| September 16, 2011, previous day of European Heritage Days, the Région Ile de France, the Ministry of Higher Education and Research and the Ministry of Culture and Communication have laid the foundation stone of the platform IPANEMA in the presence of the project partners: the CNRS, the National Museum of Natural History, NWO and the synchrotron SOLEIL. 
From left to right :
Bertrand Lavedrine (Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle), Louis B.J. Vertegaal (NWO), Jacques Stern (Ministère de l’Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche), Jean Daillant (synchrotron SOLEIL), Isabelle This‐Saint‐Jean (Région Île de France), Bertrand‐Pierre Galey (Ministère Culture et de la Communication) et Bertrand Girard (CNRS).
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