IRT Jules Verne
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IRT Jules Verne in numbers (end of 2022)
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Our ambition
IRT Jules Verne, set up in 2012 as part of the Investissement d’Avenir (Future Investment) programme, is a industrial research centre dedicated to manufacturing. Its vocation is to improve the competitiveness of strategic industrial sectors in France by creating disruptive technologies for manufacturing processes.
Its mission is to speed up innovation and technology transfer to factories.
Our expertise
IRT Jules Verne offers 5 areas of technological expertise
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Our research topics
The IRT team works hand in hand with the very best industrial and academic resources in the manufacturing field.
Together, they strive to develop innovative technologies that will be deployed in the short to medium term in 5 research areas
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Mobility in the Industrial Environment | Manufacturing Flexibility | Assembly and Joining Technologies | Forming and Preforming Processes | Additive Manufacturing Processes |
Who are our solutions designed for ?
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Working closely with production equipment manufacturers and integrators, IRT Jules Verne caters to 4 strategic industrial sectors.
In its bid to provide comprehensive solutions up to scale-1 demonstrators, IRT Jules Verne installs and utilises a wide range of exclusive state-of-the-art equipment.
Our location
IRT Jules Verne concentrates the majority of its teams in its new premises, the NAUTILUS: an open and collaborative workplace in the heart of the manufacturing campus in the south-west of Nantes Metropole, close to Nantes Altantique airport, Airbus Atlantic Nantes factory, Composites & Ocean Technocampus, DAHER, Jules Verne Manufacturing Academy, etc.
A 7,000m2 building – including 4,000m2 of technological space – dedicated to industrial innovation.
1 Mail des 20 000 Lieues, 44340 BOUGUENAIS.

Photo de l’IRT Jules Verne à Nantes. © Valéry Joncheray
The IRT association
Since 2015, the 8 French Technological Research Institutes and the 7 Institutes for Energy Transition have come together under the roof of the “French Institutes of Technologies” association, whose main aim is to promote the IRT and ITE model in France and internationally, but also to promote exchanges, as well as coherence and complementarity of research programmes, between the different institutes.