Accelerate your innovation projects: a scheme for SMEs and small businesses

  • Benefit from reinforced and personalised innovation support
  • Take advantage of an opening to funders, institutions, strategic committees, calls for projects and associated funding
  • Join a community of practice and share with peers

 

A joint IRT Jules Verne – EMC2 cluster scheme

 

Since its inception, IRT Jules Verne has set itself the goal of involving innovative SMEs in its research projects and supporting them in their development. Thus, in 2017, IRT Jules Verne partnered with the EMC2 competitiveness cluster to create “Accès PME” (SME Access), a programme created especially for such companies and aimed at accompanying the emergence and structuring of an innovation project and its orientation towards the most suitable support system. The first results were on schedule in 2018, with the launch of FARAMIR, the first R&D project conducted by IRT Jules Verne to come out of the Accès PME programme.

 

Since its inception, the IRT Jules Verne has set itself the goal of involving innovative SMEs in its research projects and supporting them in their development. IRT Jules Verne has joined forces with the EMC2 competitiveness cluster to create “Accès PME” (SME Access), a programme dedicated to them, aimed at supporting the emergence and structuring of an innovation project and guiding it towards the most appropriate support mechanism. In 2021, the scheme will evolve towards even more intensive innovation support and networking.

 

For more information, please visit :

WWW.ACCES-PME.FR

 

Contact

Steven GUYOMARC’H
Manager of “Accès PME” programme
& EMC2 project manager
Contact

Success story: the example of the FARAMIR project

In 2018, the first version of the SME Access scheme gave rise to the FARAMIR R&D project conducted at IRT Jules Verne.

 

FARAMIR, the first “Accès PME” project

Bringing together two partners from the Grand Ouest region, Loiretech (SME) and Axiome (end-user), the FARAMIR project concerns the development of an innovative process based on hybridization of mineral additive manufacturing and vacuum impregnation of 3D preforms. The process will directly yield tools with characteristics equivalent to those made with modelling boards as well as the creation of other functional parts. Launched in May 2018 for a duration of 3 years, the project focuses on the automotive sector and incorporates innovative features designed to reduce the number of steps in the manufacture of complex and hollow parts, with integration of functions and hybridization processes, resulting in reduced raw material costs and manufacturing times.

 

 

Testimonial

“For Loiretech, whose collaboration with IRT Jules Verne goes back a long way, Accès PME is a real springboard for realizing the complex developments that we are not able to carry out on our own, and which enable us to remain competitive in the market. This arrangement gives us access to all the expertise on hand at IRT Jules Verne in order to produce an innovative process that meets the specific needs of our client. The small consortium within the FARAMIR project is also an asset to us and allows us to quickly benefit from concrete results. Accès PME in a nutshell? Agility, speed and results!”

 

Franck Bourcier, Director of Marketing and Innovation at Loiretech

 

 

   

 

> Additional information on the FARAMIR project