Our team of international students engineers in agro-development
Founded by a common ambition, the ONADA team is motivated and dynamic. A team that is rich in experience international, languages and skills. We are organized in poles and we divide the tasks to always make sure to complement each other.
Our training: ISTOM
School of Engineering in International Agro-Development
The curriculum
The ISTOM curriculum is the result of more than 100 years of history and trains young students to become engineers in 5 years: 2 years of preparatory cycle and 3 years of engineering cycle. The training of engineers in international agro-development allows them to meet the needs of the agricultural sector in developing or emerging countries, as well as entities working in relation with these countries. The specialty sciences are agronomic, socio-economic and environmental sciences. These teachings are applied to issues of agricultural or rural development and conservation of natural resources participating in the transition in development contexts.
agro-development
Constantly in the field and mobile, the international agro-development engineer works in many fields. Their specialty is to work internationally, more particularly in emerging countries with a large socio-cultural dimension. The future student engineer evolves through the basic sciences, life sciences and agronomic sciences, but also economic and social sciences which allows him to acquire a multidisciplinary approach to understand and respond to the challenges of development and transition.
Internships
The entire program is punctuated by internships abroad, which allow students to better understand complex economic and social realities, and to make an articulated restitution from an engineering diagnostic perspective. During the 5 years of study, students complete a total of 16 months of internships. These internships are a personal and human journey that is essential to the exercise of their future professions. In line with the school's training project, the majority of these internships take place in developing countries or countries in transition in the "South".
Meet our ONADA team!
Clémence Kim
financing department
Noah Dagron
sponsor department
President
Marilou Dahmane
sponsor department
Antoine Pays
financing department
Passionate about scuba diving, the fields of fish farming and conservation of marine biodiversity interest me. I am a volunteer in a coastal protection association, Océan Protection France.
With the desire to work in conservation and ecological restoration, I have always ensured that my internships are in line with my professional project. I had the opportunity to do an internship in a national park in Costa Rica in collaboration with SINAC. I had the chance to discover many countries which gave me an open mind to the world and its many challenges. I would define myself as serious , ambitious, curious and attentive to everyone.
Having grown up on the West African coast, I developed an early interest in the marine domain and coastal protection. Thanks to the various internships offered by ISTOM over the past three years, I was able to invest myself concretely in the field, in particular during an experience in Costa Rica within a marine protected area. Today's challenges in the face of the loss of biodiversity push me to further deepen my knowledge in order to be able to act.
Dynamic and creative , I am attracted by the range of voices offered by engineering training in international agro-development. The protection, optimization and development of natural spaces are fields of study that stimulate my passion.
My internship in Indonesia within a refuge for endangered animals, another agricultural internship within a dairy goat farm in the South of France as well as a 4-month internship of analysis and research of fertilization at the heart of an organic coffee cooperative in Guatemala my strengthening in my skills and ambitions. I am able to bring together my knowledge and invest myself completely during this expertise course devoted to the protection of marine protected areas.
Alexis Desongins
communication department
Alexis, 3rd year student at ISTOM, I am a young agricultural engineer. My career has led me to travel and work abroad in companies, associations and cooperatives. My experience is linked to my ambitions. I try to understand the interactions between human activities and biodiversity. Sensitive to environmental, social, political and economic changes, global issues are an opportunity for me to share and collaborate with many committed international actors.
Zelie Fortin
communication department
Since entering graduate school, I feel increasingly concerned by contemporary environmental issues. Thanks to the course that I have been following at ISTOM for 3 years, I have developed a particular interest in the protection of natural areas and the biodiversity that composes them. The implementation of this expertise will allow me to acquire solid skills in this field as well as experience in tropical regions.
Victor Tartrou
bibliography department
The marine environment is of particular interest to me. The preservation of marine biodiversity is an important and major issue of our time. Fish farming is also an area to be developed in order to counter overfishing in the ocean.