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T H E S C H O O L<br />

Editorial<br />

“<br />

Because it is necessary to respond to economic and<br />

societal conditions which are constantly changing,<br />

Because companies need engineers capable<br />

of developing technical expertise and<br />

adapting to multicultural environments,<br />

Key figures<br />

<strong>IFMA</strong> is committed to an institutional project<br />

(2008-2011) based on its distinctive advantages.<br />

• 623 student engineers<br />

and 36 apprentice<br />

engineers for academic<br />

year 2008-09<br />

• 1500 <strong>IFMA</strong> graduate<br />

engineers<br />

• 44 companies and<br />

organisations members<br />

of the <strong>IFMA</strong> Foundation<br />

• 58 permanent teaching staff<br />

• 39 administrative and<br />

technical personnel<br />

members<br />

• €8 216 221 consolidated<br />

budget (2008)<br />

• 3 research laboratories<br />

attached to a CNRS<br />

Research Federation<br />

• 21 current research<br />

contracts for a total of<br />

€587 965<br />

• 3200 m 2 of high-tech<br />

industrial equipment in<br />

the Technology Transfer<br />

Centre<br />

• Active participation in<br />

3 regional competitiveness<br />

clusters, ViaMéca,<br />

Céréales Vallée and<br />

InnoViandes<br />

• 600 high-school and<br />

university students benefit<br />

from <strong>IFMA</strong> equipment and<br />

personnel in programmes<br />

for sharing academic<br />

resources<br />

• 150 universities et 350<br />

companies in nearly 50<br />

countries are partners or<br />

in close contact with <strong>IFMA</strong>.<br />

The project<br />

is based on<br />

internal and<br />

external<br />

actions<br />

• The existence and role of the <strong>IFMA</strong><br />

FOUNDATION, veritable bridge between the<br />

world of Enterprise and the world of<br />

Higher Education and Research.<br />

• The affirmation of an AMBITIOUS RESEARCH<br />

POLICY within the framework of Clermont<br />

Université on the themes of advanced<br />

mechanics and production engineering.<br />

• <strong>IFMA</strong>'s INTERNATIONAL CULTURE, with<br />

100% international mobility in industry.<br />

• SPECIFIC ADVANCED MECHANICS TRAINING<br />

to produce experts in these fields.<br />

• The importance of HUMAN, SOCIAL AND<br />

INTERCULTURAL TRAINING to develop engineers'<br />

soft skills in parallel with their<br />

technical knowledge and know-how.<br />

INTERNAL ACTIONS via the renovation of the academic programme, carried out<br />

conjointly by the industrialists of the <strong>IFMA</strong> Foundation, the teaching and research<br />

staff, the Institute's graduate engineers and our students. Starting in September 2009,<br />

the student will become the actor of his training – training in direct contact with the<br />

realities of industry and the major questions of society, environment and research: a<br />

customised programme in a constantly changing socio-economic context.<br />

EXTERNALLY, the stakes are to affirm our position in the European field of excellence<br />

in advanced mechanics via relations with a national or international thematic<br />

network, using the enhanced responsibilities offered by the new French LRU law<br />

(increasing the autonomy and the responsibility of universities) and reinforcing our<br />

interaction with Clermont Université and the regional competitiveness clusters, in<br />

particular ViaMéca.<br />

Through this project, <strong>IFMA</strong> aims to bring a better response to the expectations of its<br />

partners: student engineers, apprentice engineers, partner companies,<br />

the <strong>IFMA</strong> Foundation, the Ministry of Higher Education and Research,<br />

local and national institutional partners and Institute personnel.<br />

Pr. Pascal RAY<br />

Director<br />

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