News
The
new Toyota concept designed in
Sophia Antipolis
Toyota,
at the height of it success with
its hybrid range, unveils a concept
designed by the Toyota Europe
Design Development located in
Sophia Antipolis, south of France.
This new concept which is 55 centimetre
shorter in overall length than
Prius 3, foreshadows a future
model positioned under the Prius
3 model.
The vehicle is positioned as Compact
Hybrid (Toyota FT-CH) and is part
of a broader program of eight
models that work with alternative
energies.
Toyota plans for 2012 other hybrid
models running on gasoline and
electricity or using entirely
electrical energy. 2015 should
see the emergence of model using
hydrogen.
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HAÏTI
Fund
The Fondation Sophia Antipolis
has decided to create a fund dedicated
to the school and research system
of Haïti, in cooperation
with Serge Miranda, professor
at the University of Nice Sophia
Antipolis, who has been involved
with Haïti for years.
Donations received, among others,
by companies and people of Sophia
Antipolis will be given to an
association managed by Professor
Frantz Verella, from the State
University of Haïti.
Donors
will get a receipt to benefit
from the advantages of the Aillagon
law.
Contact
: Charlotte Rousselin : 04 92
96 78 13
Press Contact : Annie Ovigny :
04 93 65 28 14
Special
bank account opened for Haïti
Owner : Fondation Sophia Antipolis
« Haïti Recherche et
Edu FSA »
Address
CREDITCOOP NICE
Bank Code : 42559 – Counter
Code 00032 – Account Number
: 41020015226 “RIB”
Key 34
International Bank Account Number
(IBAN)
FR76 4255 90000 3241 0200 1522
634
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Technological
cooperation program between France
and Israel : 8th call for proposals
In line with the agreement to
develop technological cooperation
between French and Israeli companies,
OSEO for France and the Matimop
(Israeli centre of industry dor
R&D), acting on behalf of
the Office of the Chief Scientist
(OCS) of the Ministry of Industry,
Trade and Employment of Israel,
have made a call for proposals
to select innovation projects
likely to receive funding.
The aim of this call for proposals
is to bring forward R&D projects
that are being developed by companies
from the two countries and that
are likely to receive funding
from the two aforementioned institutions.
Every technological sector is
concerned.
This bilateral program between
France and Israel uses the application
form conceived by Eureka, in order
to facilitate any process of application
to the Eureka label for interested
companies. A large pan-European
program to support collaborative
industrial research, Eureka, among
other things, allows projects
to receive a broader promotional
visibility.
The Eureka initiative, started
in 1985, will celebrate its 25th
anniversary during the Israeli
presidency, from June 2010 to
June 2011.
Consequently, Franco-Israeli innovation
projects will enjoy an increase
of their visibility at the European
level, during this period.
Deadline
for submission of proposals :
April 1st, 2010
To download an application form
: click
here
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Roselyne
Koskas, director of the Fondation
Sophia Antipolis, left the foundation
on January 1st, 2010 to pursue
new professional activities.
For almost twenty-five years,
she worked with honorary Senator
Pierre Laffitte, President of
the Fondation Sophia Antipolis,
in various structures : the Association
Technopole Service (which became
Inno TSD, a consultancy company
well-known in Europe), the Route
des Hautes Technologies, crucial
to the region PACA, now called
Méditerranée Technologies,
the Senate, and finally the head
of the Fondation Sophia Antipolis.
Her competence, her creativity,
her organisational talents and
her tenacity allowed for the whole
park of Sophia Antipolis to grow
its reputation as a model science
park, recognized worldwide. The
innovative spirit which prevails
there was appreciated by all French
clusters. The success of the annual
“Forum des Pôles”
event, supported, among others,
by the Ministry of Industry, bears
witness to that.
At a time when Europe finally
values innovation and considers
clusters, science parks and other
innovative hubs to be the main
factors of competitiveness, one
must underline the Sophia Antipolis
example as a precursory one. Roselyne
Koskas largely contributed to
this by continuously favoring
encounters and reflection likely
to create and strengthen the appropriate
links between companies and countries.
Her work at the international
scale was hailed by Mrs. Anne-Marie
Idrac, State Secretary for Foreign
Trade, who awarded her with the
badge of Chevalier de la Légion
d’Honneur last June.
Beforehand,
Roselyne Koskas was a foreign
correspondent for France 2 and
the Matin de Paris, for 20 years.
Press contact : Marie-Claude Bessis.06
80 64 18 81 mcbessis@noos.fr
Contact Roselyne Koskas : 06 70
31 27 06
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Kahn
& Associés is pleased
to announce its cooperation with
the Chinese law firm JunZeJun
Through
its unique cooperation with JunZeJun,
a leading law firm with more than
240 professionals, based in Shanghai,
Shentzhen and Beijing (www.junzejun.com),
Kahn & Associés is
now able to offer a global integrated
service to its clients operating
in the People's Republic of China
(the PRC) and to Chinese companies
operating in France and more generally
in Europe.
This
strengthened cooperation covers
advice and assistance to clients
in a variety of areas, such as
formation of legal entities and
investment, commercial contracts
and licensing, regulatory matters,
intellectual property rights,
mergers and acquisition, private
equity, real-estate, restructuring,
litigation and arbitration, employment,
tax and others.
For
additional information, please
download the full Press
Release.
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For
the attention of the Turkish authorities,
a workshop for the diffusion of
good practices for developing
an ecosystem based on knowledge
was held on 28th January 2009
at the Fondation Sophia Antipolis.
As
part of a programme of technical
assistance for the EuropeAid programme
of the European Commission to
support the development of a clustering
policy in Turkey, the Fondation
Sophia Antipolis has described
its past, present and future initiatives
for developing the technopole
and more broadly their actions
towards the Competitive clusters.
It
presented the Sophipolitan model
which celebrates its 40th anniversary
this year; from the beginning,
it was based on the development
of an ecosystem based on knowledge
requiring that the different spheres
interlink and that the boundaries
between the different ways of
representation (public decision-makers,
finance-contractors, knowledge
institutions, innovative companies)
should disappear to encourage
rallying points for projects.
This assistance is provided by
the team at the Fondation Sophia
Antipolis, chaired by the honorary
Senator Pierre Laffitte, and leads
a large number of projects aimed
at encouraging transnational cooperation,
promotion of excellence of cluster
organisations and improving the
integration of Innovative SME’s
into clusters. soulier@sophia-antipolis.org
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The
Fondation named as an affiliated
member of the “Europe Enterprise
Network”
The
Fondation Sophia Antipolis has
been named as an affiliated member
of the European network EEN, the
"Europe Enterprise Network",
the biggest network of contacts
for information and advice for
enterprises in the European Union,
in particular small and medium
sized companies (SME).This network
is an initiative of the DGE and
Industrie de la Commission, a
key instrument in the Competitive
Innovation Programme (CIP). It
consists of 600 local points of
contact, employing around 3,000
experienced employees spread around
Europe.
The
fifth organisation to receive
the status of affiliated member,
the Fondation also becomes the
favoured point of contact for
the members of the EEN network
wishing to establish relations
with French competitive clusters
and more broadly with the ensemble
of their French and Foreign partners.
ruel@sophia-antipolis.org
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Sophia:
Inno-TSD pilot of “Erasmus
Young Entrepreneurs”, launched
in Marseille
Inno-TSD, a company whose corporate
headquarters are at Sophia Antipolis;
is the only organisation in metropolitan
France chosen by the European
Commission to lead the pilot for
one of 22 broadcasting platforms
of the “Erasmus Young Entrepreneurs”
in Europe. Marc Pattinson (Manager
of Inno-TSD – Inno group)
and Olivier Personnic (Director
of Business Incubators for Inno-TSD)
will present tomorrow Friday 23
January the launch of the “Erasmus
Young Entrepreneurs” platform
at 12pm in Marseille. It will
take place at the Innovative Business
Incubator in Meyreuil, at the
Club du Vieux Port
(http://www.clubduvieuxport.fr/).
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The
economy of knowledge – is
it compatible with sustainable
development? The example of Finland.
On the 16th and 17th October 2008
CERAM Business School organised
at Sophia Antipolis (06) a conference
on the theme: “The economy
of knowledge – is it compatible
with sustainable development?
The example of Finland.”
Among the speakers are: J.T. Bergqvist,
Chairman of the Board, Elektrobit
Former Member of Nokia Group Executive
Board; Jean-Philippe Courtois,
President, Microsoft International;
Jean-Marie Descarpentries, President,
Observatoire de l’immatériel;
Tommi Gustafsson, CEO, Innotiimi;
Derrick de Kerckhove, Professor
at the University de Toronto;
Lea Lehtinen, Assistant Vice President,
Koné, Service Innovation.
