SDG 15: Life on Land
IMT Atlantique is taking part in a vast project developed to optimize agricultural practices and adapt them to the new climate circumstances. Among other things, the institution is conducting research aimed to design efficient rainwater reserves to improve irrigation conditions.
Supported by the European Commission to the tune of €5m, COCPIT stands for "scalable solutions optimisation and decision tool creation for low impact SAF production chain from a lIpid-rich microalgae sTrain",
Reducing the carbon footprint of the transport sector by developing a new certified biofuel for aviation from microalgae is the ambitious aim of the European COCPIT project led by the Energy Systems and Environment Department (DSEE) at IMT Atlantique (UMR CNRS 6144 GEPEA), which was officially launched in Nantes
How can we monitor underground water tables? How can they be protected from various sources of pollution? What warning systems should be put in place? These questions are the subject of a major European research project: NINFA.
The project aims to develop cost-effective groundwater monitoring strategies, pollution prevention and abatement technologies, and an early warning system.
Virtuous management of its campuses, partnerships with associations dedicated to the environment, inventory of fauna and flora... IMT Atlantique is taking the turn towards biodiversity. This initiative is in line with its policy of ecological and societal transformation.
Biodiversity is a growing concern on the IMT Atlantique campuses and is reflected in new projects carried out with students in their Sustainable Development and Social Responsibility (SD&SR) teaching unit.