Agreenium

What Agreenium does

Agreenium is a French public cooperation institute founded in 2015 and headquartered in Paris that functions as a coordination alliance for 15 of France's leading agricultural training and research institutions, including INRAE, CIRAD, AgroParisTech, Institut Agro, and multiple veterinary and landscape architecture schools. The alliance spans four thematic areas — Agriculture and Forests, Food, Global Health, and Territory and Environment — and delivers educational pathways from undergraduate to doctoral level, including engineering degrees, veterinary training, landscape architecture, master's programs, and the EIR-A International Research School. Its productized offerings include a centralized training program database, the LMS Agreenium e-learning platform, MOOC delivery via FunMooc, video content via Canal U, the AgreenMob international recruitment program, Erasmus+ mobility tracks, the weekly Agrowebinaires du mardi webinar series, the Transitions Agricoles discovery pathways, and the Hercule 4.0 digital knowledge-sharing project.

The underlying technology stack is centered on a standard learning management system (lms.agreenium.fr) for e-learning delivery, supplemented by third-party platforms (FunMooc, Canal U) for course and video distribution, and direct member-institution channels for degree delivery. The alliance also runs a doctoral training program with project-based funding calls and an international research school label (EIR-A) that standardizes cross-border doctoral training quality.

Agreenium's business model is not commercial in the venture-backed sense. As a public coordination consortium, its flows come from member-institution tuition, French public funding, and program-specific grants rather than direct customer revenue. Pricing is not publicly disclosed, and individual member institutions set their own tuition. The organization is led by President Marion Charpin and operates as a coordination hub rather than a parent-subsidiary structure.

Name

Agreenium

Legal name

Agreenium

Website

https://agreenium.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2015

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Agreenium is a French public cooperation institute that coordinates training and research across 15 leading agricultural, veterinary, and food science institutions. It delivers degree programs, doctoral training, e-learning, and international mobility initiatives in agriculture, food, environment, and global health.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Agricultural Higher Education and Research Coordination

NAICS

Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools (611310)

SIC

Services-Engineering, Accounting, Research, Management (8700)

akta.pro primary industry

Agriculture & Food Production (EDABALAA)

Keywords

• Agricultural research coordination
• Higher education agriculture
• Doctoral training programs
• Agricultural e-learning
• International student mobility

Headquarters

HQ city

Paris

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Training and education services: Agreenium coordinates training programs across member institutions including engineering degrees, veterinary studies, landscape architecture, doctoral programs, and masters degrees. Revenue appears to flow through tuition and institutional funding rather than direct commercial transactions.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Agreenium is a French public cooperation institute that coordinates 15 leading agricultural, food, veterinary, and environmental training and research institutions. It delivers a coordinated portfolio of training programs (engineering, veterinary, landscape architecture, masters, doctoral) through member institutions, the EIR-A International Research School, the AgreenMob mutualized international recruitment program, an LMS e-learning platform, MOOC and video channels (FunMooc, Canal U), a unified online training database, doctoral training calls, the Transitions Agricoles discovery pathways, and the weekly Agrowebinaires du mardi webinar series.

Product overview

Agreenium is a French alliance organization connecting higher education and research institutions in agriculture, food, environment, and global health. The organization functions as a coordination platform offering multiple interconnected services: educational programs (EIR-A International Research School, AgreenMob international recruitment, training database with engineering/veterinary/landscape architecture degrees), digital learning platforms (LMS e-learning system, FunMooc and Canal U video channels), knowledge resources (Transitions Agricoles discovery pathways, Agrowebinaires webinars), and doctoral training initiatives. Member institutions include AgroParisTech, Bordeaux Sciences Agro, CIRAD, ENSAIA, ENSAT, AgroCampus Ouest, INRAE, Institut-Agro, ONIRIS, and VetAgro-Sup.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• EIR-A (École Internationale de Recherche d'Agreenium) International research school of Agreenium that organizes doctoral seminars, supports international mobility, and awards the EIR-A label recognizing doctoral training excellence for PhD candidates in the alliance.
• AgreenMob Mutualized international recruitment program that enables engineering candidates from abroad to apply once and be considered across multiple Agreenium member institutions, facilitating cross-border academic mobility.
• LMS Agreenium (E-learning Platform) Online learning management system at lms.agreenium.fr that hosts e-learning courses and educational resources for agricultural and environmental sciences offered by Agreenium and its member institutions.
• Doctoral Training Programs (Formations Doctorales) Alliance-wide project-based doctoral training initiative comprising a call for projects and ongoing training programs for PhD candidates within member institutions.
• Formation Database (Base de données de formations) Comprehensive searchable online database of training programs (engineering, landscape architecture, veterinary, masters, and doctoral) offered by all Agreenium member institutions.
• Transitions Agricoles (Parcours Découverte) Discovery learning pathways that provide educational resources at all levels for learning about and self-training in agricultural transitions.
• Agrowebinaires du Mardi Weekly Tuesday webinar series covering agricultural innovation topics, co-organized with Acta, providing ongoing knowledge transfer to students, researchers, and professionals.
• Hercule 4.0 Digital project focused on agricultural knowledge and resource sharing across the alliance and its member institutions.
• FunMooc Agreenium MOOC channel on the French FUN-MOOC platform that delivers open online courses in agriculture and environment to learners.
• Canal U Agreenium Video publishing channel on the French Canal U university platform that hosts Agreenium's educational and scientific audiovisual content.

