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Research and Innovation in Alsace Overview and Perspectives of a Region at the Heart of Europe

12 December 2011

Research and Innovation in Alsace

Overview and Perspectives of a Region at the Heart of Europe

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In the same framework

where the European Union is

facing economic downturn

and crisis while preparing its

own future, for their 32nd

edition of the Alsace Europe

Observatory, the Bureau

Alsace and its partners have

chosen to focus on Research and Innovation in

Alsace and within the European Union.

With the support of Joseph Daul (MEP and

President of the EEP) and the presence of Catherine

Trautmann (MEP and Vice-President of the Urban

Community of Strasbourg) as well as of Michèle

Striffler (MEP and Municipal Councillor for European

Affairs, Mulhouse City Council), the 2011 edition of

the Observatory aims at presenting the Alsatian

experience and know-how in the field of Research

and Innovation. Our project initiators will illustrate

the Alsatian dynamism in these fields as well as the

stakeholders' capacity to mobilize all opportunities

that are offered by the European programs. This is

also possible thanks to the unceasing targeted

support of the Europe Alsace Network (Réseau

Europe Alsace - REA) and of the communities

involved.

Jack Metthey, Director at the DG Research and

Innovation of the European Commission (DG RTD),

will speak of the future European programs to

support Research and Innovation: “Horizon 2020”.

The Alsatian stakeholders will then discover the

evolutions proposed by the European Union in order

to enhance the European territories' competitiveness

in an unceasingly changing world.

The 32nd Alsace Europe Observatory's aim is then

to set up a momentum for exchange and reflection

in order to prepare the Alsace region to the

manifold challenges to come and to ensure its future

as Region of Innovation.

Jean-Marie Sander

President of the Alsace Europe Observatory

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Thanks

The drafting of this document has been made possible with the active participation of the Europe Alsace

Network's members, which have dedicated their precious time to read, correct and feed it.

Our thanks go also to the Alsace Region, which ensures the publication work.

Drafting

ARI Alsace (namely Jean-Jacques Bernardini and Charlotte Bonnerot)

Bureau Alsace (namely Katharina Robohm and Cedric Virciglio)

CCI de Région Alsace (namely Isabelle Gouriou)

Région Alsace – DIRES (namely Coralie Bajas-Schaefer, Severine Anquetil, Christophe Sagnier)

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Editorial…………………………………………………………………………….

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1. Global vision of research and innovation in Alsace …………………………….…………………. 6 2. Scientific excellence ……………………………………………...………………………………… 8 3. Innovation drivers………….……………………………………………………………………….. 10 4. Cross-border positioning…………………...……………………………………………………….

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The Alsatian RDI features………….………………………………………………

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Alsace anticipates future: from the Regional Innovation Strategy to the « Smart Specialisation Strategy »

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1. The EU programmes to support research and innovation projects: the Alsatian participation…… 15 2. The Alsatian participation’s drivers……..………………………………………………………… 18 3. Alsace and Horizon 2020………………………………………………………………………....

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ABC Europe (CIP - Pro-Inno) …………………………………………………………………………. 22 Altheras (Eureka/Eurostars) ………………………………………………………………………….. 24 CATS (FP7 - Coopération: Transport) ………………………………………………………………… 26 CEOP-AEGIS (FP7) …………………………………………………………………………………… 28 EcoTransFlux (LIFE+)…………………………………………………………………………………... 30 ICE (FP7) ……………………………………………………………………………………………… 32 Isis (FEDER) ……………………………………………………………………………………………. 34 Latexdred (FP7 - ERA-NET Lead-Era) ………………………………………………………………... 36 NUTRINET (INTERREG IV A) …………………………………………………………………………... 38 OptiMIR (INTERREG IV B ENO) ………………………………………………………………………. 40 RETS (INTERREG IV C) ………………………………………………………………………………... 42 SAFER (FP7 - Coopération: Espace) ………………………………………………………………….. 44 SAFE-T (FP7 - Cooperation JTI-IMI) ………………………………………………………………….. 46 S_Life (FP7 – RoK) …………………………………………………………………………………… 48 Sterilis (CIP - Eco-Innovation) …………………………………………………………………………. 50 Tracecard (Eureka/Eurostars) ………………………………………………………………………… 52

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With two universities, 250 laboratories and over

2,000 researchers, Alsace is one of the first French

scientific poles. Within the globalization and EU

enlargement framework, the challenge is now to make

emerge or to enhance structured competence clusters

around some excellence channels that are organized

as a network including education and training,

research and business. Adrien Zeller, President of

Alsace's Regional Council in 2007, was already

aware that: “Innovation has become the heart of our

development policy. Our role is simple: to make the

Alsatian scientific potential a driver for economy.”

With a surface of 8,280 sq km1, Alsace is the

smallest French region2 and, at the same time, one

of the most dense and urban region of the

Hexagon. Alsace only covers 1.5% of the French

territory but its population represents 3% of the

French population. At the border of Germany and

Switzerland, Alsace geographically, historically and

very much economically too belongs to the Rhenan

area.

The whole region still has a strong industrial

vocation: this sector produces over 20% of the

regional added value. Industrial activities are

diversified: cars, food and agriculture, mechanics

and chemistry. Further more, Alsace is one of the

richest regions in terms of GDP per inhabitant (4th

of the national ranking).

1. Global vision of research and innovation

in Alsace

Research and development, source of innovation, is

a key factor for growth and employment on the

medium term. Because of its strong link to the local

specific profile, private research uses over 90% of

its available funding for industrial projects. The

public research, which is relatively well represented,

is basically oriented towards fundamental research.

Chemistry and life sciences are two strong

innovation poles for the region.

1 Metropolitan France

2 EU/Member States Global growth and employment strategy for the

2000-2010 period, adopted in Lisbon in 2000

A public research and particularly active small and medium

enterprises (SME)

Alsace is one of the French regions where public

research and SME are particularly active. Research

is much more developed in the public sector than the

national average. Moreover, private research is

more often developed within the SME than in the

other French regions.

Investments in Research and Development

In 2008, Alsace was 10th in the national ranking

of French Regions, with 874 millions euros of gross

domestic expenditure on research and development

(GERD), that is to say 2.2% of the national

expenditure. The domestic expenditure for research

and development represents 1.6 % of the Alsatian

GDP. Notwithstanding the progressive growth of

investments in research and development since

1992, this level is still lower than the threshold of

3% of the regional GDP, as the EU recommends for

2010 in the framework of the Lisbon strategy.

Nevertheless, Alsace gets closer to the national

average (2.1 % of GDP) and the gap vis-à-vis

metropolitan France has been divided per three in

fifteen years. Moreover, the objectives in terms of

public expenditures foreseen by the Lisbon strategy

are almost reached.

The Alsace's public authorities fund 43% of the

domestic expenditure for research and

development (33% of the national average),

enterprises fund 57% of it.

The big regional enterprises with at least 1,000

employees represent 50% of the Alsatian private

expenditure for research and development.

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10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

GERDA(administrations)

SME contribution toprivate GERD

Graph 1: Features of the gross domestic expenditure on research and development (GERD) in Alsace (2008)

Alsace

French average

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The SME represent about 30% of the Alsatian

expenditure, namely 18 % at national level.

Universities and the national center of scientific

research (CNRS) are the main bodies of the region's

public research: they use 93 % of the available

resources and employ 92% of the employees.

Between 2004 and 2008, the DIRD has grown by

23.7 %. This evolution is higher than the

corresponding national average (+ 16.4 %).

The Research and Development staff

With 2,079 teachers-researchers in 2009-2010,

Alsace represents 3.7 % of the national workforce

(11th of the national ranking) and with 248 foreign

teachers-researchers (12%), Alsace is the second

French region (excluding Ile-de-France) after only

Nord-Pas-de-Calais.

In fifteen years time, the number of researchers in

Alsace has doubled (+4.8 % per year), just as at

national level. Between 2000 and 2007, the

progress has even accelerated with +5,5 %.

Unceasing efforts are made in R&D and innovation

and the regional employment rate in the field is

also growing: over three years (2004-2007), it has

grown by 13% (6,5 % in France).

Research and Development stakeholders

The activities that are related to higher education

and research are spread over the two

pluridisciplinary universities of Strasbourg and of

Upper Alsace. The Strasbourg site hosts 80% of the

students as well as 80% of teachers-researchers

and researchers.

Unique merging example of three institutes (Louis

Pasteur, Marc Bloch and Robert Schuman), the

Strasbourg University is today the most important

pluridisciplinary university in France as to the

number of hosted students (over 42,000) and staff.

Alsace has also 10 Engineering Schools in the

framework of the AlsaceTech network, the National

University Library of Strasbourg and the National

Business School.

In the field of research, major bodies such as CNRS,

INSERM and INRA are very much present on the

territory. Alsace has also a Thematic Network for

Advanced Research, the Centre International pour

la Recherche aux Frontières de la Chimie.

As to innovation, five competitiveness clusters

including one having a world vocation and several

competence clusters are operating in a big variety

of fields such as vineyards and wine, materials,

nanosciences and textile.

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15%

20%

25%

30%

GERD growth Growth numberresearchers

(1992-2007)

GrowthEmployment

innovation(2004-2007)

Graphique 2: R&D in Alsace

Alsace

Frecnh average

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2. Scientific Excellence

The sectors of the Alsatian excellence

The Alsatian research is dominated by world-known

chemistry and fundamental biology. Physics is strong

in traditional fields such as magnetism, polymers,

physical chemistry but also laser technologies.

Alsace regroups excellent strengths in astronomy-

astrophysics and geophysics, environmental sciences

with two observatories (Strasbourg Astronomy

Observatory as well as the internationally

recognized Geo-sciences School and Observatory,

as the number of its international (66.8 %) and

European (40.6%) co-publications show. Strasbourg

has the only national school for geophysics.

In the field of public administration, ENA, INET

(Institute for Territorial Studies), the Euro-Institute

and the Strasbourg University constitute the Public

Administration European Pole and are given the

local communities' as well as the State's support.

Alsace, third CNRS' regional pole

The number of employees

and its laboratories'

budget make Alsace the

third regional pole of the

National Scientific

Research Center (CNRS):

54 laboratories, 10 research clusterings or

federations, 500 people and over 90 millions euros

of annual budget.

Besides the CNRS, Alsace has three public research

bodies. The seat of INSERM, the regional National

Institute for Health and Medical Research managing

authority is in Strasbourg and operates for the

whole French Eastern regions area (that are Alsace,

Bourgogne, Lorraine, France-Compté, Champagne-

Ardenne) This body consists of twelve research units

in Strasbourg (95 researchers and about hundred

engineers, technicians or administrative employees)

that are mostly associated to the Strasbourg

University. The National Agronomic Research

Institute (INRA) has a center in Colmar, a research

mixed unit with the Strasbourg University. The

CEMAGREF Institute, now IRSTEA (National Institute

for Research in Sciences and Technologies of

Environment and Technologies) is associated to the

ENGEES (Ecole Nationale du Genie de l’Eau et de

l’Environnement) in Strasbourg, National School for

Water Engineering and Environment in Strasbourg).

Alsatian success for the Investissements d’Avenir Programme:

Alsace, 1st Health campus excluding Ile-de-France

Via the Investments for the Future Programme

(Programme d’Investissements d’Avenir - PIA) and

related tenders for thematic and competitive

projects, that had been launched by the French

government in 2010, all public research

stakeholders have been given the opportunity to

benefit from major national fundings for supporting

scientific excellence and innovation. In Alsace, the

research stakeholders, namely in the fields of Health

and Life Sciences, have considerably relied on this

opportunity.

Results : many Alsatian projects have been granted the tenders' funding. These successes confirm the recognition of Alsace's scientific excellence at national, European and international level, as well as its capacity to generate research-based economic development. Consequently, Alsace is going to rely on unprecedented long-term fundings that are very constructive for its territory. This makes Alsace the first French Campus for Health (excluding Ile-de-France).

The Alsatian Excellence initiative relies on the various winners' projects to set a coherent framework in line with its ambition. This initiative offers a new environment, a true excellence and creativity ecosystem, to enhance the Strasbourg site's attractiveness to the best international students and researchers. This perspective will enhance its competitive position as a campus of the 21st century.

Results of project tenders for “Investissement d’Avenir”

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The University of Strasbourg, university of excellence

Within the Investissements d’Avenir Programme and

related tenders for thematic and competitive

projects with the highest number of rewarded

projects at national level. Five Equipments of

excellence, eight Excellence Laboratories, four

national infrastructures in the fields of biology and

health, one University Hospital with the IRCAD and

the University Hospitals, a company for accelerating

technological transfer, the installation-school EASE

with the Alsace Biovalley pole and, eventually, the

Excellence Initiative. This process further confirms this

University’s European excellence role, its

international openness and its collaboration with its

German colleagues of the upper Rhenan area

(Fribourg and Karlsruhe)., that had been launched

by the French government in 2010, the Strasbourg

University is one of the first three winners of the

Initiative d'excellence. This University confirms its

scientific excellence.

