Back to the Rendez-vous Carnot 2023!

The Rendez-vous Carnot 2023, with its rich and comprehensive offering and efficient organization of pre-programmed meetings, was a real opportunity for companies to meet the right people to set up their innovation projects, while optimizing their time.

All industrial and technological sectors were represented: Aeronautics ♦ Agriculture - Agri-food ♦ Spatial planning ♦ Mobilities ♦ Chemistry and Materials ♦ Low-carbon energy ♦ Environment ♦ Extractive industries ♦ Industry of the future ♦ Fashion and Luxury ♦ Health ♦ Sport and Wellness ♦ Digital/electronic technologies ♦ Sustainable and resilient cities...

The Carnot institute Télécom & Société numérique (TSN) was present at this annual meeting.

Europe's leading trade fair for corporate R&D

Participants were able to talk to experts and representatives from France's 39 Carnot institutes in a number of different areas.

The Start-up and Innovative SME area enabled a selection of deeptech companies to make themselves known, and to promote their products resulting from technological or software developments, for industrialization, development or financing.

The investors/financiers area was a meeting place for start-ups and SMEs and banks, business angels and major groups, whose role is to finance companies whatever their needs.

At this year's event, innovation project leaders were able to meet exhibitors presenting the offerings of over 650 laboratories and innovation support structures. They were able to benefit from the R&D and technology offerings of the 39 Carnots, as well as other research laboratories, universities, engineering schools and research establishments, transfer structures, Contract Research Organizations (SRC) and Technology Resource Centers (CRT).

A new partnership signed

On this occasion, a partnership agreement was signed between the Carnot Network and the CTI Network to jointly accelerate the transition from research to innovation
for industrial companies and thereby contribute to the industry’s technological future. Together, they are committed to:

• Strengthen their links to mutually promote the originality and points of success of their models to their institutional supervisors, professional federations and industry support relays.
• Promoting excellence in research and development conducted at their respective establishments
• Jointly encouraging companies to dare partnership research with an Institut Carnot.

Partnerships awarded four Carnot prizes

The 2023 edition also enabled the Carnot Network to present the Carnot Partnership Research Awards, which highlight outstanding partnerships between
teams from the 39 Carnot Network institutes and companies. Four prizes were awarded by four personalities in four categories:

- Research partnership with an SME: Sylvain CAILLOL, CNRS Research Director at the Charles Gerhardt Institute (Carnot Chimie Balard Cirimat), in partnership with Sÿnia, European leader in embossed adhesive labels. Sÿnia was looking to reduce its impact on the environment, and this partnership led to the development of a polyurethane formula with over 80% renewable carbon.

– Partnership led by a young researcher: Irène GONZALEZ SALGADO, from the UMR 792 TBI team at Carnot 3BCAR, for a project conducted with the
company NEREUS, which specializes in membrane processes used in the treatment of wastewater and industrial and agricultural effluents. This project has led to the development of
a new production process for nitrogen fertilizers from digestate, a byproduct of biogas production via anaerobic digestion.

- Long-term partnership (3 years +): Laurent FULCHERI, Director of Research at the Centre PERSÉE at Mines Paris (Carnot M.I.N.E.S). After thirty years of research, this prize rewarded a long-term collaboration with the American company Monolith for the production of "turquoise" hydrogen by high-temperature pyrolysis of natural gas, a low-energy-intensity process that enables the co-production of decarbonated hydrogen and solid carbon with high added value.

- Partnership research supporting the creation of a company: Maeva DORON, from the Person-Driven Systems Laboratory of the Carnot CEA LETI, in partnership with Diabeloop, a company specializing in automated diabetes treatment, and the CERITD association, founded by diabetologists. The project involved the development of automated insulin delivery solutions for insulin-dependent people, enabling personalized diabetes management while reducing the patient's mental workload.

"The diversity of the projects rewarded by the Carnot Partnership Research Awards demonstrates the breadth of the field covered by the Carnot Network in terms of research, development and innovation. Each in its own field, these four awards illustrate the quality of the collaboration between Carnots and companies, and the concrete results achieved through these partnerships". Alexandre BOUNOUH, President of the Carnot Institutes Network.

Strate Design school, part of the Carnot TSN institute, honored

To design the trophy awarded to the recipients of the Carnot Awards for Collaborative Research, the Carnot Network enlisted the help of Strate Design School. For the design process, the school held a competition for its students, who submitted twenty trophy designs, from which the winning entry was selected. Strate Design, which has campuses in Sèvres,
Lyon, and Bangalore, is part of Carnot TSN. It has established a research hub to improve understanding of the societal challenges associated with the Third Industrial Revolution through two research laboratories: Exalt Design Lab and Robotics by Design Lab.

The projects of Strate Design students, who worked on the Strate x Carbone 4 partnership project, were also on display at the Carnot TSN Institute stand, in the form of panels covered with captivating photographs (see photos below).

With more than 8,000 face-to-face meetings, the 2023 edition of Rendez-vous Carnot was once again the ideal meeting place to respond to the challenges of all business sectors. This series of conferences and roundtables brought together SMEs, ETIs and major groups: a real rendez-vous with all R&D and innovation players, and a benchmark event in France for meetings between research players and companies of all sizes (37% major groups and 35% start-ups) and from all business sectors. Each year, the Rendez-vous Carnot is a true gathering of the French ecosystem of partnership research under the aegis of the Carnot Network.

Relive the highlights of the event in pictures: