Nantes-Atlantic National College of Veterinary Medicine, Food Science and Engineering (ONIRIS)

Oniris is one of the few European institutions where Engineering and Veterinarian students can interact, through the concept of One Health and Food Safety.

The Engineering track is mainly dedicated to the Food Industries sector ranging from Food Science to Food Engineering, including Management, Marketing and Quality, as well as Biotechnology.

Both campuses share three fundamental values: teaching excellence, intercultural communication, success for each student, with the ambition to train high-fly professionals concerned by international challenges on the topics of environment, sustainability, food and health.

Strengths:

Oniris is located in Nantes, the Green European Capital City in 2013, and is the main city of the Western part of France. At the heart of the Loire Valley, where Food Industries are prominent, Nantes offers a good quality of life and a wide range of cultural activities.

Both campuses of Oniris reflect this quality of life, social accountability and openness to the World. Oniris is accredited by the European Association of Establishments for Veterinary Education (EAEVE) and by the National Engineering Education Commission (CTI), certifying our striving for excellence.

In both veterinary medicine and Food Science & Engineering fields Oniris develops a hands on set of situations using our facilities such as our 2000m2 pilot plant, our top range veterinary hospital and cutting-edge tools (Virtual Vet, Co-design room). Our students are immersed in an innovative and creative environment thanks to internationally recognized Joint Research Units with the most prestigious national research centers (CNRS, INSERM, INRA, ANSES). 

Oniris strives to welcome its international students providing help with accommodation and facilitating integration through a buddy program.

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MAIN PROGRAMS OF STUDY

Master's Degrees in English:

• Project Management for Food Factories of the Future (PM3F)
• Man-Imal – Transdisciplinary Management of Global Health and Nutritional Safety

Master's Degrees in French (Level B1 required):

• BBRT « Biologie, biotechnologie et recherche thérapeutique » 
• NSA « Nutrition Sciences des Aliments »
• SAED « Sciences de l’animal pour l’élevage de demain »

Tuition fees/year: from 2770€ to 12 000€ per year for international programs, depending on each degree.

Contact: iro@oniris-nantes.fr

Ms. Laëtitia Schmitt will be participating in "The Contributions of Veterinary Medicine & Engineering to the ”One Health” Approach" on September 17th (Fri) as part of ONE HEALTH @ CITYU X FRANCE. Tune in to the discussion from 5:20 - 6:20 PM (HK time).

Register here.

Speaker Profile

Ms. Laëtitia Schmitt
Masters Director from Nantes-Atlantic National College of Veterinary Medicine, Food Science and Engineering (ONIRIS)

In charge of the coordination of the postgraduate programme "From Animal to Man: Analysing and Managing Health and Food Risks, Laetitia Schmitt has helped the 4 partners which are renowned higher education institutions: Oniris (Veterinary public health, health and animal farming, food safety), Universities of Nantes and Angers (food and health, public health), ESA (agri-food, agriculture and sustainable system conception engineering) to organize the 2nd year of Master's degree since its opening in 2013.

She has welcomed students from more than 40 countries with educational backgrounds as pharmacists, doctors, biologists, veterinarians, agriculture engineers or food-processing engineers.

She also organised, under the supervision of the Pedagogical Director, lectures from research professors from a variety of disciplines (agronomy, medicine, veterinary studies, biology, pharmacy, law, economics).

Every year she had to coordinate the One Health conference held in the programm with speakers from WHO, OIE, FAO, ECDC, European Commission) and national organisations (Santé publique France, OFB).