Sponsors

We would like to sincerely thank our sponsors for their support, without them our project would not have been possible. Thanks to their contribution, we were able to carry out lab experiments, promote our project, raise awareness about water environmental issues and improve our work day by day.

For the financial part:

Fonds de Solidarité et de Développement des Initiatives Étudiantes (FSDIE) of Sorbonne University : Solidarity fund for the development of student initiatives.

Established by the Ministry of National Education and Higher Education and Research in September 2001, the FSDIE provides financial assistance to students to carry out their projects or initiatives contributing to the development and improvement of student life. The FSDIE is a fund that exists in all universities in France. It gets its budget from the regulatory levy of registration fees. The main objective of the FSDIE, the "project support" component, is to encourage the development of student initiatives. These initiatives may relate to cultural projects, solidarity actions, civic engagement, environmental protection, sport, health, disability and the animation of campuses or regions, this list not being exhaustive. The projects they support participate in the animation of campuses, improve student services and promote community life on campus.

Le Ministère de l’Enseignement Supérieur et de la Recherche et de l’Innovation (MESRI) : The Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation.

The Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation (MESRI) is in charge of preparing and implementing the Government's policy in relation to the development of higher education, research and technology. We responded to their call for “Science-Society” projects intended for associations working on better relations between science and society. It aims to structure the landscape of scientific, technical and industrial culture at a national level through innovative mediation methods, promoting civic engagement and involving all audiences, especially the youngest and most remote from science and culture. Through this call for projects, we have obtained a financial contribution from the Directorate-General for Research and Innovation to support the project entitled "Development of fun educational tools to run awareness-raising events ».

Maison des initiatives étudiantes (MIE) : the House of Student Initiatives.

Created in 2002 by the City of Paris, the House of Student Initiatives (MIE) supports, accompanies and promotes student initiatives. It helps Parisian students in all stages of their projects, whether they are professional, associative or even entrepreneurial, as well as in their student life. In this process, several calls for projects are proposed. We replied to one of them: "Student Initiatives in Paris" (APIE). APIE finances Parisian initiatives carried out by student associations or intended for students.

HelloAsso.

Finally, we would like to thank all the people who helped our project by participating in our crowdfunding campaign on HelloAsso. We are grateful for all the love and support we received.

As for the support we received for the realization of the biology part of the project and the lab work, we thank:

Geneious.

Geneious is a bioinformatics software solution including fundamental molecular biology and sequence analysis programs. The aim is to “transform biological data into knowledge and actionable insights”. We thank them for the free licence.

Stephane Lemaire’s Laboratory of Computational and Quantitative Biology (LCQB) : UMR 7238 CNRS - Sorbonne University.

Here is the description which we can find on the home page of their website: “The Laboratory of Computational and Quantitative Biology" (LCQB), headed by A. Carbone, is an interdisciplinary laboratory working at the interface between biology and quantitative sciences. It is built to promote a balanced interaction of theoretical and experimental approaches in biology and to foster the definition of new experimental questions, data analysis and modeling of biological phenomena. Our projects address questions on biological structures and processes through the gathering of experimental measures, the in silico generation of new biological data that remain inaccessible to experiments today (modeling of biological systems), the development of statistical methods for data analysis, and the conception of original algorithms aimed at predictions. The lab is supported by the CNRS and Sorbonne Université.” We thank them for their support and for welcoming us to their laboratory.

‍ http://www.lcqb.upmc.fr

The "organic contaminants" (CO) pole of UMR METIS (Milieux environnementaux, transferts et interactions dans les hydrosystèmes et les sols : Environment, transfers and interactions in soils and water bodies).

The UMR METIS was created in January 2014. It is located at Sorbonne University. They specialize in the research domain of "continental surfaces", water, nutrients and contaminants circulation in environments. The organic contaminants (CO) pole of UMR METIS is part of Sorbonne University's "Organic geochemistry analytical platform" and has equipment to quantify organic molecules present in trace amounts in various environmental matrices. We thank them for analyzing our samples from the Seine.

https://www.metis.upmc.fr/fr/node/113

Team:Sorbonne U Paris/Sponsors