The campus’s former staff restaurant in Provence will be transformed into a training and research platform for the microelectronics sector. It is scheduled to open in 2026.
No meals had been served to staff members and students since it closed in 2019.
The former collective catering building on the Aix-Marseille-Provence Campus will be brought back to life as a space dedicated to training, research, and the transfer of skills to companies, following major renovation works. Its code name: the SPOT project (Students & Partners Open Transfer).
The aim of this ambitious project is to integrate this prototyping building at the heart of a dynamic ecosystem that already brings together the main services needed by people working in the field of connected objects (the Centre of Microelectronics in Provence, laboratories, a cleanroom, an R&D partnership space, and a start-up incubator).
1,135 m2: this is the total floor area of the future SPOT technology platform
To meet new needs and find its rightful place within the campus, the building will house four distinct areas, securely accessible over a wide range of hours:
- Shared and reception areas: this area will host all shared resources designed to encourage exchanges, meetings, collaborative work, and a welcoming atmosphere.
- The IoT Center & Business Zone: this part of the building will form the core of the technical set-up/technology transfer. It will sit at the junction of all flows between companies and the world of research.
- The innovative teaching and learning area: this area will bring together students and learners from continuing education in an “innovative teaching” format.
- Technical facilities
The building reconfiguration works will begin in January 2025. They will generate measurable energy and thermal gains, the data from which may be used as a subject of study by teachers and students who wish to do so.
The estimated budget allocated to the works by the contracting authority is set at €1,800,000 (excl. VAT).
Delivery and commissioning should take place, barring unforeseen circumstances, in January 2026.