The Upper Alsace University : scientific quality

The Upper Alsace University (Université de Haute-

Alsace - UHA) seats between Mulhouse and Colmar,

regroups 8,000 students, 500 teachers and

researchers as well as 450 administrative

employees. The UHA has a long partnership

tradition with the local industrial tissue for research

and training. In particular, it develops tight links with

the competitiveness poles in Alsace; it is also known

for its scientific quality in the fields of materials'

chemistry, engineering and risk sciences.

Alsace, cradle of Nobel prizes: Jean-Marie Lehn and Jules

Hoffmann, the two last

winners

In 1987, Jean-Marie

Lehn, initiator of the

supra molecular

chemistry and two

American colleagues of

him, are awarded the Nobel Prize because of their

works on molecular recognition. Jean-Marie Lehn

was a Professor at the College de France and

Director of the laboratory at the Supra molecular

science and Engineering Institute; he has always

refused to work in other countries as he considered

the local working conditions as being excellent;

further more, he was also very glad to make his

career in a region at the cross-point of Europe.

Jules Hoffmann, specialist of insects'

immunity, is one of the three 2011

Nobel prize winners for his work on

immunology. He has also been

rewarded with the CNRS golden

medal, which is one of the most

prestigious scientific recognitions in France. In the

1970s, within the CNRS Molecular and Cellular

Biology Institute (Strasbourg), Jules Hoffmann has

created the laboratory for the insects’ immunity

response and related development. He was Director

of this Institute from 1994 to 2006.

The doctoral formation

In 2011, the region comprises eleven doctoral

schools among which five in the human and social

sciences and six in the exact and life sciences.

Scientific publications

In 2008, Alsace is 9th in the national ranking as to

scientific publications as it produces 3.4 % of them.

Alsace is particularly present in chemistry (6.5 % of

national publications, 3rd in the national ranking)

and in fundamental biology (4.6 % of national

publications, 5th of the national ranking).

The excellence indicators

Within the Shanghai 2011 ranking3 , the

Strasbourg University is the first French University in

the field of chemistry and is 14th in the world

ranking.

3 Ranking of the most important world universities, set by the Jiao-

Tong University's researchers (Shangai, China)

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In terms of scientific excellence, Alsace has 27 IUF

(Institut universitaire de France) winners, among

which 13 in exact sciences, 3 in life sciences and 11

in literature, human and social sciences.

Alsace has been awarded 22 scholarships by the

Research European Council (2007-2011): eleven

have been given to biology, medicine and health,

seven to chemistry and respectively one to each of

the following domains: human and social sciences,

mathematics, IT sciences and technologies, physics.

In 2009, this region has been awarded a global

amount of 22.3 millions euros funding of the

National Research Agency (ANR), that is to say

3.5% of the whole national sum (8th in ranking). The

non thematic programs represent over 50% of the

received funding. Further more, the Biology-Health

field represents 19.4 % of the regional funding.

The scientific visibility of Alsace is much bigger

than the national average. All in all, in 2008 Alsace

is the first French region with a 1.33 impact index.

In the framework of the Investissements d’Avenir

program, launched by the State, the first success has

been obtained by the Strasbourg University and its

scientific partners. This makes Alsace one of the

financially strongest supported regions by the State

for the enhancement of its attractiveness and

international development. Alsace has then become,

thanks to this programme, the first French “Health

Campus” (excluding Ile-de-France).

3. Innovation drivers

In terms of economic activities, Alsace is very much

industrialized, especially as to middle technology,

strong growth of the service sector and the

territorial development of all fields and, above all,

the creation of competitiveness and business clusters.

End 2007, 2,440 institutes in the potentially

innovating fields (industry and service sector) were

employing 25,500 employees. The « innovating »

institutes represent 2.3% of the involved ones at the

level of metropolitan France (4.1 % of the

potentially innovating institutes have grown by 15%

since 2004 in the region)4

4 Insee Alsace, Figures for Alsace, « Research and Development,

Innovation », January 2011

Five competitiveness clusters

The

competitiveness

clusters5 with a

world vocation

Alsace

Biovalley's

mission is to

federate and support public and private

stakeholders of the health and life sciences field in

their development and growth process. This cluster is

focused on two themes: “From gene to drug” and

“Imaging and medical and surgical robotics”.

As from 2005, 2,200 direct and indirect jobs have

been created the public/private collaboration in the

research field have grown by over 60%, 63

collaborative project in the research and

development projects have been labeled, 45

enterprises have been created and five new

university courses have been integrated in the

Strasbourg University academic offer.

The Vehicule du Futur Cluster including Franche-

Comte is a competitiveness cluster whose locally

available competencies and missions are organised

around four themes: mobility services, infrastructures

and communication, energies and propulsion as well

as design, materials and vehicles' life-cycle. 80 R&D

projects are labeled by this cluster have been

funded as from their setting up in 2005.

The

competitiveness

cluster Fibres

including Lorraine

and Alsace involve

both eco-materials

as well as fibrous

materials and

their improvement. As from their setting up, 119

collaborative projects have been labeled by this

cluster, among which 57 have been financially

funded; 1 start-up has been created, too.

5 On the same territory it regroups enterprises, higher education

institutes and public or private research bodies that are genuinely willing and able to work in synergy to set up economic development projects for innovation » (Financial Law of 2005).

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The new national water Hydreos cluster has been

labelised in 2010 (including Alsace-Lorraine) and

deals with the quality of continental waters related

to population health and ecosystems.

The new national Alsace Energivie cluster has also

been labelised in 2010 and regroups various

stakeholders working in the fields of energy

efficiency and renewables in Alsace. The aim is to

develop positive energy solutions for buildings to

produce more energy than the one they use.

A range of specific tools for innovation

At any stage, innovation meets its supporting body.

Founded in 2005, the Conectus Alsace network

puts together the Alsatian Universities' structures via

the development of partnerships including public

research and industrial stakeholders.

The six regional

centers for

innovation and

technological

transfer6 (the first

ones have been

created in 1980)

are at the turning

point between research and enterprises. The

common objective is to help SME to find

technological solutions to come to new products.

The Carnot MICA Institute (Materials Institute Carnot

Alsace) focuses on a specific theme in the functional

materials domain and is organized around eight

research units, six CRITTs and one technical and

industrial center (Institut Francais du Textile et de

l’Habillement – IFTH). It is then one of the best

partners to be able to satisfy industrial needs and

sectorial challenges.

6 Aérial, Cetim-Cermat, CRITT matériaux Alsace, Holo 3, Irepa Laser,

RITTMO Agro Environnement

The SEMIA regional incubator entails various

projects of different domains, including bio-

technologies and health, ITC, chemistry, engineering,

service sector. As from its creation in 2000, 104

projects have been incubated, which has led to the

creation of about 85 enterprises and over 500

highly qualified jobs.

Alsace's regional Agency for Innovation

(ARI Alsace) is the public expert of innovation in

Alsace, starting point and partner of innovative

enterprises. ARI guides enterprises that want to

innovate, provide them a customized follow-up and

coordinates the public bodies' aid actions that are

focused on innovation.

Patent application

As to technological production, Alsace covers 3.9 %

of the national demands (322 applications in 2008)

and is the fifth French region in 2008 with a 13%

progress compared to the 2003 levels (231

applications). In 2008, the patent applications have

principally involved two domains: chemistry-

materials and pharmacy bio-technologies.

4. Cross-border positioning

At the border between Germany and Switzerland,

from a geographic, historical and mostly also

economic perspective, Alsace belongs to the Rhenan

region. An active person over the ten which live in

Alsace works in Germany or in Switzerland. 10% of

the tradable field works for the enterprises with

Swiss and German capitals that operate in Alsace.

Installations coming from USA or Benelux are also

numerous.

Cross-border cooperation of Alsatian universities

The Strasbourg and Upper-Alsace Universities are

members of the EUCOR network (Confederation of

Upper Rhine Universities) and from there they

cooperate with the Karlsruhe and Freiburg

(Germany) as well as the Basel Universities

(Switzerland).

It is considered as the most experienced and

structured French network and offers mobility

options to 100,000 students within its suitable

hosting structures.

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The Sciences Offensive

Alsace is part of the Tri-national Metropolitan

Region of the Upper Rhine (RMT) which includes the

most performing European regions thanks to the

wide variety of scientific stakeholders, researchers

and innovating enterprises and to its strong R&D

developments.

A unique initiative in Europe has been launched in

October 2011 within the RMT, the so called

Sciences Offensive. This innovative devise has

received the support of the territorial cooperation

programme INTERREG IV Upper Rhine and of the

German Lander Baden-Württemberg, Rhineland-

Palatinate as well as of Alsace. It aims at funding

and supporting cross-border high-profile research

projects and offers a global funding perspective of

15 millions euros.

The cross-border engagement for competitiveness clusters

Just as universities and research centres can do,

competitiveness clusters in Alsace exploit their

geographical positioning as it is genuinely

favourable for the creation of a cooperation

beyond the national borders.

So, the Vehicule du Futur cluster aims at creating a

cross-border mobility cluster, Alsace BioValley is

already the French coordinator of the trinational

BioValley cluster; Energivie is a part of the Network

on Energy of the Trinational Metropolitan Region of

the Upper Rhine - TRION.

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… images

… its results

Figures on the R&D in Alsace Rate over

the national

rate

National

ranking

Population (2008): 1 837 100 inhabitants 3,0 % 13th

GDP (2009, provisional) : 50 700 millions € 2,7 % 12th

Registred students in the higher education

(2009-2010): 67 600

3 % 11th

Staff in the research field (2008, ETP) : 9 240 2,4 % 10th

Researchers (2008, ETP): 5 200

- Researchers in the public research: 2 8400 (among which 1,160 – 40 % - are linked to public research bodies)

- Researchers in enterprises: 2 370 - Teachers-researchers and

researchers working in A research units over 1,960: 1 258

2,3 %

3 %

1,8 %

2,9 %

10th

10th

10th

9th

Scientific production (excluding SHS, 2008) 3,4 % 9th

Technological production (patent application,

2008)

3,9 % 5th

Student with final Master (2009) : 3,334 3,4 % 10th

PhD (2009) : 334 2,8 % 11th

Gross domestic expenditure on reserarch and

development - GERD (2008) : 874 millions €

- GERDA : 375 millions €

- GERDE : 499 millions €

2,2 %

2,7 %

1,9 %

10th

8th

12th

… its assets

The Alsace's R&D drivers

The Strasbourg University is the first French university that

has been awarded one of the three French excellence

initiatives programmes (PIA).

A varied training and excellence offer on the

pluridisciplinary Strasbourg site with its international

vocation.

The Alsatian universities are members of the Upper Rhine

universities confederation (EUCOR).

AlsaceTech, a dynamic network including 10 geophysics

engineering schools, the only national school in this

domain.

The National and University Library of Strasbourg

(BNUS) and ENA.

The scientific excellence is recognized at international

level namely in the fields of chemistry, nano-sciences and

materials (RTRA), Biology and Life sciences, which can

rely on the CNRS excellence laboratories, INSERM, the

Strasbourg University, the Haute Alsace University and

INRA. Alsace is one of the key actors of the Tri-national

Metropolitan Region of the Upper Rhine, the strategic

area for new collaborative opportunities between

research and economy.

Five competitive clusters federate academic actors and

enterprises, with the support of communities and the

State.

…images

Chemistry 3rd CNRS regional cluster

Medical robotics Biology

Vehicle of the futur Materials

Collaboration Lazer

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The Regional Innovation Strategy

In the framework of the Regional Innovation

Strategy (SRI), voted at the Alsatian Regional

Council plenary meeting on December 4th 2009,

the Region has set the framework of its intervention

in the innovation domain. For the decades ahead,

this strategy proposes to make the initiatives evolve

in order to extend in contents and duration a set of

the actions launched in 2004. These initiatives will

entail an even stronger will to accelerate the

movement, to mobilize energies and talents as well

as a regional dynamics to support innovation. This is,

on this point, a true breakpoint.

In the framework of this process, the Region aims at

making the regional innovation system more

performing and at formalizing more strongly the

regional strategy, in a better coherence with the

territory's expectations and needs.

What is at stake for Alsace

On the base of the core values to build its own

future (innovation, knowledge, openness, sustainable

development, health and humanism), as well as on

more traditional values (know-how, production,

cultural identity, lifestyle), this strategy proposes

three challenges and aims for Alsace :

1. To be an active entrepreneurial and

innovative region, using the businesses'

innovation assets, investing on human resources'

qualification and their R&D capacities. The aim is

to pave the way to a wide spread of the

innovation culture within the business world and

society.

2. To be an open and very attractive region, at

the heart of the Rhenan area as well as at the

heart of Europe, proposing a territorial

dynamics, development capacities, a favorable

economic, scientific and cultural environmental.

