A student at the ENSAIA, Bastien is spending 8 months in China. Objective : to study land pollution and the solutions developed here. His account halfway through. Bastien Morize likes to introduce himself as "a student at the ENSAIA and a badminton player". The latter characteristic not being the least useful for fitting into a country that invented the shuttlecock game. Supervised by the INRA and the Soils and Environment Laboratory, this young man from Lorraine is indeed carrying out a study trip in China. There he must carry out an investigation into the land pollution and the means employed here to remedy it. "By visiting universities, laboratories, by meeting scientists, I must draw up a research table in this domain, of projects carried out and future leads", completes Bastien. "The management of water and solid waste will also be addressed, these aspects being linked to the soil." Declared goal of the trip : to find research collaboration leads for the INRA. The student has 8 months to manage to do it. After "a period of cultural acclimatization" in Beijing, Bastien worked for 3 months with the University of Agriculture of Southern China in Guangzhou, "the Chinese capital of badminton." There he "among other things" studied "research on pollution by heavy metals and phytoremediation." Since mid-January, the future engineer is at Tongji University, College of Environmental Science and Engineering (Shanghai) where he will observe "an experimental project in the domain of waste and the production / assimilation of methane by the soil." His return to Nancy is planned for the end of May. Financed by the INRA, Bastien's trip is in line with a " year out " : a few months between the second and third year of his engineering curriculum at the ENSAIA. "Part of my class is doing work experience, university exchanges or personal projects around the world," adds the student from Lorraine. "We will have acquired one additional year of experience on the professional, cultural and linguistic levels" and even sports levels for some !

 

LSE : Soil and Environment Laboratory The LSE's research positions itself in a context of increasing anthropization of soil - a consequence of the expansion of urban, industrial and transportation infrastructures - as well as the intensification of agriculture.

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