Invest in France Agency nordic-countries Office

This dedicated cluster seeks answers to the following questions:

• Functional issues: How can we ensure, within acceptable conditions, economic, social and environmental planning that responds to the legitimate and increasing demand for mobility, livable space, leisure spaces and other services for the benefit of individuals, families, and companies in the city?

• Technological issues: How can we mobilize, develop, unite and gather the extremely diverse and necessary technologies to bring new functionalities, improve the durability of structures and projects, lower energy expenditures, control air quality and manage harmful noise pollution, manage water resources, recycle waste, and encourage the energy, social and environmental efficiencies of the city and its systems?

• Reliability and safety issues: How can we ensure the reliability of increasingly sophisticated technical irrigation systems of the cities? How can we manage the increasing sensitivity to the population-dense and fragile city infrastructure in the face natural, industrial, terrorist risks and disasters?

Advantages

- With its 11 million residents and its 40 million commutes per day, the Ile de France region offers excellent potential experimental ground to demonstrate and apply significant technologies.

- Large global enterprise leaders in their respective sectors and some highly recognized higher education institutions are present::

Large leading corporations
• Building and public works: Bouygues Construction, Vinci, Eiffage
• Energy: Electricité de France (EDF), Suez-GDF
• Environment: Véolia, Suez Environnement
• Transportation: Transdev, Véolia, SNCF, RATP

Higher education
• Université de Marne-la-Vallée
• Université de Saint-Quentin en Yvelines
• Ecole Centrale de Paris
• Ecole des Ponts
• Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan
• Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris
• Ecole des Ingénieurs de la Ville de Paris
• Ecole supérieure d’informatique, d’électricité et d’électronique ESIEE

Research centers
• UMLV  • UVSQ  • ECP  • Ponts  • ENS Cachan  • ENSMP  • EIVP
• ESIEE  • MEEDDAT
Centers:
    -CSTB   -LCPC  -CEMAGREF  -INRETS  -INERIS  -IGN

Members

Nearly 90 member companies and institutions
Companies:  49
   
• French companies: Bouygues Construction, Electricité de France (EDF), Eiffage Travaux Publics, GDF-Suez, Institut Ville en Mouvement (PSA Peugeot Citroën), Transdev, filiale de la Caisse des Dépôts, Régie Autonome Transports Parisiens (RATP), Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer (SNCF), Vinci, Véolia,…

• International companies: Euro Disney Associates (Etats-Unis), ARCELOR (Belgique)…

Of these, 25 are small-to-medium-size enterprises (SME),  for example:  Star-Apic  Moviken, Phytorestore, Oxand, PVI, Ourry,  Aéréco, Setec Its, Ceth, Coteba, Coyne et Bellier,  Burgeap,  Dryade, Dark Prince, Fehr Technologies, IDA,, Nomadic solutions, Yprema.

Research and Educational Institutions:
- 17 centers, including Université de Marne-la-Vallée, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, Ecole Nationale des Ponts&Chaussées, Ecole Centrale de Paris, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan, Ecole Spéciale des Travaux Publics, Ecole Supérieure de Génie Urbain, CSTB, LCPC, INRETS, IGN, CEMAGREF, INERIS.

- Due to their particular locations in the city, 19 other organizations are also cluster partners because they are direct stakeholders and thus participate in the cluster’s various themes of social and general interest. Some of these are: le Conseil Régional d’Ile-de-France, les Conseils Généraux de Seine-et-Marne, des Yvelines et de Seine-Saint-Denis,  Communautés d’Agglomérations de Clichy-Montfermeil, le SAN Val Maubuée, le SAN Melun-Sénart, la CA de Saint Quentin en Yvelines.

Current R&D cooperation

50 projects were certified and financed between 2005 and the end of 2007 for a total investment of around 80 million euros.

Public support examples:

• 15 million euros granted by the National Research Agency (ANR) between 2005 and 2007
• 5 million euros allocated by the Interministerial Single Fund (FUI) between 2005 and 2007

International cooperation events

Current
Participation in the Intelligent Transport Systems congress, 2007, China

Future
Energy conservation in the Building Seminar, November 2008, China
Promotion of "Sustainable France" in November 2008 with the Franco-Swedish Chamber of Commerce in Stockholm

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