Innovation

Abril Amaya, an Argentinian student in her 3rd year of a double-degree programme in the nuclear sector at IMT Atlantique, and her team represented France at the I4N international nuclear innovation competition at the International Youth Nuclear Congress - IYNC 2022 - in Koriyama, Japan, with the Navigatom project. Despite some tough competition, they were announced as overall winners!

Kermap, which was supported from 2016 to 2018 by the IMT Atlantique incubator, is one of the success stories #madeinIMTAtlantique! 

As a leader in the automated processing and analysis of environmental data from satellite and aerial imagery, Kermap is a winner of the French Tech DeepNum20 programme.

The IMT Atlantique incubator, located on the Brest, Nantes and Rennes campuses, has been supporting innovative projects in the school's fields of excellence (digital, energy, sea, environment, health/wellness, industry of the future) since 1998. Located at the heart of the campus the start-ups offer a stimulating environment.

By signing 25 agreements with laboratories or innovative companies as part of the "R&D job preservation" measure of the France Relance recovery plan, IMT Atlantique has obtained the creation of 29 scientific jobs over one or two years. This is an opportunity to forge even closer ties with the industrialists and laboratories in its "ecosystem".

Dedicated to new technologies in Nanotechnology, Biotechnology, Computing and Cognitive Science (NBIC), the Arago platform offers industrialists tools, a variety of services and a network of partners to facilitate know-how transfer and innovation.

Ai4R, a start-up created by a graduate of IMT Atlantique, has developed an autoradiography process for which it markets a range of high-performance machines. With a strong focus on research, it has received support from the IMT Atlantique incubator and recently from the France Relance plan.

The Department of Energy Systems and Environment (DSEE) at IMT Atlantique is contributing its expertise as part of the French scientific consortium aiming to find a solution for recycling used masks.

On August 23rd, IMT Atlantique received the Governor of Aichi Province in Japan, Mr. Hideaki OHMURA, on its Rennes campus, accompanied by a delegation of officials from his government. This visit ended with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between Aichi Province and IMT Atlantique.

A fine delegation from IMT Atlantique was in Vienna from 4 to 6 December 2018 to participate in the largest event organised by the European Commission in the field of information and communication technologies, ICT proposers' day 2018: Imagine Digital - Connect Europe.

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