The synthesis of the conference
is now online, on the webpage
for the conference, along with
the presentations of the speakers.
Click on this link: Accéder
à la synthèse de
la conférence
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Prix
"Jeunesse et développement"
2008/2009
This year’s general theme
is human development and developing
countries.
If
you are between 16 and 18 years
of age and a European citizen,
do not hesitate to participate
in our “Youth and Development”
Prize 2008/09. With some luck
you could win a trip to Africa!
Just send us a poster or video
tackling one of the following
subjects: “gender equality”,
“children and youth”,
or “cultural diversity”.
You
have an excellent chance of being
one of the prize-winners, because
we attribute a first place prize
to each of the 27 member states
of the E.U. The 27 prize-winners
will win a five-day trip to Africa,
where they will visit cooperation
projects to get an idea of development
work is like. The teachers who
supervised the pupils are also
invited.
Second
place winners will not lose out;
The 27 finalists will be invited
to a prize-giving ceremony along
with their teachers and the prize-winners.
This
means that the pupils will have
the occasion to exchange opinions
and experiences between themselves
and with others. You can share
and discuss your knowledge between
colleagues and friends. As a consequence,
the European youth will be made
aware of the problems of development
and participate in a productive
discussion on the future of European
cooperation on development which
will follow.
The
young people can then better understand
the situation and the actions
to take in Africa, and will maybe
realise that the politics of development
does not only concern the poor
in distant countries but it also
touches all of us.
Deadline:
31st May, 2009
For
more information on this competition:
http://www.dyp2008.org/
See
also:
http://www.europeanschoolnet.org/
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Participate
in the eco-enterprises mission
for water in Turkey, organised
for the occasion of the 5th World
Forum on Water, Istanbul –
15th to 19th March 2009
Objective of the mission: Discover
the water market in Turkey (general
and sector-based information from
the French organisations and operators
based there). Meet individually
the protagonists of Turkish water
(businesses, networks, clients).
Meet the protagonists of French
water at the Espace France, set
up for the 5th World Forum on
Water, and attend official sessions,
meet participants from around
the world, visit the world exhibition
for water… Cost of the mission:
SME-SMI with headquarters in the
PACA region: 950 euros HT, Other
French eco-enterprises: 3000 euros
HT. Depart Sunday 15th March,
Return Thursday 19th March 2009.
Eco-enterprises not resident of
the PACA region are invited to
get in touch with their local
organisations (CCI, Associations,
and Exporters’ clubs) in
order to seek the support of regional
organisations with expertise.
Due to the number of participants
being limited to 20, priority
will be given to one representative
per company, any persons accompanying
will only be included within the
limit of available spaces according
to the date of reception of your
registration form.
You should find attached a description
of the visit, as well as a registration
form (bulletin d’inscription),
to be returned BEFORE 30TH JANUARY
2009 to nil.blanchy@ea-image.com
or by fax to 04 42 97 10 56.
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The SCS
Cluster offers the opportunity
to integrate into their operational
structure, by calling for candidates
for 2 posts:
Project
Manager of SCS Cluster
The project manager will principally
be in charge of maintaining and
improving the performance of the
different R&D projects from
national, regional and European
appeals. He/she will also have
the responsibility of the set-up
of projects with other clusters
and cluster partners.
Fiche
détaillée Directeur
Projets Pôle SCS
Head
of CIU Santé DGE Project
To aid the project manager, coordinate
partners, structuring of tasks
and the organisation of the activities
of CIU Santé. He/she must
also define the general interest
missions for the innovation and
integration laboratories
Fiche
détaillée Responsable
Projet DGE CIU Santé
You must have a good technical
knowledge in the field of the
SCS Cluster, an excellent personal
contacts network and experience
with the set-up of collaborative
projects, do not hesitate to apply
from today to Isabelle
Rodriguez. Attention: closing
date for candidates is 15th January
2009.
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Vacant
position: International Commercial
Project Manager.
EuroDev is a dynamic and international
company based in the Netherlands
and France, the activity of which
is to develop the commercial activities
of American companies in Europe.
To enrich their team in Sophia-Antipolis
(06) we are looking for an International
Commercial Project Manager.
Job
description: you will be responsible
for the expansion and the management
of the commercial activities of
three of our American customers.
