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Research
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Corporate World
The Label CARNOT
Careers’ Round Tables
awarded to the
in 2006-2007
Centrale-Supélec C3S
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Ecole Centrale Paris creates
an Excellence Centre for
Consortium
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Information architecture, the
Events
Academic
Programmes
Creation of innovative
product (CPI), a joint
programme between ECP
New legislation in work
and ESSEC: 6 projects
placements
awarded in 2007
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Focus
Ecole Centrale Paris
International Scope
Towards a strong
ECP & India Partnership
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CEISA
creates an Excellence
Information Science is mainly focused on
development and deployment of individual
applications. It produces little information about
how to manage a collection of applications
which must coexist and evolve together to
satisfy a company's requirements, while most
complex problems to be solved by Enterprise
Information Systems are related to the
multiplicity of heterogeneous applications.
Centre for Information
architecture, the CEISA
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Architecture definition, its implementation and
its evolution follow rules and practices which
are common to any Organisation. But a strong
Research and Training Centre does not exist in
this field.
Read more in “FOCUS”
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The Label CARNOT awarded to the Centrale-Supélec C3S*
Consortium
Besides the law on the research, a label Carnot has been set up
"to increase the accessibility of technological research for
companies". This plan, running for the second year and managed
by the ANR, is endowed with 60 M euros for 2007.
Acting just like German Fraunhofer, the Carnot labellisation
enables the active organisations in joint research to annually
receive a contribution, according to their contractual turnover. This
contribution particularly allows to recharge the research teams
involved in the joint activities by giving them the means of works,
on average and long term, renewing their offer, and to improve the
quality of provision to the companies.
Ecole Centrale Paris and Supélec - gathered in one C3S Scientific Interest Group, with the CNRS (National Centre for
Scientific Research) - have answered to the 2006 invitation to
tender, by proposing a common project in the field of Science of
the Systems, and leaning on a representative technological base
of the activities in Information, Communication, Energy and
Processes.
Group of the
Ecoles Centrales
Research
Symposium
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The edition 2007 will take
place at Centrale
Marseille (IMT, ChâteauGombert - Marseille) from
the 29th of May to the 1st
of June, 2007.
Organisation, admission
and programme are
available on the
symposium website (in
french).
More on:
criec2007.ec-marseille.fr
Corporate
brochures for the
Research Direction
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The C3S Consortium has just officially received the labellisation
Carnot. This new Carnot Institute represents a research potential
of more than 270 researchers and professors researchers, and
370 PhD students. Its joint activity results in more than 300
contracts signed with 80 companies for a turnover close to
7 M euros. This Institute provides by more than 800 publications
and communications a year.
This success is a real acknowledgement of the work made within
the teams and the laboratories, either about research led in
partnership with companies or about upstream research. It
completely joins in the participation of both institutions to the
RTRA Digitéo and the Pole of Competitiveness SYSTEM@TIC, so
completing their common plan of research and increasing the
prestige in the field of Science of the Systems.
Our great thanks to all those who, at Ecole Centrale Paris and
Supélec, have imagined and built a solution to this invitation to
tender, and have constituted an already real operational team for
piloting and managing what is from now on the C3S Carnot
Institute.
*C3S = Centrale-Supélec Science of the Systems
Contacts:
Jean-Hubert Schmitt (Dean of Research, Ecole Centrale Paris)
[email protected]
Yves Tanguy (Dean of Research and of international relations,
Supélec) - [email protected]
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The Research Direction
has released two
corporate brochures :
- The Research Centre
(with Research areas,
Research Centre,
Research departments,
Publications, Research
Master, Doctoral Studies,
etc.);
- The Research Master
(english version available
in June 2007).
You can download it on
our website.
More on:
www.ecp.fr
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New legislation in work placements
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The article 9 of the law for “Equal opportunities” (06/03/31),
stipulates that the students' work placements must be organized
within the framework of a tripartite agreement, and must be payed
a bonus when they last more than 3 months.
The work placements can have a variable duration, but if they are
not integrated into an educational programme, they can’t exceed
6 months.
The following article determines the ceiling of bonus.
