Regional Agency for Development, Investment and Innovation

Regional Agency for Development, Investment and Innovation

NEXA is the Regional Agency for Development, Investment and Innovation located in La Réunion, France. NEXA’s mission is to promote and support the island’s transition toward an ecological and innovative economy. To that end, the agency supports the Regional authority in the design and implementation of research and innovation policies (RIS3), and facilitates the development of projects, notably through the access to funding sources. NEXA also support local stakeholders in devising competitive EU funded projects (namely H2020, LIFE) at large, with a special attention to biodiversity conservation in La Réunion and to ensure regional and international collaboration.


Regional Agency for Development, Investment and Innovation (NEXA)
Website: http://www.nexa.re/
La Réunion, France

Members

Cathleen Cybèle

Cathleen Cybèle

Activity 4 Leader

Cathleen Cybèle is Nexa’s Biodiversity project Manager and holds a PhD on a socio-economic analysis of the management and control of invasive plant species. She has previously worked on biological invasions as communications officer on the Biodiversity project and for the IUCN based at the Indian Ocean Commission. Cathleen worked with local communities in the Upper Guinean Forest in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea. Cathleen was employed for 2 years with the Ramsar Convention, based in the IUCN headquarters in Switzerland as an assistant to the senior regional advisor for Africa in the designation of Wetlands of International Importance. Specialized in social marketing, she has previously served as the manager of a national awareness campaign for Rare in Mauritius. Cathleen is a graduate of the University of Lille (France), the University of Kent (UK), and holds an MSc degree in Conservation and Rural Development.

Email: cathleen.cybele@nexa.re

Coordinated by:
Governo Regional dos Açores
Frct
Partners:
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover
Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
Regional Agency for Development, Investment and Innovation
Reunion University
Asociación Biodiversidad Atlántica y Sostenibilidad
University of Portsmouth
World Wide Fund for Nature
Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
SAERI Falklands Limited
University of Trento
Nova Blue Environment