Presentation

The Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Montpellier (CIHEAM-IAMM) and the National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE) are at the initiative to organize, in collaboration with the Research Unit "Modeling and Optimization of Systems (LaMOS)" and the Higher Institute of Management (ISG), within the framework of the Euro-Mediterranean project VALUETEAM (grouping 4 countries: Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco and France) and VALUEDATE (project financed by the CREAD, Algeria), a Mediterranean workshop dedicated to the Dates sector in the disciplinary fields of economics, management, management or related disciplines (supply chain management, operational research, logistics, transport, etc.). This meeting is dedicated to the work of young researchers (doctoral students and young doctors) from around the Mediterranean.

The objective of the meeting is, on the one hand, to give visibility to the work of young researchers from this region while allowing them to benefit from the experience of more experienced researchers. It is also an opportunity for these teams to meet, discuss, consider partnerships in the context of international projects and build lasting relationships.

In addition, this meeting will encourage academic and applied research on the date sector, a sector that involves important issues for a large number of countries in this region.

The idea of structuring and perpetuating the links between young researchers from the Mediterranean working in these fields is already implemented in two current research projects, i) Euro-Mediterranean project VALUETEAM (ARIMNET 2 Junior call) including INRA -ALISS (Food and Social Sciences unit) is the initiator and an important collaborator and ii) the VALUEDATTE project financed by CREAD (Algeria) and coordinated by a researcher from INRA-ALISS (Abdelhakim HAMMOUDI).

The VALUETEAM and VALUEDATTE projects analyze the conditions for the emergence of standards and signs of quality in the agro-food sectors of the southern Mediterranean. They largely mobilize economic and mathematical modeling approaches (industrial economics, operational research, supply-chain management), and applied statistical methods (data analyzes, econometrics). In addition, a research training system for doctoral and post-doctoral students from Maghreb countries using this type of approach has been set up there. The partner organizations of the workshop intend, through this meeting, to give an impetus to this type of approach.