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The international stage
An international
presence
marked by
excellence,
exchanges and
solidarity
IFSTTAR’s many existing links with centres of excellence in the
United States such as the Universities of Berkeley, Penn State
and Virginia Tech have been strengthened. The long-term visits
by two of our researchers to Californian Universities are among
the outstanding events of the year.
This collaboration covers extremely varied fields, from civil engineering
to logistics and the organization of freight transport,
from transport applications of cognitive science to numerical
models of the human body for passive safety.
The partnership with the federal administration’s Highways
Research Centre for civil engineering has continued.
During the TRB annual conference, IFSTTAR also played an
active part in the Franco-American workshop on the role of
Our researchers
present abroad
The mobility of IFSTTAR’s researchers reflects
its strategy of influence which depends on their
participation in the major international conferences on
transportation research, the TRB conference and
the World ITS Congress.
IFSTTAR also encourages its researchers to take up
medium- and long-term assignments in partner
institutes abroad, particularly in North America
(United States and Canada) and Europe (Germany
and Switzerland).
Every year, IFSTTAR acts as host to some twenty
experienced researchers (other than doctoral students
and researchers on fixed-term contracts) from
institutes with which it has longstanding cooperative
research links.
168 ASSIGNMENTS COMPLETED OUTSIDE THE EU,
8 OF WHICH WERE MEDIUM OR LONG DURATION
(6 MONTHS AND OVER) BY:
Laetitia Dablanc (United States)
Kostas Chatzis (United States)
Laurent Terral (Quebec)
Minh Tan Do (United States)
Julien Lardy (United States)
Benoît Matthern (United States)
Marion Bost (Switzerland)
Corinne Blanquart (Germany)
@ CONTACT
erik.bessmann@ifsttar.fr
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International
visits and
delegations
In 2011, IFSTTAR welcomed 85 foreign visitors from
administrations, research laboratories and
universities etc. in 14 countries.
The aim of these delegations was to raise their
awareness of IFSTTAR’s knowledge and expertise in
its areas of competence (pavements, road safety,
engineering structures, etc.).
IFSTTAR also organized meetings of working groups
from several European associations and programmes
(REFINE, ERA-NET ROAD, CEDR, FEHRL) in
which more than 120 representatives from Europe
took part.
This very large number of visitors bears witness to our
Institute’s renown.
@ CONTACT
yolande.daniel@ifsttar.fr
Signing of a Franco-Korean
agreement on 2 May 2011 at IFSTTAR.
ANNUAL REPORT 2011 ifsttar.fr