Industrial Chairs

Purpose of the industrial chairs :

The creation of these bilateral partnerships aims to:

• Transform relations between the academic and socio-economic research sectors by sharing a common, multi-year research and innovation strategy.
• Strengthen the potential for innovative research in priority areas on the Aix-Marseille site, particularly within the future research-training institutes.
• Provide public and private partners with access to new skills and knowledge
• Diversify and optimize funding, in particular by soliciting new sources of funding on a national (FUI, ANRT, Foundations...) or European (EIC) scale.

Format:

• This program aims to support 2 industrial chairs per year for a non-renewable period of 3 to 5 years.

Eligibility :

To be eligible, partnerships must be structured around :

• one or more research units on the Aix-Marseille site
• a company, SME, ETI or large corporation.

The partner company must be a commercial enterprise with the capacity to complete R&D activities, in order to lend credibility to the innovation process. In addition, the company must be present on the Aix-Marseille site, whether through its commercial or production activities, or through its cooperation with the region's economic sectors.

Spin-offs from local research establishments are not eligible.

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