The three-pronged approach of training-research-innovation is preferred for experimental platforms and plots available to researchers and students and can carry out services for professional organisations. A few examples of experimental platforms and plots for educational use are given below.
Agricultural and forestry experimental plots
pooled experimental facilities (INEM): glasshouse system in Angers
experimental dairy and pig production facilities (UMR Pegase) in Rennes
Grignon experimental farm (270 ha farmland, 120 dairy cows and 500 ewes) in Ile de France, which sponsors the Grignon Positive Energy project
La Bouzule farm, which has a methanisation platform, with three goals: energy self-sufficiency, food self-sufficiency and nitrogen self-sufficiency.
Three PEFC-certified forests: Bois de la Sivrite (19 ha), Bois du Chapitre (139 ha) and Forêt de Brin (604 ha) in Lorraine
Luchey-Halde vineyard (Pessac-Léognan label)
domains of Merle (livestock, irrigation, arable crops) and Chapitre (vine, wine and olive-growing) in Montpellier
King's kitchen garden at Versailles
Technology centres for studying processes (food, wood, water, etc.)
milk platform (UMR STLO) used to create, at reduced scale, technological operations applied industrially to milk in Rennes
food processes technology centre: 2800 m2 and 150 liquid/dry operations, ready-to-eat dishes and breadmaking with health approval in Nantes
technology centres - food process engineering in Ile de France
Nicolas Appert platform in Massy: 1300 m2 and 45 instrumented pilots
Ile de France platform for cereal studies (FRECE) - “baking” workshop in Massy
CBAI technology centre in Grignon
technology centre for the use of wood and its by-products, wood recognition laboratory at Epinal (Lorraine)
hydraulic pilots, mainly floods, and water treatment pilots in Strasbourg
Technical platforms
five Quasav technical platforms in Angers (plant campus project): cell imagery, phytochemical analyses, nucleic acids, collection of micro-organisms, phenotyping tools;