Industrial transition

Development of solutions for the major cybersecurity challenges specific to Cloud environments, to ensure the confidentiality, integrity and availability of data, applications and services.

MATISSE is a European HORIZON-KDT-JU research project bringing together over 30 partners from 7 countries in order to develop an advanced approach for efficient engineering and validation of industrial systems using Digital Twins (DTs). By integrating DTs with state-of-the-art technologies, MATISSE aims to better simulate, test, and predict system behaviours. This innovative approach helps companies optimise their industrial processes, reduce errors, and boost productivity, ultimately simplifying complex operations. To this end, MATISSE proposes to create a framework incorporating methods and tools for the efficient and continuous engineering and validation of industrial systems that are supported by DTs. The project notably leverages the advantages of model-based, data-driven, and cloud techniques to enable validation and verification services that improve productivity and quality significantly.

The SuperviZ project is part of the "system security" axis of the PEPR cybersecurity program. It addresses the field of "system, software and network security". More precisely, it targets the detection, response and remediation to computer attacks, subjects grouped under the name of "security supervision".

The digitization of all infrastructures makes it almost impossible today to secure all systems a priori, as it is too complex and too expensive. Supervision seeks to reinforce preventive security mechanisms and to compensate 
 

The Train-Cyber-Expert project aims to build teaching resources, in the form of digital content and technology platforms, organized by skill block, with a view to modularity, reusability and skills-based teaching leading to certification.
These resources will be deployed by partners to enhance or reinforce their training offerings. As the core business of the academic partners is the awarding of Master's degrees (Bac+5, level 7), their main training offer will be geared towards this level of qualification. They will therefore develop a range of master's degrees, specialized master's degrees, specialized engineers in cybersecurity and post-master's degrees, with an emphasis on work-study programs to facilitate the professional integration of participants.

The industry of the future invites itself into the metaverse

The metaverse is no longer limited to online gaming or social interaction: it is becoming a key technology for industry. Through the 5GMetaverse project, five Institut Mines-Télécom schools are seeking to adapt tomorrow's networks to the needs of augmented and virtual reality. In particular, the project aims to develop concrete solutions for industrial process optimization, remote assistance and man-machine collaboration.

 

SEED, which stands for Societal, Energy, Environmental, industrial and Digital transitions, is a 60-month interdisciplinary, international and intersectoral doctoral training programme offered by IMT Atlantique and co-funded by the European Union. The programme itself is designed to nurture four key dimensions: thesis interdisciplinarity, internationality, cross-sector experience, and promotion of innovation. It offers 40 fully funded early-stage researcher (ESR) positions within three different tracks. Each track builds on the same fundamental excellence trainings implementing a 4i approach (Interdisciplinarity, Internationality, Intersectorial, Innovation), while providing a different degree of mobility and focus:
 

MaaS to increase the European industry’s competitiveness

The CyberSecDome project offers a proactive solution to protect digital infrastructures against cyber threats. It comprises four key elements: a digital infrastructure, digital twins, AI-powered security tools and a VR user interface. This approach ensures business continuity despite potential cyberattacks, facilitates safe training and testing, and enhances response capabilities through an interactive VR interface. Interconnected CyberSecDomes form a global network for effective collaboration, threat identification and comprehensive response strategies, while guaranteeing secure, privacy-friendly data exchange.

Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems (RMS) are production systems designed to be able to adapt to changes in demand. Their flexibility can also make it possible to design sustainable production systems

TRANSFEE concerns the acquisition of cutting-edge equipment positioned on the major challenges of tomorrow's industry in the fields of environmental, energy and food transitions. By reinforcing the GEPEA's platforms and technical platforms and by positioning this equipment on a common objective carried by the two different GEPEA supervisors (Nantes University, IMT-Atlantique, ONIRIS, CNRS), TRANSFEE aims to increase scientific excellence while providing concrete solutions on several key issues that are the sober and optimized management of (bio)resources, the preservation of environmental quality (air-water), the material-energy covalorization of residues or industrial waste, and the exploitation of marine resources and in particular microalgae. The TRANSFEE project also consolidates the relationship between research and training by sharing training at all levels (e.g.: BUT, Engineering School, International Master, continuing education).

The HOPES project funded by the ANR 2021 with 270 KE is led by a young researcher RESTREPO RUIZ Maria-Isabel on the planning of work schedules and employee rounds over a multi-period horizon for home-based services. HOPES will propose innovative decision support tools to solve these complex problems by taking into account work rules, individual preferences and different sources of uncertainty. To do so, we will rely on the formulation and design of new optimization approaches integrating techniques from data science and deterministic and stochastic optimization. Instead of proposing a method that works only for a specific application, HOPES aims to propose a general framework that can be extended to solve different variants of the problem. The decision support tools developed are expected to improve the quality of service for users, the well-being of employees, and to improve the planning and execution of home service operations.

To set out future-proof pathways to strengthen democracy through improving accountability, transparency and effectiveness of media production and expanding active and inclusive citizenship, the project aims to clarify the extent to which European media perform their democratic functions. By applying an innovative multi-method design the project will cover (1) perspectives of both representative and participatory notions of democracy as they exist in European societies, (2) the entire range of news media, regardless of distribution channel, ownership and source of financing, (3) the legal and (self-)regulatory framework under which media houses and journalism operate, (4) the media's potential to promote and support political participation (supply side), and (5) the media use patterns, communication needs and democratic attitudes of the audiences (demand side) in the EU Member States.

DIVA is the European Digital Innovation Hub for the Pays de la Loire region, France. It aims at supporting the digital transformation of SMEs. It consists of a one-stop shop that provides services towards the implementation of green and human-centered Artificial Intelligence, data and robotics within companies and public administrations.

FABulous will develop an industrial direct laser writing technology (multiphoton lithography) to structure coatings with nanoscale engineered 3d topography to fabricate high resolution functional 3D metasurfaces for advanced ultra-lightweight products. These metasurfaces will be capable of manipulating light with unprecedented flexibility and will open the possibility of designing and manufacturing smaller, lighter, and more environmentally friendly products, through the replacement of bulky components and/or the chemical coatings currently used to enhance the efficiency and performance of optical products in applications such as the design and fabrication of sensors, automotive day time running lights (DRL) and solar power generators.

ASSISTANT's main objective is to develop a collection of intelligent digital twins that will automatically adapt to the manufacturing environment. These digital twins will assist in the design and operation of a complex, collaborative, reconfigurable, mixed/multi-model production system based on data collected by IoT devices.