FROM RESEARCH TO INDUSTRY Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission CEA E. Ceccarelli February 2013
STRATEGY Low-Carbon Energies Information and HealthTechnologies Defence and Global Security Recherche Basic Research Fondamentale ~ 30% of de the subvention subsidies Training and dissemination of knowledge Technology development and transfer PAGE 2
LOW-CARBON ENERGIES Nuclear energy - Nuclear industrial systems for the future - Optimisation of industrial nuclear use - Large tools for the nuclear development - Nuclear clean up and dismantling New technologies for energy - Materials - Energy efficiency (processes, smart grids, electric vehicles) - Renewable energies (solar energy, hydrogen and biofuels) Basic research in energy - Controlled nuclear fusion - Climate and environment sciences - Chemistry and radiation-matter interactions - Innovative concept for low-carbon technologies Large infrastructures for basic research - Physical sciences, cryotechnologies Life science for energy - Radiobiology - Toxicology - Bioenergies - Biotechnologies PAGE 3
TECHNOLOGIES FOR INFORMATION AND HEALTH Micro & nanotechnologies - Micro-nanoelectronics - Information et communication - Micro-nanoelectronics for health and security - Value creation and technology transfers Digital system technologies - On-board and interactive systems - Manufacturing and numerical engineering - Numerical technologies for health Fundamental research for industrial innovation - Nanosciences - Material sciences and complex systems Technologies for health and biotechnologies - Bio-molecular labeling, structural biology, protein engineering - Biomedical imaging (in vivo), genomic PAGE 4
DEFENCE AND GLOBAL SECURITY Simulation - France s guarantee for future capacity of deterrence without any nuclear test Design, manufacturing, operational maintenance, dismantling of nuclear weapons warheads Nuclear propulsion - Design and maintenance of reactors for nuclear propulsion (submarines and aircrafts carriers) Global security - Prevention of nuclear proliferation and terrorism, and nuclear intervention - Monitoring and survey of international treaties Conventional Defence PAGE 5
10 RESEARCH CENTERS IN FRANCE Physical sciences, software technologies, high performance computing, biomedicine Ile-de-France Saclay Fontenay-aux-Roses Bruyères-le-Châtel Materials Centre, Bourgogne Lasers and plasmas Aquitaine Cesta Le Ripault Gramat Valduc Marcoule Grenoble Cadarache Micro-Nanotechnologies Nanobiotechnologies New technologies for energy Rhône-Alpes Nuclear fuel cycle and waste management Vallée du Rhône Nuclear : fusion, fission Bioenergies Provence-Alpes-Côte-d Azur Vulnerability assessment Detonics Midi-Pyrénées PAGE 6
VERY LARGE SCALE FACILITIES Design and operation of very large scale facilities Ganil Caen Saclay Soleil Orphée Laboratoire Léon Brillouin Grenoble ILL - Neutrons for science Neurospin ESRF Nearly 1/3 of the budget dedicated to CEA research programs Increasing basic knowledge, in areas related to technological research PAGE 7
KEY FIGURES 2011 16 000 Employees 4,3 billion civil and military budget More than 4 300 Scientific publications in 2010 (ISI base) 1 500 PhD students 350 Postdoctoral fellows 530 Projects financed by Europe (FP7) 150 Innovative technology start-ups created since 1984 PAGE 8
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