3. To establish sectorial priorities in order to

become a region of reference on some emerging

markets that are growing very fast.

To this purpose, the strategy relies on four drivers

and proposes to act starting from three regional

“convergences” that are: Green Economy, Health

and Well-being, Humanism and societal questions.

This further nurtures the development of the

initiatives that has been observed in Alsace.

The Smart Specialisation Strategy

The operational framework of the regional

innovation strategy has paved the way to the

definition of strategic choices as from 2010. These

choices anticipate what Alsace's smart specialisation

strategy (S3) will be like. The S3 initiative has been

proposed by the European Union in order to

concentrate the resources and give the various

regions the possibility to make their own way while

enhancing their strong points and the sectors that

provide them a competitive advantage.

Graph 3: The three « convergences » of Alsatian Regional Innovation Strategy

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1. The EU programmes to support research and

innovation projects: the Alsatian participation

The European programmes to support research and

innovation provide Alsatian enterprises and

laboratories a funding for their innovative projects.

These funds equally offer the possibility to develop

their scientific and technical collaborations at

European level, namely to start or to strengthen

commercial cooperation with other European

stakeholders.

It is according to the project positioning on the

innovation chain that a programme will be chosen to

support it.

Graph 4: The European programmes to support research and

innovation

The ERDF7 features in Alsace

Alsace is the only French Region which is managing

authority of ERDF projects (objective

“Competitiveness and Employment”). Thanks to this

feature, an operational programme has been

designed in order to react and anticipate the

territory's specific expectations and needs.

The projects that have been selected in the

framework of the “Innovation and Business in the

European area” segment 1 and a part of the

second segment that is to develop territorial

attractiveness and economic competitiveness have

funded so far 143 project for a total amount of 69

millions euros, with a ERDF contribution of 18.75

millions euros.

7 European Regional Development Fund

The Alsatian participation in the RDI programmes 2002-2006

The transition between two European financial

planning periods for research and innovation in

2007 (from the 6th to the 7th Framework

Programme) has paved the way to the analysis of

the Alsatian laboratories and enterprises'

contribution to the Framework programme but also

to the EUREKA intergovernmental initiative that was

in the past the other main funding source for the

enterprises involved in the European research

programmes.

Between 2002 and 2006, more than 200 projects

have been funded in Alsace both by the European

Commission (FP6) or by the national financiers in the

framework of the intergovernmental EUREKA

initiative. The EU or intergovernmental contribution

cover 90 millions euros, among which 90% have

funded public research laboratories.

22 Alsatian enterprises have joined 30 different

projects for a total EU contribution of about 8.5

millions euros. Among these enterprises, 80% are

SME in EU terms8. Many of them have participated

to more than two different projects with a record

number of (three) participations to the FP6 for a

SME of the Colmar region.

Only two enterprises (not SME) have coordinated a

project in the reference period of 2002-2006. The

most covered themes are: health and well-being

(42%), green economy (energy, environment and

sustainable transports - 32 %).

8 The European definition of SME entails three categories: micro

enterprise (less than 10 employees / turnover or balance sheet ≤ 2 millions euros), small enterprise (less than 50 employees / turnover or balance sheet ≤ 10 millions euros) and medium enterprise (less than 250 employees / turnover ≤ 50 millions euros / balance sheet ≤ 43 millions euros). The big enterprises go beyond the above-mentioned thresholds.

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Alsace participation to the 2007-2013 RDI programmes

Thanks to new European programmes as from 2007

(CIP and FP7) but also the enhancement of the

programmes that are partially funded by the

European Commission (ERA-NET9), namely new

funding programmes for a specific business target

(EUROSTARS), the Alsatian laboratories and

enterprises have been proposed to address the

issue of innovation funding via partnerships and

cross-border actions.

Alsace participation to ERA-NETs

Alsace is one of the rare French Regions that

participates to several ERA-NETs. Thanks to these

instruments, RDI regional or national funding

programmes can be shared.

Alsace is then financier partner of LEAD ERA, which

supports industrial research projects on six lead

markets the European Commission has identified in

2007: green building, renewable energies,

protection textiles, recycling, e-health, bio-sources

products.

Since 2009 Alsace is also partner of

CROSSTEXNET (technical textile) and since 2001 of

EUROTRANSBIO (development of bio technologies

in the domains of health, industry, food and

agriculture and environment)..

9 According to the ERA-NET programmes, the countries /regions can

launch joint tenders in the field of research, development and innovation with international forms of collaboration. The programmes cover a variety of scientific and technological domains.

The participation of public research laboratories

In the framework of the European programmes in

the field of innovation, since 2007 the Alsatian

laboratories participate to over 150 projects, which

represent over 80 millions euros of direct funding.

Main funding from FP7: The Framework

Programme represents more than 90% of this

global figure. The remaining 10% is mostly

represented by INTERREG funding and alike,

especially in Section A (cross-border collaboration

in the Upper Rhine area, covering Alsace, Baden-

Württemberg, a part of Rhineland-Palatinate and

five Northern-Western Swiss Cantons10 .

The Strasbourg University is the first university

beyond that is granted scholarships from the

European Research Council (ERC), which are

funded under the People section of the FP7. 18

scholarships have been awarded between 2007

and 2010 in the fields of physical and engineering

sciences (8), life sciences (5), human and social

sciences (5).

The importance of cross-border co-operation. The

INTERREG programmes aim at enhancing

cooperation both in the Upper Rhine area (IVA) as

well as in the North-West European area, the alpine

area and, more generally, with all European

regions (Section C of the INTERREG programmes).

The Europe Department of the Strasbourg University

and CNRS Partnership and Enhancement

Department provide their administrative and

technical support to the Alsatian laboratories to set

mount their projects among the numerous European

programmes.

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Aargovia, Basle-Town, Basle-Country, Jura, Soleure

42%

8% 15%

15%

8%

12%

Graph: Alsatian enterprises per themes

Health

ITC

Materials

Environment

Transports

Energy

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The participation of enterprises

As from 2007 more and more enterprises

participate (between 2002 and 2011, from 22 to

40 (almost 100% growth) enterprises present 46

projects, which means a European or national co-

funding of over 18 millions euros.

The participation of the Alsatian enterprises to the

European programmes present the following

features:

The wide variety of targeted programmes

including bilateral or trilateral industrial

collaborations on applied research projects (i.e.

ERANET and EUROSTAR projects), Joint Technology

Initiatives11 such as the Innovative Medicine

Initiative as well as the FP7 projects, mostly in its

Cooperation section.

The targeted themes by the Alsatian industrial

participants are basically health, sustainable

development (energy, transports, environment) and

the ICT related ones. This distribution is perfectly in

line with the Regional Innovation Strategy.

11

The JTIs are public-private partnerships that put in place at

European level in order to address the strategic sectors where research and innovation are essential to the European competitiveness. The 7th FPRD support (and this is a new element) multinational research activities at large scale and regroup public and private partners in order to fix common highly societal objectives and to reach them.

Most of the participants are first-time participants

(i.e. enterprises that have never participated to a

European programme before). This fact shows that

European fundings are not reserved to the same

enterprises always. Moreover, more and more

Alsatian enterprises coordinate such projects.

Complementary funds

Complementarity of European funds in the

innovation domain is not a new issue. The European

programming since 2007 has introduced major

steps forward. Innovating enterprises can now be

funded by articulating various funding programmes

according to the maturity phase of the projects.

The two leading below-described projects for the

economic development of Alsace show the

complementary efficient use of European funds.

RHENOVIA Pharma (company based in Mulhouse)

has used FD7 fundings to acquire research

equipments and is partner of two European projects.

One research project has been funded under the

Cooperation Section of the FP7 (SELFMEM project)

and one has been supported in the framework of

the EUROSTARS programme (see ALTHERAS sheet).

Out of these two projects, the first one is more

focused on fundamental research whereas the

second one on applied research. Both of them will

give this company the chance to develop medical

devices and one of the targeted application will

contribute to fight against Alzheimer disease.

48%

4% 2%

17%

7%

15%

7%

Graph 6: Project per type of programme

FP7

CIP

Life+

Eureka/Eurostars

JTI IMI

ERA-NET

Eurogia+

48%

39%

13%

Graph 7: Project per theme

Health and well-being

Green economy

Informationtechnologies

Patch : Rhenovia’s new therapeutic transdermic system

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STERITECH, SME based in the region, has developed

innovative water and energy saving equipments to

sterilize food. The relevant research has been

funded by the OSEO and ERDF funds, which have

then allowed the wide spread of the developed

technology. The CIP Eco-Innovation programme will

then allow to build and test the first industrial

equipment.

Europe, driver of development for Alsace's territory and

competitiveness clusters

The European funds for supporting research and

innovation are beneficial to the competitive clusters,

too as they strengthen their collaboration with other

European clusters. For example: the ABC Europe

(CIP) and Biovalley trinational (INTERREG IV A) for

the Alsace Biovalley cluster, the Regions of

Knowledge (FP7) S-Life project for the Vehicule du

Futur project (see individual project sheet).

Such funds equally pave the way to other projects

that are led or that are joined by the

competitiveness clusters' members (s. sheet for the

ICE project). These results originate from a tight

collaboration with the Alsatian institutional partners

(Bureau Alsace, Alsace Region, Enterprise Europe

Network (CCIR Alsace), Mission Europe of the ARI

Alsace,…).

2. The Alsatian participation’s drivers

In order to better support the Alsatian enterprises

that aim at getting a financial support for their

European innovating projects, “Mission Europe”

(ARI Alsace) has been activated in 2007 by the

Alsace Region, the State (DRIRE has become

DIRECCTE) and the European Union (ERDF).

The Enterprise Europe Network is the result of the

2008 merge of Euro Info Centres with Innovation

Relay Centers (hosted by the CCIR Alsace) and has

been given the task to inform about and promote

European programmes.

The creation of the Europe Alsace Network,

coordinated by ARI Alsace, has structured the

common action of Alsatian RDI stakeholders by

fostering their participation to various EU

programmes. This network entails fourteen Alsatian

partners: ARI Alsace, Enterprise Europe Network

(CCI de Région Alsace), territorial communities,

State (DIRECCTE, DRRT), Bureau Alsace, economic

development agencies (Alsace International, ADEC),

Alsatian Universities (UDS, UHA), CNRS and OSEO

Alsace.

More recently, via the Eurosynergies project,

Alsace, Lorraine and Champagne Ardenne have

organized Infodays throughout their regions in

order to train the ones that deal with and manage

European programmes (structural funds and

sectorial programmes) and provide to any potential

operator basic information on the existing funding

possibilities and to guide them about the existing

pertinent interlocutors.

The Alsatian institutional stakeholders' strategy

aims at spreading to most enterprises and

laboratories information that is indispensable to

mount competitive funding applications. This

awareness-raising and support strategy namely

consists of:

- Thematic Infodays animated by REA in

partnership with the national contact points

and the European Commission.

- Design of a “project mode”, by identifying

the territory's project potential assets and

the corresponding European most adequate

programmes.

In this framework, no programme nor instrument is

privileged. This pragmatic approach offers the

territory and its stakeholders a rich variety of

opportunities to address their own needs.

3. Alsace and Horizon 2020

A major change is to be expected in the framework

of the European support to research, development

and innovation. For next programming period

(2014-2020), the European Commission has set a

unique device to simplify and make its support to

research and development more efficient: “Horizon

2020”.

The new European RDI framework: “Horizon 2020”

The main objective is to cover the whole innovation

chain of fundamental research up to the transfer of

innovating products and services on the market in

order to maximize the impact of the European

funding. In fact, “Horizon 2020” will entail in one

single strategic framework programmes that were

previously managed with different rules: the

framework programme for research and

development (F), the “Innovation” section of the

competitiveness and innovation framework

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programme (CIP) as well as the European Institute

for Innovation and Technology (EIT).

Horizon 2020 entails three major thematic axes:

- “Excellent science” to support scientific

excellence,

- “Societal challenges” to tackle the society's

challenges (demographic change, climate

change, ...),

- “Industrial Leadership” to enhance the

industrial preponderance in the European

competitive context.

This combination of programmes under “Horizon

2020 “ will then reduce the number of working

modalities and funding instruments and bring

together the eligibility rules, book-keeping,

reporting and audit processing of the European

projects. Consequently, SME will namely have an

easier access to the European funding for their

research, development and innovation actions.

Alsace's position

Alsace supports the approach of a unique,

rationalized and simplified programme for

research, development and innovation so as to fund

innovating project including laboratories, centers for

the technological transfer, SME and big enterprises.

A joint strategic framework is then replacing a

programmes rationale so as to cover the whole

innovation chain; between the various instruments

some « bridges » will then be created according to

the development stage and maturity of the project.

Alsace supports the regions' key role in the

research, development and innovation domains and

underlines the tremendous leverage effect of the

various programmes for territorial development and

competitiveness. In this time of crisis, “Horizon 2020”

must provide the EU the tools to tackle new

challenges (internationalization of enterprises,

territorial dimension of research) so as to allow

Europe and its territories to enhance their

competitiveness and ensure its citizens' well-being.

