Place:
Sophia Antipolis Foundation –
Place Sophie Laffitte Exhibition
Room, starting at 6pm
Free Entry, Reservation Recommended:
Stéphanie Richaud –
presse@sophia-antipolis.org
Monday
28th April 2008: 3rd Training
Day in Europe
Sophia Antipolis Foundation has
been chosen amongst other organisations,
by French government authorities
to make the public aware of the
big innovation funding schemes
in Europe (7th Programme Research,
Structural Funds, Innovation &
Competitivity Programme, EUREKA...).
This "Europe Training"
will address regional intermediaries
(staff from DRIRE, DRRT, SGAR,
OSEO, Regional Councils, Regional
Innovation Agencies, Consulary
Networks, Technical Centres, CRITT,
Universities, Research Organisations,
Technology Parks, Cluster Governance,
Incubators...). The 3rd training
day for the PACA region will take
place at the Sophia Antipolis
Foundation on Monday 28th April
2008 from 9am to 1pm - Picasso
Room, Place Sophie Laffitte (Sophia
Antipolis). There are no reservation
fees. Your or your close collaborators
involvement comes under and is
covered by regional actors, member
states and the European Commission,
to support social and economic
growth and to reinforce the mobilisation
of entrepreneurial spirit.
Please fill in the response form
and return before Monday 21st
April 2008 to: Catherine Muller-
formations@sophia-antipolis.org
- 04 93 65 44 01/ Programme
Conference
– Altar Exhibition:
Monday 17th March at
6:30pm
Sophia
Antipolis Foundation offers you
an exceptional evening with Germaine
Leclerc, expert in Nice’s
altars, and a qualified Professor
of Nice Sophia Antipolis University.
Numerous
photographic reproductions of
altars of Louis Bréa (15th
Century) will also be on display.
Louis
Bréa, a master of alters
in the east of Provence, the counties
of Nice and Ligure essentially
worked in hard to reach village
churches. It is by exploring these
sanctuaries in our remote regions
that we get a shock of simple
illuminating beauty in harmony
with the Middle Ages.
Exhibition
Room – Fondation Sophia
Antipolis, Place Sophie Laffitte
This Exhibition will run till
29th may from 10am to 11am and
3 to 5pm on rendezvous, everyday
except Saturdays and Sundays
Free
Entry, Reservation Obligatory
presse@sophia-antipolis.org
04 93 65 28 14
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In
the promotional framework of Printemps
des Arts of Monte Carlo
Friday 7th
March 2008:
Sophia Antipolis Foundation offer
a free concert 7th March at 6:30pm
Final year students of the Nice
Region Conservatory will interpret
works of
Beethoven -Chopin – Messiaen.
This concert will be followed
by a cocktail offered by the Sophia
Antipolis Foundation in the Foundation
Gallery.
Reservation Compulsory: presse@sophia-antipolis.org
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Russian
Choral Quartet directed by Alexis
Jankin,
Monday 3rd March 2008
Liturgical and non-liturgical
music
The “Midday Concerts”
association offers a concert Monday
3rd March 2008 at the Foundation
Gallery 12:15pm precise.
Prices: €13 for members of
“Midday Concerts”
association, AVF members, Sophia
Antipolis staff, Students
€17 for non-members
Snacks are available after the
concert, in the presence of the
musicians
Reservations: 04 97 21 16 46 –
06 78 64 69 43
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New
round of scientific conferences
with members of the Sciences Academy.
The Culture Department of Sophia
Antipolis Foundation invite you
to a number of regular meetings,
one evening event a month with
renowned scientists such as; Yves
Coppens, François Emile
Beaulieu, honorary professor at
the College of France, Michel
Lazdunski, Professor of the Medicine
Faculty of UNSA, Institute of
Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology…
First conference will be in June
with Philippe Taquet, palaeontologist
& dinosaur expert.
More information to follow in
the next edition of NSA
ovigny@sophia-antipolis.org
Friday
8th February 2008: Breakfast
Microsoft France presents the
IDEES programme to the Sophipolitan
startups
at 09:00am at the Fondation Sophia
Antipolis.
Following the convention signed
last November with Microsoft France
the Fondation Sophia Antipolis
will host a breakfast meeting
with the objective of familiarising
the start-ups in this sector with
the tools/software of the IDEES
(Initiative for Economic Development
of programmers and start-ups)
programmes.
The
goal of the IDEES program is to
sponsor 25 startups a year and
to provide them with technical
support (via the Microsoft Technology
Center), commercial and marketing
support to help with internationalisation.
