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IEMN : visible and attractive internationally
26/04/2010
With a workforce of 500, of which 250 are permanent, with 17 years’ experience and highly impressive technical facilities, the IEMN (Institute of Electronics, Microelectronics and Nanotechnology) was well placed to develop into one of the major laboratories in Europe. Its secret? It understood in very good time that in order to improve its position, it had to have a critical mass of researchers and the heavy and costly equipment for this sector of activities. Nowadays, this institute is involved in developing three major categories of scientific activity: basic research (30%), mediumterm applied research in partnership with large industrial groups and the SMEs/SMIs (50%) and in responding to specific industrial problems (20%). This applied research activity is known under the national label "Carnot Institute".
Main objective: International relations
IEMN maintains strong scientific relations at international level. At present the institute is involved in 15 European projects within consortia incorporating the major industrial groups (Bosch, EADS Germany...) and research laboratories. IEMN also has research contracts with industrialists much further afield, such as the Japanese, who came to acquire skills in Europe. At the same time, the institute is developing research programmes at the International Associated Laboratories (LIA), which were specially created for the occasion with Japan, Belgium or Russia, for example. It is pursuing its efforts so that other LIAs can be created with Asia and the United States, with which strong co-operation is already in place.
To encourage the involvement of the IEMN in large-scale international research projects, the institute appointed a Director of International Relations, Mr. Dimitris Pavlidis. One of his major tasks is to establish partnerships with academic laboratories and international industrialists. "Nowadays, for an institute like ours, the taking on of students, doctorands, researchers or lecturers involved in training and research must be done at international level”, Mr. Alain Cappy, Director of the IEMN explained. “In order for it to be successful at international level, the institute must have a network of contacts throughout the world, so that it can attract the best. The job of acting as the interface is what Mr. Pavlidis is doing”.
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