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ABC Europe New and efficient services promoting more world-class biotech clusters in the EU

CIP - Pro-Inno 22

Altheras The alchemy of a success Eureka/Eurostars 24

CATS City Alternative Transport System FP7 (Coopération: Transport) 26

CEOP-AEGIS The Earth observation for water source management in Asia

FP7 (Cooperation: Environment) 28

EcoTransFlux Induction to Performance LIFE+ 30

ICE The Cold success FP7 32

Isis New tools for mini-invasive surgery ERDF 34

Latexdred From nature to industrial applications FP7 (ERA-NET Lead-Era) 36

NUTRINET Rhine food for health INTERREG IV A 38

OptiMIR New tools for a more sustainable dairy sector INTERREG IV B ENO 40

RETS Renewable Energies Transfer System INTERREG IV C 42

SAFER Emergency response FP7 (Coopération: Space) 44

SAFE-T Predict potential toxicity of drugs candidates FP7 (Cooperation JTI-IMI) 46

S_Life European Synergies and Cooperation for Sustainable vehicle along the Life-Cycle

FP7 - RoK 48

Sterilis Moderate consumption in sterilisation CIP - Eco-Innovation 50

Tracecard Straight forward driving Eureka/Eurostars 52

The Consortium

The competitiveness cluster Alsace Biovalley is partner

of the ABC Europe project, which involves twelve of the

most important European bioclusters for biotechnologies

for health. The Milan Chamber of Commerce, Industry,

Craft and Agriculture is the project's coordinator.

The budget

The ABC Europe project has been launched at the end

of 2009 and disposes of a 3.51 millions euros budget

for a three years period. Of the above-mentioned total

sum, 2.72 millions euros are covered by the European

Union.

The Alsatian partner:

ALSACE BIOVALLEY

Alsace BioValley, French cluster for life sciences and

health, gathers in Alsace all stakeholders - enterprises,

research laboratories, hospitals, universities - of the Life

Sciences and Health domain.

Further more, Alsace Biovalley is one of the three world

class “health” competitiveness clusters, officially labeled

by the French State in 2005 to support excellence

innovation in France.

More details at:

www.alsace-biovalley.com

ABC Europe

New and efficient services promoting more world-class biotech clusters in the EU

THE PROJECT

ABC Europe has been launched in the framework of

the 2007-2013 Competitiveness and Innovation

Programme (CIP) of the European Commission and it

is embedded in the new European World Class

Clusters policy.

This programme aims at transforming the competition

rationale between European regions in a cooperation

rationale between clusters at continental level.

The objectives

The ABC Europe consortium aims at developing and

improving the services for SME:

- To enhance partnerships between active communities

in the biotechnology field

- To boost cross-border cooperation

- To create more performing support services, by

enhancing the links between research, enterprises and

financiers

- To widen the cooperation between bioclusters in

Europe and the world

The implementation

The ABC Europe project is basically structured on six

working groups:

1) Tools to support the SMEs internationalization

2) Clusters services for SMEs

3) Cross-border partnerships between clusters on one

side and enterprises on the other side

4) Aids for the SMEs internationalization

5) Common use of the research capacities

6) Development of a promotional programme for

Bioclusters

Bioentrepreneur Boot Camp: Nov. 2011, Stockholm

http://www.alsace-biovalley.com/

EUROPE INNOVA

Europe INNOVA is an European CIP (Competitiveness

and Innovation Programme) initiative that aims at

creating partnerships platforms between European

professional stakeholders of the innovation

domain.

With this instrument, the European Commission

supports the detailed analysis and mapping of

sectorial innovation and aims at identifying the sector

barriers and opportunities for innovation.

Supported actions

Europe INNOVA has been launched in 2006 and

supports eight actions:

Innovation analysis:

- to analyse sectorial innovation

- to analyse European clusters

- to analyse eco-innovation

Innovation Management:

To support SME in their innovation management by

providing them a self-assessment tool.

Promotion of new tools and services:

To make a better use of the partnerships results and

actions of Europe INNOVA.

European Platforms of Innovation:

- Platform for competitive clusters

- Platform for services

- Platform for eco-innovation

Who can apply ?

Innovation agencies and public or private bodies that

support innovation and are interested in a

partnership that is willing to create new types of

support to innovation at European level

The ENTREPRISE EUROPE NETWORK - a strong

support

The Enterprise Europe Network (EEN) is a European

network for providing information about the

European funding opportunities. It helps identifying

partners or technologies for enterprises' projects and

help them better understanding and integrating the

European directives (REACH, …). In Alsace, the EEN is

led by the Regional Chamber of Commerce and

Industry.

In order to support Alsace Biovalley in the

development and improvement of services to SME –

that are key for the ABC Europe project – the EEN

has offered the cluster to have access to some

services that are specifically aimed to the

competitiveness clusters, among which:

- Leaflets Innov’Alert: The possibility to

download thematic promotional material

(information on the technological

opportunities, European rules, European

funding, events, etc.) from the online portal of

Alsace Biovalley

- Technological demand and supply: The

creation of a direct link in the « Search for

partners » menu to the EEN site.

- Integration of service supply of EEN in the global supply of Alsace Biovalley

Bureau Alsace

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Avenue des Arts, 19 AD

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Tél. : + 32 (0)2 221 04 30

Fax : + 32 (0)2 217 66 12 www.bureau-alsace.org

More details at:

www.europe-innova.eu

THE PROJECT

In 2007, Rhenovia Pharma's intended to develop its

project of a patch for the Alzheimer disease

treatment. Nevertheless, the whole technical necessary

capacity was not at its disposal. Further more,

complementary fundings were indispensable to this

enterprise.

The objectives

“Our newest innovation is the creation of a

transdermic patch that can deliver medications via a

micro-PC in the thickness of a patch that is not bigger

than a credit card. Drugs are then released by a PC

programme that manages luminous flashes in the

patch inner surface. Such flashes act over as

nanoparticles that, on their turn, will provide the

active principles to the specific useful point.”

The implementation

In this framework, the ALTHERAS project consortium

has developed and showed a first version of the

effective transdermic patch. Its partners have

specifically demonstrated their capacities to engineer

a complex medical device based on various

disciplines such as photonics, chemistry or membranes

physics. This project would have not been possible

without the strong interaction between the two

partners of the project.

The consortium

The consortium of the ALTHERAS project consists of the

Alsatian SME Rhenovia Pharma and the Swiss SME

Portmann Instruments. These two enterprises are also

involved in the German research Centre of the Friburg

Region (the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft) as external

contractor. The consortium consists of three regions that

altogether constitute the Tri-national Metropolitan

Upper Rhine Region. Therefore, they constitute an

interesting example of cross-border cooperation in the

health domain.

The budget

The total budget for the project amounts to 913,070

euros. RHENOVIA Pharma, as “Eurostars” SME, is funded

by 40% of the project's eligible costs.

ALTHERAS

The alchemy of a success

More details at :

www.rhenovia.com

The Alsatian partner: RHENOVIA PHARMA

Rhenovia Pharma has been created in 2006 and

presently employs 20 people. The Alsatian enterprise

brings real innovation, even a revolution in the

approach of biology and physiology.

Its specific feature is related to the introduction of

digital approach for understanding complex biologic or

pathologic phenomenon.

Patch : Rhenovia’s new therapeutic transdermal patch

EUROSTARS™

The Eureka-Eurostars programme aims at supporting

high-tech SMEs that have a strong growth potential

thanks to the European partnership projects.

The selected projects are funded by the European

Commission and by the States where the partners are

based.

Which projects are involved ?

The projects' maximum duration is 36 months; they

must involve at least two distinct entities of at least

two of the 33 Eurostars™ members and finally

realise a product, process or service that can be

commercialised in the two following years after their

finalisation.

When can I apply?

The call for projects is always open with two

deadlines per year.

Who can apply?

Any SME according to the EU definition (maximum

250 employees) that invests at least 10% of its

expenditure into R&D or that employs at least 10%

of its staff to R&D.

Further more, the enterprises has to cover at least

50% of the total cost of the project. There is no theme

imposed.

ARI ALSACE and ENTREPRISE EUROPE NETWORK –

Rhenovia partners

The Regional Agency for Innovation (Agence

Regionale de l'Innovation Alsace - ARI Alsace) is

Alsace’s public innovation expert, starting point and

partner for enterprises and their innovation projects.

The Regional Agency helps enterprises to structure

their projects, guide and facilitate their access to the

regional, national and European public aid tools.

Thanks to its Europe mission, ARI Alsace support local

enterprises and help them integrating Europe in their

development strategy.

The Enterprise Europe Network (EEN) is a European

network that provides information on the European

funding opportunities. It helps identifying partners or

technologies for the enterprises' projects and helps

them better understanding and integrating the

European directives (REACH, …). In Alsace, EEN works

under the umbrella of Chamber of Commerce and

Industry of the Alsace Region.

Three key elements

1/ First of all, ARI Alsace and EEN assistance for

choosing the European programme to be selected.

Such precious help has led to the choice of

Eurostars™, a programme that was new at that time,

sufficiently simple and allowing small consortia.

2/ Then, the drafting of the project at the level of

European consortium: a quite complex step, simplified

thanks to the ARI Alsace support.

3/ Finally, throughout the process, ARI Alsace has

facilitated contacts, managed relationships with the

Swiss and German authorities and organised

meetings that have considerably helped at the

various steps.

Bureau Alsace



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More details at:

www.eurostars-eureka.eu

The consortium

The CATS project is carried out by a consortium of ten

partners from five European countries:

France : Communauté Urbaine de Strasbourg,

Europe Recherche Transport, Institut national de

recherche en informatique et en automatique,

Lohr Industrie (Coordinator)

Israel: Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

Italy: Agenzia regionale per la mobilita del Lazio,

Centro di Ricerca di La Sapienza sul Trasporto e la

Logistica

Rumania: Ploiesti city hall

Swtzerland: Ecole polytechnique de Lausanne, GEAJ-

M Vallotton and T. Chanard Architects-Town planners

FSU SA

The budget

The project disposes of a 3.8 millions euros budget,

whereby 2.97 millions euros are funded by the EU.

CATS

City Alternative Transport System

THE PROJECT

L’objectif du projet

The CATS project aims at developing and experiencing

a new city transport system based on a new generation

of vehicles, in order to generate a more effective and

clean mobility. The major innovation is a single type of

vehicle for two different types of use: individual use or

collective transport. This new transport service aims then

at filling the gap between public transport means and

private vehicles.

It is founded on two principles:

1/ The “self service” concept, with small and clean city

vehicles for short renting.

2/ A flexible shuttles service, with a convoy of variable

length that is driven by a professional driver. This

service would be available at fixed hours, along a

fixed line, permanently or for specific purposes.

The implementation

The CATS project is focussed on the analysis of mobility

needs, a local demonstration of the impact of such a

system in three European cities: Strasbourg, Ploeisti and

Formello.

This is a short term demonstration of the CRISTAL

project, which aims at developing a complete dual-

mode electric transport system network in order to meet

the different mobility demands.

The impact on environment, especially in terms of CO2

emissions, as well as the demand the systems

addresses, are also assessed.

More details at:

www.strasbourg.eu

7th Framework Programme for Research and

Development

The 7th European Framework Programme for

Research and Development is a unique framework to

plan actions over several years.

It disposes of over 50 billions euros for the 2007-

2013 period. The ordinary refunding rate for

research and development activities is 50%. For some

legal entities, this rate can go up to 75%.

Who can apply ?

The participants range is very wide: groups of

researchers, SMEs, associations, public bodies,

researchers, students, etc. regardless the country

where these are based, with privileged conditions of

the EU's Member States.

What are the pertinent projects?

FP7 is based on five elements, the so-called "specific

programmes":

- The “Cooperation” programme aims to

stimulate cooperation and improve links

between industry and research within a

transnational framework (consortia

comprising enterprises and university

laboratories)

- The “Ideas" programme is intended to

enhance the exploratory research in Europe

- The "People" programme is intended to

encourage mobility and improve the career

prospects of researchers

- The “Capacities” programme is intended to enhance research capacities Europe needs

- The programme on nuclear research

BUREAU ALSACE - a strong support

Via its network and contacts in Brussels, the Bureau

Alsace has contributed to the mounting of the CATS.

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COMMUNAUTE URBAINE DE STRASBOURG

(Strasbourg City Community)

As a creative metropolis, Strasbourg creates the

favourable conditions for its economic development

by supporting research and innovation on its territory

as well as the creation of new sectors and related

activities.

This is the Eco 2020 Strategy's objective, which is a

true guideline for Strasbourg in this domain.

Strasbourg has chosen 4 potential poles on growth

markets, for which the metropolis owns key assets:

- medical technologies and new therapies,

- creative activities,

- international higher service sector

- innovative and multimodal mobilities

The consortium

The PROJECT gathers fifteen research institutions and

three SMEs. Ten partners are based in Europe and eight

in Asia. The consortium also gathers over 125

researchers and engineers and contributes to various

research and dissemination activities.