The objective is to assist young
and innovating French startups
to become international software
leaders. This is an important
issue for Microsoft France because
it involves identifying our big
future partners, essentially those
who will innovate on our platforms
to serve our clients and previous
partners.
For
more details/reservations click
here.
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Foundation
Sophia Antipolis and Ubifrance
have the pleasure of inviting
you to Foundation Sophia Antipolis
on the 15th February 2008
at 9:00am (Picasso Room), for
a breakfast
meeting on the theme “In
company International Voluntaries”
(V.I.E).
Experts
will present the characteristics
of this procedure which is designed
to facilitate export projects
via the in company international
voluntaries programme. A V.I.E
project can last between 6 and
24 months.
This
programme offers the following
advantages:
• Presence in the region
of interest
• Ability to monitor and
control your projects actively
• To optimise your HR budget,
with a flexible and attractive
resource, non-financed by the
company
• To test a potential future
collaborator
This
plan applies to larger companies
as well as SMEs
Information/Reservation
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21st
& 22nd February 2008:
International Coaching Workshop
“Creating R&D value
– Roads to Capital”
At Fondation Sophia Antipolis,
Place Sophie Laffitte.
This
event is aimed at businesses in
the Biotechnology sector and has
as its main objective, to reflect
on a strategy of long term R&D
by exploring the many innovative
funding solutions and considers:
• The 7th EU framework programme
of opportunities, appeals and
project proposals
• IPR, Partnerships and
Value Adding to Technology
• Incubation and Business
Planning
• Alternative financing
opportunities (e.g. Venture Capital)
Match2BioSME
is a project financed by the European
Commission, seeking to boost and
increase innovation and increase
the level of competitivity of
the European Biotech industry,
with particular focus on the Green
and White Biotech sectors.
This
event offers:
1. Direct experience concerning
applying for EC EP7 funding
2. Establishing partnerships with
academics/SMEs/Investors
3. Information about patenting,
drug registration procuders
4. A parallel session on EU-BRIC
partnership in the life sciences
industry
The
event has been organised by two
European initiatives, “Match2BioSME”
and “SMEsgoHealth”,
it is supported by Fondation Sophia
Antipolis, Assystem, EuropaBio
and Cooperation 7
From
08:30am to 6:00pm
Reservations: www.match2biosme.com
Contacts:
JcdeTauzia@assystemuk.com
Nshem@assystemuk.com
Tel: +352 43 39 44
Contact:
Suneet JULKA (Fondation Sophia
Antipolis)
Tel: +33(0)4 92 96 78 00 (extension
826)
E-Mail: communication@sophia-antipolis.org
Presentation
of the ISTOK project
Fondation
Sophia Antipolis proposes a meeting
aiming to connect European and
Russian Experts in Information
& Communications Technology
(ICT). This event will be an opportunity
to present the ISTOK.Ru (7th PCRD)
European project, whose main objectives
are to map the progress of key
people in the sector, and in the
long term to achieve joint Russian-European
proposals regarding the financing
of European research projects.
This meeting open exclusively
for ICT professionals, will be
held on: Thursday
31st January from
08:30am in the Picasso Room of
Fondation Sophia Antipolis.
A
dinner will be held for experts
and various other key figures
taking place in the prestigious
Hartung Bergman Foundation in
Antibes. The Hans Hartung &
Anna-Eva Bergman Foundation is
one of the world’s biggest
artist foundations, due to its
richness and the quality of its
cultural inheritance. Its goal
is to ensure the conservation
and knowledge of works by Hans
Hartung and Anna-Eva Bergman,
and therefore to expand the influence
of art in contemporary culture.
http://www.fondationhartungbergman.fr/
Information:
www.istok-ru.eu
/ www.sophia-antipolis.org
Free
Entry – Reservation Required
Contact:
Colin RUEL – ruel@sophia-antipolis.org
Tel: 04 92 96 78 16
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Friday
18th January 2008:
Platform for Agreements meeting:
“Towards competence unification”.
Fondation Sophia Antipolis has
organised this event to bring
together all its partners to coordinate
and mutualise its efforts.
Attending
partners include: The University
of Bauman (Russia), Information
Technology Industry Development
Agency (Egypt); Torino Wireless
Foundation (Italy); VDI/VDE Innovation
+ Technik GmbH (Germany); The
Economic Office the Namur Province
(Belgium); YTKO (UK), Bavarian
Ministry of Science, Research
and the Arts (Germany); Hellenic
Technology Clusters Initiative
(Greece) and Fez University (Morocco).
