The opportunities of the civil nuclear energy
La Seyne Sur Mer July 1st, 2010
VAR ITER ACTIONS gathers the Var Chamber of Commerce and Industry (industry department and Var Accueil Investisseurs), the Var Chamber of jobs and Crafts, Toulon Var Technologies Innovation and the Var Departmental Council. On July 1st, this network will organize in the office of CNIM (Brégaillon – La Seyne sur mer) a meeting on the following subjects: the opportunities of the civil nuclear energy, ITER and the CEA of Cadarache for the var industry. Program and registration on: http://variteractions.tvt.fr/ for further detailsEUROSATORY Exhibition
Paris 14-18 June 2010
Var Accueil Investisseurs participates to the EUROSATORY exhibition – land, Airland, Homeland Defence Week in order to promote the defense and safety sector in the Var- HALL 5 - S440. for further details
The Var, a geostrategic location at the orbital hub of the competitiveness clusters
OPTITEC
180 members (including 100 innovative enterprises) - 18 joined from the Var in 2010.
Spearheading and promoting the optics and photonics sector in Southeast France (Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur and Languedoc-Roussillon). The OPTITEC cluster has awarded its label to over 94 collaborative R&D projects, representing a total investment of €220M and an average 50% funding success rate. The number of SMEs involved in these projects (over 80, including 30 SME project lead bodies) is evidence of the strong synergy between research and industry. The OPTITEC competitiveness cluster's particular niches are complex optical and imaging systems, in hostile environments (astrophysics/space; nuclear submarine environment) and develop along three major lines:
Spearheading and promoting the optics and photonics sector in Southeast France (Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur and Languedoc-Roussillon). The OPTITEC cluster has awarded its label to over 94 collaborative R&D projects, representing a total investment of €220M and an average 50% funding success rate. The number of SMEs involved in these projects (over 80, including 30 SME project lead bodies) is evidence of the strong synergy between research and industry. The OPTITEC competitiveness cluster's particular niches are complex optical and imaging systems, in hostile environments (astrophysics/space; nuclear submarine environment) and develop along three major lines:
- optics and environment
- optics in health
- system optics.
Key figures
Southern France’s optics and photonics cluster:
- France’s No. 1 optics-photonics community,
- 12 360 jobs,
- 5000 skilled jobs including 1500 research workers,
- regional GDP of €900M,
- the mean annual growth rate of the regional sector is 10%,
- 600 direct jobs created in 3 years (health, environment, telecoms, image processing and industrial processes sectors),
- 25 photonic ventures started up in the last 8 years with an 83% survival rate.
- 15% of turnover dedicated to R&D.
- 38.2% of sales go to export.
- Complex imaging optics systems.
- Space and astrophysics.
- Energy.
- Sea.
- Biology, health and medical.
- Microelectronics, Telecoms.
- Sustainable development and industrial processes.
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