The budget

The project disposes of a 4.5 millions euros budget. The

European Commission contributes with 3.4 millions euros,

namely 11 % for SMEs and 36 % for the Asian

partners.


The STRASBOURG UNIVERSITY

The University of Strasbourg, unique example of three

institutes merged together, is presently the French

pluridisciplinary University with the highest number of

students and staff: 42,000 students (among which 20%

form foreign countries) and 4,600 employees.

The Strasbourg University’s world reputation is based on

its research teams covering almost every major

discipline.

Geographically privileged, the Strasbourg University

has a particular vocation to develop a strategic link to

Europe.

More details at:

www.ceop-aegis.org

CEOP-AEGIS

The Earth observation for water source management in Asia

THE PROJECT

CEOP-AEGIS is an international collaborative project

in the environment field in the framework of the 7th

Framework Programme for Research and

Development (specific programme “Cooperation”),

financed on the topic “Improving observing systems

for water resource management”. Its coordination is

carried out by the Laboratoire des Sciences de

l'Image, de l'Informatique et de la Teledetection

(Laboratory of Imaging Sciences, Informatics and

Remote Sensing, LSIIT ) of the Strasbourg University

and the CNRS.

The objectives

With a 2.5 millions sqkm surface and 4,700 m height,

the Tibetan plateau plays an essential role in the

Asian climate and water operational system. The most

important rivers originate form there and the changes

on this environment have a considerable impact on the

water source of these catchments areas. The CEOP-

AEGIS project aims at promoting the uses of Earth

observation satellite technologies to put in place a

follow-up system for the plateau's hydrology.

The implementation

The implementation of temporal series of

observations, algorithms and models, as well as the

technology transfer to the neighbouring countries'

water agencies provide the decision-makers and local

populations innovative tools to manage the resource,

anticipate the drought periods or rainfalls and then

improve food, personal and material safety.


Development

The 7th Framework Programme for Research and

Development (FP7) is the main funding instrument for

European research.

It covers a seven years period (2007-2013) and

disposes of a 50 billions euros budget, which confirms

the EU's priority for the European research.

This programme is a key instrument to meet Europe's

employment and competitiveness needs and to make

it become the first knowledge-based world economy.


programmes":






laboratories)






- The “Capacities“» programme is intended to

enhance research capacities Europe needs


Who can apply ?

The participation to FP7 is open to a wide range of

organisations and private people, with no

geographic restriction.

THE EUROPE CELL– a strong support

Within the Research Directorate of the University, the

Europe Cell aims at assisting and advising university

and researchers in the various development phases of

the project.

The Europe cell proposes the following services:

Awareness-raising, information and training

- Information and constant up-date on the

state-of-the-art of the European and

international research funding programmes

- Information meetings

- Training sessions

Assistance for mounting and follow-up of European

projects

- Analysis of the project and choice of

adapted programme

- Interface with European financiers

- Aid to mounting, drawing, budget

construction, projects negotiation

- Assistance for project management.

Contact

Sandrine Schott-Carrière

Contact person for the Cellule Europe

[email protected]

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THE PROJECT

Specialised in the production of industrial induction

heating equipment, the FIVES CELES company has

been developing since 2008 a project which is a real

turning point for this technology: EcoTransFlux™.

Namely, it saves much more energy, with

considerably lowered polluting emissions.

The objectives

With induction, a material can be heated while

electric flows are being created (Joule effect). To this

purpose, it uses magnetic fields with lowered energy

consumption and, first of all, releases less CO2 than

the traditional channels (ovens, stoves).

The EcoTransFlux™ aims at demonstrating the

effectiveness of this now existing technology, its

capacity to meet the steelworkers' constraints and to

reduce the environmental impact of some of their

activities.

The implementation

The EcoTransFlux™ project deals with highly powerful

transverse flux induction heating. It represents a major

innovation as it remarquably improves traditional

(longitudinal) induction performances, and particularly

it allows to go beyond the surface treatment that

creates polluting releases.

The consortium

In the framework of this project, there is no foreign

partner. The only participant is the Fives Celes

company. As a matter of fact, Life+ is one of the rare

European programmes for funding innovative projects

whereby the eligibility is not subject to a minimum

number of participating partners or countries.

The budget

The total budget amounts to 646,482 euros, among

which 316,366 euros is of EU origin.

EcoTransFlux™

Induction to Performance

More details at:

www.fivesgroup.co

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The Alsatian partner: FIVES CELES

The FIVES CELES company, SEVYLOR spin-off, has been

created in 1967 to industrialise and commercialise a

major technical innovation at that time : the periodic

high or medium frequency generator. Since then, the

company has unceasingly focussed its efforts on the

development of new more and more performing power

sources.

The FIVES CELES company presently belongs to the

FIVES group and employs 93 people. Thanks to its over

40 years of know-how, FIVES CELES has today an

international reputation in the field of induction heating

equipments.

Fives Celes

Special Induction

heating machines

LIFE+

The European programme LIFE+ funds demonstration

projects that contribute to the development and

implementation of environmental policies and

jurisprudence. The LIFE+ financial envelope amounts

to over two billions euros for the 2007-2013 period.


1/ the projects of community interest that contribute

to the development, implementation and updating of

environment policies and jurisprudence in this field.

2/ the projects that are technically and financially

coherent, feasible and cost-efficient.

3/ the projects that meet at least one of the following

criteria:

- concern best practices or demonstration

in the field of wild birds and habitats

protection,

- present an innovative or demonstration

character at EU level as to the

environment policy's objectives,

- to consist in awareness-raising campaigns

or trainings in the field of forest fires

prevention,

- to deal with extended, harmonised,

global and long-term surveillance of

forest and environmental interactions.

Who can apply ?

Enterprises, research centres and communities are

eligible to the programme. Nevertheless, the project

initiators need to prove their co-funding capacity.

L'ARI ALSACE – partner of FIVES CELES

The Regional Agency for Innovation Agence

Regionale de l'Innovation Alsace (ARI Alsace) is

Alsace’s innovation public expert, starting point and








A support at any key step of the project

It's while visiting FIVES CELES that an ARI Alsace

project leader had this project idea. The project

analysis, both in technical as well as in environmental

terms, has rapidly led to the choice of a Life+

programme. (As a matter of fact, the technological

level must prove to be sufficiently mature for the

project to be approved).

While preparing the project, ARI Alsace has closely

worked with the enterprises so as to meet each

requirement asked by the European Commission. By

carefully reading the various proposal's versions

FIVES CELES has been able to clearly and

pedagogically explain the project's objectives, its

technology rationale and also to quantify the project's

environmental impact. To conclude, during the

negotiation phase, ARI Alsace, following the European

Commission's request, has put in contact FIVES CELES

with the European Steel Technological Platform ESTEP,

that is going to participate to the dissemination

activities.

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THE PROJECT

The magnetic cold principle is known since 1880.

Nevertheless, it's from a different technology that air-

conditioning is going to be developed, that is to say

the refrigerating gases.

While searching for the “clean vehicle”, the car

industry clearly looks for a technology that can

provide air-conditioning at low energy consumption,

with no greenhouse gas emission nor toxic fluids.

The objectives

The ICE project aims at developing a new air-

conditioning and a heat pump system based on the

magneto-caloric heat pump.

Another innovative aspect is the new air-conditioning

design of the cabin and the micro-climate control,

which can provide optimized heating and cooling

production.

The implementation

ICE is a demonstration project which aims at

equipping an electric bus with a reversible air-

conditioning.

The major innovation is an electric compact heating

pump which has been adapted to cars. As a matter of

fact, this system lies on the magneto-caloric effect by

using highly efficient magnetic materials. This allows a

lower power generation according to the real needs

and the adaptation of the system to the number of

passengers.

The consortium

ICE is a French-Italian project under the leadership of

FIAT (Italy) research centre. Its partners are: ALTRA

Spa–IVECO (Italian company), INSA – Strasbourg -

France, the Polytechnical University of Valencia (Spain),

the French company Behr France as well as the SME

Cooltech Applications, where the ICE developed

technology originates from.

The budget

The total budget amounts to 4.19 millions euros,

whereby 2.83 millions are funded by FP7 (specific

programme “Cooperation” – theme “Transport” –Green

Cars Initiative).

ICE

The Cold success

More details at: www.weenter.com

The Alsatian partner: COOLTECH APPLICATIONS

Since beginning of year 2000s, science disposes of

sufficiently powerful magnets to take over the works on

magnetic cold. It's the Cooltech Applications, based in

Holtzheim (Lower-Rhine region), that focuses again on

this via the ICE project.

Cooltech Applications is a SAS (simplified joint stock

company) with 17 employees; it has been created in

2003 and has been awarded the special OSEO prize in

the framework of the national competition for the

setting up of enterprises in the innovative technologies

field. Since 2008, Cooltech Applications has created its

Weenter trademark that benefits from an international

visibility.


Development

The 7th Framework Programme for Research and

Development (FP7) is the main funding instrument for

European research.

It covers a seven years period (2007-2013) and

disposes of a 50 billions euros budget, which confirms

the EU's priority for the European research.

This programme is a key instrument to meet Europe's

employment and competitiveness needs and to make

it become the first knowledge-based world economy.


programmes":






laboratories)






- The “Capacities“» programme is intended to



Who can apply ?

The participation to FP7 is open to a wide range of

organisations and private people, with no

geographic restriction.

-

ARI ALSACE - Cooltech Applications’ partner








Thanks to its “Mission Europe”, ARI Alsace supports

local enterprises and helps them integrating Europe in

their development strategy.

A strong support at any key step of the project

By closely collaborating with the competitiveness

cluster “Vehicule du Futur” (Alsace and Franche

Comte), “Mission Europe” of ARI Alsace has assisted

Cooltech Applications and its local partners in the

framework of its first exchanges with the FIAT

research centre. It is in this framework that the idea of

a European project based on Cooltech Applications'

technology has arisen.

Constantly focussed on the EU programmes

opportunities, ARI Alsace has identified the FP7 and,

more specifically, the Green Cars Initiative (theme

“Transport” of the specific programme

“Cooperation”), which can co-fund such a research

project led by European entrepreneurs as well as

research centres. ARI Alsace has then assisted

Cooltech Applications to define its project and to

structure its content.

To closely assist and support Alsatian SME, namely

the ones that, just as COOLTECH, have access to

European funding for the first time, is key to ensure

their full benefit from the pivotal effects of the FP7.

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THE PROJECT

Development of new instruments in the domain of laparoscopic surgery

The introduction of a laparoscope equipped with a

mini-camera in the patient abdomen, allowing a

surgery with closed belly: this is the biggest change

the surgery as a whole has ever known in the 20th

century and has paved the way to the “mini-invasive”

surgery. This technique reduces surgery traumatism,

pain, nosocomial infection risks and, further more,

meets a raising aesthetic demand of the patients

wishing scarcely visible scars.

The objectives

The ISIS project aims at developing the laparoscopic

surgery with a single incision via the principle of

flexible tools that have been developed in the

framework of the ANUBIS project. This offers

excellent ergonomics and allows the necessary

triangulation of an oriented surgery. The present

(especially) American developments propose to use

rigid or semi-rigid instruments of the laparoscopic

surgery that are scarcely ergonomic and make

operations very complex.

The implementation

THE ISIS project entails a training chapter that has

been developed by IRCAD. The objective is to train

surgeons to the new surgery techniques.

The consortium

ISIS is a collaborative project that regroups scientist of

the Strasbourg University /National Research and

Development Centre (CNRS) and IRCAD as well as two

enterprises, namely the French branch of the Karl Storz

company, as well as ProtoMed/Surgical Perspective, a

company specialised in the mini-invasive surgery.

The budget

The total budget amounts to 3.1 millions euros, whereby

250,000€ are covered with ERDF funding. The project is

also granted the FUI support, as well as the Alsace,

PACA Region and OSEO contribution.

ISIS

New tools for mini-invasive surgery

The Alsatian partners:

IRCAD, UNIVERSITY OF STRASBOURG – CNRS

IRCAD (Institut de Recherche contre les Cancers de

l'Appareil Digestif; Research Institute for the Digestive

stytem cancer) has been founded in 1994 within the

Strasbourg University Hospitals. IRCAD comprises

research laboratories in the cancer treatment domain as

well as the Medical Robotis, a department for

Informatics Research and Development as well as a

centre for the formation in minimally invasive surgery.

University of Strasbourg – CNRS : The world known

excellence domains of the “Automatisms, Vision and

Robotics” (AVR) team of the Laboratoire des Sciences de

l’Image, de l’Informatique et de la Teledetection (LSIIT)

are: commanding of robots b vision, remote

manipulation as well as the design of innovative

mechanisms.

More details at:

http://www.eits.fr/

Who can apply?

