• “Digital Skills for Factories of the Future”. The grant agreement for this ambitious European “Knowledge Alliance” project awards funding of one million euros to the entire consortium, made up of 15 higher education institutions and companies.
• France–Brazil cooperation: a major STIC AmSud research programme is approved with PUC Rio, and new BRAFITEC projects are launched.
“Digital Skills for Factories of the Future (DigiFoF)”
This highly prestigious ERASMUS+/Knowledge Alliance project (*) awards a grant of one million euros to the entire consortium and €119k for our School. This funding will make it possible to develop joint initiatives between these European institutions over three years, together with 15 European organisations (universities and companies, including Clextral in Firminy).
The University of Sibiu in Romania is coordinating the project, and Xavier Boucher, a lecturer-researcher at the Fayol Institute, is leading the project for Mines Saint-Étienne, named DigiFoF (Digital Skills for Factories of the Future).
The launch will take place in January 2019. One of the first key directions is to commit to training industrial stakeholders as part of the Factory of the Future.
(*) Knowledge Alliances are transnational, results-oriented projects between higher education institutions and businesses.
A comprehensive partnership with PUC Rio
Vincent Augusto has just secured highly selective STIC AmSud funding for research collaborations carried out with PUC Rio, the School’s strategic partner in Brazil.
Thanks to this new success, the Mines Saint-Étienne/PUC Rio partnership is now comprehensive, with research projects, student exchanges, a double degree led for all IMT schools, and a Brafitec project recently renewed to fund mobility.
Learn more: The STIC AmSud programme aims to strengthen collaboration and the creation of research & development networks in the field of Information and Communication Sciences and Technologies through joint projects.
Brazil–France cooperation
The BRAFITEC project led by the School for IMT is renewed for two years from January 2019, with three Brazilian partners: the universities Unesp (São Paulo), PUC Rio and UFRGS. It covers student exchanges (incoming and outgoing academic mobility) and double-degree agreements.
Contact: Ana Cameirao, Head of the Processes for the Environment and Geo-resources Department, SPIN Centre
Two new Brafitec projects (BRAsil France Ingénieurs TEChnologie, a bilateral programme for engineering education between France and Brazil) have just been approved:
• The first concerns all IMT schools (led by Mines d’Alès) with Brazilian partners UFC, UFES, UFMG, across all engineering fields.
• • The second is called BRAFISAT, for BRAzil–France cooperation in training engineers in the fields of micro- and nano-SATellite exploration:
“It aims to establish a new network of French and Brazilian universities that explore and develop themes related to the design, manufacture and qualification of nano-satellites.”
Mines Saint-Étienne is one of the partners in this project, which brings together French higher education institutions: Grenoble Institute of Technology (PHELMA, project lead), the universities of Grenoble Alpes (Polytech Grenoble), Montpellier (Polytech), and Bordeaux Institute of Technology.
and Brazilian institutions: Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM), Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica (IT) and Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC).
School contact: Jean-Max Dutertre, Head of the Secure Systems and Architectures Department, CMP.
