Research-Industry Forum SOLEIL October 8th 2015 - 9:00-12:00

The Research-Industry Forum was established at the initiative of the Industrial Partners for Large Scientific Instruments Association (PIGES), with the support of its three main technology partners in the research community, IRFU within CEA, IN2P3 of the CNRS and SOLEIL.

It is structured around four main aims:

1. Presentation of areas of activity and expertise of each member company of the PIGES Association, in order to introduce students, trainee engineers and PhD students to industrial activities that have openings for young graduates,
2. Presentation of the employment dynamic of the three research structures regarding their trainees, apprentices and PhD students,
3. Presentations by young people currently under training of a range of internship topics and theses within the three research structures, in order to enable industrialists of the PIGES Association to discover new talents that could facilitate the integration of devices and innovative methods in their businesses,
4. Direct discussions between the directors and representatives of these companies and young people being trained in these three research structures.

This forum is part of a comprehensive approach to encourage the mobility of staff between research organizations and industrial companies. The external mobility of its engineers, researchers and PhD students to industry is one of SOLEIL’s three pillars in its research development activities, the other two being research partnerships and the transfer of knowledge (know-how, patents, software, etc.).