From
left to right: M. Vassilis MAKIOS,
directeur général
Hellenic Technology Clusters Initiative
(Grèce)
Madame Isabelle GROMMET, Responsable
de Projet pour le département
d’entreprises du Bureau
Economique de la Province de Namur
(Belgique)
Monsieur Taoufik OUAZZANI, Président
de l’Université de
Fès (Maroc)
Madame Eve LAMPAERT, Assistante,
YTKO (Royaume Uni)
Monsieur Peter WHITE, Président,
YTKO (Royaume Uni)
Madame Roselyne KOSKAS, Directrice
de la Fondation Sophia Antipolis
Monsieur Pierre LAFFITTE, Sénateur
des Alpes Maritimes, Président
de la Fondation Sophia Antipolis.
The
aim of this meeting is to put
in place a tool allowing businesses
and researchers to get in contact
with potential future partners,
investors and various competencies
aiming to develop and to make
the project concrete at an international
level.
Details:
Colin Ruel - Tel: 04 92 96 78
16
Press Contact: Annie Ovigny -
Tel: 04 93 65 28 14
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21st
& 22nd February 2008:
International Coaching Workshop
“Creating R&D value
– Roads to Capital”
At Fondation Sophia Antipolis,
Place Sophie Laffitte.
This
event is aimed at businesses in
the Biotechnology sector and has
as its main objective, to reflect
on a strategy of long term R&D
by exploring the many innovative
funding solutions and considers:
• The 7th EU framework programme
of opportunities, appeals and
project proposals
• IPR, Partnerships and
Value Adding to Technology
• Incubation and Business
Planning
• Alternative financing
opportunities (e.g. Venture Capital)
Match2BioSME
is a project financed by the European
Commission, seeking to boost and
increase innovation and increase
the level of competitivity of
the European Biotech industry,
with particular focus on the Green
and White Biotech sectors.
This
event offers:
1. Direct experience concerning
applying for EC EP7 funding
2. Establishing partnerships with
academics/SMEs/Investors
3. Information about patenting,
drug registration procuders
4. A parallel session on EU-BRIC
partnership in the life sciences
industry
The
event has been organised by two
European initiatives, “Match2BioSME”
and “SMEsgoHealth”,
it is supported by Fondation Sophia
Antipolis, Assystem, EuropaBio
and Cooperation 7
From
08:30am to 6:00pm
Reservations: www.match2biosme.com
Contacts:
JcdeTauzia@assystemuk.com
Nshem@assystemuk.com
Tel: +352 43 39 44
Contact:
Suneet JULKA (Fondation Sophia
Antipolis)
Tel: +33(0)4 92 96 78 00 (extension
826)
E-Mail: communication@sophia-antipolis.org
Friday
14th December 2007: A task
force of the Commission for Cultural
Affairs from the Senate, a delegation
comprising: Senators Jean-Léonce
DUPONT, Pierre LAFFITTE, Serge
LAGAUCHE, Jacques VALADE, Madam
Marie-Pascale BOUTRY (Advisor)
and Madam Michèle KADI
(Advisor and Deputy Manager of
the Secretariat), will meet at
Sophia Antipolis on Friday 14th
December. The aim of this meeting
is to understand the implications
of the pact and the legal research
of 2006.
Contact:
Caroline Chambon - Tel: +33 4
92 96 78 08
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Thursday
13th December 2007: Press
Conference – Prize Winners
of the “European Satellite
Navigation Competition 2007”;
Jean-Pierre Mascarelli (President
of Team Côte d’Azur)
and Roselyne Koskas (Director
General of Fondation Sophia Antipolis).
M.
Dragos Zaharia of company Anteq,
Galileo Master 2007 prize winner,
Mrs Dominique Clarac and Mr Thierry
Fargas from company Nodbox, Winners
of the “Satellite Navigation
and Localisation Prize”,
sponsored by T-Systems will reveal
their primary projects in the
Team Côte d’Azur buildings
located at 400 Promenade des Anglais
(7th Floor), Nice at 9:30am
Please
reply to Catherine Gentil –
Tel: 06 03 35 64 20, E-Mail: cgentil@teamcotedazur.fr
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Monday
3rd December: Egyptian
Minister of Telecommunications
and New Technologies visit to
Sophia Antipolis
Regarding the Egyptian Minister’s
(Mr. Tarek Kamel) visit, a tri-party
convention of partnership was
concluded between the Fondation
Sophia Antipolis, represented
by its President Pierre Laffitte,
the ITIDA (Information Technology
& Industry Development Agency)
represented by Director Eng. Mohaed
OMRAN, and Smart Villages Company
represented by Mr. Raoul Abdel
Messih (Member of the Directorate).
