Michel Fick, Vice-President in charge of socio-economic partnerships and territorial development
Research laboratories maintain relationships with various partners: companies, associations or communities. To increase this type of partnership, the university has developed promotional tools such as a range of services available online or the https://pluginlabs.univ-lorraine.fr/fr website, which highlights the research units and technical platforms of the University of Lorraine. UL Connect, an internal network of referents from more than 80 components of the university (laboratories, training components, operational departments, clusters, collegiums), makes it possible to respond quickly to external requests, as was recently the case for the fight against cyanobacteria or the recycling of mineral waste. Collaborations are also established through thematic communities that bring together teachers-researchers and people from outside the university to cross needs and skills; this leads to the establishment of joint projects as is the case today with the SDIS54 and several university laboratories to work on exoskeletons that will equip firefighters in the fight against fire in the years to come As the relationship intensifies, other arrangements are proposed, such as university chairs or even joint laboratories. Examples include the chair recently created between Airbus, the Centre de Recherche en Automatique de Nancy (CRAN) and the Équipe de recherche sur les processus innovatifs (ERPI) on systems engineering, or the ANR labcom, which has helped consolidate links between the Laboratoire d’étude des microstructures et de mécanique des matériaux (LEM3) and the SME Cimulec. The chairs do not only concern technological subjects, as shown by the chair in persuasive communication between Cerefige and e-fluid. As we can see from these examples, bringing knowledge together also means enabling society to develop new skills through contact with our research laboratories thanks to an active partnership approach!
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