Annual-Report-2019

SCIENTIFIC VISION
& SURROUNDINGS
From fundamental research to innovation
and socio-economic development
LE STUDIUM Loire Valley Institute for Advanced
Studies is strongly embedded in the Centre-Val
de Loire region’s research landscape. With 23
years of experience and holding a prestigious
portfolio of regional and international research
programmes, LE STUDIUM activities continue
to grow and spread light on its actors and
partners. The focus of its mission remains
to build the human capacity for research
and scientific knowledge and to foster
socioeconomic development and innovation.
As a matter of fact, LE STUDIUM’s expertise
lies in attracting, managing a growing flow
of global research exchanges, creating new
scientific value chains, and contributing to
the emergence of innovative, collaborative
research and enterprise activities. The
impact of new knowledge on the economy
is incremental, but the cumulative effect is
substantial.
In November 2015, LE STUDIUM was
awarded by the European Union Horizon 2020
COFUND scheme in the category of the Marie
Skłodowska-Curie Actions. The Smart Loire
Valley Fellowship Programme (SLV) enables
LE STUDIUM to select and attract a large
number of experienced scientists who come
to spend a one-year full time residency in the
Centre-Val de Loire region. This award brought
a five-year co-financing to the initial support
provided by the Regional Council of Centre-Val
de Loire and brings substantial benefits to all
the laboratories of LE STUDIUM members.
In June 2019, LE STUDIUM Scientific Council
reviewed eighty applications and recommended
a total of eighteen awards, including one
Research Professorship, fourteen Research
Fellowships, one Visiting Researcher and two
Research Consortia. Other recruitments and
awards were conducted in the framework of the
ARD 2020 smart specialization programmes
initiated by the Regional Council Centre-Val
de Loire and in which LE STUDIUM is the key
partner for the international dynamics and
scientific events.
This past year, LE STUDIUM attracted and
welcomed a total of forty international
researchers from nineteen countries. These
awards came across diverse disciplines from
the social sciences, natural sciences and
engineering to laboratories located in Orléans,
Tours, Bourges, Blois and Chartres.
The monthly transdisciplinary seminars,
LE STUDIUM THURDAYS, are praised by all
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