On 18 November 2024, the annual Brest-Iroise Workshop Zone (ZABrI ) Day was held at the Institut Universitaire Européen de la Mer (IUEM) in Plouzané. Attended by 60 participants, the central theme of the event was co-construction between scientists and local stakeholders. The aim was to explore and strengthen collaboration to improve understanding and management […]
The IUEM Director and his team wish all the Institute’s staff and students an excellent year 2025!
Are you familiar with Nature-based Solutions (NBS)? The idea is to work with nature, not against it! The concept is based on approaches that combine the protection, management and restoration of natural ecosystems to meet a range of societal challenges. By drawing inspiration from ecosystems themselves, these solutions offer environmental, economic and social benefits while […]
From 7 to 11 July 2025, the World Maritime Campus and UBO will be jointly organising a course entitled ‘Understanding the environmental challenges of the maritime economy’. The course will take place in Brest and Roscoff and, like the previous edition, will be organised in two sessions: an introductory session and a more in-depth session. […]
The third China-Europe Border Forum on Advances in Ocean Science and Technology (FFPOST2) was held in Shanghai and on-line on 18 and 19 November 2024. It was organised by Paul Tréguer (IUEM-UBO, European Academy of Sciences EurASc) and Jing Zhang (ECNU, Chinese Academy of Sciences), as part of the United Nations Decade of Ocean Sciences […]
On Tuesday 19 November 2024, the CNRS medals ceremony for the Brittany and Pays de la Loire delegation was held at the Mabilay in Rennes. 5 medals and a collective crystal were awarded ‘to those who, through the originality, quality and importance of their work, have enhanced the reputation of the region and made an […]
For several years, IUEM has been using Twitter to communicate with as wide an audience as possible. However, since Elon Musk bought the platform at the end of 2022, the social network, now known as ‘X’, has evolved in a direction that runs counter to our values: relativism, massive propagation of false information, cyber-bullying, lack […]
The SILICAMICS interdisciplinary conference series, launched in 2015, aims to better understand biosilicification and the nature and importance of siliceous organisms in past, contemporary and future oceans. It is developing an integrative approach that includes physics, chemistry, biogeochemistry, biochemistry, physiology, ecology and genomics. The fourth conference, held at Moulin Mer (Logonna-Daoulas, France), brought together more […]
Moroccan, Tunisian and French delegations welcomed to the UBO for the Toubkal (Morocco) and Maghreb CHP international meetings From 21 June to 25 June, the IUEM welcomed members of the ‘Toubkal’ and ‘Maghreb’ Partenariats Hubert Curien (PHC) committees for their annual sessions. The Partenariats Hubert Curien (PHC) support the international scientific and technological exchanges of […]