SMART-LERECO is a two site research team, made up of one research unit (UMR1302 SMART) in Rennes and another research unit (UR1134 LERECO) in Nantes. In Rennes about thirty permanent staff belong to INRA, the French National Institute for Agricultural Research, and fifteen permanent staff belong to Agrocampus Ouest, the higher education and research public institute for life, food and horticultural sciences and landscaping. In Nantes there are ten additional INRA permanent staff.
The research team includes twenty INRA researchers and engineers, twelve Agrocampus Ouest professors and lecturers, and two associated professors of private universities (Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Bretagne in Brest, Ecole Supérieure d’Agriculture in Angers). Ten technical and administrative staff support research activities. There are about ten PhD students on a regular basis.