Professor at ENSICAEN and researcher at the Crystallography and Material Science Laboratory in Caen, Alexandre Wahl is also, since January, the new director of the Materials CNRT (National Technological Research Centre). His aim: to reunite scientific and industrial skills around innovative projects.

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The Public Debate on the New Paris-Normandy Rail Link aimed at freeing Normandy from its isolation, is open from the 3rd of October 2011 to the 3rd of February 2012. After its closure RFF, the project’s contracting authority, will make its final decision as to the project’s continuation, modification or cancellation.

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In 8 years, Allures Yachting, located in Tourlaville, has become the European leader in long haul yacht construction. The company has been relying on support from Lower Normandy’s players for its development. The MIRIADE Café, held on the 11th of October 2011 at the Hôtel d’Iles de Sées in Macé, in Orne, offered an opportunity to look back on this exemplary project, in the company of an invited guest, Yannick Soubien, Vice-President of the Regional Council.
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In February, the Dutch firm Partner Logistics chose the town of Argentan to establish its first logistics platform in France for warehousing frozen goods. The site makes use of both original and complex techniques. A quick overview.

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By placing businesses at the heart of development mechanisms and by targeting growth markets, the Regional Innovation Strategy (SRI), defined by the French State, the Regional Council and Oséo, intends to offer innovative projects a powerful impetus.

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As from January 2012, the Échangeur de Basse-Normandie⁽¹⁾ will be providing stakeholders from the horse industry with access to its Equi-TIC platform, in order to help them make better use of services available via the Internet.

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A national call for tenders was recently launched to designate consortiums whose role will consist in developing and running France’s five first offshore wind farms, including the Courseulles-sur-Mer project. An opportunity that Lower Normandy fully intends to seize.

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Created last June on the occasion of the Paris digital creation fair “Futur en Seine”, Normandy Digital Life is the result of the collective efforts of Normandy-based players involved in developing and promoting digital technologies. They are now joining forces to promote their skills and know-how.

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New generation more eco-friendly boats - such is the challenge Marethix Industries SAS has decided to take on. Construction of this type of boat will be launched in 2012, in Caen la Mer, on the Norlanda 3 site (formerly occupied by Yachts Industries) in Mondeville.

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The CIMAP⁽¹⁾ laboratory’s Materials and Laser Instrumentation (MIL) team has just made a major discovery in the field of lasers. Their secret: doping CaF2 fluorite, a very specific crystal, then cooling it with liquid nitrogen.

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