There is a need to work holistically, across professional boundaries, and with the involvement of a wide range of partners when we seek sustainable solutions for the future in agriculture, food, and environment. This is one of the core ideas in the strategic cooperation agreement that Aarhus University has just signed with the French research institute INRAE.

The agreement, signed on Tuesday, constitutes the third pillar in the collaborative alliance that is now unfolding between three of Europe's strongest research environments in agrifood systems and environment.

"Last year, we signed a strategic cooperation agreement with the Dutch Wageningen University & Research, and now we are following up with a binding cooperation agreement with the French institute INRAE," says Eskild Holm Nielsen, Dean of the Faculty of Technical Sciences at Aarhus University, who has facilitated the new agreement. He continues:

"The green transition is an enormous task that requires us to come together across professional and national boundaries. We universities have a special task in delivering the research that will form the basis for new solutions. And we do this best when we collaborate broadly. I look forward to seeing the collaboration with INRAE unfold in the coming years."

Specifically, the cooperation agreement will strengthen the two parties' ability to carry out joint strategic efforts on the EU political front, ensure joint research projects, and other research collaborations and knowledge sharing across the two institutions.