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Close regional ties
and Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, IFSTTAR and eight other
research organizations and higher education establishments.
VeDeCoM is one of the flagship projects of the new PRES.
URBAN RESEARCH IN THE PARIS REGION
IS MAPPING OUT THE FUTURE
In 2011, the Future Investments Programme continued to rally the
research units in the Paris region around projects whose funding
had already been found or was being negotiated.
One of these, the Sense-City Equipex, led by IFSTTAR, sets out
to use sensor networks to monitor urban areas closely. A miniature
test city will be constructed at the CSTB site in the Cité
Descartes in which mock-ups of various components of the city will be
installed.
The NanoimagesX Equipex, which is managed by the Navier Institute
(a Marne-la-Vallée research unit which is jointly run by CNRS,
ENPC and IFSTTAR), aims to construct and operate a 3D imaging
line chiefly to investigate the structure of new materials in the
SOLEIL synchrotron.
No less than 5 IFSTTAR research units are involved in another
Future Investments Programme, the Futurs Urbains Labex. This
applies an interdisciplinary approach in urban contexts by coordinating
high quality research with the ability to conduct in situ trials
at the Descartes Cluster in Marne-la-Vallée.
The Efficacity project aims to find ways of reducing energy consumption
by implementing the technology, services and design/
evaluation tools developed by its industrial and academic project
partners.
The Institute also participates, with Paris-East University, and the
Sorbonne Paris Cité, in the Technology Transfer Acceleration Company
(SATT) Île-de-France Innov.
GREATER INVOLVEMENT IN THE COMPETITIVENESS
CLUSTERS
A second proposal for an IEED (1) , VeDeCoM2, has been extensively
reworked by the 42 partners (which include Renault, PSA, Valéo
and IFSTTAR). The themes to be covered by the future institute
which is to bring together 200 researchers at Versailles-Satory, have
been modified more comprehensively: vehicle electrification, the
delegation of driving tasks (to the point of automation), new transport
systems and services with a proposal for a utilization laboratory in
which IFSTTAR will be very much involved.
As part of the “Vehicles of the Future” programme which has Mov’éo
support and certification, the LTN teams at Satory have submitted
a proposal known as Mov’éo TREVE with a view to creating
the facilities and regulations needed to conduct comparative tests
and evaluate charging systems for electric vehicles and chargeable
hybrid vehicles. The consortium includes Renault, Schneider
and 6 other partners and aims to use the Satory site to set up test
facilities whose reference status will be recognized by the entire
electric vehicle sector.
Another proposal, SYSMO 2015, which has been certified by
Mov’éo and Sytematic, and which involves IFSTTAR teams from
Satory and Marne-la-Vallée, has been the submitted in response
to an ADEME call for expressions of interest for new transportation
systems. The proposal is to develop techniques, systems
and knowledge for multimodal information systems, car-sharing
with automatic vehicles and, more recently, systems for major
transport hubs.
The Institute is heavily involved in the governance of the Advancity
cluster, chairing the scientific board and the Mobility certification
committee and leading its strategic policy committees. The Institute’s
teams are continuing their involvement in setting up projects
that are certified by this cluster, for example, NEWTUN (interactive
pre-retaining for tunnel boring) and REPTILES (2) (rehabilitation
of drinking water pipes)
(1) Institutes of Excellence on Zero Carbon Energy.
(2) The NEWTUN and REPTILES projects were set up in response
to the 2011 FUI call for tenders.
@ CONTACTS
jean-marc.blosseville@ifsttar.fr & helene.fontaine@ifsttar.fr
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Nantes-Bouguenais /
Pays-de-la-Loire
THE FUTURE INVESTMENTS PROGRAMME
BOOSTS PARTNERSHIPS
The development of proposals for Future Investment Projects has
boosted partnerships between academia (PRES, Universities,
Engineering Schools), and other public establishments (CEA, CNRS,
CSTB, IFREMER), and the industrial sector (ALSTOM, EADS, DCNS,
STX). Two of these projects, in which IFSTTAR was involved, the Jules
Verne IRT in the Pays-de-la-Loire and the France Energies Marines
IEED in Brittany, will end positively with concrete achievements
in 2012. However, although the IC-Ouest IDEX, backed by the
UNAM (3) PRES in the Loire valley and the UBE (4) PRES in Britanny,
was not selected by the General Commission for Investments, it
did succeed in initiating closer inter-regional ties between universities
in Brittany and Pays-de-la-Loire which all the participants
are keen to continue.
A UNIFYING FORCE FOR RESEARCH
IN THE REGIONS
IFSTTAR’s desire to develop partnerships with the Universities in
the Pays-de-la Loire region takes varied forms, which the Institute
has maintained and extended in 2011. This has allowed IFSTTAR
to participate actively in the region’s various research coordination
bodies (CCRRDT, Observatoire Régional de La Recherche …) and
(3) Nantes-Angers-Le Mans University.
(4) The European University of Brittany.
In 2011, THE NANTES-BOUGUENAIS CENTRE
REPRESENTED IFSTTAR AS:
Member of the Bureau of the Regional Consultative
Committee on Technological Research and Development
(CCRRDT) under the auspices of the Regional Council
of the Pays-de-la-Loire.
Associate member of the PRES of Nantes-Angers-
Le Mans University (UNAM).
Member of the steering committees of the SPIGA and
STIM doctoral schools.
Member of the EMC2 and PGCE clusters.
Member of the preparatory structure for the Jules Verne IRT.
Member of the Nantes Atlantic Centre for the Sciences of
the Universe (OSUNA).
Member of the Research Institute on Urban Sciences and
Techniques (IRSTV) which it also manages.
Member of the ITS Bretagne GIS, also chairing the
scientific board.
Member of the ATRIUM and PRECEND innovation
platforms.
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