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Décember

New websites for the schools
Télécom SudParis and Telecom Business School have developed new websites – more dynamic, more user friendly and clearer.
View the Télécom SudParis website
View the Telecom Business School website

The Institut Telecom schools well placed in the 2012 rankings by l'Etudiant
L'Etudiant magazine has published its 2012 ranking of engineering schools. In the "postgraduate engineering schools" category, the Institut Telecom schools are a great success.
Télécom ParisTech is ranked in 5^th position in the A+ group. In Group A, there are Télécom Bretagne (15th) and Télécom SudParis (20th).
Two of our associate schools are also in this group: ENSEEIHT (21st) and ENSEIRB-MATMECA (22nd).
View the ranking on the website of L'Etudiant

November

Les assises du numérique 2011 The 4th edition of this event will be held on 30 November 2011 at Paris Dauphine University. Eric Besson, French Minister for Industry, Energy and the Digital Economy, and Frédéric Mitterrand, Minister for Culture and Communication, will both take part in this event. Guy Rousse, President of the Fondation Telecom, will give a speech at the closing plenary session on the theme of digital technologies for competitiveness and growth. Find out more and enroll

September

	3D to help advanced ophthalmic check-ups Orthoptica, a business incubated by Télécom Bretagne, is set to market an orthoptics kit designed to improve the ergonomics and relevance of orthoptic and ophthalmic check-ups, and is developing new optical rehabilitation tools. >> Read the article on the Telecom Bretagne website [in french]
ESIAL campus	The Lorraine School of Information Technology and Applications (ESIAL) joins the Institut Telecom associate schools network                                                  On Wednesday 21 September 2011 in Nancy, the Lorraine School of Information Technology and Applications (ESIAL), part of Henri Poincaré University (UHP), and the Institut Telecom will be signing the partnership contracts that makes the ESIAL the 7th Institut Telecom associate school. The contract covers training, research and innovation. >> Read the press release >> See the ESIAL website
	The ENSIIE School of Information Technology in Evry joins the Institut Telecom associate schools network On Tuesday 13 September in Evry, the National School of Information Technology for Industry and Enterprise (ENSIIE) and the Institut Telecom will be signing the partnership agreement that makes the ENSIIE the 6th Institut Telecom associate school. This agreement covers teaching, research and innovation.
Ménad Sidahmed, ENSIIE Director, and Jean-Claude Jeanneret, Institut Telecom General Director.	>> Read the press release >> See the ENSIIE website

July

Activity report The 2010 Institut Telecom activity report is online. >> Download the activity report [PDF in french]

June

Bourse aux technologies 2011
The fifth edition of the Bourse aux Technologies will take place this June 14, focusing on the theme of publishing technologies and multi-channel digital distribution (multiformat compression, metadata, semantic analysis, adapting content, creating collaborative tools, document formatting, channel optimization etc.). This event will take place at the Institut Telecom.
More details

© Caisse des Dépôts/Jean-Marc Pettina

Launch of France Brevets On June 9, Valérie PECRESSE, Minister for Higher Education and Research, Eric BESSON, Minister for Industry, Energy and the Digital Economy, and René RICOL, General Commissioner for Investment, along with Augustin de ROMANET, Director General of the Caisse des Dépôts, officially launched France Brevets at the Paris Chamber of Commerce and Industry. To find out more

Telecom Lille1 and Telecom Business School start a new double-diploma program Starting in September 2011, the Telecom Lille1 engineering students will be able to perfect their knowledge of management by taking some of their classes at Telecom Business School (TEM) in Evry. At the end of this double-diploma program, students will be awarded the TEM Grande Ecole Management Degree as well as their engineering degree. Find out more about this program

May

Students on the Impulse project win the 12th edition of the Challenge Projets d’Entreprendre®
Impulse created a QR Code to buy products by swiping posters or ads
June 2011. Over the last twelve years, the Telecom SudParis and Telecom Business School incubator has been organizing the Challenge Projets d’Entreprendre®, a competition for innovative start-ups with over 400 students from the two schools taking part in 50 mixed teams of managers and engineers. The Impulse project team won the 12th edition of the Challenge held on 26 May in the new premises of Bouygues Télécom in Issy-les-Moulineaux.
>> Read the press release (in french)

"Télécom & Société Numérique"* Carnot 2 accredited to develop research partnerships in ICST
On 28 April, Valérie Pécresse, French Minister for Higher Education and Research, published the list of the 34 institutions and laboratories that have been Carnot 2 accredited. These new institutions will be receiving €60 million a year for 5 years through the ANR to foster research by public laboratories working in partnership with private enterprises.
Among the new beneficiaries, "Télécom & Société Numérique" includes several partners organized around the Institut Telecom in the field of information and communication technologies.
>> Read the press release
>> More about Institut Carnot Télécom & Société Numérique

Inauguration of the LINCS joint laboratory
The public-private LINCS joint laboratory – Laboratory for Information, Networking and Communication Sciences – was inaugurated on May 2 2011 in the presence of Valérie Pécresse, Minister for Higher Education and Research, Jean-Luc Beylat, President of Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs France, Michel Cosnard, President and Director of INRIA, Jean-Claude Jeanneret, Head of Administration at the Institut Telecom and Jean-Charles Pomerol, President of UPMC.
This new research facility, dedicated to work on the future of the internet, was founded jointly by INRIA, the Institut Telecom, UPMC and Alcatel Lucent.
>> Discover the Institut Telecom’s other joint laboratories

April

Telecom Business School and the Ecole des Mines d’Albi launch a dual-degree program for ‘engineer-managers’ Starting in September 2011, engineering students at the Ecole des Mines d’Albi will be able to polish their management skills by taking a number of courses at Telecom Business School (TBS). At the end of this dual program, students will receive the diploma of TBS’ Grand Ecole Management Program, in addition to their engineering degree.

