From Mount Emei to Besançon: Leshan Normal University visits UMLP

27 septembre 2029

The Sino-French laboratory Wildlife Management and Ecosystem Health (WiMEH), which was established in Kunming, Yunnan, in 2012, was transferred to Leshan Normal University, Sichuan in 2023. This represents both the outcome of over 13 years of collaborative work and new perspectives for conservation ecology. New research into Tibetan macaques and wildlife tourism has begun on Mount Emei.

From 25 to 26 September, a delegation from Leshan Normal University, led by General Secretary Liu Jin and including General Secretary of the School of Life Sciences Yang Yi, Director of the Bamboo Forestry Technology Innovation Institute and Lab of Bamboo Disease Prevention and Resource Development Yang Yaojun, Director/Professor of the Department of Information Technology and Experimental Support Liu Caiming, Director/Professor of WiMEH Li Li, and Former President of the Federation of Chinese Students and Scholars in France and External Affairs Coordinator of WiMEH Zhang Yijiang, visited the University Marie and Louis Pasteur.

On the first day, the delegation discovered the Chrono-Environnement laboratory and the teaching facilities of the Faculty of Sciences and Techniques. The delegation was welcomed by the lab’s director, Émilie Gauthier, who was joined by Eve Afonso, Patrick Giraudoux, Frédéric Gimbert, Hugo Sentenac and Estelle Franc.

The international Master EMME (Ecology, Monitoring and Management of Ecosystems) of the UMLP was also presented by Francis Raoul, its director.

On the second day, a visit to the Centre de Linguistique Appliquée (CLA) was organised, where we met its director Lucas Levien, Lucie Guy and Florian Chapey. Opportunities to study French and Chinese were presented.

A meeting was then held with Hugues Daussy, the President of the University Marie and Louis Pasteur, at the President’s Building, where we met the vice-president of the international outreach, Samir Jemei, the director of European international relations and Francophonie, Marieke Steenbergen, and the International Cooperation Officer (Asia, Africa, Oceania) Nouhaïla El Aouad. The two universities signed an agreement of cooperation on this occasion.

The teams will meet again in about ten days in Leshan, China, for field work and the Sino-French conference on One Health and Conservation.