The participation is widely open: regional

stakeholders in the field of innovation, public or

private structures, academic institutes, research

institutes and related structures (CRITT, platforms,…),

associations, enterprises, collectivises,…


The programme is based on four axis:

- Axis 1: Innovate and create business in

the European space

- Axis 2: Develop the territories

attractiveness and economic

competitiveness

- Axis 3: Enhance the Alsatian

environmental potential

- Axis 4: Enhance the Alsatian

agglomerations attractiveness and

cohesion with a focussed support to the

areas in difficulty

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Further Alsatian partner: SURGICAL PERSPECTIVE

Surgical Perspective is a ProtoMed's branch. In the

surgery sector, it develops innovative mini-invasive

medical devices. It sells retractors for this type of

surgery.

The Strasbourg branch has been created in the

framework of this project in order to develop a new

pull-apart system, which is adapted to the single incision

surgery.

EUROPEAN REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT FUND

Regional competitiveness programme 2007-2013

in Alsace

In Alsace, the regional competitiveness programme

aims at renewing local economy by orienting it

toward strong value added activities (research and

innovation, high technologies) and to provide the

region a sustainable development model.

This programme is funded by the European Regional

Development Fund (ERDF) that supports the

European regions' competitiveness improvement.

The ERDF has a budget of 75,924.973 € for

regional competitiveness, managed by the Alsace

Region, programme management authority.


The consortium

Coordinator: Irepa Laser (Alsace)

Partners: University of Basque Countries, Universite de

la Couronne, Tecnalia/AZTI, Seland, IFTH, Clipso.

The budget

The project disposes of a 1,882,990 euros budget

whereby 1,090,540 euros are funded by various

regional and national funding bodies.

The Alsatian partner: IREPA LASER

Irepa Laser (laser solutions designer in Alsace) is

Technologic Resource Centre as well as a Laser Training

Centre and a Research, Innovation and Transfer of

Technologies Centre.

Irepa Laser competences are focussed on the

implementation of laser processes in the industrial field.

LATEXDRED

From nature to industrial applications

THE PROJECT

Engineering and sport-competition may not seem to

have much in common but in both domains, engineers

are using similar software applications to better

understand just how water or air flow around a

swimmer, plane or a vessel. Latexdred will aim at

reproducing sharkskin pattern in order to reduce

drag effects.

The objectives

Latexdred aims at reproducing sharkskin on a textile

in order to reduce the drag effect.

The implementation

This texture is going to be realised on a specific

textile (on purpose for this project), which will be used

in the framework of water sport competitions.

The femtosecond technologies can presently texture

almost all materials with such a level of precision to

be close to the micrometer. So, it is possible for

plastics to be given the aspect of leather and for

some surfaces to be textured in such a way to

become hydrophobic and self-cleaning.

Irepa Laser is the project coordinator and will be in

charge of laser developments. In order to reproduce

the “sharkskin” aspect, two approaches are possible:

to directly reproduce the texture on the material or to

produce a mould or drawing frame to “print” the

features on the material.

More details at:

www.irepa-laser.com/

ERA-NET :

The ERA-NET scheme is a supporting mechanism of the


Development to promote cooperation and

coordination of research activities at national or

regional level (funding programmes are brought

together).

Several ERA-NET cover all scientific and technological

disciplines. The ERA-NET scheme follows a bottom-up

approach, which gives a considerable manoeuvre for

the application.

Who can apply?

The participation to these actions is open to

“planners” (normally ministries or regional authorities

that define research programmes) or “programme

managers” (sort of research advisors or other

agencies that manage research programmes).

LEAD ERA

The Latexdred project has been co-funded in the

framework of the ERA-NET LEAD-ERA the Alsace

Region has been participating to since 2009. Its aim

is to enhance the coordination of a series of cross-

border programmes dedicated to research and

innovation in key sectors of the European initiative in

favour of growth markets.

Six growth markets have been identified by the

European Commission in 2007: E-health, protection

textiles, eco-construction, recycling, bio-based

products, renewables.

L‘ARI ALSACE – a strong support

The Regional Agency for Innovation Agence

Regionale de l'Innovation Alsace (ARI Alsace) is

Alsace’s innovation public expert, starting point and








ARI ALSACE proposes a customised support

- to identify the most adequate European

funding for an innovative project,

- to identify European partners:

- enterprises, public partners, laboratories

for the project implementation,

- to help preparing the application,

namely to explain procedures and

mediation with the French and European

authorities.

A strong support at any step of the project

ARI Alsace has been associated by the Alsace Region

to the launch and promotion of the first LEAD-ERA call

for proposals to the enterprises. In the framework of

a visit to IREPA Laser, the idea of a project on

protection textiles have been recalled. ARI Alsace has

helped IREPA laser, namely during the preparation

phase of the funding request and for the search for

partners to ensure the interface with other LEAD ERA

partner regions. It has also provided the interface

with the Alsace Region, funding body of the Alsatian

partners. Finally, it has provided a critical review of

the application.

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THE PROJECT

Apples, nuts, grapes - how many good things can

bring those regional food products and other more to

the consumer health? The cross-border research

network nutrhi.net aims at generating and developing

new nutritional knowledge on regional food and

sharing it with the consumers.

The objectives

The Nutrhi.net network aims at studying the specific

features of the typical food products of the Upper

Rhine region, determining the nutritional properties

and spreading the results that are acquired among

French and German consumers. The implemented

research project takes into account the elements that

cover both food production as well as its

commercialisation and consumption.

The implementation

An important contribution to nutritional prevention to

chronic disease (overweight and cancer) is given by

the Nutrhi.net members of the Baden-Wurttemberg

and Alsace regions. The communication measures are

supported by innovative research approaches and

are realised by pluridisciplinary working groups that

comprise both specialised stakeholders (food

transformation processes, nutrition, study of food

behaviours) as well as regional food producers.

The consortium

Nutrhi.net is a pluridisciplinary network comprising

nutrition scientists of the Upper Rhine region from the

Karlsruher Institut fur Technologie, the University of

Strasbourg, IRCAD, the Institut Technique Agro-Industriel

Aerial and the Max Rubner Institute of Karlsruhe.

Coordinator: University of Strasbourg.

The budget

The project disposes of a total 2.9 millions euros

budget, whereby 1.45 millions euros in form of

subsidies.

NUTRHI.NET

Rhine food for health

More details at: www.nutrhi.net

INTERREG IV A Upper Rhine

The "INTERREG IV A Upper Rhin" Programme

supports the cross-border cooperation in the Upper

Rhine region.

It is developed in the framework of the "European

territorial cooperation » section from ERDF and

disposes of a 63.5 millions euros budget for the

2007-2013 period.

The INTERREG IV programme aims at using cross-

border potentials and bridging the border-based

obstacles so as to make the Upper Rhine region an

economically integrated region, which is socially

strong and sustainable-development oriented.

Who can apply?

The participation is broadly open: public bodies,

associations, etc., based in the Upper Rhine

programming area.

Which are the relevant projects?

The programme is based on three sections:

- Priority A "To use in common the economic

potential of the Upper Rhine region"

- Priority B "To make the Upper Rhine

region become an integrated region in

terms of training, employment and

habitat"

- Priority C "To ensure a sustainable

development of the Upper Rhine area"

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The Alsatian partners:

UNIVERSITY OF STRASBOURG - CNRS – AERIAL –

IRCAD

Pluridisciplinary Institute Hubert Curien (UMR 7178)

Equipe de Chimie Analytique des Molecules BioActives

(Camba)

This laboratory is specialised in the development of new

food and drugs analysis methods.

Institut de Chimie (UMR 7177)

Laboratory of Organic Synthetic Chemistry

The research the laboratory has carried out concerns:

preparative organic chemistry with the aim of coming

up to the synthesis of biologically active molecules.

AERIAL

Aerial Institut Technique Agro-Industriel (ITAI) and

Centre de Ressources Technologiques qualifie (CRT), has

been created in 1985 and is active in the food and

agriculture field, namely the multisectorial applications

of irradiation techniques to lyophilisation for

bioindustries.

IRCAD/INSERM

IRCAD (Institut de Recherche contre les Cancers de

l'Appareil Digestif) has been founded in 1994 within the

Strasbourg University Hospitals. It consists of

laboratories of research and digestive cancer treatment

and medical robotics, a research and informatics

development department as well as a training centre

for mini-invasive surgery.


The consortium

OptiMIR is the result of a partnership involving eleven

control bodies, five research centres and universities

specialised in animal sciences, as well as a milk analysis

laboratory with six North-West European countries

involved. The project is let by the Association Wallonne

de l’Elevage (Vallonia's farming association).

The budget

OptiMIR disposes of a 7.4 millions euros budget,

whereby 50% is funded by the European Union.


THE REGIONAL CHAMBER OF AGRICULTURE of ALSACE

The Chamber of Agriculture is a professional institution

that is legally given a consulting role to the public

authorities. The Chamber consists of a professional

assembly, which is elected by universal suffrage by all

stakeholders in the agriculture sector.

With its partners, the Chamber of agriculture initiates,

coordinates and applies on spot agriculture and rural

development programmes, which meet the society's

needs. In the framework of the provided services, the

regional Chamber of Agriculture of Alsace assists and

supports all 600 milk farmers each month.

More details at: www.optimir.eu

OPTIMIR

New tools for a more sustainable dairy sector

THE PROJECT

OptiMIR is a cooperation project between Dairy

Control and Research Centres from six European

countries, which aims at improving the green and

economic performances of dairy producers via new

management tools.

The objectives

OptiMIR aims at optimising herd management as from

dairy controls' data, in order to reduce production

costs, facilitate the access of producers to competitive

markets and improve their knowledge about the

environmental impact.

Besides the traditional milk analysis (fat content,

proteins, lactose, urea), the infrared spectrum of the

milk analysis will be enhanced as indicator of the

cows' status. The dairy producer will then be

provided all information of the cow pregnancy stage,

mastitis risks, nutritutional unbalances, methane

rejections, etc.

The implementation

Via a survey among the farmers, the partners identify

the priority domains for the profitability management

and the sustainability of their activity. On this base,

they are going to develop the key spectral indicator

that will be the base of new management tools.

After five years, these instruments will be proposed in

form of Internet application to the farmers that are

registered to the Controle Laitier (Dairy Control).

INTERREG IV B ENO

The INTERREG IV B NWE programme is a EU

financial instrument (cohesion policy).

It supports cross-border cooperation in Northern-

Western Europe (NEW), a cooperation zone

comprising eight countries: France, Belgium,

Netherlands, Luxembourg, Germany, United

Kingdom, Ireland and Switzerland.

The programme has identified four action domains

for the 2007-2013 period:

innovation, environmental challenges, connectivity,

strong and wealth communities promotion.

Based on the success of the earlier period, the IVB

ENO programme has started off with an envelope of

355 millions euros granted by the European Regional

Development Fund (ERDF) ; half of it was already

granted at the end of 2009.

In order to support and help the project initiators, the

programme proposes a complete structure: the Joint

Technical Secretariat and the Contact Points Network

present in each of the eight Member states support

the project, from the development process to the

implementation phase.

Who can apply?

A project must comprise partners of at least two

countries, among which one must be situated within

the Northern-Eastern European area.

Each organisation that works in the area of territorial

development can join the programme.

The BUREAU ALSACE and the ALSACE REGION

Partners of the Lower Rhine Chamber of Agriculture

The Bureau Alsace and the Alsace Region has been a

strong support during the mounting phase of the

OptiMIR project in the framework of the INTERREG IV

B ENO programme for the Lower Rhine Chamber of

Agriculture.

Support at any key step

The Brussels representation office of the Alsace

Region has assisted the project development

throughout all key phases.

At first, it has supported the Lower Rhine Chamber of

Agriculture during the mounting phase and contributes

to the identification of the European programme's call

for tenders as potential partners.

After presenting the application, the Alsace Region

has illustrated the project to the French Committee’s

members of the INTERREG IV B ENO programme; this

improves then the project's chances for success.

With its presence at the presentation of the

application, the Bureau has then also successfully

helped to make the link with the national and

regional contact points and pave the way to validate

the project on the base of the assessment criteria.

The project has been presented for the first time in

October 2009. After a first rejection, it has been

presented again and accepted in 2010.

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More details at:

http://www.nweurope.eu

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The consortium

Twelve structures from nine Member States are partners

of the project:

Coordinator : ADEC (F)

Partners : Pezenas (F), IHK ZETIS GmbH (D), Vecses

(HU), Provincia di Varese (I), Sittard-Geleen (NL), Serta

et Pinhel (PT), ICEMENERG (RO), ENERGAP (SI),

University of Staffordshire and Eco Centre Wales (UK).

RETS has set up privileged bonds with other initiatives:

- The RENREN – Renewable Energy Regions

Network (project funded by INTERREG IVC)

- IMEDER - Institut Mediterranean des Energies

Renouvelables (Mediterranean Institute for

Renewable Energies)

The budget

1.9 millions euros among which 1.5 millions euros funded

by the ERDF.

