Roselyne
Koskas : Chevalier of the Légion
d'Honneur.
On Thursday 4th June, Madame Anne-Marie
Idrac, Secretary of State for
External Commerce, awarded the
badge of the Chevalier of the
Légion d'Honneur to Roselyne
Koskas, Director of the Fondation
Sophia Antipolis in the Ministry
of Industry and Finance
Roselyne
Koskas, Honorary Senator Pierre
Laffitte, Secretary of State for
External Commerce Anne-Marie Idrac.
6th
July 2009 :
Science Conference "Early-warning
earthquake alert system: a solution
for the future in zones of weak
and medium seismic activity?”
By Jean Virieux, Professor at
the Joseph Fourier University,
Internal Geophysics and Tectonophysics
Laboratory in Grenoble. At the
Fondation Sophia Antipolis, place
Sophie Laffitte, at 6.30pm
30th
June 2009:
Funding Day
In 2009 the Fondation Sophia Antipolis
will launch “Funding Days”.
The first edition is organised
for 30th June at Sophia Antipolis.
During this day, member companies
of French competitiveness clusters
will have the possibility of explaining
their projects and their capital
needs to the Funding committee
present: both French and foreign
Business Angels and venture capitalists.
The event will take place as follows:
10am – 12pm: SME presentation
before an audience of financers.
12pm – 3pm: Exchanges and
networking, cocktail dinner.
Projects
carried by entrepreneurs must
respond to the following criteria:
-address an international market,
-be searching for funds,
-benefit from growth potential
For this first meeting, 12 SMEs,
members of Solutions Communicantes
Sécurisées, Pégase,
Eurobiomed, Mer PACA, and Capénergies
clusters, in the fields of: Information
and knowledge engineering, RFID,
electronic components, software
solutions, biotechnology, etc
will come to present their projects
and their capital needs.
Information and registration:
bouget@sophia-antipolis.org
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29th
June 2009:
SME support Forum Provence Alpes-Côte
d'Azur Region.
At CICA, Sophia Antipolis.
An initiative : OSEO, Deposit
Office
Why should you participate? If
you are an entrepreneur, you are
searching for ways to finance
your growth, to inform you of
the available means of strengthening
the financial structure of your
business, meet investors, understand
the mechanisms of an increase
in capital, and more.
Participate in the SME support
Forum, a day of training, information
and meetings gathering more than
200 participants.
Programme, free registration and
practical information on www.forumappuipme.fr
(on the site, click on "Sophia-Antipolis,
29 juin")
From
22nd January to 9th March 2009
: Expositions – “Living
with reindeer” and “Images
and People: Biodiversity on Siberian
Terrain”
On
the occasion of the 40th anniversary
festivities of the technopole
Sophia Antipolis, and of the International
Arctic Year 2007-2009, the Cote
d’Azur delegation of CNRS
presents, in partnership with
the Foundation Sophia Antipolis,
their two new expositions.
Carried
out by Sylvie Beyries, researcher
at the CEPAM Sophia Antipolis,
the exposition “Living with
reindeer” deals with the
biological and cultural adaptations
linked with using reindeers in
Siberia. The exposition is organised
around 4 themes:
-
Environment and mobility
- Health and dietary behaviours
- Techniques
- Symbolic aspects
Faced
with such a hostile environment,
reindeer and man have linked their
existences, and pursue together
the only way of life possible,
that of migration / nomad existence.
Coordinated
by Morgane Gibert researcher at
the anthropobiology Laboratory
of Toulouse III, “Images
and People: Biodiversity on Siberian
Terrain” is a public interactive
exposition which presents many
aspects of the biological and
cultural diversity of Siberian
populations. It is an interactive
model which presents, in an attractive
way, the work of the researchers
on this icy tomb.
For
visits please contact the communications
service at the Fondation Sophia
Antipolis on
04 92 96 78 01 or ovigny@sophia-antipolis.org
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Tuesday
17th March 2009 :
"The brain in all its states"
- Conference from Michel Ladzunski,
Member of the « Académie
des Sciences », from 6.30pm
at the Fondation Sophia Antipolis,
place Sophie Laffitte.