You will operate as their "European
Business development manager"
You will be drawing up their marketing
plan, giving advice and generating
sales. The customers whom we represent
supply products for the industry
and mass consumption. See our
website for fiurther information.
This
post requires frequent journeys
(min 30 %) throughout Europe.
Job
requirements: Education: Bac+3
/ 4 i.e. degree of duration 3-4
years, technical and/or in economy,
business and/or marketing. Minimum
of four years experience in the
industry sector or sales/negotiation.
Good level of English and German
is compulsory.
We
offer: an opportunity to develop
your career in a rapidly expanding
and ambitious company concentrating
on the development of business
in an international environment.
Possibilities of progression with
both customers and the organization.
To apply: send your CV and letter
drafted in English before 24th
January to:
Attn.
Mrs Rianne Schutte rh@eurodev.com
www.eurodev.com
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New
internet site
The Sophia Antipolis foundation
has added to its website a new
section completely dedicated to
the PRIDES, the regional clusters
of innovation and united economic
development.
These regional clusters bring
together companies of the same
sector by encouraging them to
cooperate.
To date, 26 PRIDES have been certified
by the PACA Region.
www.sophia-antipolis.org/prides
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Oxygen:
Quescom - National prize champions
The major actor in the market
of Fixed-mobile convergence, QuesCom,
received the 1st national prize
for the most important growth
in the Telecom and Networks category
of the Deloitte Technology Fast
50. A growth in turnover of more
than 1800% over 5 years made QuesCom
worthy of the "Fast 50"
first prize of the 8th edition
of the Trophy organised by the
Deloitte cabinet of which the
Prize list was revealed on 1st
December, 2008 in Bets. Besides
this distinction, QuesCom also
received 3rd prize for the Provence-Alpes-Côte
d'Azur region as well as 8th prize
at the national level for all
categories merged together.
For more information, visit the
QuesCom site at:
www.quescom.com
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ADEME -
Grenelle Environnement –
Renewable Heat Funds: launch of
the first appeal for projects
in industry and agriculture sectors:
Jean-Louis BORLOO presented last
November a plan of 50 operational
measures in favour of the development
of renewable energies. According
to a commitment taken by the State
within the framework of Grenelle
Environnement, this plan foresees
the implementation of a "renewable
heat fund", allocated with
one billion Euros for the 2009-2011
period, to develop from renewable
sources such as wood, geothermal
energy, solar energy and heat
production in the service sector,
industry and agriculture, and
to improve and diversify the sources
of heating in the collective environment.
The management of funds is entrusted
to the ADEME. To find out more:
http://www2.ademe.fr/
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New
manager for the CSTB
Carole Le Gall was named as manager
of the CSTB from 1st December,
2008. As manager of the Adème
(Agency of Environment and Energy
Control) since 2006, she had the
responsibility of the strategy
and action plan in the domains
of Energy, Air and Noise. Chief
engineer of the body of Mines,
Carole Le Gall has a Master of
Science (Civil and Environmental
Engineering) from Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (MIT)
de Boston.
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Open
web awards: Ipernity.com (Sophia)
wins ahead of Flickr and Tinypics
A worthy recognition for the sophipolitaine
start-up Ipernity.com: it has
just taken away the 2nd Open Web
Awards in the category "Photo
Sharing Sites", beating American
competitors Flickr and Tinypics.
The Web2.0 company founded by
Christophe Ruelle and directed
by Christian Conti, two of the
big Web pioneers in the science
park, is the only French winner
in this world competition which
rewards the best innovations of
the Web in 26 categories. All
in all, 50,000 sites were nominated;
more than 80,000 votes were made
in the first ballot whilst 90,000
votes in the second ballot. http://www.ipernity.com
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The
INRIA calls for an "identity
web"
THE INRIA has made an invitation
to tender to the JO for revision
of all external Web sites. The
revision aims at giving an editorial,
graphic, ergonomic and technical
coherence in nine "institutional"
Web sites by means of a platform
of Web communication similar to
the head office and to the research
centres in regions. Eventually,
it will be a question of creating
on a single platform one complete
"Web identity" for the
INRIA.
www-sop.inria.fr
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Meet
innovative small and medium-sized
firms / major accounts of the
pact
Objective: identify opportunities
of subcontracting and collaboration.
