On the 30th of September, Caen’s urban community filed its application to become a certified “Territorial leader in contactless mobile technology”. Fierce competition is expected from throughout France; however Caen la Mer is prepared to take on the challenge. Past experience, technical prowess and genuine commitment from local players are among the conurbation’s strengths.
For them, understanding is what counts most. But why not also incite reflection? By launching the “Tête chercheuses” competition, the Fondation Musée Schlumberger and Relais d’Sciences are encouraging research laboratories to bring their popular science projects down from the shelf.
The key to the future is in molecular biology. An analysis method that the Ad.Gène laboratory fully intends to use to improve the detection of bacteria in water and to further develop its activity. The company, based in Thury Harcourt, will be doubling the surface area of its premises by October, and intends to triple its staff by 2012.
United we stand! And scientists are only too aware. Consequently, researchers from both Upper and Lower Normandy have recently created four Research Federations. Acoustical physics and molecular chemistry took a head start, later to be joined by mathematics and, finally, materials.
The CHU’s new Mother-Child-Haematology unit (FEH – Femme Enfant Hématologie) has been welcoming its first patients over the past weeks. This new department reunites the former Mother and Child unit and the department of haematology. All of the departments likely to call upon this technical and surgical platform are now reunited on the Côte de Nacre site.
Caen, Rouen and Le Havre hand in hand! Upper and Lower Normandy’s three major towns were reunited on the same stand at the MIPIM international property show in Cannes last March. And all waving the same banner: “Normandy Avenue”.
Caen University’s Normandy Study and Research Centre on Medicinal Drugs (CERMN) has moved to new premises in the vicinity of the Faculty of Pharmacy. Both modern and functional, they offer the laboratory’s researchers the best in hi-tech. Inaugural visit.
Caen la Mer is moving into top gear by equipping 8 of its Development Zones with a Very High Bandwidth (VHB) fibre optic network. By offering this network to businesses looking to set up and requiring such a service, the conurbation is keeping a step ahead. A digital revolution is in the making, at the speed of light.
How do you make a 1,340 tonne, 300-feet long frigate, grounded on the Cherbourg coast and impossible to move, disappear? Thanks to innovative and environmentally friendly methods, the dismantling of the Lucifer II was made possible, on site. A first in the field.