More details at: www.rets-project.eu

RETS

Renewable Energies Transfer System

THE PROJECT

The objectives

The project (funded by INTERREG IVC) aims at

providing suitable answers to the necessary

adjustments of territorial communities, namely the

ones with less than 25,000 inhabitants that process a

strategy of energy mix and implement a renewables-

based policy.

The renewables that have been analysed are: wind-

energy sector, photovoltaics, geothermics, biomass,

wastes, water and sea-based renewable energy.

The implementation

RETS has been created for a three years period and

has been launched in January 2010 to be concluded

end of 2012 with a final conference in Strasbourg.

The project's main activities are: the creation of

collaboration tools on the good practices and the

networking for the sake of research centres and

existing renewable related services, as well as of a

permanent technologic alert.

Here's the working programme:

- Drawing up and publication of 45 good practices and elaboration of a guide

- Exchange of experiences: six study visits

- Organisation of ten seminars

- Training to use collaboration instruments

- Alert System dedicated to renewables

- Drawing up and publication of 85

collaboration articles by two experts

- Spread of results: three international

conferences, ten newsletters, website and wiki

http://www.rets-project.eu/


ASSOCIATION POUR LE DEVELOPPEMENT DES

ENTREPRISES ET DES COMPETENCES (ADEC)

Supported by the General Concil of Bas-Rhin and

based in the rural area of La Walck (Alsace of

Nord), ADEC is an association working in the

economic development field that has been labelled

Technopole (Retis network), specialised in ICT,

sustainable development and renewables.

ADEC is the RETS project coordinator and puts its ICT

competence at the disposal of the consortium.

Contact

Catherine Ledig / Alison Garnier-Rivers

Site Web : www.adec.fr

E-Mail : [email protected]

Téléphone : +33 3 69 20 29 10

INTERREG IVC

INTERREG IVC paves the way to cooperation on the

whole EU territory with no proximity restriction.

Its final objective is to improve the regional

development policies and instruments' effectiveness as

well as the exchange of practices.

The programme deals with two priority themes:

- Knowledge innovation and economy

- Environment and risk prevention

The typical instruments for the exchange of

experiences supported by INTERREG IVC are

networking activities such as thematic workshops,

conferences, studies and study visits. The project

partners cooperate in order to identify and transfer

good practices.

Who can present a project?

The programme principally heads to the communities

that manage public policies at local and regional

level. Under certain conditions, some para-public

bodies can also join INTERREG IVC projects.

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More details at:

http://www.ivc.eu/

The BUREAU ALSACE and the EUROPE ALSACE

NETWORK: A strong support

The mounting of the project

The Bureau Alsace has provided a precious help in

the setting up of the project partnership.

Thanks to its contact with the Western Midlands (UK)

in Brussels, ADEC has got in contact with the

Staffordshire University, an unavoidable partner of

RETS. The European cooperation is then enhanced.

The project life

The Reseau Europe Alsace benefits form regular

reports form the RETS project activity via its

participation of ADEC to its meetings.

http://www.adec.fr/

mailto:[email protected]

The consortium

SAFER is an important European Project: it comprises 54

partners form 16 different countries. They are all

specialised in the Earth observation and risk

management. The operational production of quick

cartography which is at the heart of the project is

principally provided by two operators, ZKI-DLR

(Zentrum für Satellitengestutzte Kriseninformation) and

SERTIT.

The budget

40 millions euros, whereby 27 millions euros from

European funding.


SERTIT is a service provided by the University of

Strasburg

SERTIT is a center for technological transfer that is

specialised in using satellite imaging to observe the

Earth. Thanks to its experience, based on a ISO 9001

certified organisation, it can operate with quick

deadlines. SERTIT puts the Space at the service of the

Earth via its constant comparison of the users' needs and

expectations with the growing potential offered by the

special technologies and its last research and remote

session results.

Emergency Response :

SERTIT – pillar of the SAFER project

THE PROJECT

Flooding in Pakistan and in Poland, fires in Greece,

earthquakes in Haiti, tsunami in Japan – major

disasters which make emergency teams in need of

reliable quick description of locations and local

situations. The SAFER service:

Services and Applications For the Emergency

Response, based on data provided by Earth

observation satellites, aims at reacting to this urgency.

It derives form the GMES programme (Global

Monitoring for

Environment and Security), that is the European

answer to the environmental challenges of the 21st

century.

The objectives

SAFER's main goal is to establish a single European

Centre to provide a very quick cartographic service

to support emergency managers: civil security and

NGOs. This project aims at qualifying and approving

an infrastructure of specialised services according to

the users' needs. The SAFER project represents the last

step (2009-2011) before the implementation (as from

2012) of a permanent European emergency response

service (Call for tenders of the Commission presently

under processing and analysis).

The implementation

Responding to a user request, the SAFER Project is

activated. The Earth satellites observation instruments

are activated. On its turn, SERTIT keeps 24/24 hours

a team of engineers in stand-by for emergency

duties. It is organised to produce in less than six hours

an impact map for the decision-makers to optimise the

response organisation.

Impact map

for the

earthquake

in Haiti

More details at: http://sertit.u-strasbg.fr

SAFER, a project funded by FP7

SAFER has been granted the funding of FP7, the main

EU instrument to fund R&D in Europe over the 2007-

2013 period.

This is a unique framework with chances to plan

actions over many years and disposes of 50 billions

euros for the whole period. The ordinary refunding

rate is of 50%. For some legal entities, this rate can

go up to 75%.

Who can apply?

The participation is largely covered: groups of

researchers, SMEs, associations, public bodies,

researches, students, etc. regardless the country

where they come from, with privileged conditions for

EU Member States.

The today's challenge

SERTIT's activity is undoubtedly widely spread. The

venues where it intervenes do witness this. Now SERTIT

must benefit from this. In view of the planned launch

of the European Centre for Urgency Response, the

Bureau Alsace is namely working on making SERTIT

and its activities be known so as to give the EU the

chance to benefit from the SERTIT’s know-how and

virtues in the rapid response crisis cartography.

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More details at:

http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7

/

Strong REGIONAL SUPPORT for SERTIT

SERTIT is presently recognised in Europe and

worldwide for its scientific and technical excellence

built on Europe's support. As a matter of fact, SERTIT

has been and is forefront partner in several European

projects, the regional Alsatian stakeholders are

persuaded that the recognition of this expertise

needs to go beyond Alsace's borders and intend to

facilitate its dissemination via focussed communication

actions.

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Where the SERTIT

operates :

A world spread

THE PROJECT

SAFE-T is a European project, which is supported in

the framework of the Joint Technology Initiative IMI

(Innovative Medicine Initiative) in the field of health.

The objectives

The projects aims at providing sustainable solutions to

the present problematic lack of sufficiently sensitive

and specific clinical trials and checking human renal,

hepatic and vascular lesions caused by drugs. This

lack of clinical trials is a real obstacle for drugs

development. As a consequence of that, some drugs,

promising candidates with preclinical toxicity signs of

unknown pertinence, cannot be comprised in any

clinical process as there is no available sensitive test

that allows detecting in due time the security signs of

the patient before lesions arise.

The implementation

New tests based on biomarkers will contribute to

check whether the drugs are sufficiently safe to be

used within a clinical trial phase. As a consequence of

that, the new safety biomarker will help identifying

and managing secondary effects of drugs while

reducing then also the risks related to the

development of drugs and improving their safety

management.

The consortium

The consortium consists of 20 members: FIRALIS SAS,

Almirall, Amgen, Argutus Medical Limited, AstraZeneca,

Barcelona Cardiovascular Research Center, Bayer

Schering Pharma, Boehringer Ingelheim, Charite

Hospital, EDI GmbH, Eli Lilly, GlaxoSmithKline, Groupe

Hospitalier Pitie Salpetriere, Hoffmann La Roche,

Interface Europe, NMI Natural and Medical Sciences

Institute at the University of Tuebingen, Novartis

Pharma, Pfizer, Sanofi-Aventis Research and

Development, Tel-Aviv (Souraski) Medical Center.

The budget

This project will have a budget of 36 millions euros over

5 years, whereby 11 millions are covered by the EU via

the JTI IMI.

SAFE-T

Predict potential toxicity of drugs candidate

More details at: www.imi-safe-t.eu

The Alsatian partner: FIRALIS SAS

FIRALIS SAS is an Alsatian SME created by Dr Husseyin

Firat in 2008 and based in Huningue. Its aim is to

discover and enhance biomarkers to improve the quality

of diagnosis for various diseases among which heart,

renal or hepatic diseases.

IMI – INNOVATIVE MEDECINE INITIATIVE

The Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) is one of the

five public-private partnerships between the

European Commission and the European industry.

In the framework of the IMI, the pharmaceutical

Industry (represented by the European Federation of

Pharmaceutical Associations and Industries- EFPIA]) is

the genuine partner of the European Commission. IMI

aims at supporting the process dealing with

bottlenecks in the framework of research and

development process so as to enhance

competitiveness of the European drug industry.

Who can apply?

The selection process in this programme is structured

in two steps. During the first step, the SME and

research centres' consortia (10-12 in average)

illustrate in about 10 pages how they intend to meet

the specifications of the call for projects. The IMI

independent experts select a preliminary proposal

per theme and, secondly, the first consortium is going

to merge with an industrial consortium in order to

prepare the final proposal.

In the framework of the first project proposals

(selected in 2009 and 2010) European SME have

been strongly represented.

ARI Alsace – a strong support

The “Mission Europe” of the ARI Alsace has been

created in March 2007 with the aim of enhancing the

participation of Alsatian enterprises (and namely

SME) to the European programmes for research and

innovation.

The preparatory phase

The first meeting between ARI Alsace and the founder

of the FIRALIS company took place in 2007. The

European vocation of the scientific project leading to

the creation of this enterprise has immediately been

evident. The ARI “Mission Europe” has identified

European programmes allowing this business'

development projects be funded. So, in 2008, the IMI

programme has been identified as forefront

opportunity.

The creation of a consortium has been very quick,

namely thanks to Dr Firat's strong knowledge of the

key academic and industrial stakeholders, founder of

the FIRALIS society.

The drawing phase

The application had to be drawn up very quickly. For

this reason, OSEO has granted a subsidy to Firalis

(Aid to the European Technological Partnership) so as

to ensure the support of a specialised consultant.

“Mission Europe” has identified several consultants

and has put them in contact with FIRALIS.

While drawing up the first and second selection

phase of the project, it has critically revised of the

various project's version. To conclude, it has put the

company in contact with other key stakeholders of the

Health field in Alsace (Alsace Biovalley, regional

incubator SEMIA) so as to help it to put in place the

necessary human and financial resources to such a big

and strong project.

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More details at:

http://imi.europa.eu

The consortium

Leader Partner: Véhicule du Futur

Partners: the German clusters Bayern Innovative and

Automotive BW, the Italian cluster From Concept to Car,

the Dutch cluster ARN, the Slovenian cluster GIZACS and

a Belgian partner, Interface Europe.

The budget

2.3 millions euros, funded by the EU.

The Alsatian Partner: POLE VEHICULE DU FUTUR

The Véhicule du Futur cluster is labelled Competitiveness

Cluster since 2005; it facilitates the synergy between

enterprises, schools and research in order to implement

R&D projects for innovation.

Its aim: to invent suitable solutions for vehicles and

mobility options of the future in a sustainable

development perspective for the sake of the territory.

Its activity is implemented over two complementary

dimensions: urban or peri-urban vehicle and mobile

organisation.

More details at :

www.vehiculedufutur.com

S_Life

European Synergies and Cooperation for Sustainable vehicle along the Life-Cycle

THE PROJECT

S_Life is a project for the promotion of vehicles

recycling at European level. It relies on

experimentation as well as innovation to facilitate car

pieces recycling.

The challenge

The out-of-service car windscreen may be recycled

but this requires a preventive dismantling process in

order to separate the glass and the glue that

constitute the triplex safety glass. This is what

happens for many car pieces and these operations

represent a cost that may jeopardize these materials'

enhancement.

The objectives

The innovation project principally aims at identifying

the key points of the vehicles dismantling procedure

(technologies, equipments, partnerships to be

created…).

The experimentation project aims at optimising the

vehicles' life cycle at four different levels: the vehicle

engineering and construction, its use, its dismantling

and enhancement.

The implementation

The S_Life project is active in the four following fields:

- Eco-conception and promotion of the “3R” in

the car sector (reduction, reutilisation,

recycling)

- Support to eco-design of new vehicles

- Development of new methods for a better

competitiveness at any level of the car value

chain

- Technology transfer

FP7 – Specific programme “Capacities”:

REGIONS OF KNOWLEDGE

The “Regions of Knowledge” initiative aims at

enhancing the European regions' research potential,

by especially encouraging and supporting the

development, throughout Europe of clusters which

associate universities, research centres, enterprises

and local authorities. The “Regions of Knowledge”

programme is part of the FP7 specific programme

“Capacities”. It disposes of a 126 millions euros

budget for the 2007-2013 period.