The SME Pact is a plan implemented
since the end of 2005 by OSEO
and the Richelieu committee with
the aim of facilitating the relations
between the innovative SME’s
and the major accounts. It involves
systems of support and policy
of exemplary nature, on the basis
of a voluntary commitment of transparency
taken by the major accounts who
wish to do so.
50 major accounts signed the SME
Pact and 1750 SME’s participated
in their programmes in 2007.
For the next events relayed by
the Foundation Sophia Antipolis
visit:
www.pactepme.org/partenaires/3478/fondation-sophia-antipolis
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IBM
La Gaude: presentation of the
latest innovations and new manager
IBM Gaude will announce in early
December its latest technological
innovations. At these moments
of economic crises where innovation
shows itself more than ever as
a necessity for the transformation
of companies and territories,
the azuréen research centre
Big Blue will on Thursday, 4th
December present a set of state-of-the-art
innovations which will help their
customers transform their models.
It involves in particular the
issues in communications unified
for the companies of tomorrow,
the inauguration of the excellent
UC2 centre, the professional arguments
for the industry, distribution
and finance.
IBM has therefore organized a
press trip to the National media
on the subject of " A voyage
into the heart of unified communications
". A presentation of these
new opportunities on the IBM La
Gaude site will also be made late
in the afternoon in aid of the
territorial azuréen leaders
and representatives of the regional
economy. It will on the other
hand be the opportunity for IBM
La Gaude to greet the retirement
of the manager Jacques Gros, past
president of the Telecom Valley
association, and the introduction
of the new manager, Frédéric
Allard.
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Creation
of the Chair for "Forward-thinking
Modelling in the department of
Sustainable Development"
The Chair for forward-looking
Modelling in the department of
sustainable development is held
by MINES Paristech, the École
des Ponts ParisTech, AgroParisTech
and ParisTech, in partnership
with the ADEME, EDF, RENAULT,
SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC and TOTAL and
through the FI3M and through the
Foundation of l’École
des Ponts.
Grandes Ecoles (prestigious uiversities),
industrialists and institutional
actors unite their efforts around
a common ambition, to perpetuate
tools of forward-looking modelling
on issues in sustainable development.
By adopting a forward-looking
initiative, the Chair has in effect
vocation to facilitate the decision-making
on the basis of possible future
scenarios on questions of energy
and climate policies, industrial
development and technological
choice.
The Chair of forward-looking modelling
will also contribute to the international
influence of their co-founding
teams and their partners via the
invitation of foreign professors,
the organization of international
conferences and a presence strengthened
within the international authorities
of expertise. Initiatives of targeted
training along with the partners
of the Chair will moreover create
the drive towards building a network
of high level skills.
The scientific operation articulates
around the work of both of the
expanding research teams for the
Chair, the Centre of Applied Mathematics
(CMA - MINES ParisTech) and the
International Research Centre
for Environment and Sustainable
Development (CIRED - common laboratory
École des Ponts ParisTech/
AgroParisTech/CNRS/EHESS).
The well-balanced contributions
of these partners will equip the
Chair with a 3 million euro budget
over 5 years allowing the development
of forward-looking and innovative
modelling tools capable of meeting
the expectations of partners on
operations targeted at questions
of energy and climate.
The inauguration of the Chair
will begin with an international
conference, co-organized by the
ETSAP (Energy Technology Systems
Analysis Programme), planned for
Tuesday, December 16th, 2008 at
MINES ParisTech at Sophia Antipolis.
Chair Contact: contact@mail.modelisation-prospective.org
Press contact: carole.grosz@mines-paristech.fr
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The
Journal des Entreprises is prize-winner
of Trophies 2008 from the Press
innovation
The Journal des Entreprises –
the monthly information magazine
about economic current events
and company life, established
in the Alpes-Maritimes since November
2007 - was awarded as prize-winner
of the national Trophies of Press
Innovation on Wednesday, 19th
November in the setting of the
French Press Congress which gathered
in Lyon for three days. Distinguished
by the jury as “a very good
project, very original and intelligently
positioned ", The Journal
des Entreprises confirms a local
ambition asserted in the service
of company leaders and all of
those whose actions contribute
to economic development. This
distinction also recognises the
implementation, in less than two
years, of the first national network
of economic newspapers, thriving
today with 22 editions of the
Journal des Entreprises implanted
in ten main economic areas of
France – outside of Ile-de-France.
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