Professor Li Li’s visit at Chrono-environnement, Besançon

The exchanges in person have been interrupted for more than 4 years by the COVID19 pandemic, although cooperation continued via mails and visioconferences. Meanwhile, the Laboratory of Wildlife Management and Ecosystem Health has moved from YUFE, Kunming, Yunnan to Leshan Normal University, Sichuan, with new study fields added to the GDRI EHEDE network (see e.g. Tibetan Macaque on Mont Emei).

Professor Li Li was in Besançon from June 22 to July 7 to prepare the visit of a high-level delegation from Leshan Normal University to Besançon, at University of Franche-Comté, possibly in December 2024, the signing of a memorandum of understanding between the two universities, and to discuss current and future research programmes with Chrono-environment researchers.

It was also an opportunity to visit some landscapes of Franche-Comté and the Vosges, including Arbois, where Louis Pasteur carried out some of his research in his family home and to meet former doctoral students with whom Li Li worked during her sabbatical in Besançon in 2011-2012.