This convention relates to four
major axes:
• Promotion and development
of joint actions aiming to support
internationalisation of Egyptian
and French companies
• Information exchange on
the activities of the clusters
and the participation in international
events
• Education: Introduction
of specific training, student-professor
exchanges
• Facilitating the participation
of Egyptian and French SMEs in
the programs of community financing,
in particular the FP7.
Contact:
Team Côte d’Azur
Claire ALZEARI – calzeari@teamcotedazur.fr
29th
November:
Libyan delegation visit
A delegation comprising: Dr. Mahmood
Gebril (Director General of the
National Economic Development
Board); Mr. Abdul Baset A. Abuissa
(Director of the Directorate of
Studies & Cooperation); Marine
Chemistry & National Pollution
Researcher, Mr. Mohamed A. Al-Aswad
(Director of the National SMEs
Programme) and Mr. Patrick Lebrun
(Economic Advisor – French
Embassy of Libya) visited Sophia
Antipolis to prepare for the Libyan
Presidential visit of December
2007.
The delegation met with the PACA
sea region cluster and the company
ACRI. The visit ended with a presentation
of the Fondation Sophia Antipolis
and thoughts about a declaration
of intention project.
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With
regards to the visit of President
of the Republic Mr. Nicolas Sarkozy
in China from
26th to 29th November 2007,
the Fondation Sophia Antipolis,
represented by Director Roselyne
Koskas, participated in a forum
organised in conjunction with
UBIFRANCE and the Chinese Embassy
in Beijing. This
participation was an opportunity
to also present the task of the
Fondation in supporting and representing
various clusters including regional
Provence Alpes Côte d’Azur
clusters. Furthermore, the Beijing
visit presented an opportunity
to take part in the Beijing Forum
2007 on international science
parks, during which an official
agreement linking the Fondation
and Z-park (China’s main
park) was established.
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9th
November 2007
the Fondation gives the 3rd Forum
on clusters with the topic: “SMEs
and Clusters: A reality to reinforce”
which will take place at the CICA
(Sophia Antipolis). Organised
in collaboration with the Directorate-General
of Companies, the Interdepartmental
delegation on installation and
competitiveness of the territories
and the Ministry for Higher Education
& Research and with the support
of the General Council of the
Maritime Alps, the community of
Sophia Antipolis Agglomeration
and the Regional Council of Provence
Alpes Côte d’Azur
this event will be a chance to
present initiatives from the clusters
to support the emergence of projects
coming from SMEs.
This
forum will also allow discussion
on various SME problems such as
the creation of research projects,
international actions, or business
funding. Everything will be looked
at from a testimonial, practical
and concrete perspective in order
to help discussion as much as
possible.
Contact:
Nadège Bouget, Fondation
Sophia Antipolis, tél 0033
4 92 96 78 17.
The
Fondation Sophia Antipolis has
the pleasure of inviting you on
Friday
the 12th of October,
at 9h00 (salle Picasso), to a
breakfast
based around the Parfums Arômes
Senteurs Saveurs competitiveness
cluster, with the presence of
its president Mr Bodifée.
The PASS cluster will present
its actions that it takes to support
SMEs in their innovation effort
and how to use R&D to preserve
its competitivity. The APF Perfumes
and Scents society, member of
the cluster, will come and talk
about its experience. Subscription
is free but compulsory: bouget@sophia-antipolis.org
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2nd
of October 2007 :
Training of the actors of research
developpmet
innovation
- The European plans. At the Fondation
Sophia Antipolis - Place Sophie
Laffitte (Salle Picasso)
Subscription/
Programme
Monday
17th of septembre 2007 : Impro
à la carte
Are you thirsty for words and
stories? Are you hungry for fantastic
adventures, of intrigue, of conspiracy,
of love, of hate, of madness and
of magic? Wait no longer! Come
and order your stories from our
menu of which the options are
very special!
In the kitchen, the team of improvisers
of the A.I.A (improvisation association
of Antibes) will mix together
several pinches of laughter, a
zest of emotions, to transport
you towards unseen and jubilant
recipes.
The comedians will simmer their
little improvised dishes according
to your themes and will create
short-lived stories, under your
eyes.
To find out more about the evening
that the Fondation Sophia Antipolis
and the A.I.A are offering you,
click on the following link.
We will wait for large numbers
of you and advise you to reserve
your places.
