What is a YEC ?
The YEC (Young Experts Collective) is a team work led by students, ingineers to-be of ISTOM. The goal is to identify, design and carry out an expertise for a sponsor acting in the international development field. We work together on a identified theme. This pedagogical project lasts eigteen months, sixteen of which is preparation and two months of fieldwork in a tropical country.
Our choosen subject is directed toward the regenation of degraded lands through agroforestry.
NAARA's inception
​
-
Origin of the project : Regeneration of the degraded lands through agroforestry
-
Team dynamic and organization and clarification of our project
October 2021
Launching of the project​
​
-
Meeting with the sponsor
-
Bibliography and anticipated work for the mission
-
Funding research
-
First deliverables
September 2021 - May 2023
Fieldwork
​
-
Realization of the mission, 1 to 2 month of work in the sponsor's contry
​
-
Data analysis
​
-
Mission report and writing of the delivarables
May 2023 - September 2023
The YEC, a bond of
trust & professionalism
To this day, 92 actors of the international agricultural development (NGOs, private and public companies, research centers) have benificiated from ISTOM students's expertise and have cooperated in various regions of the world.
​
Amongst the sponsors :
