November 2009
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Led by Bretagne International and the Images et Réseaux cluster, eleven Breton companies set out to discover some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley.
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Technology and Digital Arts
Ars Electronica Center |
Christopher Lindinger will open "Technology and Digital Arts Meeting", the theme day on 27 November, which is firmly oriented towards creativity. He manages the research and development department (Futurelab) of the Ars Electronica platform in Linz, Austria. This workshop laboratory brings together artists and researchers who gain mutual innovative benefits from sharing their knowledge.
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CINTEL, a Colombian telecommunications research center, organized an international workshop devoted to digital television in conjunction with Images et Réseaux on 7 July in the Colombian capital. This workshop was a chance to take stock of the possibilities opened up by digital television and of the market prospects. It was also used to reinforce relations with Colombia and to promote our expertise in the field of innovation.
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July 2009
"Images et Réseaux cluster" instead of "Media and Networks cluster"
By a decision of the cluster's Board, from now on the name "Images et Réseaux" will apply in English as well as in French. The use of a unique name is intended to increase the cluster public relation efficiency and its international visibility. The name "Media and Networks cluster" so far used in our international relations will no longer be used after July 1st, 2009. Our partners must now get used to saying "Images et Réseaux cluster".
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June 2009
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The ceremony on Wednesday 24 June in Rennes, which also brought together the Mer Bretagne and Valorial competitiveness clusters, witnessed the signing of the new performance contract between the Images et Réseaux cluster, the State and Brittany's Regional authorities. It is based on a strategic plan of action for the 2009-2011 period, which sets out four major paths for development.
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The chairmen of the 17 French world-class competitiveness clusters, who linked up to form a club in 2007, held a press conference to set out their priority goals on Friday 12 June in Paris. They are asking for an extra 900 million euros to be injected into French industry to give it renewed impetus.
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June 2009, Theme Day, Lannion
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The theme day on 9 June organized in Lannion in partnership with the Anticipa technology park and Meito explored several directions for scenarios for the future of Internet. A multifaceted Internet of the Future, which the Images et Réseaux cluster has made one of its four major strategies for the next three years, and which will be the focus of other events in the future.
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June 2009
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World premier: On 2 June, Mozart's chef d'oeuvre, Don Giovanni, performed at the Rennes Opera has been filmed and broadcast live in 3D in the lounges of the Town Hall in Rennes and several 3D cinemas in France. The Don Giovanni Opera originating from the Opera house has been also broadcast in HD and SD format in several places in Rennes. Large crowds had gathered over the Town Hall square to enjoy the show.
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The Expert Guests |
"A highly concentrated seminar", "fascinating discussions"... Participants were unanimous in their tributes to the exceptional quality of the Imagine 2015 seminar held on 28 and 29 May. The third futurology seminar of the Images et Réseaux cluster was focused on sustainable development, one of the cluster's designated priority themes for next three years. And it is clear that everyone's enthusiasm for this theme, and the quality of the seven Expert Guests invited to take part, made these 24 hours spent together a resounding success.
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The theme day on May 19, entitled "Multicore processors, inside information", delivered a wide-ranging review of the question. The upshot was that much is still to be done - and that there is immense scope for research - to optimize the development of software applications that make the most of the new architectures.
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April 2009
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On 27 and 28 April, the Images & Réseaux cluster welcomed a Russian delegation led by Alexander Zharov, Vice-minister of communication and networks in the Russian Federation. Two days of demonstrations and lively exchanges that have left a lasting impression on the visitors and opened up new avenues in terms of cooperation, that can now be pursued.
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April 2009
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Virtual reality, augmented reality, 3D, interactivity, new interfaces... Year after year, Laval Virtual, confirms its status as one of the top European trade fairs. It is now an unmissable occasion for professionals, a concentration of spectacular applications for the public, and a formidable stage upon which students and designers from all horizons can express themselves.
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The Images et Réseaux cluster's General Meeting on 30 March afforded an opportunity to map out its strategy for the next three years. 2009 will be a pivotal year, and all the more so since it coincides with large-scale renewal of the management team.
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March 2009, Theme day, Brest
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The theme day entitled "sustainable development, new challenges for ICT" provided an opportunity to confirm that this topic generates many expectations. The proof of this was the enormous interest shown by the 80 participants and the number of questions generated by all the subjects discussed.
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Gérard Faria, Vice-chairman of Images et Réseaux and Mario Castano, CINTEL's technical manager |
On 27 March, the Images et Réseaux cluster signed a Memorandum of Understanding with CINTEL, a Colombian telecommunications research centre. The agreement set out three directions for research work that have yet to be worked out in detail. The signature was sponsored by two personalities. For France it was Anne-Marie Idrac, Secretary of State responsible for International Trade and for Colombia it was Maria del Rosario Guerra, Minister of communications.
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The Images et Réseaux cluster accompanied by SMEs Artefacto, Bilboquet and Cinéact took part in a trip to Canada from 16 to the 20 March. A five-day mission that the delegation took full advantage of to meet Canadian clusters, economic development agencies and potential trading partners.