From
10th March to 20th March 2009
: “The brain in al
its states” exposition
Loaned by the Federation for Brain
Research
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Friday
27th March 2009 :
Sophia Café
France – Japan: How do we
approach business partnerships
and collaborative projects between
clusters?
From 8.30am, Salle Picasso - Fondation
Sophia Antipolis
It
will primarily be a question of
presenting good practices on the
subject, distributing advice and
developing a reflection on the
practical actions to be put in
place in order to substantially
increase collaborations between
Franco-Japanese clusters. The
speakers are: Sumihiko SETO, Director
General of JETRO Lyon, Anne ANDROUAIS,
Co-director of Master2 Territorial
economic development at the University
of Paris Ouest-Nanterre-La Défense,
Susumu KATAOKA, Commercial Advisor
to the Japanese Embassy in Paris,
and Andre MONTAUD, Director General
of Thésame and head of
the collaboration programme for
RIT Mécatronique with Japan.
Registration obligatory but free,
contact Farouk Raïs: 04 92
96 78 05 - f.rais@sophia-antipolis.org
Friday
6th February 2009:
Finally a Small Business Act for
Europe!
Jean-Pierre Labe, assistant to
the manager of the European office
for the Services of Politics of
Innovation and Competitiveness
(SPIC) for the DGE, will give
the details on the terms of this
new Small Business Act and will
also define the policy towards
SME’s taken in Europe and
in France.
Adopted during the competitiveness
Council on 1st December 2008,
the Small Business Act for Europe
must help to respond to the needs
of the Small and Medium-sized
Enterprises (SME) in terms of
financing, creation of jobs and
integration to a unique market.
By this initiative, Europe underlines
the interest which it brings to
the world of Small and Medium-sized
Enterprises.
Friday 6th February 2009 at 9.00am.
Salle Picasso – Fondation
Sohia Antipolis.
Registration Free and obligatory,
contact Farouk Raïs: 04 92
96 78 05 / f.rais@sophia-antipolis.org
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Thursday
19th February 2009 : La
Science à Sophia - Conférence
by Boris Cyrulnik,
Neuropsychiatrist and professor
of ethology.
Held at the Centre International
de Valbonne at 6pm.
Registration obligatory, phone:
04 92 96 52 23
Mail : ckrier@civfrance.com
The
theatre dedicated to enterprises
The Fondation Sophia Antipolis
proposes for the months of March
and April 2009 two new sessions
of “Team Building and Theatrical
Improvisation” intended
for managers, team leaders and
equally to the employees of companies.
This training bases itself on
an immediate and concrete application
of public speaking, illustrated
by theatrical techniques, with
the objective of reinforcing self-confidence,
improving personal communication
and developing the potential of
everybody.
2
two-day sessions have been proposed:
Thursday 19th and Friday 20th
March
Thursday 19th and Friday 17th
April
Registration
and information from Catherine
Muller – 04 92 96 78 14
- formations@sophia-antipolis.org
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Launch
of the European year of creativity
and innovation 2009: "Imagine.
Create. innovate".
The
purpose of the European Year of
innovation and creativity is to
become aware that creativity and
innovation are major assets for
personal, economic and social
fulfilment. By emphasizing creativity
and innovation, the European Union
wants to configure the future
of Europe in a world open to competition
by stimulating the potential of
creativity and innovation for
each of us. The Union offers the
framework in which to increase
awareness in such stakes and facilitate
the debate on the actions capable
of increasing this potential in
Europe.
The European Year 2009 is a horizontal
and transverse initiative which
concerns numerous domains, not
only education and culture, but
also regional policy and the policies
of the company and its research.
The official inauguration will
take place in Prague on January
7th. The media launch of the Year
will come along with the inauguration
of the dedicated web site
http:
// www.create2009.europa.eu
