Anticipate changes in agriculture and new technologies

At the direct interface of agroecological, digital and energy transitions, agro-machinery plays a key role for sustainable innovation in agriculture thanks to the potential of new technologies.

In its desire to encourage training for the professions of the future that the world needs and will need, the Michelin Corporate Foundation wished to renew its support for the Agro-Machinery and New Technologies Chair (AMNT) and in particular for its new program scientific quadrennial 2024-2027.

The AMNT Chair, supported by the UniLaSalle Polytechnic Institute, meets a dual need: anticipating changes in agriculture to design agro-equipment and technological solutions as close as possible to the needs of farmers and developing multi-skills training offers in agronomy, agricultural equipment and agricultural technologies.

The 2024-2027 program aims to provide tools and methods to design and exploit solutions that meet current agricultural challenges: producing in quantity and quality while preserving and optimizing resources, maximizing the energy and agroecological efficiency of farming operations, by promoting the decarbonization of the sector or by improving the comfort and well-being of the farmer.

The Agro-Machinery and New Technologies Chair is a valuable meeting point between a higher education establishment and manufacturers in the agro-equipment and agricultural technology sector. Its mission, through training and research, is to contribute to the development of agricultural equipment and their technologies, while facilitating their sustainable integration into agricultural operations.

It offers engineering students two diploma courses in agronomy, agricultural equipment and agricultural technologies.

– Bachelor AgriTEC – Agriculture, Digital and Embedded Technologies

Acquisition of dual skills in AgroTechnology: digital and embedded technologies applied to agriculture. Students learn to adapt digital solutions, robotics and embedded technologies to different farming practices.

– The “Agroequipment and New Technologies” course (AENT)

Acquisition of a triple skill: Agronomy – Agroequipment Engineering – Technical-economic management. Students are able, at the end of the course, to interface between users and manufacturers of agro-equipment, while anticipating changes in agriculture and new technologies, to develop agro-equipment that is as close as possible to the needs of farmers.

Funded by patronage, the research work of the Agro-Machinism & New Technologies chair is of general interest and made public.