Build skills in territorial transition.
Building on our tools, expertise and field experience, we offer ready-made courses designed by scientists and practitioners, and tailored to your needs, in person at the INRAE Colmar centre or at your own institution. Feel free to get in touch to discuss.
Our training courses.
Spatial modelling of farming territories and agroecological transitions
StudentsDuration and format adaptable to your curriculum
Learning objectives
- Use the MAELIA simulation platform
- Formalise crop management strategies
- Understand the chaining of dynamic models
- Design transition scenarios
- Select indicators and carry out a multi-criteria environmental analysis
- Validate simulations against observed data
Content
Introduction to the platform architecture, challenges of spatial modelling, defining a case study, data collection and preparation, scenario design and execution, results analysis.
Thinking through and simulating the agroecological transition of a territory with MAELIA
Territorial stakeholdersCan also be delivered in-house
Learning objectives
- Build and compare agroecological scenarios
- Identify action levers available at the territory scale
- Apply an integrated approach spanning agronomy, water, biodiversity and erosion rather than a single-issue entry point
Content
Solving cross-cutting issues in agronomy, water, biodiversity and erosion at the territory scale, using concrete case studies.
Modelling farming dynamics from the field to the territory
ResearchersCan also be delivered in-house
Learning objectives
- Process input and output data of the MAELIA platform
- Understand the scientific, technical and practical implications of using MAELIA’s modules
- Get hands-on with the specialised modules covered in a dedicated half-day: livestock, biodiversity, water management
Content
Specialised modules: grassland and livestock management (mowing, grazing), field-level biodiversity indicators, quantitative water management.
Developing in MAELIA
Developers working with MAELIA5 participants maximum
Learning objectives
- Understand MAELIA's software architecture and its implications for development
- Explain the software design choices and the platform’s core functions
- Get hands-on with MAELIA to develop a new module
Content
Support for designing and implementing new modules in the platform.
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