Our funded projects

Project sponsor : Antoine PRIMEROSE
Laboratory: UMR Espace DEV
Partnerships : IRD
Project duration : 01/01/2025 - 31/12/2028

Financing : The total cost of the project is €839,899.28. The University of Guyana has received €576,302.52 in funding from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) under the 2021-2027 programme for this project.

Summary: Space imagery offers the possibility of regular, large-scale monitoring. It can be used to map, analyse and monitor changes in the environment and the impacts of climate change, and helps to support decision-making.

The project proposes to optimise and make available shared computing tools and infrastructures in order to exploit geospatial data on the scale of the Guiana Shield by implementing datacubes based on time series analysis techniques to detect environmental changes.

The creation of a platform for computing geospatial data on the Guiana Shield will complete the need for IT infrastructure for the production of low- and medium-resolution spatialised data.

The project's two main actions :

• Setting up a «Datacube» infrastructure capable of storing a wide range of low- and medium-resolution satellite images and carrying out calculations on large masses of data in order to estimate indicators and physical quantities.
• Deployment of a library/catalogue of processing chains to regularly generate thematic products: monitoring rainfall and extreme floods, coastal monitoring, monitoring forest and landscape dynamics, or monitoring solar radiation for renewable energy production.

Project sponsor : Ollivier TAMARIN
Laboratory: UMR Espace DEV
Partnerships : Federal University of Campina Grande
Project duration : 06/01/2025 - 31/12/2028

Financing : The total cost of the project is €767,231.12. The University of Guyana has received €400,000 in funding from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) under the 2021-2027 programme.

Summary: The aim of the ENERFIAB project is to focus on two main areas related to energy issues in French Guiana: the development of multi-source electricity networks based on renewable energies and the preventive diagnosis of installations.

The project proposes the implementation and preventive monitoring of a multi-source electricity production system for both isolated sites and urban coastal areas.

It also aims to improve the quality and reliability of electricity distribution through innovative solutions for managing consumption via smart grids.

The devices developed will incorporate artificial intelligence technologies to enable self-diagnosis, intelligent production management and remote monitoring using wireless communications adapted to the realities of French Guiana.

Project sponsor : Ghislaine PREVOT
Laboratory: UR TBIP
Partnerships : University Hospital, University of the West Indies

Financing : The total cost of the project is €731,068.98. The University of Guyana has received €400,000 in funding from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).

Summary: The DEVOD-One Health project aims to develop diagnostic tools for detecting pathogens in humans, animals and the environment in order to gain a better understanding of the associated pathologies.

Area 1: Diagnostic tools adapted to the area.

The introduction of appropriate tools will improve the diagnosis of parasitic, fungal and bacterial diseases in humans, animals and the environment.

These tools will be adapted to healthcare facilities equipped with molecular biology (hospitals and laboratories) as well as to prevention and care centres that do not have this equipment. They will also make it possible to reduce the need to outsource analyses and obtain results more quickly.

Area 2: Application to tropical diseases.

The protocols developed will be disseminated to the scientific community via publications and skills transfer. The tools developed will also be used in veterinary medicine to improve animal care and gain a better understanding of pathogen circulation.

The project will also analyse the risks associated with venous catheters in intensive care by studying the microbiological flora of patients.

Project sponsor : Ghislaine PREVOT
Laboratory: UR TBIP
Partnerships : CHU, Université des Antilles, IRD Herbarium, UMR Espace Dev, Saint-Georges de l'Oyapock Town Hall, Société Guyanaise des Eaux, University of Trieste, Atmo Guyane
Project duration : 02/09/2024 - 18/12/2027

Financing : The total cost of the project is €591,952.38. The University of Guyana received €400,000 in funding from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).

Summary: Airfungui is an interdisciplinary global health project designed to establish epidemiological surveillance of risk factors for respiratory diseases and pollution episodes.

The project uses innovative technologies such as environmental DNA metabarcoding and artificial intelligence to analyse the influence of physico-chemical and meteorological factors on the microbial biodiversity of the air in French Guiana.

The work will also make it possible to assess the health impact of bioaerosols on the population.

Project sponsor : Weiwen JIANG
Direction : DIRVED
Project duration : 01/09/2025 - 31/08/2028

Financing : The total cost of the project is €449,393.65. The University of Guyana received €314,584.18 in funding from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).

Summary: The aim of the BIOTROP project is to develop an innovative food and phytocosmetic product based on resources from Guyana's tropical forest and a beekeeping product used as the main carrier.

The product developed will be versatile and designed to meet the needs of different markets and consumer profiles.

Project sponsor : Arnauld HEURET
Laboratory: UMR Espace DEV
Project duration : 01/09/2024 - 31/08/2029

Financing : The total cost of the project is €570,000.00. The University of Guyana has received €500,000 in funding from EMOPI for this project.