Quantifiable outcome

• International doctoral mobility and training across European and bilateral partner countries

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

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Feature2 records

Partnerships

15 partnerships are on record, tiered core, major and moderate.

• AgroParisTechcoreOthersMember institution of the Agreenium alliance - France's leading agricultural and environmental engineering school offering engineer, master, and doctoral programs.
• Bordeaux Sciences AgrocoreOthersMember institution of the Agreenium alliance - Agricultural school located in Bordeaux wine region.
• CIRADcoreOthersMember institution of the Agreenium alliance - French agricultural research and cooperation organization for sustainable development.
• ENSAIAcoreOthersMember institution of the Agreenium alliance - Engineering school for agriculture and food industries in Nancy, part of University of Lorraine.
• ENSAT (École Nationale Supérieure Agronomique de Toulouse)coreOthersMember institution of the Agreenium alliance - Agricultural engineering school in Toulouse.
• ENSTIBcoreOthersMember institution of the Agreenium alliance - Wood science and engineering institute part of University of Lorraine.
• ENV Toulouse (École Nationale Vétérinaire de Toulouse)coreOthersMember institution of the Agreenium alliance - National veterinary school in Toulouse.
• INRAE (Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, la nutrition et l'environnement)coreOthersMember institution of the Agreenium alliance - France's national research institute for agriculture, food, and environment.
• Institut AgrocoreOthersMember institution of the Agreenium alliance - National agricultural institute with campuses in Rennes, Montpellier, and Alger.
• ONIRIS NantescoreOthersMember institution of the Agreenium alliance - Veterinary school and food science institute in Nantes.
• VetAgro SupcoreOthersMember institution of the Agreenium alliance - Veterinary and agricultural institute in Lyon.
• ENSFEAcoreOthersMember institution of the Agreenium alliance - Agricultural economics and management school.
• Erasmus+ ProgrammajorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorEuropean mobility program enabling doctoral exchanges within Europe and France-Senegal bilateral mobility for Agreenium researchers and students.
• IRESA (Institution de la Recherche et de l'Enseignement Supérieur Agricoles, Tunisia)moderateStrategic or Co-development PartnerTunisian agricultural research and higher education institution engaged in collaborative exchange with Agreenium.
• FunMoocmoderateTechnology or IntegrationFrench MOOC platform where Agreenium delivers online courses and educational content to learners.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations): UN specialized agency for food security, agriculture, and rural development. Comparable as a global coordinating body that convenes research, training, and policy activity around agriculture and food — far larger and policy-driven, but a reference point for the international-coordination dimension of Agreenium's mission.
• CGIAR: Global partnership integrating 15 international agricultural research centers. Comparable as a multi-institution agricultural research and training alliance, but operating at global scale with a development-mission orientation similar to CIRAD's role within Agreenium.
• EMBRAPA (Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation): Brazil's national agricultural research corporation, providing both applied research and capacity building. Comparable as a large publicly funded agricultural research-and-training institution, but with a national rather than alliance structure.
• ETH Zurich (Department of Environmental Systems Science): Swiss federal university with leading agricultural and environmental systems science programs. Comparable in offering advanced, research-driven training in food and environment at the master's and doctoral level, competing for top international talent.

Direct peers

• University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU): Austrian university specializing in agricultural, forestry, food, and environmental sciences. Comparable as a European university covering the same thematic axes (agriculture, food, environment) that Agreenium coordinates across its 15 French members.
• Wageningen University & Research: Netherlands-based world leader in agricultural and food science research and education. Closest international equivalent to Agreenium in mission and disciplinary scope, serving as a single-institution counterpart to Agreenium's multi-institution alliance model.
• Agropolis International: Montpellier-based French network of more than 30 research and higher-education institutions in agriculture, food, and environment. Directly comparable as a French alliance/coordinating body, but based in southern France with a stronger tropical-agriculture focus.
• Euroleague for Life Sciences (ELLS): European network of leading life-sciences and agricultural universities (including BOKU and others). Directly comparable as an alliance of European life-sciences universities coordinating student mobility, joint programs, and quality labels — structurally analogous to Agreenium's alliance model.

Others

• INRAE: France's national research institute for agriculture, food, and environment, and a core Agreenium member. Included as a peer given that prospective students and international partners may interact with INRAE both inside and outside the Agreenium alliance, making it a functional reference point for Agreenium's research dimension.
• CIRAD: French agricultural research and international cooperation organization, and an Agreenium member. Included as a peer because it independently pursues a training and research mission very close to Agreenium's international-agriculture mandate, and competes for the same bilateral partnerships (e.g., IRESA Tunisia).

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UCP1e1wx-GOu846TGEgisEQA
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/15250114
• Xx.com/agreenium
• Facebookfacebook.com/agreenium

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Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

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Investors

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