Various types of actions are funded:

- The analysis, development and

implementation of research activities and

programmes for the regional or cross-border

competitiveness clusters;

- The assistance and support of regions with a

less developed research profile;

- Initiatives to improve integration;

- Dissemination activities such as conferences,

workshops, publications or online initiatives.

Who can apply?

The main participants to this type of project are

clusters whose activities are focussed on innovations-

based economic development.

The European Commission's wording is “triple helix”.

The French competitiveness cluster is the archetype of

this type of cluster (“pôle de compétitivité”), that

gathers research bodies (public research centres,

universities,…), enterprises (big enterprises, SMEs)

and local or regional authorities.

THE BUREAU ALSACE and ARI Alsace – a strong

support

This innovative project has been possible thanks to the

joint effort of the Véhicule du Futur cluster, the Bureau

Alsace and the Regional Agency of Innovation Alsace

(ARI Alsace).

The Bureau Alsace and ARI Alsace have raised the

Pole Véhicule du Futur's awareness to the European

“Regions of Knowledge” programme.

A meeting with an officer of the European Commission

(DG Research) has been organised in the Bureau

Alsace offices in order to approve the eligibility of

the project concerning the programme.

The Bureau Alsace and ARI have supported the cluster

throughout the procedure, namely by linking the key

stakeholders in France, in Europe and in Brussels.

By doing so, a link has been created between the

Vehicule du Futur cluster and the National Contact

Point “Transport” (FP7) as well as with a European

specialised project management, which presently

assists the project.

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More details at:

http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/capacities/

regions-knowledge_en.html

THE PROJECT

STERILIS is a vertical ongoing sterilisation system for

food and drink industry.

It is a water and energy saving solution and its limited

basal surface makes it an economic and

environmental friendly solution.

The objectives

STERILIS is the first on-going system with counter-

pressure on the market. It is specifically conceived to

pasteurise and sterilise any type of products with soft

and fragile packaging, small quantities as well as

bigger volumes.

Its technology can enhance the system's productivity

and save water (33 %), steam (23 %) and energy

(15 %) compared to the traditional autoclaves, and

perfectly keeps the food taste and organoleptic

features as well as a total integrity of the most soft

and fragile packagings.

The implementation

Three key points of the project:

- A quicker thermic, productive and economic

treatment, more than any other existing

solution

- An optmized heating phase in the least detail

- A quick and economic cooling phase

The consortium

The project STERILIS has one single partner:

STERITECH, Alsatian SME in the Saverne area.

The budget

The total budget amounts to 1.6 millions euros. The

European contribution covers 50% of it. With the

obtained funding the first industrial installation with the

STERILIS technologies will be conceived and built. It also

will be tested on an industrial base.

STERILIS

Moderate consumption in sterilisation

More details at:

www.steritech.eu.com

The Alsatian partner: STERITECH

Since its creation in 1988, STERITECH® has been

working on smart solutions for the sterilisation and

pasteurisation of food and pharmaceutical products.

The systems proposed are of quality, space and energy

saving and environment friendly. Steritech unceasingly

innovates in order to keep up with the progress in the

packaging field.

Major stakeholders in the food and agriculture industry

trust Steritech, such as Kraft Foods, Campbell Soup, or

Stockmeyer.

In Saverne it employs 27 people.

SerialTower

The first ongoing

system with back-

pressure engineered to

pasteurise and sterilize

any type of product

with soft packaging

repression conçu pour

pasteuriser et stériliser

tous type de produit

sous emballage souple

The ECO-INNOVATION™ programme

With a budget of 195 millions euros for the 2008-

2013 period, the Eco-Innovation™ programme aims

at developing green technologies in order to protect

the environment while contributing to nurture

competitiveness and growth. The programme aims at

facilitating the first commercial application by

funding the first really industrial project.

Who can apply?

First of all the SMEs but also any legal person of one

of the 27 EU Member States or associated countries

that have signed an agreement (i.e.: Israel, Turkey).


The projects that are related to the first commercial

application of ecologically innovating products,

processes or practice in the recycling of building,

food and agriculture, water and green economy

development products. The programme can fund up

to 50% of the project.

When are the projects to be presented?

The project call for tender is published every year,

normally in April and the deadline for presenting

your proposals is normally beginning of September.

ARI ALSACE – partner of STERITECH








Thanks to its “Mission Europe”, ARI Alsace supports

local enterprises and helps them integrating Europe in

their development strategy.

ARI Alsace proposes a customized approach to

enterprises in order to:

- identify the most suitable European funding

for their innovating project, identify European

partners: entreprises, public partners,

laboratories, to carry out the project,

- help to prepare the dossier namely to

explain the procedures and support the

mediation with the French and European

authorities.

A support at any step

It's in the framework of one of the initial meetings with

the STERITECH company that the STERILIS project has

been recalled. The development stage of the project

and need for the enterprise to be supported in order

to spread the STERILIS technology in the food and

agriculture industry was perfectly pertinent with the

CIP's Eco-Innovation programme. In few weeks, the

application has been set up with the ARI's support,

which has put STERITECH in contact with EACI and

organised with the project team a writing workshop

and reads and critically revises the application.

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More details at:

http://ec.europa.eu/environment/

eco-innovation/

THE PROJECT

The quality of the driving education is important at

two levels. Of course, you can easily think to road

safety but also more and more to the “green driving”.

The objectives

The TRACECARD project aims at developing an

embedded equipment to directly follow up the

behaviour of a person while learning to drive.

Therefore, driving schools can be proposed to go

beyond the traditional teaching approach so as to

comprise all the ITC inputs: software, embedded

cameras and sensors that can record various driving

situations.

The implementation

In order to develop such a system and to test its

effectiveness, the following phases have been carried

out:

- To analyse how the driving lessons are

presently given in France and Norway and to

identify the functions to be developed in

order to enhance their effectiveness.

- To develop an embedded system that

integrates electronics, specific software and

sensors such as, for example vision follow up.

- To ingrate them in the vehicle without

disturbing the existing embedded electronics.

The consortium

The TRACECARD project comprises seven partners:

For Norway: Driving Performance Solutions for the

commercialisation of the developed systems, Traffic

Pedagogic System, Trainer of driving teachers, and

SINTEF, the biggest national research centre.

For France: AEMO Automation (automatisms and

industrial informatics), University of Haute Alsace,

MOVeCOACH Technologies, and Process Alliance

(coordinator of the project)

The budget

The total budget for the projects amounts to 1798 200

euros. The Alsatian enterprises are funded by 40% of

their additional costs and the public laboratories are

covered by 100% of their additional costs.

TRACECARD

Straight forward driving

More details at: www.movecoach.fr

The Alsatian Partner: MOVeCOACH

MOVeCOACH Technologies is an enterprise with a

French-Norwegian capital. Its two missions are:

- to commercialise and distribute specific material

and software for driving education

- to deliver services related to the sale,

installation, maintenance, development of

materials as well as the users' formation.

Eye Tracking

This helmet is associated

to an oculometry

software and visualises

the follow up of the

look's direction in the

driver visual field.

EUREKA-EUROSTARS™

The EUREKA-Eurostars programme's vocation is to

support high-tech SME with a strong growth potential

with projects including European partners.

The selected projects are funded by the European

Commission and by the States where the partners are

based.

Who can apply?

Any SME following the EU definition (maximum 250

employees) that invests at least 10% of its

expenditure to R&D or that employs at least 10% of

its personnel in R&D.

The presenting enterprise must be able to cover at

least 50% of the total cost of the project. There is no

imposed theme to be developed.

Quels sont les projets concernés ?

Minimum duration: 36 months, minimum involvement of

two different entities of two (of the 33) Eurostars™

and come to a final product, procedure or service

that can be commercialised in the two following years

(except for biotechnologies).

When can a project to be presented?

The call for projects is constantly open with two

deadlines per year.

ARI ALSACE -partner of MOVeCOACH

The Regional Agency for Innovation in Alsace (ARI

Alsace) is the public expert for innovation in Alsace,

starting point and partner of enterprises for their

innovation projects. Its mission consists in helping

enterprises to structure their projects, to orient and

facilitate their access to available public, regional,

national and European tools and aids.

Thanks to its “Mission Europe”, the ARI Alsace supports

local enterprises to help them to get integrated in

Europe while nurturing their development strategy.

Support at any key step of the project

The project rises from a meeting organised by the

CEEI (Centre Europeen d’Entreprises et d’Innovation) in

May 2007 between Bernard Groelly, project initiator

in Alsace and the “Mission Europe” of ARI Alsace. The

basic idea of the project has since then been

developed and the partnerships' needs better

precised.

Bernard Groelly, today director of the MOVeCOACH

Technologies company, has then analysed the role of

“Mission Europe” of ARI Alsace: “First of all we have

asked to ARI Alsace to approve our project. Then,

since we are not legal experts, ARI Alsace has

considerably helped us to draw the consortium

agreement. Eventually, they were constantly in contact

with the programme's decision makers in Paris as well

as in Brussels, so as to ensure a fruitful dialogue”.

In the framework of this project, the consortium

agreements are very important: they must be

available in order to prepare good working

conditions of the intellectual property deriving from

the project.

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More details at:

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llustrations

Graph 1 Features of the gross domestic expenditure on Research and development (GERD) in Alsace (2008)

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Graph 2 R&D in Alsace 7 Graph 3 The three « convergences » of Alsatian Regional Innovation Strategy 14 Graph 4 The European programmes to support research and innovation 15 Graph 5 Alsatian enterprises per theme 16 Graph 6 Project per type of programme 17 Graph 7 Project per theme 17

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focus on a young pousse - CRITT RITMO : _MG_9609.jpg : © BADIAS / Alsace Region - Laborantine in front a spectromètre de fluorescence X, CRITT

Materias Alsace : _H2R2488 (1).tif : © BADIAS / Alsace Region - Capsule : IMG_4747.jpg : © BADIAS / Alsace Region - Dosage par colorimétrie

IMG_6365.jpg : © BADIAS / Alsace Region - Eprouvettes - Biopôle, Colmar (68) : IMG_7136.jpg : © BADIAS / Alsace Region - Eprouvette during a

laboratory experiment - Biopôle, Colmar (68) : IMG_7120.jpg © BADIAS / Alsace Region - Pousse de vigne dans une éprouvette - Biopôle, Colmar (68) :

IMG_7114.jpg © BADIAS / Alsace Region - Jeunes pousses de vigne dans une éprouvette - Biopôle, Colmar (68) : IMG_7100.jpg © BADIAS / Région

Alsace - Expérience dans un laboratoire - Biopôle, Colmar (68) : IMG_7089.jpg :© BADIAS / Alsace Region e - Expérience dans un laboratoire - Biopôle,

Colmar (68) : IMG_7035.jpg :© BADIAS / Alsace Region - Laboratoire de biologie moléculaire et cellulaire de l'entreprise Faust, Illkirch (67) : FMFaust -

045.jpg : © MAIGROT / Alsace Region - Entreprise Faust, Illkirch (67) : FMFaust - 008.jpg © MAIGROT / Alsace Region Building seen from outside CRITT

AERIAL, Illkirch (67) : _PAR0061.jpg ; © PARENT / Alsace Region -Check after centrifugation, Illkirch (67) : FMIGBMC - 018.jpg © MAIGROT / Alsace

Region - The Andlau village (67) : -1349731885.jpg © NAEGELEN / Alsace Region - Micromanipulation, injection of DNA in a labortory Transgène : -

1349779728.jpg © LACOUMETTE / Alsace Region - Château du Haut-Koenigsbourg (67) : CLT50_00052D.jpg - © NOTOCAMPANELLA - Vignobles :

AGR40_00049D.jpg ; © DUMOULIN / Alsace Region - Holo 3, Virtual reality platform – Photo credit Aérial – Photo credit CNRS. Photo credit Ircad.

The Bureau Alsace is the representation tool at the European institutions for the

public communities and Alsatian consular bodies. This Office has been set up in Brussels since 1990 and gathers the Alsace Region, the

Lower-Rhine and Upper-Rhine General Councils, the Urban Community of Strasbourg, the

Joint Community of Mulhouse-South Alsace, City of Colmar, the Regional Chamber of

Commerce and Industry of Alsace, the Alsace Chamber of Craft, the Regional Chamber for

Agriculture of Alsace.

The Bureau Alsace has been the first French regional representation office in Brussels. It is

original for two reasons: it is linked to the Association for the Promotion of Alsace (APA),

namely a network of contacts and skills gathering the Alsatians of Belgium and it also

entails the territorial and local communities as well as the Alsatian consular bodies.

Bureau Alsace

19 A-D, Avenue des Arts

B-1000 Bruxelles

Tel : + 32 2 221 04 30

Fax : + 32 2 217 66 12

[email protected]


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