Welcome to Inria Sophia Antipolis–Méditerranée Research Center MEDDAYS 2014 March,

The French Institute for Research in ICST Information and Communication Science and Technologies RESEARCH TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT AND EXPERIMENTATION EDUCATION AND TRAINING TRANSFER AND INNOVATION A scientific and technological public institution under the dual authority of the Ministry of Research and the Ministry of Industry - 2

Inria Key figures (2012) 4,350 People (60 % paid by Inria) Associated teams throughout the world 66 Research Centres in France 8 Project teams 180 Scientific publications 4,432 International conferences 41 A BUDGET OF Active patents (in total) 255 € 265M Of which more than 25% from external resources Scientists 3,500 1,282 Doctoral students 258 Post-Doctoral 546 R&D engineers Software 1, Spin off (in total)

Inria ’s Research Centres Inria RENNES Bretagne Atlantique Inria BORDEAUX Sud-Ouest Inria PARIS - Rocquencourt Inria LILLE Nord Europe Inria NANCY Grand Est Inria SACLAY Île-de-France Inria GRENOBLE Rhône-Alpes Inria SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS Méditerranée - 4

Applied Mathematics, Computation and Simulation 1 Algorithmics, Programming, Software and Architecture Networks, Systems and Services, Distributed Computing Perception, Cognition and Interaction Digital Health, Biology and Earth 5 Main research topics

Inria Project-Team 10 to 30 people working under a scientific leader supervision Focused scientific theme and international evaluation A limited lifespan : average 8 years, maximum 12 years Well-defined objectives and work program Linked to and cooperating with industrial and scientific partners in France and around the world A priori and a posteriori evaluation Inria Project Team 180 Inria Project- Teams in in partnership An organization that complements the universities - 6

European partnerships Key player in the European Research Area Involvement in more than 250 European projects under the 7 th Framework Programme (FP6/FP7) Involved in H2020 Founding member and driving force within EIT ICT Labs (French node), the cluster aimed to build the Future Information Society in Europe Founding member and driving force within ERCIM (European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics) W3C European host Development of contacts with major European industrial groups LIRA, joint virtual health and well being laboratory (Inria, Philips, Fraunhofer, CWI) Scilab, Objectweb consortia Creation of bilateral agreements with other European countries - 7

International relations Develop strong partnerships all around the world : Joint research laboratories for long-term cooperations LIAMA (Sino-French Laboratory for computer Science, Automation, and Applied Mathematics) JLPC (Joint Laboratory for Petascale Computing. Inria-Urbana Champaign, USA) LIRIMA (International Laboratory for Research in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics in Africa) CIRIC (joint Laboratory for Communication and information Research and Innovation Center in Chile) Inria project-teams associated with foreign teams for 3 years on a research objective (66 in 2012) Increase Inria attractivity An Internships program for master and PhD students (151 in 2012) Visits of scientists from many other countries - 8

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Milestones Creation in Sophia Antipolis scientific park Creation Inria Sophia Antipolis Centre First TCP/IP connection Europe – US - Operator of the first regional research computer network Creation of the W3C Europe office (Inria founder) Host of the European group ERCIM First Inria Project-team in Montpellier First Inria project-team with an European university (Bologna-Italy) - KIC EIT ICT labs creation Opening of the Campus SophiaTech th Anniversary of Inria Sophia Antipolis – Méditerranée Centre - 10

February, KEY figures (2012) 600 people including 510 scientists (researchers, lecturers, PhD students, post-doctoral, engineers ) and 90 staff support. 400 Inria employees and 200 by partners Budget 2012: 29,7 M€ including 21 M€ (state funding with 18 M€ for Inria Civil Servant Salary) 8,7 M€ external funding (contracts, software licenses, etc.) 3 sites: Sophia Antipolis/Nice (32 teams), Montpellier (5 teams), Bologna (1 team) m² of buildings on 7 ha in Sophia Antipolis 38 teams – 23 teams in partnership with CNRS, universities and engineering schools 50 nationalities 16 start-ups, including 9 since active patents, 280 software Evaluation by the French Evaluation Agency ( ): A+

