On Monday 9 January, Sylvie Retailleau, Minister for Higher Education and Research, and her counterpart Roland Lescure, Minister for Industry, unveiled the names of the winners of the France 2030 "maturation-pre-maturation" AAP, including the consortium Sci-Ty, Deep tech for the Cities and Mobilities of Tomorrow. The objective of this project is to develop and strengthen support for the creation of innovative products and services for sustainable cities and mobility in order to accelerate the transformation of our economy towards carbon neutrality.
The Sci-ty project, Deep tech for tomorrow's Cities and Mobilities, aims to support multiple innovation projects to promote their transfer to the socioeconomic world by creating a community of experts and innovators at national and territorial level (experts, scientists, local authorities and inhabitants, socioeconomic actors).
The consortium is led by the Gustave Eiffel University, co-pilot of the two Priority Research Programmes and Equipment (PEPR) of the National Strategies with which the project is linked, namely "sustainable cities and innovative buildings" and "digitalisation and decarbonisation of mobility". One of the challenges will be to associate the main actors of the ESR, also mobilized in the PEPRS on these themes, in different territories.
The SATT Erganeo, with its expertise of more than 10 years, is leading the maturation component of the project. The aim is to associate a network of SATTs, particularly those linked to the various campuses of the Gustave Eiffel University, with complementary support systems for innovative companies.
At the start of the Sci-Ty project, the consortium has a potential of over 170 innovation projects. Sci-ty will thus set up an innovation chain by mobilising and coordinating the complementary skills required for enhanced and personalised support for innovation project leaders. As close as possible to the laboratories, it aims to encourage the emergence of projects and to offer project leaders multiple resources from the various members of the consortium, facilitating the rise in TRL of the innovation, via the stages of prematuration, then maturation or comaturation.
In the field of sustainable cities and buildings, the projects identified will serve the following purposes
- Transforming cities through an integrated approach
- Acting on buildings to reduce energy and resource consumption
- Developing geosourced construction
In terms of digitalisation and decarbonisation of mobility, the consortium has a significant potential for innovation in the following three areas
- Rail mobility of the future
- Massified logistics
- New transport offers through automation and decarbonisation
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