The “Industrie du Futur Sud” Campus for Trades and Qualifications was awarded the “Campus of Excellence” label on February 6, 2020 by the French Ministry of National Education and Youth. Alongside the Aeronautics and Energy sectors, this Campus incorporates the Microelectronics sector, whose flagship site will be the Georges Charpak Provence campus of Mines Saint-Étienne in Gardanne. It benefits from funding under the PIA “Territoire d’innovation Pédagogique” program.
A Campus for Trades and Qualifications is a network that brings together the stakeholders in a future-oriented economic sector. By offering initial and continuing education programs from Bac-3 to Bac+8 in a cutting-edge sector, the Campus contributes to the growth of excellence sectors and improves employability. In this way, it strongly addresses the socioeconomic needs of the region where it is located. Campuses for Trades and Qualifications whose sector involves a particularly strategic national challenge are awarded the Campus of Excellence label. Research and innovation play an essential role there.
The Campus for Trades and Qualifications “Industrie du Futur Sud” is the evolution of a previous Campus dedicated to the Aeronautics and Energy sectors, located at the Henri-Fabre TechnoCentre in Marignane, into which the Microelectronics sector has been integrated, with the main stakeholders—alongside the Aix-Marseille education authority—being Industrie Méditerranée (UIMM), STMicroelectronics, Mines Saint-Étienne, and Aix-Marseille University.
“The epicenter of the initiative dedicated to the microelectronics and electronics sector will be located in Gardanne, close to companies in the microelectronics sector and educational institutions”: it will be based on the Fourcade high school and the Georges Charpak-Provence Campus of Mines Saint-Étienne and its future IoT Center, a showcase for microelectronics, electronics, and their applications.
The partners in our microelectronics excellence sector are: Aix-Marseille Academy, Mines Saint-Étienne with the Georges Charpak Provence Campus, Aix-Marseille University (AMU), Industries Méditerranée with the Pôle Formation Sud of the UIMM, STMicroelectronics, with support from the Région Sud Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur.
Marie Lefèvre explains the nature of her research work to Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer Ms Christine Baze, President of Industries Méditerranée; Claude Garnier, DRAFPIC of the education authority; P. Lalevée; Yan Pataki; ST Rousset HR Director; and Romain Laffont, AMU Vice-President
The Campus aims to build training pathways around the technological building blocks of the Industry of the Future: additive manufacturing, collaborative robots, drones, advanced simulation, augmented reality, the Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence, etc.
As part of the “Territory of Pedagogical Innovation” PIA (Investment for the Future Program), funding has been secured to develop actions designed to meet the skills requirements of the Sud Region, for example, for our microelectronics and electronics sector:
• developing new initial and continuing education programs from high school to PhD level in “sciences of manufacturing“;
• set up training related to the manufacture of connected objects and microcontrollers, using equipment and spaces fitted out in the clean room of the GCP Campus of Mines Saint-Étienne;
• digitization of a training offer for the entire microelectronics sector: “from silicon to services”, including the creation of a “digital twin”,
This label is a strong recognition of the region’s excellence pathways, academic stakeholders, and the socioeconomic world, in which Mines Saint-Étienne plays a leading role.
It was officially announced on February 6, 2020 in the presence of Muriel Pénicaud, Minister of Labour; Jean-Michel Blanquer, Minister of National Education and Youth; Frédérique Vidal, Minister of Higher Education, Research and Innovation; and Agnès Pannier-Runacher, Secretary of State to the Minister of the Economy and Finance.
Learn more about “The first 23 winners of the calls for projects for Campuses for trades and qualifications of excellence”. (ceremony “Campus of Excellence & PIA 3”)
All the stakeholders who worked on these projects were present to testify to the central role of Campuses of Excellence in young people’s success and the economic development of regions, including Philippe Lalevée and Marie Lefèvre, a PhD student at CMP.
Contact: Philippe Lalevée, Director of the Georges Charpak Provence Campus