Summary: The aim of this project is to strengthen the territorial anchoring of skills, knowledge and the dissemination of knowledge relating to mining issues, and more broadly to the question of the subsoil, through a partnership between government departments and the University of Guyana.

It includes the creation of a scientific chair in petrology and geochemistry, financed over five years, a contribution to the funding of a laboratory for the preparation and analysis of geological samples, and the funding of scientific communication and outreach activities.

Project duration : 03/07/2024 - 02/07/2027

Financing : The total cost of the project is €1,500,000. The University of Guyana has received €1,500,000 in funding from the ARS for this project.

Summary: The ARS is providing the University of Guyana with dedicated funding for post-doctoral contracts in health research over the period 2024-2029.

This operation provides funding for five post-doctoral grants per year, as well as the associated operating costs, for a period of three years within local research units or as part of international partnerships that have a significant impact on the Guyanese health system or the health research ecosystem.

Project sponsor : Antoine PRIMEROSE
Laboratory: UMR Espace Dev
Partnerships : CNES, CEA, INP Toulouse, GDI
Project duration : 27/11/2018 - 31/12/2027

Financing : The total cost of the project is €874,875. The University of Guyana received €612,412.50 in funding from ADEME for this project.

Summary: The Hymazonie project aims to design and test a demonstrator for autonomous stationary power supply and electrical back-up, based on a primary renewable electrical source and a storage system incorporating a low-temperature hydrogen chain.

Project sponsor : Antoine PRIMEROSE
Laboratory: UMR Espace Dev
Project duration : 10/11/2021 - 10/05/2028

Financing : The total cost of the project is €129,000. The University of Guyana received €103,200 in funding from ADEME for this project.

Summary: This project involves the construction of a photovoltaic power plant as part of the Hymazonie project.

Project sponsor : Arnauld HEURET
Laboratory: UMR Espace Dev
Partnerships : EMOPI, ONF, PAG, Gendarmerie, Armed Forces of French Guiana
Project duration : 20/11/2025 - 19/11/2028

Financing : The total cost of the project is €264,000. The University of Guyana has received €264,000 in funding from EMOPI for this project.

Summary: The Observatoire de l'Activité Minière is a tool to help organise and share data relating to this activity, as well as a decision-making support tool for operations to combat illegal gold washing.

It will also make it possible to draw up as comprehensive an assessment as possible of mining activity and its impact on forests and rivers. As part of this partnership, the project aims to promote and disseminate the results obtained by the OAM to the general public.

Project sponsor : Sébastien CHAPELLON
Laboratory: UR MINEA
Partnerships : FUTURADO, GRAINE GUYANE, MELISSE, Studio d'en haut
Project duration : 01/11/2024 - 31/10/2027

Financing : The total cost of the operation is €150,000. The University of Guyana has received €150,000 in funding from the GIP EPAU to carry out this operation.

Summary: Guyarécit is a research-action project on local biodiversity. Its aim is to help local authorities create a narrative about biodiversity by documenting and encouraging initiatives to reconnect with nature.

Project sponsor : Arnauld HEURET
Laboratory: UMR Espace Dev
Partnerships : CNRS, BRGM, Univ. Reims, IRD, Univ. Grenoble Alpes, INRA, Univ. de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour, Univ. Lorraine
Project duration : 01/11/2024 - 31/10/2029

Financing : The total cost of the project is €405,020.45 for the University of French Guiana. This work received €146,676.39 in government aid managed by the ANR under the France 2030 programme, under the reference «ANR-22-EXSS-0013».

Summary: The GOYAVES project aims to identify and analyse the many links between human societies and the subsoil of French Guiana, of which mining is only one aspect, in order to promote better protection of this subsoil and to envisage the diversification of the activities it supports.

The project will begin by taking stock of our knowledge of the Guianese subsoil, taking into account its many dimensions: geology, hydrography, geography, demography, economy, sociology, history, heritage and ecology.

It will then look at the current nature and methods of interaction between man and the subsoil. Finally, it will address the question of future trajectories, i.e. the desired or imposed evolution of these relationships under the effect of major contemporary factors and global changes.

The project involves the co-construction of prospective scenarios with stakeholders, followed by a deliberation phase based on a multi-stakeholder, multi-criteria assessment of the ability of each scenario to meet the various challenges.

In order to produce a lasting structuring effect on the region, the final phase will take the form of a reflection on the specifications for a museum or conservatory of the relationship between man and the subsoil, as well as its evolution over time and space in French Guiana.

Project sponsor : Timothée POUPELIN
Laboratory: CORIA
Partnerships : CHU, ARS
Project duration : 01/11/2025 - 31/12/2027

Financing : The total cost of the project is €138,000. The government is providing €50,000 in funding for the project. The University of Guyana has also received €88,000 in funding from the ARS for this project.

Summary: The «U-StraMéLo» university support project for the Heavy Metals Strategy aims to initiate a concerted, multi-disciplinary approach to population health research into the issue of heavy metals in French Guiana.