Institutes of Convergence Science (IC)

The Institutes of Convergence Science (IC) or Convergence Labs are part of the French "Investissements d'Avenir" program (wave 1) and act as pioneering projetcts for linking research and training in an interdisciplinary approach. The Institutes of Convergence Science aim to structure multidisciplinary scientific sites to respond to major issues at the crossroads of societal and economic challenges.

Aix-Marseille University is the winner of 2 Institutes of Convergence Science in 2016, CenTuri and ILCB. They are respectively endowed with 21M€ and 8.8M€ co-financed by the Programme d'investissements d'Avenir and the A*Midex foundation,
for a period of 10 years.

Capitalizing on the experience of the INFORM Laboratory of Excellence, the CenTuri project (Turing Center for Living Systems) - coordinated by Professor Thomas Lecuit - was selected by the ANR and became an Institute of Convergence Science in 2017.
CenTuri aims to structure innovative interdisciplinary research on the dynamics of living systems, bringing together the study of development, neuroscience and immunity. CenTuri brings together 48 research groups on AMU's Luminy campus, in biology, physics, computer science and mathematics, as well as numerous platforms. Training is also at the heart of the Institute's program, which has set up a CenTuri Graduate School (Master's, PhD and post-doc programs, summer school).

Alongside Aix-Marseille University, the consortium's partner institutions are the CNRS, Inserm and Ecole Centrale Marseille (ECM).

CenTuri has obtained the label "AMU interdisciplinary institute" in 2021.

Aix-Marseille University (AMU) follows CNIL guidelines

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Coordinated by Dr. Johannes Ziegler, this project aims to bring together the different actors of Aix-Marseille in the field of the study of the brain bases of language, in order to understand the processing of language, its neural bases and to draw applications in health, education and communication through 10 research units and 6 experimental platforms.

Alongside Aix-Marseille University, the consortium's partner institutions are the CNRS, Inserm and the University of Avignon and the Pays du Vaucluse.

ILCB has obtained the label "AMU Interdisciplinary institute" in 2022.

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Useful links

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Contact information
  • Contact at the A*Midex Foundation :
    Chloé Simon
    Deputy Director of A*Midex, in charge of
    France 2030 projects
    E-mail: [first name].[last name] @univ-amu.fr

  • Contacts within the Institutes of Convergence:
    CENTURI: Contact the team via their website.
    ILCB: Contact the team via their website.

Keywords
Interdisciplinarity
Training
Research
Neuroscience
Living systems
Linguistics