Main scientific priorities Computational Medecine and Biology Omnipresent Communication and Computing Modelling, Simulation and interaction with the real world Research focused on scientific challenges addressing the needs of society such as health, environment, agronomy, energy, transports, telecommunications …

- 13 Applied Mathematics, Computation and Simulation (6 teams) APICS, ECUADOR, McTAO, NACHOS, OPALE, TOSCA Very high performance computing for computational sciences (national action) : Computer and Computational sciences at Exascale (national action) 1 Algorithmics, Programming, Software and Architecture (4 teams) AOSTE, GALAAD2, GEOMETRICA, MARELLE Networks, Systems and Services, Distributed Computing (7 teams) COATI, DIANA, FOCUS, INDES, MAESTRO, SCALE Perception, Cognition, Interaction (9 teams) AYIN, GRAPHIK, HEPHAÏSTOS, LAGADIC, REVES, STARS, TITANE, WIMMICS, ZENITH Personally Assisted Living (PAL) (national action) Digital Health, Biology and Earth (12 teams) ABS, ASCLEPIOS, ATHENA, BIOCORE, CASTOR, COFFEE, DEMAR, LEMON, MODEMIC, MORPHEME, NEUROMATHCOMP, VIRTUAL PLANTS CardioSense 3D, Cardiac Simulation (national action) Morphogenetics : Deciphering morphogenesis at multiple scales (national action) research teams 5 main topics

- 14 Start-ups created in Sophia

Euro-mediterranean relations Italy : Joint research projet team with Univ. of Bologna (Focus) (Davide Sangiorgi) Greece: Cooperation Agreement signed with the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. (September 2010) – Ioannis Emiris Tunisia: Visit of a delegation led by the managing director to meet our main partners : Enit Lamsin, Ensi, Sup’Com (March 2010). Strong participation within the framework STIC Tunisia. Many co-publications since Challenge MED IN Sup’Com Tunis. (July 2011) Algeria: 1st Algerian-French University/Research Conference. (October 2010). 1 Project STIC Algeria in 2011 and (project within the framework STIC-Algerie (Prof. D. Cherifi and L. Boumghar from USTHB, Alger). 4 teams involved with some Algerians partners. Marocco: Collaboration with the University of Marrakech, Institut National des Postes et Télécommunications Rabat, 1 permanent researcher in Opale. Since 2005, strong involment within the framework EuroMéditerranée 3+3 and International Laboratory for Research in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics (LIRIMA), created in Pilote of the CoAdvise project (FP7 « People » programme) : fund euromed. PhD theses Leader of the EuroMéditerranée 3+3 programme (Algeria, Spain, France, Italy, Morocco, Tunisia) International relationships (2013 1/2) - 15

International 19 associate teams mostly with USA universities (Stanford and Berkeley), but also Chile, Canada and Asia Teams of the centre are involved in : Inria-CNRS-FAPs cooperation in Brazil, STIC AmSud, Math AmSud, STIC Asia programmes, Poncelet France-Russia joint laboratory, LIAMA (joint laboratory with Chinese Academy of Sciences) 20 researchers and post-doc involved in the Communication and information Research and Innovation Center (CIRIC) in Chile, joint Center (Inria, Universities of Chile) Since 2006, about 1000 foreign researchers have been welcomed in the research teams. International relationships (2013 2/2) - 16

Training through research  150 PhD/year and 140 internship/year  Activities in computing engineery, training in industrial companies  Most advanced equipement Post-doctoral training Welcoming young foreign researchers Post-doctoral periods abroad ERCIM fellowships in European countries Fellowships for industrial post-docs Training and knowledge dissemination Teaching  University degree courses (Master)  Engineering schools (École Polytechnique, ENS, etc.)  Creation of international master of UNS (Biocomp – Ubinet) and with Montpellier, master TIC-Santé  Teaching computing and digital science to teachers in secondary school  Member of the GIS Ecole Normale supérieur de Lyon – UNS - CNRS – INRIA  Involved in the MPSI courses of CIV School in Valbonne Organizing courses and seminars  Setting up Inria courses, seminars and working groups  Organizing national and international conferences - 17

A research centre in Euroregion with an international influence Centre de recherche Lille – Nord Europe September Research Centre Sophia Antipolis - Méditerranée March,