Research is carried out within higher education establishments and specialist research centres which have long experience of co-operation with companies. Among such establishments and centres are Inra and Cemagref.

Agrocampus Ouest

Cemagref

CNRS

ENSCR

EHESP

Inra

Université de Rennes 1

Université de Rennes 2

Véolia Eau - Compagnie générale des eaux

Environmental studies, fish farming, environmental economics. Physics laboratory for natural surfaces and rural engineering.

Equipment for the farming and food-processing industries, engineering and management of natural environments (water, the environment, rural development).

Department "Management of breeding and local waste".

Earth sciences, stratigraphy and palaeontology, cell biology and reproduction, research into populations and the functioning of ecosystems subjected to high levels of constraints, ontogenesis and the adaptative value of behaviour patterns, condensed matter and materials, atomic and molecular physics.

5 laboratories of the University of Rennes 1 are affiliated to the CNRS.

Water chemistry and environment laboratory.

Chemistry laboratory specialising in pollution and environmental engineering (development of processes for the treatment of odours, gases and water).

Survey and research laboratory on environment and health (3 research units: physical chemistry, microbiology and health engineering).

Research in the fields of agriculture and food processing.

7 research stations and 6 laboratories work on problems linked with the environment. Development of strategies for integrated reasoned methods of pest control (fungi, nematodes, insects, viral bacteria).

"Physical environment" sector: soil sciences, water quality, bioclimatology, agricultural engineering, mixed woodland and pasture systems, ecotoxicology.

Several laboratories deal with environmental problems:

• Life and environmental sciences UFR (training and research unit) (7 laboratories)
• Structures and properties of materials UFR (3 laboratories)
• Pharmaceutical and biological sciences university (pharmaceutical microbiology laboratory)
• Medicine university (public health department and hepatology research laboratory)
• Law and political science university (European research centre and public law research laboratory)
• Economics university (research centre on company, technology, institutions and internationalization)

Remote sensing geography of the environment laboratory.

Operation of water and sewage utilities in the four departments in Brittany.