Mines Saint-Étienne’s scientific infrastructures form a coherent set of resources, expertise, and environments, enabling them to produce evidence, accelerate innovation, and train through research. They support fundamental and applied research, experimentation, modeling, validation, as well as collaboration with academic, hospital, and industrial partners.
This page provides an overview of the three families of infrastructures: technological platforms, instrument platforms, and digital platforms.
Infrastructure for Research
A scientific infrastructure serves a central objective: to enable rigorous, reproducible, and useful research, by providing access to resources that allow for:
- Experimentation (testing, measuring, comparing);
- Characterization (microstructures, surfaces, physical chemistry, properties);
- Simulation and modeling (scenarios, optimization, decision support);
- Prototyping and validation (demonstrators, tests, proofs of concept);
- Transfer (advancing technological maturity, partnerships).
These resources are designed to serve both:
- research teams,
- students (projects, internships, PhDs),
- partners (collaborations, R&D, innovation).
Three Families of Platforms
Core Facilities
Environments dedicated to prototyping, testing, validation, and transfer. They enable design, manufacturing, instrumentation, testing, and demonstration.
Characterisation Core Facilities
Resources for measurement and characterization to produce reliable data: microstructures, physicochemical analyses, spectrometries, thermal micro-analysis.
Digital Core Facilities
Environments for computation, modeling, simulation, and AI, serving the analysis of complex systems and decision support (including devices dedicated to health).