The decree 2006-757 of 06/06/29 clarifies that if the amount of
the bonus exceeds 12,5 % of the Social Security hourly ceiling by
the work placement number of hours done during the month, it
becomes a payment.
The work placement charter - 06/04/24 - is the text that
supervises and asserts the educational nature of the work
placement which thus cannot be likened to an employment. It
structures the work placement around three sequences built in
common by the institution, the host company and the student: the
definition of an integrated mission into the educational project, the
conditions of its practise in the professionnal environment and the
evaluation modalities of this experience, according to the double
professional and educational appreciation.
From which three guarantees: a compulsory frame by a supervisor
and a member of the company, an agreement accepting the three
partners' responsibility, and the setting up of evaluation and
follow-up.
The work placement Office, in cooperation with our legal
department, has thus elaborated a new model of written work
placement agreement, which notably specifies the
supervisors'names.
The Mastères Spécialisés* shows
Contact:
In order to recruit in Mastères Spécialisés degree, the Ecole Centrale
Paris organizes several events not only for the future students but
also to introduce its trainings to the companies.
Marc Théry
MS development director
[email protected]
These events take place:
* Mastère Spécialisé is a
specialized, postgraduate
training programme.
• In Paris:
Salon du 3ème cycle de GO-Le Monde, Palais Brongniart
Salon des 3èmes cycles Studyrama, Espace Champerret
Forum des Arts et Métiers, Parc Floral in Vincennes
• In other French cities:
Forum Atlantique, Nantes
Forum Entreprises et Avenir, Lille
Forum Rhône-Alpes, Lyon
Round Tables have already been organized at la Maison des
Centraliens, in Paris, where students and companies were able to
appreciate the quatlity of the Mastères Spécialisés offer.
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Towards a strong ECP & India Partnership
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It was a crucial visit of H.Biausser, Director of ECole Centrale
Paris, S. Ducruix and P. Becker, from February 10 to 23, at the
occasion of the Edufrance “France - India” event in Delhi and
Chennai. Among the 120 present Institutions, ECP appeared
as a privileged potential partner, owing to the strong
specificities of ots international programme. The multiple
contacts we had revealed the cultural diversities and richness
of this great nation. IITs and IISc, highly similar to our highest
“Grandes Ecoles d'ingenieurs” are definitely our priority.
Taking advantage of strong existing cooperations through
P. Becker and S. Ducruix, it has been possible, during intense
visits at IIT Kanpur and IISc Bangalore, to sign first exchange
agreements concerning students or professors. Following a
precise contact of P.Becker, we have also signed a similar
agreement with IIITM Gwalior, and another project is under
finalisation with IIT Madras.
Creation of Carnot Institute allows us for a common strategy
with Supélec, that opens a very wide range of disciplines to
offer for partnership. Starting this summer, we will host at least
six high level Indian students for 10 weeks internships, and
7 of our students should also go (5 in IITK , IITM and IIITM
Gwalior) and two for their final six month internship, in
cooperation with Capgemini / Kanbay. This should be the seed
for an intense partnership, with future exchange of faculty,
post docs and co-sponsored PhDs. H. Biausser is very
enthusiastic about this visit and the many opportunities that
appear.
Following our participation in 2006 at the first IIT-EU alumni in
Hannover, and the contribution of P. Becker to the 5000
participants Pan IIT Mumbai at Xmas, we will host the second
IIT EU Colloquium on next May 11 and 12, concerning
R&D interface challenges. This is a major event where many
European and Indian Companies, Academic Institutions,
Students will participate. About 80 Indian students will stay on
campus. A specific announcement will follow very soon.
Contacts:
[email protected]
[email protected]
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■ Eiffel scholarships
The French Ministery of
Foreign Affairs tries to
attract the world's elite
students and offers
every year “Eiffel
scholarships“ for the
best students recruited
by the french
engineering schools
(153 two years
scholarships have been
given this year, for 532
candidates).
Through the double
degree programme
Ecole Centrale Paris
recruits the best
students of prestigious
universities of many
countries.
These high potential
students are put in
competition for Eiffel
scholarships and Ecole
Centrale Paris obtained,
this year again, excellent
results (24 scholarships
for 35 double degree
candidates, 1st ranking
for this number), in spite
of an increasing
competition with other
engineering schools
(53 schools have got
one scholarship at least).
