/04/23

Training on Crop Water Requirement Calculation and Agricultural Water Use at the Indian Institute of Science

On April 18 and 19, the training was organized at the Indian Institute of Science, in the framework of the World Bank REWARD project.

19/04/23

Launch of the Symposium on the use of viral vectors for gene transfer and genome editing

April 18 was the launch day of the Franco-Thai Symposium on the Study of Viral Vectors. Gathered at the Institute of Molecular Biosciences of Mahidol University, the coordinating scientists of the new Thai Vector Research Center presented their work and the recently inaugurated research platform to...

18/04/23

Live press event invitation | Science for the new vision of the Great Green Wall

In the context of the launch of the international research network RESET GGW which will take place from 25 to 27 April in Djibouti, IRD is organizing an hybrid live press event on Tuesday 25 April at 9:30 am (10:30 am, Djibouti time).

06/04/23

Launch of the International Research Network RESET_GGW

The launch of the International Research Network (IRN) RESET_GGW will take place on April 25 and 26 in Djibouti. Co-led by the IRD, this interdisciplinary network of French and foreign laboratories aims to provide a framework for the mobilization of sustainable management of land and territories in...

30/03/23

Launch of CapThai project

The launch meeting of the CapThai project took place on March 28 in Bangkok, in front of about 100 participants, including health care personnel in charge of TB patients. The meeting included a presentation of the program and partner organizations.

20/03/23

IJL PRESTO: Review of the Regional Medical Research Meeting

Woottichai Khamduang and Nicole Ngo-Giang-Huong, coordinators of the PRESTO International Joint Laboratory (IJL), organized a brainstorming meeting on March 14, 2023 on the theme "What research should be conducted to prevent future epidemics/pandemics in Southeast Asia?"

17/03/23

Round table on the topic "The role of women in scientific innovation"

On Friday 17 March, IRD, the French Institute of Vietnam, and UN Women co-organized a round table on the topic "The role of women in scientific innovation". This round table was organized under the framework of the celebration of the 50th anniversary of France-Vietnam diplomatic relationships and on...

28/02/23

At the heart of villages, preventing the next pandemic with the AfriCam project

Prevention would cost a hundred times less than controlling future pandemics. AFD, CIRAD, IRD and their partners have therefore launched an ambitious project to strengthen surveillance and early detection systems in four African countries and Cambodia. AfriCam is the first project in the Preventing...

20/02/23

Students from the Lycée Français International de Vientiane (LFIV) visit the ROCKET Project Cricket Farm

A school trip from the Lycée Français International de Vientiane (Laos) allowed fourth grade students to discover a cricket farm, an IRD partner.

07/02/23

IRD 2023 General Assembly

The General Assembly of IRD in Thailand took place on February 6 in Si Racha, Chonburi province. This meeting was an opportunity to exchange on the orientations of the Representation and the activities of the researchers.

03/02/23

Project HepWek: training on capacity building of health professionals

The component 1 of the project HepWek was delevoped at the MoI Teaching and Referral Hospital and in 3 different counties in Kenya, over the last 3 months, through workshops titled "Capacity building of health professionals through awareness raising and training to acquire clinical skills for early...

24/01/23

Signature of the agreement for the IJL PRESTO creation at Chiang Mai University

The Faculty of Associated Medical Sciences of Chiang Mai University welcomed on Wednesday 18th January delegations from IRD of Thailand and Laos for the signature of the creation of the International Joint Laboratory - IJL PRESTO.

02/12/22

Meeting between Ms. Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana and Dr. Xavier Mari at the Black Carbon exhibition presented at the United Nations offices in Bangkok

Thanks to the support of the French Embassy in Thailand, IRD was able to exhibit the panels "Black Carbon: the dark side of human activity" in the ESCAP premises during the seventh session of the Committee on Environment and Development from November 29 to December 1, 2022.

23/11/22

Rethinking Inequalities in the Winter School of Social Sciences in Pondicherry

From November 28 to December 2, 2022, the Winter School of Social Sciences in Pondicherry is organized at UMISARC, the South Asian Studies Center of the University of Pondicherry. This training for students and researchers will be structured around three workshops.