Bruno Verlon, director of the Ecole des Mines d’Albi, and Denis Lapert, Director of TBS, signing the new agreement.

The 2nd Institut Telecom National Convention for Innovative Small Businesses The second Institut Telecom national convention for innovative small and medium-sized businesses was held on April 6, bringing together over a hundred start-ups as well as researchers and big business partners (Orange, TDF, Presstalis, PMU, Viadeo, ...) for themed workshops on topics such as 3D, social networks, networking and broadcasting, security, cloud computing / HPC, cross-media communication and more. >> Read the press release

March

Fondation Telecom Awards for Best Work Placement The prizes for the best work placement reports of 2010 were presented to students from the Institut Telecom schools on March 22, at the offices of SFR in the heart of Paris’ La Défense business district.   >> Find out more about this event on the Fondation Télécom website

The Institut Telecom taking on 400 staff members in 2011
This year, the higher education and research establishment the Institut Telecom is taking on 12 professors, 250 PHD/post-doc students and 150 R&D engineers in its engineering schools and its management school.
The recruitment campaign for professors will come to an end in late April, with the professors starting work in September. Recruitment for the other positions will be spread over the whole year.
Read the press release
Find out more about the recruitment

Two award-winning researchers at Eurécom, Sophia-Antipolis

Leyla Bilge-Yumer, one of the establishment’s PHD students, has won the "2011 Symantec graduate fellowship" for her work on the detection of highly advanced computer viruses – the infamous "botnets" which are networks of zombie machines. >> Find out more (in french)

Petros Elia, Professor in the Mobile Communications department, has received the "Distinguished Achievement Award" from the Newcom++ network. This distinction was awarded for the quality of his research for Newcom, the European network of excellence in wireless communications. >> Find out more (in french)

February

The Université Européenne de Bretagne (UEB) launches ‘UEB C@mpus’, Europe’s first digital campus

 
On 7 February the Breton PRES, of which Télécom Bretagne is part, inaugurated 3 immersive telepresence rooms connecting its establishments in Rennes, Brest and Lorient. The three interconnected sites form the ‘UEB C@mpus’, Europe’s first digital campus.
With capacity of 18 seats each, these new digital spaces are now active and ready to be used for training courses, research programs and governance of the Breton PRES. Fitted with state of the art equipment, they are designed to connect geographically-distant students, professors and decision-makers under similar conditions to face-to-face dialogue, with the greatest simplicity of use.
>> Go to UEB website

Telecommunications Forum 2011 The students of Télécom ParisTech, Télécom SudParis and Telecom Business School have joined forces this year to organize the 19th edition of the Telecommunications Forum held on 10 February at Expo Porte de Versailles, Paris. The must-attend recruitment event in France, the Telecommunications Forum attracted more than 80 businesses and 4,200 visitors in 2010. This year and for the 3rd consecutive year, the Institut Telecom’s Business Observatory will be conducting a survey on employment trends among the companies present. >> Read the press release >> Go to the Telecommunications Forum 2011 website

Publication of “Evolution des innovations dans les télécoms: histoire, techniques, acteurs et enjeux” in the Collection Telecom This book traces the history of the main technical, regulatory and industrial innovations in the development of telecommunications and later ICT. It shows that the sector has been a genuine laboratory for the uses and practices of industrial innovation. Limiting monopolies, protecting intellectual property, public-private partnerships and outsourcing – these are all issues of the 21st century that were raised in telecommunications as early as the 19th century. This book written by Claude Rigault, Professor at Telecom ParisTech, is richly illustrated and offers the reader a reminder and a better understanding of the issues of innovation. >> Read the press release >> Find the latest works published of the Telecom Collection

A new approach to digital trust! After eight months of exploration, collective thinking and creative work focused on digital trust, the FING, the Fondation Telecom and La Poste are offering you the chance to take part in the debate on the areas of innovation identified in the Digital Trust expedition. The Think Tank Trust Group’s results will be presented on February 1st from 1.45 pm to 6 pm in the auditorium of the La Poste Conference Center >> Find out more about the presentation of results and scenarios of the “trust expedition”

January

Wednesday 19 January: start-up of the venture capital company Télécom Technologies Transfert, a partner of the Institut Telecom, with the backing of CDC Entreprises and the European Investment Fund Read the press release

The Institut Telecom ever-present on web 2.0. After the YouTube channel and the Facebook and Twitter accounts, Institut Télécom Tv has now opened. It will be screening the main events of the Institut Telecom and the Fondation Telecom. The channel is hosted on a collaborative TV platform - Tech toc tv – which has a network of 9,000 members with a profile of decision-makers in the information technologies. The videos of the Fondation Telecom breakfasts and the Triptyque event are already online. Click here to join the community

Telecom ParisTech and Telecom Bretagne live on Campus Channel
Campus Channel is a web TV channel that offers live events with engineering and commerce grandes écoles and universities. Web users can ask guest speakers questions by sending an email a few days before or live during the event.
Yves Poilane, Dean of Telecom ParisTech, will be speaking on Thursday 20 January at 7 pm, and Marie-Catherine Mouchot, Communication Director of Telecom Bretagne, will answer your questions on 4 February at 7 pm.
Go to the Campus Channel site

New degree course at the ENSPS Strasbourg ENSPS, an Institut Telecom associate school, is starting a new ICT-Health degree course in September 2011. The objective is to address the new technological issues and challenges facing the health market. The course lasts three years, half of which is devoted to the acquisition of high-level knowledge in the field of ICT. The gradual introduction of classes, placements and projects allows students to immerse themselves in the Health world. Find out more about this new ICT-Health degree (website in french)