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Careers’ Round Tables in 2006-2007
6 careers’ Round Tables in 2006-2007 for the second year students to
help them in their area of concentration and professional track
choices.
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• CONSULTING AND AUDIT: ATOS CONSULTING - BOOZ ALLEN CAPGEMINI CONSULTING - HEMERIA - IBM GLOBAL SERVICES IDRH - MAZARS
• PRODUCTION: ALCAN - AREVA - L'OREAL - LOUIS VUITTON SHELL
• FINANCE AND INSURANCE: GOLDMAN SACHS - SOCIETE
GENERALE
• BIG PROJECTS, AND CIVIL ENGINEERING: ETDE (BOUYGUES) EUROVIA (VINCI) - SAIPEM - SETEC - UNIBAIL
• AERONAUTICS - VEHICLES: EADS - PSA PEUGEOT CITROEN SAFRAN
• R & D IN COMPANY: ALSTOM TRANSPORT - DASSAULT
SYSTEMES - ERAMET - VALLOUREC
Contact: To participate to careers’ Round Tables in
2007-2008: [email protected]
Ecole Centrale Paris' Incubator:
Facilitating the set up of new start ups
In the heart of the entrepreneurial ecosystem developed in Ecole
Centrale Paris, the incubator welcomes many projects of start-ups
since 2001. The incubator increases the speed of start-ups creation
wether it is the completion of Filière Centrale Entrepreneurs students'
projects or of school laboratories' innovations. So far, ten companies
were hosted in the incubator. Most of them, such as ANEVIA,
CRYOLOG, MAKING PROD, NASKEO or VOLUNTIS, have already
achieved important successes. Others, younger companies, such as
AMOES or CERAM HYD, possess a promising future.
To awake and tutorate entrepreneurial behaviours among students
and to facilitate the opportunities of technology transfer are the two
main goals of Ecole Centrale Paris' incubator. It is open to all Centrale
students, Centrale workforce and to any exterior entrepreneurs whose
projects have a strong connection with one of the school's
laboratories. Very young projects can be hosted and technological
projects of any kind have been developed.
The incubator offers to creators a managerial tutoring, a privileged
access to research labs as well as to a large network of expertise,
including the Centrale community and to offices and equipments, for
a 24 months period. This excellence programme is very useful for
those carrying projects and is ambitioned to be significantly
developed by Ecole Centrale Paris in future years.
Contact: [email protected]
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■ The 17th companies
partnership's day: June
14th 2007
This event is reserved for the 80
companies partners of the final
year areas of concentration and
professional tracks and the TIME
PLUS Club :
Partnership committees of the
final year areas of concentration
and annual meeting of the TIME
PLUS Club.
On that day, everyone in its
committee has the opportunity to
evaluate the collaboration during
the year and to prepare actions
for the coming year.
Contact: [email protected]
■ Centrale Forum
Entreprises 2007
It will take place November
27 - 28 on the campus.
Contact: [email protected]
■ Forward your offers of
training courses and jobs
YOUR TRAINING COURSES
OFFERS
Operator training:
At least 6 weeks at the end of the
1st year
(from 2007/06/18 to 2007/09/07)
Internship Abroad:
At least 6 weeks at the end of the
2nd year
(from 2007/06/18 to 2007/08/31)
Final internship:
6 months at the end of the
3rd year
(from 2007/04/23 to 2007/11/16)
Contact:
The Office of the Training in
Companies:
[email protected]
YOUR JOB OFFERS
Contact:
Association des Centraliens,
Service Carrières & Emploi
[email protected]
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Creation of innovative product (CPI), a joint programme
between Ecole Centrale Paris and ESSEC: 6 projects
awarded in 2007
Students will be proposed by 12 selected project-companies to
work on the creation of a product, from its design to its
prototyping up to its marketing plan. Each project will be
managed by a coeducational team made of 5 ESSEC / ECP
students, in coordination with its project-company, from
November to June 2007.
