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3_APPLICATION OF RESEARCH FINDINGS, TIES WITH INDUSTRY AND EXPERT APPRAISALS
72
48%
The areas of geotechnical engineering, the environment and
green building accounted for 9% of the direct contracts, and
energy accounted for 4%.
Research into the fields of health and road safety, which is
logically financed from the public purse, received contracts to
the tune of €400,000 from the social and economic spheres.
More precisely, direct research contracts (ignoring expert appraisals,
tests and certification) awarded by industry, operators
and local and regional authorities have considerably increased
compared with previous years (by 20%), and their value now
exceeds €3.4M. This bodes well for 2012.
In 2011, almost half this activity was generated by transport,
which includes the organization and optimization of transport
systems and the road and rail sectors. Together, the areas of
green building, engineering structures and civil engineering
and construction accounted for 22% of the contracts.
In addition, in 2011, major partnerships were put in place with
industry, academia and local and regional government in the
framework of the Future Investments Programme.
Most of these ambitious projects were subjected to an initial
selection process in 2010 and required a considerable amount
of additional work in order to take on board the comments and
concerns of the General Commission for Future Investments.
Several projects were successful when submitted a second
time: the VeDeCoM IEED and the Eficacity project were added
to the successes of the beginning of the year (the RAILENIUM
3%
1% 3%
iFSTTAR’S
CONTRACTUAL
iNCOME WiTH
THE SOCiAL AND
ECONOMiC SPHERES
iN 2011
R&D CONTRACTS, EXPERT
APPRAISALS, TESTS AND
CERTIFICATION
3%
15%
4%
HEALTH
GREEN BUiLDiNG
SAFETy AND ROAD OPERATiON
ENERGy
GEOTECHNiCAL ENGiNEERiNG, wATER
& THE ENViRONMENT
MOTOR VEHiCLES
RAiLwAyS
TRANSPORT SySTEM ORGANiZATiON
AND OPTiMiZATiON
STRUCTURES (ENGiNEERiNG STRUCTURES
AND CONSTRUCTiON AND CiViL ENGiNEERiNG
VARiOUS (DEFENCE, SPACE…)
6%
7%
10%
and Jules Verne IRTs). The Transpolis innovation platform also
received support from the DGCIS (General Directorate for
Competitiveness, Industry and Services) and teams from
IFSTTAR have been very much involved in the projects
submitted in response to ADEME calls for interest alongside its
industrial partners and local and regional authorities.
INCREASING INVOLVEMENT
IN COMPETITIVENESS CLUSTERS
Its strong presence in the regions and the excellence of its
laboratories allow IFSTTAR to have a signifi cant presence
in the principal competitiveness clusters which are active in
the sectors of transport, the city and materials engineering.
It thus plays a governance role and leads working groups
in the MOV’EO, I-TRANS, ADVANCITY and LUTB clusters.
It maintains close ties withSystem@tic, Véhicule du Futur
(Vehicle of the Future), Novalog, Pegase, Gestion des
Risques et vulnérabilité des territories (Risk Management and
Regional Vulnerability) and Solutions Communicantes Sécurisées
(Secure Communications Technologies).
The VeDeCoM IEED is backed by the Mov’eo-Rec partnershipbased
foundation which was set up by the motor vehicle sector,
universities (including UVSQ) and research institutes (including
its founders IFSTTAR and IFPEN).
IFSTTAR participates actively in the shared innovation platform
known as TRANSPOLIS, and, in particular, has set up the
company Transpolis SAS in which it has a 45% stake, alongside
RENAULT TRUCKS and COLAS.
The mutual trust that exists between the members of the competitiveness
clusters has made it possible to increase the quality
and number of research contracts that have been certified
by the clusters and funded by the FUI (Single Interministerial
Fund) at a time when the juries are accepting a smaller and
smaller percentage of projects.
It is noteworthy that research projects which have been certified
by a competitiveness cluster account for an increasing
share of the Institute’s resources, rising from 4% in 2010 to
4.5% in 2011.
The Institute remains committed to supporting SMEs, but the
proportion of direct contracts with SMEs has remained stable,
at about 10% in 2011.
@ CONTACT
dominique.fernier@ifsttar.fr
Inspection of the CNIT as part of an
appraisal by LCPC Expert in collaboration
with SÉTRA and IFSTTAR.
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