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March 2009
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On 18 March last, Images et Réseaux received a visit from a Venezuelan delegation that had come to find out about innovation aid structures set up in France.
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March 2009
Four Images et Réseaux projects selected
The announcement of the results of the FUI 7 call for projects was made on 10 March. The FUI (interministerial combined fund) selected four of our projects.
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February 2009
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Despite a fall in attendances, the Barcelona Mobile communications trade fair lived up the participants' expectations. The Images et Réseaux cluster and all members on the France pavilion remarked on the high quality of this year's contacts.
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February 2009, announcement
The Images et Réseaux cluster invites its members and visitors to the KOBA show to take part in the special "Mobile media and uses" mission, organized In partnership with Bretagne International. It takes place in Seoul, South Korea, from 25 to 31 May 2009.
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February 2009: announcement
An Images et Réseaux cluster mission, including three Breton PMEs, will take advantage of the IN Congress being held from 17 to 19 March in Toronto to organize meetings with Canadian companies and clusters.
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January 2009
The CINTEL delegation and the cluster representatives |
The Images et Réseaux cluster received a delegation from Columbia on 26 January. This meeting should have a number of repercussions with the cluster attending the Andicom 2009 conference and a cooperation agreement that the cluster is currently working on.
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January 2009, Theme Day, Nantes
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The Images et Réseaux cluster theme day devoted to new business models attracted 150 participants in the amphitheatre of Audencia, the Nantes-based management school. Vincent Marcatté, Chairman of the Images et Réseaux cluster, opened the day with a presentation of the cluster's new strategy. A reorientation in keeping with the day's theme, since it places uses and markets at the centre-stage of the futurology strategy and all current projects.
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January 2009
Thursday, 8 January 2009: three consultancies present first findings in bid to develop international partnerships. A series of contact meetings with selected clusters will follow, with first visit to Canada in mid-March 2009.
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December 2008, Theme Day
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Some forty participants enjoyed the high level interventions of the theme day in Rennes on 16 December 2008.
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December 2008
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Networked and Electronic Media (NEM) announced that upcoming NEM Summit 2009 will be held on 28-30 September 2009 in Saint-Malo, Brittany, France.
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Partnership Agreement Signature |
Images et Réseaux and Imaginove have announced a partnership agreement, which will serve as the foundation for a new, long-term cooperation between these two "competitiveness clusters" that share a common set of innovation themes.
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November 2008
Images et Réseaux cluster's General Meeting |
The Images et Réseaux cluster has just renewed the members of its Board of directors. Vincent Marcatté, from France Télécom Orange, has been elected to the position of Chairman of the cluster for the next three years.
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Judging by the number of those taking part - more than 150 - the theme day "What changes for our media" dealt with a theme that professionals and research workers are particularly concerned about.
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October 2008
Monique Thual and Philippe Rochard |
A group of five French researchers has won the 2007 Rudolf Kingslake Medal and Prize, awarded annually by SPIE (Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers) for the most noteworthy original paper to appear in the SPIE journal Optical Engineering.
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October 2008
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The European NEM technology platform held its first big international conference on 13, 14 and 15 October this year in Saint-Malo, France. Organized by NEM in close collaboration with the Images et Réseaux cluster, the conference attracted more than 400 participants who came to discuss networked and electronic media, and the Internet of the Future.
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October 2008
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With a number of high quality contributions, the theme day on 23 October, in Lannion, devoted to 100 Gigabit Ethernet transport, delighted the 80 participants present at the event.
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August 2008
ImaginLab platform |
The ImaginLab project comprising of a regional test and experimentation platform was selected for financial support. It will enable new products and services to be technically tested and the reactions of users to be measured during user tests.
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July 2008
Panlab clusters |
The Panlab project to link distributed test platforms in Europe is taking shape. Two events have occurred in a short time: the official launch of the second phase of the project during the month of June, and the start of the ImaginLab project in July, which schedules the creation of one of the platforms at the heart of the project.
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July 2008
Eight Images et Réseaux projects selected
The announcement of the results of the call for projects from the start of this year was made at the end of July. ANR (national research agency) has selected six of our projects. The FUI's (interministerial combined fund) sixth call for projects has also selected two of our projects.
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Boston Consulting Group and CM International have just submitted an audit on competitive clusters to the French government. The government considers the Images et Réseaux cluster to be among those that have achieved their objectives and proposes to upgrade it to the category of global-class clusters.
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The second Imagine 2015 seminar took place on 5 and 6 June last. Imagine 2015 is the unique futurology programme aimed at breaking down the boundaries limiting reflection on the future, in order to gain a greater understanding of society's expectations.
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June 2008
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The Images et Réseaux cluster wanted to mark the opening of the "Week of innovation in Brittany" at the end of June by a projects forum, on 23 June, in Rennes.
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Following the calls for projects at the beginning of the year, the first half of the year saw a good harvest of project proposals.
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Dinard was host to a seminar on 13 and 14 May 2008 organised jointly by Panlab (Pan-European Laboratory) and The Images et Réseaux cluster. Subject of the seminar: linking up test platforms in Europe.
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