A marketing coach from ESSEC, a technical coach from ECP and
a project leader within the company follow-up the project with the
students. The ECP Research Center Technical Platform (CREATE)
proposes a technical support for the realization of the prototypes
and the models. Privileged meetings as conferences, visits and
coaching with the partner-companies Capgemini Consulting &
Faurecia in coordination with Be Citizen & Peclers are organized
for all teams.
The companies (Faurecia, Alcan Packaging, Alcan Aluminium,
Eiffage, Opac de Paris, Vallourec / VM tubes, Décathlon, Air
Liquide Welding, Pesinet, Natural Guide, Signature / Plastic
Omnium et F2A) will propose concrete development projects,
bearing on an innovative product and having a direct application
with their own business. The commercial exploitation rights of the
prototype developed by the students will be given away to the
project-companies per contra their financial commitments.
Six award winners
• Project “Communicating tennis shoes” for Décathlon
• Project “Equipment for Industrial spot welder” for Air Liquide
Welding
• Project “Innovative acoustic isolation” for F2A
• Project “Traceability for oil drilling pipelines » for Vallourec
• Project “Innovative parking for bicycles” for OPAC / Paris
• Special Award from Les Echos (economical newspaper)
dedicated to the project “Africa initiatives / Pesinet, infantile health
in Africa” supported by Orange Mali foundation, Alcatel & Medex.
A great success for CPI organized by the partners-companies, the
professors and the students!
Contacts:
Eleonore Mounoud, Arthur Mofakhami et Philippe Hardouin (ECP)
Jean Claude Charlet et Emmanuelle Le Nagard (ESSEC)
Innovation and Sustainable Development Award 2007:
launching of the second edition!
Launching of the Innovation and Sustainable Development Award
in partnership with three Higher Institutions (Ecole Centrale Paris,
ESCP-EAP Management School, AgroParisTech), the
“Collège des Hautes Etudes de l'Environnement & Développement
Durable - CHEE&DD” and Capgemini Consulting.
This competitive examination is open to all students and enrols
the pedagogical programme.
12 projects have been selected for the award; the ceremony will
take place on 25th April in Paris (Arts et Métiers).
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■ Centrale 7: The most
famous university
teams on the Ecole
Centrale Paris Campus
For the third year, on 23rd
and 24th of May 2007, the
university tournament
Centrale 7 welcomes teams
from all over the world:
Stellenbosch (South Africa),
China Agriculture University
Rugby Team, Belgium
National Academic Team,
Oxford, Loughborough and
Bristol, the Euskarians, the
Barbarians Centrale 92 and
french teams of Tarbes,
Lyon and Toulouse.
Centrale 7 will start on
Wednesday, the 23rd of May
with a roundtable on the
theme “Technology in pursuit of perfomance" and the
vernissage of an art exhibition of historical pictures. It
will mainly focus on three
french rugby players who
graduated Centrale in the
1900's: Marcel
Communeau, Pierre Failliot
and Marcel Burgun.
More on:
www.centrale7.com
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The Ecole Centrale Paris, creates an Excellence Centre
for Information architecture, the CEISA
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Ecole Centrale Paris, one of the best higher Institution for
engineers in France, decided to create an Excellence
Centre for Information architecture, the CEISA. Its
objective is to help to structure and simplify the
Information System by urbanism, massive usage of
components, and a new relation between business and IT,
to help company transformations.
The impact is huge in terms of time to market, productivity
gains, business sharing with partners, international, or
CRM.
The Ceisa is sponsored by large IT users or Providers with
an annual gift of 200.000 euros, of which 60% is
deductible from Tax.
Sponsors define priority topics. For each of them 4 actions:
• Case studies;
• Analysis of some vendor offers;
• Formalisation of best practices in white papers
accessible on Ceisa web site;
• Training to attract best students, and to enforce the best
practices inside companies.
Axa and BNP Paribas are the first sponsors.
The Cigref, club for CIOs of the most important French
Companies, strongly supports the initiative.
The Ceisa is managed by an experienced person, JeanRené Lyon, who was Credit du Nord, then AXA CIO, and
founded 2 companies involved in these fields (LyonConsultants, and Wyde).
First white papers will be delivered in October 2007.
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Contact :
Jean-René Lyon,
Director of Ceisa
[email protected]