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Personal information
Address
e-mail
telephone
date of birth
nationality
87 rue Haxo, 75020 Paris, France
Francesca.degan@acta.asso.fr
0033 (0) 6 52 54 07 04
08/08/1987
italian
Work experience
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February 2016 - present
Organization
Address
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responsibilities
Project manager agro-pedology
ACTA - The French research, development and innovation network which
monitors, experiments, collects and transfers knowledge in the field of
agriculture, heads a network of the 15 French agricultural Technical
Institutes in the animal and plant sectors (known as ITAs). ACTA also
conducts cross disciplinary work and involves systemic approaches. Our
professional leadership and our position at the crossroads between
academic research and extension services, provide ITAs with unique
characteristics on the European scale.
Paris, France
Writing and submitting projects, research and scientific coordination
2013-2016
Organization
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Main activities and
responsibilities
Project manager soil science and viticulture
The French Wine and Vine Institute
The French Wine and Vine Institute (IFV) is the French research center
specialized in vine and wine. Its missions are to conduct studies of general
interest for the whole French wine industry.
French Wine and Vine Institute’s activities are focused in 3 main sectors: i)
selection of grape plant material, ii) vineyard management, iii) wine
making and markets.
Tours, France
Budget and team management, field work, data analysis, modelling and
assessment; grapegrower and winemaker surveys concerning the
agricultural holding management.
2014-2016
Organization
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Main activities and
responsibilities
Project officer of scientific outreach program
Centre-Science –
Regional center of promotion of the Scientific, technical and industrial
knowledge, Center · Sciences has for mission to share the sciences and the
techniques with all the inhabitants of the region Centre-Val of the Loire.
Tours, France
Scientific outreach activities about a river flow, morphological evolution
and of anthropic impact physical model in collaboration with the National
Education programs.
2011-2013
Organization
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Main activities and
responsibilities
Project officer agronomy and land degradation program
GéoHydrosystèmes COntinentaux (Research Lab) and national Water
Agency (Loire-Brittany region)
Tours, France
Mapping of soil erosion and river sealing in the Loire-Brittany catchment;
stakeholders surveys and agricultural advice on sustainable management
of agricultural practices.
2011
Organization
Project officer vine water balance and water resources management
Comité Interprofessionnel du Vin de Champagne
Epernay, France
Francesca DEGAN
Curriculum vitae

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Address
Main activities and
responsibilities
Protocol implementation and database for pedological, hydrological
and climatic study of a viticultural hillslope. Water Balance Assessment
quantification and evaluation
2010
Organization
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Main activities and
responsibilities
Project officer Land Use and Land Change scenarios
LISAH - Laboratory of Study of the Interactions between Sol-Agrosystems-
Hydrosystems, is a mixed research unit under the supervision of the INRA,
the IRD and SupAgro. LISAH researches concern the hydrology, the transfer
of contaminants and the soil erosion in the strongly fitted out cultivated
landscapes, and on the spatial properties and the evolution of these
landscapes.
Montpellier, France
Development of tools to generate land use and climate change scenarios,
in order to simulate realistic landscape evolution
2009
Organization
Address
Main activities and
responsibilities
Internship Analysis of rural development and water management in
Bulgaria
University of Plovdiv –Land and Water management Department
Plovdiv , Bulgaria
Analysis of rural development and water management in rural areas in
Bulgaria from 1989 until 2008. Elaboration of interviews and realization of
surveys to entrepreneurs, public officers in the Agricultural Ministry and
agricultural association managers
2008
Organization
Address
Main activities and
responsibilities
Internship Analysis of rural development and water management in
Bulgaria
Agricultural Farm – Regional Natural Park
Padova, Italy
Vineyard installation;
Vineyard management (pruning, pest management, etc.); Analysis of grape
quality; soil characterization and analysis.
Associative and Volunteering works
2013-2016 Member. Scientific Research Commission of the Governing Council in the
University François Rabelais.
Agir ensemble, Tours, France.
2012-present Member. National and international conferences (Versailles 2012, Bari
(Italy) 2013, Chambèry 2014, GESSOL-Paris 2015).
AFES – French Association for Soil Studies, France.
2006-2011 Volunteer. Conference organization, applications for international
cooperation agricultural projects.
Agronomi Senza Frontiere - Padova, Italy.
Education
2010-2012 Univerty de Padoue, Italy.
"Plant Production" (Master)
2010-2011 Montpellier SupAgro, France.
Erasmus and "Environment, Water and of Soil Management in rural
areas" (Master)
2009 University d’Innsbruck, Austria and Spain (Ebro valley and Pyrenees).
Exchange program (LLP - IP) "Sustainable development in mountain
areas"
2006-2009 University de Padoue, Italy.
"Sciences and Technologies for Agriculture" (Bachelor)
Skills
Languages Italian : mother tongue; French : bilingual; English : advance.
Data processing Programming and advanced management of software in cartography,
statistical processing, graphics, o-ce in OpenSource (GLOBAL POSITIONING
SYSTEMS, R-projet, QGIS, ArcGIS,FATS, MAPINFO, Phyton, Inkscape, GIMP)

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Other Agronomy, projects development, team management, network skills,
practices and tools for sustainable management of water and soil,
modelling and cartography.
Hobbies Trekking, trail, climb, bikes, pottery, yoga.