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PROTECT Project wins the « Europ'Act » prize

In the presence of Claude Allègre who was the French minister of Education, Research and technology from the year 1997 to 2000.

At the theatre de la Mer in Sète, on the 20th of September 2010, during the Masters Evening, the Frayssinet company, the Joint Research Unit Qualisud (Montpellier 2 University), CIRAD, Sup'Agro and the Union of Mediterranean Distilleries, were awarded the "Europ'Act" prize for their PROTECT project.

The prize rewards a project co-financed by European funding (2009-2013) and managed by 3 major actors involved in Agronomic research in France: the Joint Research Unit Qualisud (Montpellier 2 University, Polytech, CIRAD), the Union of Mediterranean Distilleries, and the Frayssinet company (with their Research Center Clément Phalippou).

On the photo from left to right :
- Claude Baland, Region Prefect
- Christian Philip, Recteur de l’Académie de Montpellier
- Bernard Caumil, General Director of the Union of Mediterranean Distilleries (on behalf of M. Daniel Guigon)
- Gilbert Garapin, Doctor in Agronomy, Frayssinet
- Sabine Galindo, UM II, Professor at Polytech’ Montpellier, Assistant Director of the professional training institute, EVAP, Co-organizer UMR Qualisud
- Luc Frayssinet, Chairman
- Claude Allègre, French minister of Education, Research and technology from the years 1997 to 2000

The PROTECT project purpose is to offer a soil/plant integrated protection programme by developing a range of innovative natural products, aimed at strengthening the protection of crops through the restoration of the balance between the medium and the plant. This innovative programme aims at restarting the biological balance of soils so as to re-establish the essential competing back-ups, to optimize the root resistance, prevent cell alterations
(oxidations) that may cause infections. This integrated crop protection programme is based on the use of raw materials of plant origin with special properties. It opens up a new natural alternative for the protection and/or the improvement of plant resistance. This innovative concept is founded on taking the vegetal within its environment into consideration: it combines the biological improvement of soils, the rhizosphere stimulation and the prevention of oxidative stresses upon the aerial system of cultivated plants.