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Paris, May 29, 2008
Imagine, create, transfer, train: three major players in the French research world are coming together to boost the dynamism of the Grand Ouest competitive cluster. Stéphane Cassereau, the director of the EMNantes, Michel Cosnard, CEO of INRIA and Yves Lecointe, the Chancellor of the University of Nantes, have signed a scientific collaboration agreement covering the next four years.
The reform of research is well underway and researchers continue to be mobilised: The EMNantes, the University of Nantes and the French National Institute for Research in Computer Science Control have reasserted how important it is to carry out collaborative research at a local level, in order to ensure it resonates nationally. Today they sign a framework agreement in which all three parties commit to forming joint research teams that can also integrate other institutional partners.
With more than 1300 tenured lecture - researchers and researchers, the University of Nantes considers that "this agreement fits in perfectly with its policy to increase the scientific quality of research conducted in its laboratories, in particular through the development of research projects in conjunction with major national and international research bodies." Thanks to this agreement, the university is looking to demonstrate its determination to increase the scientific quality and visibility of research in the field of information and communication science and technology (ICST).
For the EMNantes, the field of information and communication technology is one of the two major pillars of its research strategy, and it therefore welcomes this association, which will continue to encourage the emergence of research teams belonging to reference research centres. With an increase of 50% in its faculty and a doubling of the number of engineering graduates by 2011, both of which objectives are part of its new strategy plan, the school is confirming its willingness to reinforce its activities in the field of software.
As part of its overall policy, INRIA is basing its regional development on close partnerships with universities, schools and research bodies in order to foster the emergence in France of centres of excellence in ICST that have international renown. The INRIA Rennes - Bretagne Atlantique Research Centre, one of INRIA’s eight research centres, is acknowledged across the regions of Brittany and the Loire, where it implements high-level scientific projects based on a development and transfer approach. More specifically, the project teams in Nantes focus their work on the fields of aspects and components programming and distributed data systems management.
This scientific cooperation agreement, signed to mark the twentieth anniversary of Atlanpôle, also stresses the key role played by information and communication science and technology in every sector of human activity.By revolutionising the way we communicate, interact and produce, ICST herald profound social changes and make an essential contribution to the acceleration of scientific and technological progress, productivity gains and economic growth.
Status: A public scientific and technological research
agency reporting to the ministries of Research and Industry.
Leadership: Michel Cosnard, CEO of INRIA; Jean-Pierre
Verjus, Deputy Managing Director.
Annual Budget (2008): 186 M€, more than 20%
of which is provided by outside sources, such as businesses, French
and European government agencies and communities.
Regional Research Centres: Paris - Rocquencourt,
Sophia Antipolis - Méditerranée, Grenoble - Rhône-Alpes,
Nancy - Grand Est, Rennes - Bretagne Atlantique, Bordeaux - Sud-Ouest,
Lille - Nord Europe, Saclay - Ile-de-France.
150 research project groups, 85% of them shared
with other major organizations, schools and universities.
2 800 researchers, 1,000 of them doctoral candidates
790 active research contracts
89 businesses created since 1984.
To learn more, please visit our Website: http://www.inria.fr/index.en.html
Status: Public administrative institution under
the supervision of the Ministry of Industry
Managers:
Stéphane Cassereau, Director, Matthieu Schuler, Deputy Director
Annual budget: 21 M euros of which 30% of own revenue
120 lecturer-researchers and 98 doctoral students in 15 research teams, most
of which are combined with other agencies, grandes écoles and
universities
164 research partnership contracts since 2006
Training: 600 students, 9 options, 4 international masters including one
with Erasmus Mundus accreditation
To find out more: http://webi.emn.fr/
The School’s strategic plan: http://www.emn.fr/x-com/communiques/AG-13-Mai.ppt
http://www.emn.fr/x-com/communiques/plan-strategique-doc
Status: Public scientific, cultural and vocational establishment.
Managers:
Yves Lecointe, chancellor
Key figures:
72.7
million euros in initial budget 2008. Largest research institution in the region
1300
tenured lecturer-researchers and researchers
72
research laboratories and facilities accredited by the Ministry of Research
0%
of regional laboratories with A and A + ranking from national assessment bodies
Nearly 200 partnership research contracts representing nearly 9 million euros.
Largest
research institution in the region
1300
tenured lecturer-researchers and researchers
72
research laboratories and facilities accredited by the Ministry of Research
60%
of regional laboratories with A and A + ranking from national assessment bodies
Nearly
200 partnership research contracts representing nearly 9 million euros.
Training:
33,000
students in initial training
6,000
students in continuing education
4,000
registered with the permanent University
28
degrees, 37 professional degrees, 35 Masters options
For more information: www.univ-nantes.fr
| INRIA Vincent Coronini Tel.: +33 (0)1 39 63 57 29 |
Nantes Ecole des Mines Nathalie Le Calvez Tel : +33 (0) 2 51 85 81 90 |
University of Nantes Marie Chardronnet Tel.: + 33 (0) 2 40 35 07 32 |
