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All the academic partners are involved in the GISFI, the French Scientific Interest Group on Industrial Wastelands.
LRGP (Laboratory of Reactions and Chemical Engineering)
The Laboratory on Reactions and Chemical Engineering, 
headed by L. Falk, is a joint CNRS / University of Lorraine laboratory (UMR 7274). The goal of the 320 members of LRGP is to contribute to process design for chemical industries. In particular, it is specialized in chemical reaction engineering and separation engineering, as well as in scale-up from laboratory to and industrial scale.
It is organized in five research groups and one of them (named « Processes for Environment, Safety and Resource recovering » ) is involved in the Agromine project. It has a recognized experience in hydrometallurgy, which has been developed recently for Ni hyperaccumulating plants. Also, the “Soils and Waters” team has developed an expertise in the quantification of environmental impacts of processes (life cycle assessment and exergetic analysis). For many years, the group worked with the LabEx R21, and with INRS-ETE (Québec, Canada) on the synthesis of the ammonium nickel sulfate salt, from plants.
LRGP is the coordinator of Agromine and it mainly contributes to the sientific tasks 4 and 5.
LSE (Laboratory of Soils and the Environnement)
The Laboratory of Soils and the Environment, headed by C. Schwartz, is a joint INRA / University of Lorraine laboratory (UMR 1120). The 40 members of LSE have a 20-years expertise in the field of urban and contaminated soils functionalization, and on soil phytoremediation (metal phytoextraction by hyperaccumulating plants, and rhizodegradation of PAHs).
LSE mainly contributes to the sientific tasks 1, 2 and 3 of Agromine.