1. Current projects

• Sustainable Viticulture for Climate Change Adaptation (LIFE VineAdapt), European Union project LIFE international with German (coordinateur), Austrian and Hungarian partners, LIFE19 CCA/DE/001224, funding of two IMBE positions including a PhD thésis. https://www.life-vineadapt.eu/en.
• “REMODE” Ecological restoration of open, degraded habitats, “France Relance” project, since 2021, with ECO-MED environmental consultancy.
• Effects of vineyard irrigation on plant, arthropod and soil communities, funding by Aristot consultancy (depuis 2021), PhD thesis grant ofEmile Melloul.
• “Project Brachypodium retusum”, Call of Avignon University, 2022. Clonal growth and dispersal of Brachypodium retusum – a key species for ecological restoration of mediterranean steppes.
• 2P3P: Flowering plants for parasitoids and predators of apple pest insects, Call Tersys, 2020-2021. With INRAE Research Unit PSH.
• Joint research project including RTE (Réseau de Transport d’Électricité, financeur), Irstea Grenoble, ECO-MED (environmental consultancy) and IMBE/University of Avignon, since 2017 : « Restoration of disturbed grasslands » in the framework of the construction of a new high voltage transmission line in Southern French Alps (Haute-Durance). Coordinator of the project.
• Ecosystem services of forest fragments in sugarcane dominated landscapes of Sao Paulo State (Brazil), 2013-2018, CAPES Brazil, Franco-Brazilian Chair of Sao Paulo state(Brazil), several mobility grants (Avignon University, IMBE-IRD), collaboration with Sao Paulo State University, UNESP (Brazil).

2. Finalised projects

• « PIESO», Call ADEME, Optimised integration of renewable energy and control of increasing need of electricity (2015-2019 for the ecological restoration part), “Ecological integration of solar energy production”. Coordination ECO-MED, Marseille.
• Agroecological structures in Luberon vineyards – ecological functioning and socio-economic constraints. Call Eccorev, 2019-2021. With INRAE Research Unit ecodevelopment.
• “PEERLESS”, AAP ANR Agrobiosphère, 2013-2016, “Predictive Ecological Engineering for Landscape Ecosystem Services and Sustainability”, leader of workpackage 2: “Ecological engineering and new technologies of farming and plant protection”. Coordination : UR Plantes et Systèmes de culture Horticoles (PSH), Avignon.
• “Project Brachypodium retusum”, Call of the University of Avignon (internal project), 2017, “Genetic analysis of population differentiation in Brachypodium retusum – a key species for ecological restoration of mediterranean steppes”.
• Differentiation among French and Tunisian populations of different Brachypodium species and their adaptation to local environmental conditions, 2014-2018. Co-supervision with the Faculty of Sciences, Tunis (Tunisie).
• “Favouring biological control in apple orchards using wildflower strips”, AAP SFR TERSYS, 2015, “Movements of natural enemies of apple herbivores between field margins and orchards:: optimisation of the wildflower strip approach to improve biological control”.
• “ECONADA”, AAP Environment 2015 (Miljo2015), Norwegian Research Council, Knowledge building project with user involvement , 2011-2015, “Ecologically sustainable implementation of the Nature Diversity Act (Naturmangfoldloven) for restoration of disturbed landscapes in Norway”. Coordination: Bioforsk Norwegian Institute for Agricultural and Environmental Research.
• “Florelocale” SNB (National Strategy for Biodiversity) call: Conservation and sustainable use of native plant species to provide a framework for plant and seed producers, 2012-2015, “A national label for the production of native plant species.” http://www.fcbn.fr/vegetal-local-vraies-messicoles.
• “Ile de Raymond”, SNB (National Strategy for Biodiversity) call : The restoration of remarkable or sensible sites) , 2012-2015, “Restoration of a degraded wetland ecosystem in the lower Garonne valley.”.
• “Project Brachypodium retusum”, Call of the University of Avignon (internal project), 2014, “Genetic diversity and differentiation among populations of Brachypodium retusum – a key species for ecological restoration of mediterranean steppes”.
• “Brassinse” and “PBI-Pays” (double project), Call GIS (Scientific Interest Group) PICLeg and PAO (Pôle Agronomique Ouest), 2010-2013, “Integrated Biological Plant Protection (PBI) in Brassicaceae crops - changing the scale of insect management from landscape to field level”, Co-leader task 4: Relation between field margin vegetation, pest insects and their natural enemies. Coordination UMR IGEPP, Rennes.
• Hay trasnfer for grassland restoration, National German Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN) and Word Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), 2007-2008, “The restoration of floodplain grasslands of the Elbe river”. Coordination: Environmental consultancy “Landschaftsplanung Dr. Reichhoff”, Dessau, Germany.
• “TLinks”, 5th Framework programme of the European Union EVK2 - 2001 – 00091, 2001-2005, “Trophic Linkages”. Scientific coordination of task 320 with Heinz-Müller-Schärer (University of Fribourg, Switzerland): The effect of the provenance of plant material on plant performance and on the diversity of organisms in other trophic levels. Coordination: CAER Centre of Agri-Environmental Research, University of Reading (UK).
• “NCCR Plant Survival”, AAP NCCR (Swiss National Center of Competence in Research), Swiss National Research Foundation, 2001-2005. Scientific coordination of programme 8 with Heinz-Müller Schärer (University of Fribourg, Switzerland) : Restoring biodiversity in agro-ecosystems: the role of seed origin for vegetation establishment, weed invasion and its biocontrol success. Huit partenaires. Coordination: University of Neuchâtel (Switzerland).
• “Restoration of floodplain grasslands”, funded by the Ministry of Research and Education of Sachsen-Anhalt Germany), 2000-2003. The restoration of plant communities of floodplain grasslands – an analysis of factors determining the success of agri-environment schemes.
• Dispersal and ecological restoration, grant of the National German Research Agency (DFG), 1998-2000. The importance of plant dispersal for the recolonisation of agroecosystems.
• “STRAS”, German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), 1992-1995, Regeneration of agro-ecosystems in the Central German chernozem region. PhD thesis project and coordiantion of ecological work (with Ernst-Gerhard Mahn, University of Halle, Germany). Coordination : University of Halle.