Avenir Agro project wins AMI CMA France 2030 award
December 13 2024In response to the growing need for agricultural engineers, and with a view to raising awareness of life science careers among the next generation, AgroParisTech, the members of theAgreenium Alliance and the private agricultural schools under contract to the FESIC have decided to work together on an ambitious attractiveness project: Avenir Agro.
This project is one of 62 selected under the “ Compétences et Métiers d’Avenir ” scheme. The announcement was made at the national meeting of “Compétences et Métiers d’Avenir” France 2030 winners, held on November 26 and 27, 2024 at AgroParisTech, in the presence of Astrid Panosyan-Bouvet, Minister of Labor and Employment, and Bruno Bonnell, Secretary General for Investment, in charge of France 2030.
A collective ambition
In response to the growing need for agricultural engineers, and with a view to raising awareness of life science careers among the next generation, AgroParisTech, the members of the Agreenium Alliance and the private agricultural schools under contract to the FESIC, have decided to work together on an ambitious attractiveness project: Avenir Agro.
The aim? To make these training courses and professions visible and desirable, by raising awareness from primary school through to high school, among learners and their families, teachers, national education guidance professionals and school staff.
Avenir Agro aims to re-enchant the imaginations of future candidates for agricultural engineering studies, to spark vocations from an early age and at each of the key moments in their orientation, by explaining and illustrating what agricultural engineers are and their role in society.
An innovative national information campaign, coupled with regional initiatives, will be launched by 2026. The aim is to change people’s perception of the potential of agricultural engineers to sustainably transform agriculture, food, forestry and natural resource management, and to help restore the reality and image of agriculture, forestry management and the processing of the products they produce.
A unique consortium of 26 partners
The complexity, importance and urgency of the issues at stake call for a systemic approach. That’s why Avenir Agro is federating an unprecedented consortium of 26 partners, bringing together all the players involved in training (public and private schools under contract with the Ministry of Agriculture) and partners from the socio-professional world (employers’ federations and partners for information and career guidance).
Avenir Agro brings together 26 public and private players:
- Public agronomic higher education establishments: AgroParisTech (coordinator), Bordeaux Sciences Agro, Ensfea, Université de Lorraine (Enstib, Ensaiaa), AgroToulouse, Institut Agro, VetAgro Bio Nantes, VetAgro Sup and their Agreenium Alliance.
- Private higher agricultural education establishments: ESA, ESB, Isara, Junia, Purpan, UniLaSalle and their federation FESIC
- Federations of organizations employing agricultural engineers: Chambres d’agriculture France, Coopération agricole, ANIA, ACTA, ACTIA, Terres Inovia.
- Partners providing information and support on careers and career guidance: Ocapiat, Onisep, Apecita and UniAgros.