Reservations: Kathrine Abbott
kathrine@sophia-antipolis.org
04 92 96 78 01
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27th
of July 2007 : Breakfasts
At present
the European Commission is launching
a public survey,
of which the objective is to define
the bases of a new strategy of
the European Union on the subject
matter of international cooperation
in the areas of information technology,
communication and the media. (Website)
Mr the Senator Pierre Laffitte
and Mr Jean-François Soupizet,
head of International Relations
in the Information and Media society
of the European Commission, have
the pleasure to invite you on
the 27^th of July 2007, at 9h00,
to the Foundation Sophia Antipolis
(sale Picasso) in order to present
to you the objectives of this
public survey. Free, but obligatory,
inscription: Bouget@sophia-antipolis.org
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From
the 16th to the 30th of July 2007:
the Foundation Sophia Antipolis
is going to receive the Young
Arab Leaders that have come from
the Bahrain to Sophia Antipolis.
In
the Framework of a bilateral cooperation
between Sophia Antipolis and the
Bahrain Kingdom, the Foundation
Sophia Antipolis and the Kuwait
Finance House Bahrain (KFHB),
the biggest investment bank in
the Golfe region, have teamed
up for the second edition of a
Mentorship programme that will
take place from the 16th to the
30th of July at Sophia Antipolis.
Composed
of 14 students that were selected
from amongst the best from the
Bahrain Kingdom and 4 representatives
from the KFHB, the delegation
will meet company directors from
the park on “entrepreneurial
immersion” and elected department
representatives.
The
Kuwait Finance House Bahrain (KFHB)
is an Islamic commercial and investment
bank that has a mission of leading
banking operations while respecting
Islamic principles and helping
to finance projects in accordance
with the same principles. It is
the second most important Islamic
financial institution. The KFHB
has invested in and disposes of
a portfolio of innovative companies
at an international level. In
2006 it launched the creation
of a technological park in the
Bahrain Kingdom, and approached
Sophia Antipolis through a cooperation
agreement.
Caroline
Chambon chambon@sophia-antipolis.org
Caroline
Chambon chambon@sophia-antipolis.org
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In
the framework of the partnership
signed last November between the
Foundation Sophia Antipolis and
the Israeli centre of Industrial
Cooperation for research and development
– MATIMOP, the
President of the Foundation Pierre
Laffitte, will receive on
Wednesday the 4th and Thursday
the 5th of July, Mr. Ygal
Erlich, President founder of the
Yozma group, leader in the area
of venture capital in Israel
and Mr. Yair Amitay, managing
director of MATIMOP.
This
centre of cooperation put in place
a technological incubation programme
presenting 25 incubation centres
all over the country.
The
delegation will meet the representatives
of the regional competitiveness
clusters, as well as venture capitalists.
Many B to B meetings have been
organised notably for Millénium
electric, Israeli company that
is leader in the area of clean
energy.
Nadège
Bouget : bouget@sophia-antipolis.org
Thursday
28th of June 2007: next
meeting for the European project
STAIRS – Foundation Sophia
Antipolis.
In the framework of the European
project STAIRS aiming to identify
the regional models of evaluation
and research, the Senator Pierre
Laffitte presided a scientific
comity composed of directors
and presidents of Hewlett Packard
Bulgaria, Get Telecom, CapinTech,
European Investment Bank, Vinnova,
and people from the German Federal
Ministry of Teaching and Research.
The
28th of June, at 16h00, a public
session will be lead by the
partners of the project (engage
AG, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe
GmbH), with the support from
the members of the scientific
comity. This meeting has the
aim of exchanging idea and debating
about the best practices detected
on the subject of technology
transfer mechanisms of research
institutions.
Contact
: ruel@sophia-antipolis.org
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26th
of June 2007: The
Foundation Sophia Antipolis
co-organised at the CCI of Paris,
in liaison with the Ministry
of Higher Education and Research,
AFAST, the Chambers of Commerce
and Industry of Paris and the
Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft
und Technologie a conference
on the theme of
The
capital finance of innovative
companies, Franco-German exchanges
and European perspectives
The
theme of the conference is the
putting in disposition of venture
capital for young businesses
with high growth in Germany
and in France. We will deal
with the beginning phase and
the growth phase. The comparison
of venture capital markets and
the way that the main venture
capitalists work in the two
countries will be completed
by the presentation of the juridical
and fiscal situations. The seminar
supports the Franco-German initiatives
that could lead to the putting
into place of a European venture
capital market.
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Thursday
21st June 2007: Fête
de la Musique
on the Place Sophia Laffitte
from 12h to 15h30. Jazz, Funk,
Latin with the Blues Bosseurs
and Salsa Caliente with Steve
Bakoula. Free Entry. Information:
Kathrine Abbott at 04 92 96
78 01
- kathrine@sophia-antipolis.org
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