Media and Networks cluster's governance
How is the Media and Networks cluster governed?
Legal structure
The Media and Networks cluster is a non-profit association (as defined by the French Law of 1901), and has its headquarters in Lannion, France.
The main functions the Association performs for the Media & Networks cluster are:
- Define strategy and scope of activities development
- Help introduce, assemble and select cooperative projects to be presented for financing by public-sector partners
- Promote technologies and usage distribution, especially implement technological platforms
- Motivate the network of cluster participants in research, education and commerce, help them work together
- Promote the capabilities within the cluster and its visibility at the international level
- Evaluate cluster's work, both in terms of participants competitiveness and in terms of economic development. The Association also ensures that the tools required to develop its plans are in place.
Members of the Association
Members of the association (anyone who subscribes to its mission) are composed of three groups:
- Group 1: Companies with more than 250 employees ("large companies") and their affiliates
- Group 2: Research organizations and higher education
- Group 3: Small and medium-sized enterprises (fewer than 250 employees) not affiliated to members of Group 1.
- MEITO is a member by right.
Other institutions contribute by their actions to realization of the cluster's objectives :
The technopoles in Bretagne and Pays de la Loire, the association ITS Bretagne and the Bretagne Economic Agency (AEB, Agence Economique de Bretagne)
Association:
- Members General Assembly
- Administrative Board
- Executive Board
- Committee for Selection and Validation (Comité de Sélection et Validation - CSV)
- Committee for Monitoring and Evaluation (Comité de Suivi et d'Evaluation - CSE)
The Administrative Board is composed of 16 members, 6 of whom are elected from Group 1, 5 from Group 2, 4 from Group 3 and 1 member representing MEITO. One representative each of the Region and the AEB are also invited to the Administrative Board meetings.
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The CSV is composed of members who represent scientific, technological, economic and social disciplines that are affected by the cluster's work and who have been nominated personally on the basis of their abilities. The CSV proposes the Cluster's priorities in terms of topics and the actions that are required to develop them, prepares calls for projects, organises the selection of projects and proposes the Administrative Board with a list of projects to be validated.
The CSE is composed of persons who have recognised experience in the areas covered by the cluster, different from the members of the CSV and not necessarily belonging to the Association. The CSE monitors cluster's actions and evaluates its performance internally.
Moreover, the Association draws on staff resources and delagates various services.
The Association proposed a "Cluster Contract", which was validated by CIACT on October 15, 2005.
Most notably, this contract implements:
- A "financing committee" which examines the projects selected by the Cluster in order to guide those which will form the object of a request for public support from various partners, towards the procedures that are most appropriate for their situation and for obtaining possible support.
- A "scientific committee" which monitors and evaluates the scientific aspects of the Cluster's results.
