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Méditerranée Technologies newsletter n°3

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By Jean-Claude RISSET, emeritus Research Director at the LMA-CNRS

Arts: a decisive factor for New Information Technology and Communications

The Arts are the most long-lasting traces left behind by a civilisation. From the beginning, arts have always taken advantage of the latest techniques: furthermore, and more often than we imagine, they have stimulated and even inspired science and technology.
(see the article)

The available technology workgroup has finished the survey, started in December, of the centres of competence identified by the experts of several fields...

The next meeting of the workgroup will take place on 6th February 2001 at St Pierre des Canons...
(see the article)

The Club for Technopoles in PACA held its latest meeting on 19th December 2000 at the Agropark in Avignon.
The club, which brings together the actors of the different technopolitain sites in the Region as well as the accompanying structures for companies, has decided to extend its membership to include the public incubators of the Region...
(see the article)

OPPORTUNITIES FOR EUROPEAN TECHNOLOGICAL CO-OPERATION BY E-MAIL
The Innovation Relay Centre MedIN offers free* inscription to its service of opportunities for co-operation. These opportunities, identified by the European organisations that are members of the network, are for technological needs or offers and joint research and development... (see the article)

REORIENTATION OF THE MEDITERRANEAN TECHNOLOGY ARC.
A meeting of the network at Valence on 1st December 2000 led to important advances in the structuring of the organisation: five thematic groups were created, each one organised by a member region...
(see the article)

SWEDISH PRESIDENCY OF THE EUROPEAN UNION
As is now the habit, the country that assumes the presidency of the Union (Sweden, for the next six months) has opened up an information service on the European server Cordis.
(see the article)

After the creation of a guiding committee in 2000, the reactivation of the Technology Diffusion Network is a marked objective for 2001. The approval of the available technology database will be one of the first steps for this reactivation...
(see the article)

Technology Distribution Network Training : "Introduction to the R&D in European Union"
25 january 2001 at Europôle of l'Arbois - Aix-en-Provence.
(see the article)

EMBRYONS "from scientific revolution to bioethical revolution"
The web site www.embryons.net contains a very interesting press review on bioethics, genetics and European legislation relating to research in life sciences...
(see the article)

THE BIENNAL OF THE SEA
Marseille has been chosen to organise this international event, alternating with Naples, with the participation of Barcelona.
The first part takes place from 4th to 6th October 2001 at the Pharo, Marseille...
(see the article)

DIRECTORY OF INDUSTRIAL PARTNERS IN THE ALPES DE HAUTE PROVENCE ON-LINE
If you are looking for an industrial partner in the field of production, inter-industry commerce or company services, you can now consult the Directory of Industrial Partners in the Alpes de Haute Provence on the web site of the CCI...
(see the article)

CERBIOTECH, reseach and experimentation center on vegetal biotechnology.
The laboratory is a product of the CCI and the Conseil Général des Hautes-Alpes and was founded by Catherine Chambon, specialist of Mediterranean species, Cerbiotech will open near Gap next Spring...
(see the article)

Sophia Euro Lab: the new incubator in Sophia-Antipolis
From 11th January 2001, 'CDC-PME' the Bavarian Bank Bayerische Landesbank and the Luxembourg financer Johnson Paradigm Ventures have set-up the incubator Sophia Euro Lab. Under the patronage of the Fondation de Sophia-Antipolis and directed by Pierre Taillardat from Ernst and Young Marseille, Sophia Euro Lab has capital funding of 10 MF and will accompany technology projects during the incubation phase...
(see the article)

Helicotères Guimbal
On 1st October 2000, Mr. Bruno Guimbal, head of the research department of Eurocopter at Marignane, left his job to create Helicotères Guimbal and construct a small helicopter named "Cabri"...
(see the article)

LSBB, an exceptional installation for experiments with a low level of background noise in the Vaucluse
An underground site at Rustrel (Vaucluse), owned by the communauté de communes du pays d'Apt, that was part of the military camp (plateau d'Albion) has been reconverted into a laboratory: the Laboratoire Souterrain Bas Bruit...
(see the article)

Call for Proposals "Bio-Engineering 2001"
The "Ministère de la Recherche" and the "Ministère de l'Economie, des Finances et de l'Industrie" have launched a call for proposals open to companies of all sizes, associated with public research laboratories. The ail is to promote the transfer of technology and the exploitation of results in the field of genomics and post-genomics in humans, animals, plants and micro-organisms in the following three branches of bio-industry :
(see the article)

The key figures for science and technology, directed by P. Mustar.
Observatoire des Sciences et de la Technologies, Ed. Economica, 2000.
(see the article)

From BIONEWS
"FIRST MONKEY BORN - US scientists have produced the world's first genetically altered primate, a rhesus monkey born on 2 October at the Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland."
"NEW US GENE PATENTING GUIDELINES
The US Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) has issued new guidelins on the patenting of genes."
"DELAY OVER GENOME CAMPUS
The former director of the UK's Sanger Centre and a leading biotech entrepreneur have ewpressed their concern over the delay of a new 100 LS million "genome campus" in Cambridgeshire."
(see the articles)

25th and 26th January 2001, Congress of the "Conférence des Grandes Ecoles"
organised by the ESIM with the Grandes Ecoles of the South-East region.
(see the article)

30th January 2001 - "EC labelling, a requirement for industry"
An information and awareness day in Marseille
(see the article)

On 9th February 2001,the Region Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur will organise the "3èmes Trophées des Bourses Régionales à l'Innovation" at the Hôtel de Région .
(see the article)

10-14/02/2001 - MILIA - International fair for publishing and new media - Cannes - Palais des Festivals.
(see the article)

23-25/02/2001 - Monaco - Hôtel Le Méridien
TRADE 2001 will enable the principal leaders to have a strategic vision of the evolution of the electronic commerce.
(see the article)

26-30/03/2001 - General Assembly of the European Geophysics Association - Nice Acropolis.
(see the article)

University entrance 2001 : The opening of a school for Internet in Marseille, to mark the start of the training of 50 engineers.
(see the article)

The PACA EAST Incubator is on its way - Article appeared on 28/12/00 - SOPHIANET.COM
(see the article)

International co-operation
During December 2000, the scientific park at Sophia-Antipolis signed two agreements with similar structures - the science parks of Singapour and of Cambridge... (see the article)

The "Ecole Supérieure d'Ingénieurs" at Luminy has submitted a request for the creation of two new specialised engineer courses in Bioinformatics and in Materials / Surfaces/ Nanotechnology... (see the article)

AFP Sciences n°1269 - An Academy of Technology Following from the transformation of the Conseil pour les Applications de l'Académie des Sciences (CADAS)... (see the article)

AFP Sciences n° 1269 - The abandoning of scientific studies : an analysis to be made by Guy Ourisson, President of the Académie des Sciences... (see the article)

AFP Sciences n°1269 - Opening of the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lettres et Sciences humaines at Lyon, by Jack Lang. (see the article)

FIRST MONKEY BORN
(see the article)

NEW US GENE PATENTING GUIDELINES
(see the article)

DELAY OVER GENOME CAMPUS
(see the article)

January 2001 - February 2001 - March 2001 - (see the article)