Rendezvous with industry
The European Domestic Agency "Fusion for Energy" alone has a purchase budget of EUR 400 million to invest over the next two years. So it is understandable that interest in conducting business with ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ is high. This week, almost 600 industrial representatives from all over France came together in the Palais de Congrès in Aix-en-Provence to find out how to do business with and for ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ.
Organized by Mission ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ, the participants of the "Rencontres d'affaires ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ" first learned the "who's who" of the ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ Project and its satellites in France and Europe: Thierry Brosseron, Administrative Director of Agence Iter France gave the audience an update on site preparations; Jacques Farineau, ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ Senior Advisor for Industrial Matters gave an introduction on the structure of the ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ; Francoise Flament, Head of Contracts and Procurements, drew the roadmap for the call-for-tender process; and Philippe Correa, Francoise's equivalent at "Fusion for Energy," gave additional perspective on the months and years to come.
Finally, Bernard Bigot, the President of the French ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ Industrial Committee and General Administrator of the CEA, addressed the audience stressing the importance of the ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ Project. "It is the responsibility of our generation to make this project a success," Bigot said. "It is time that we mobilize the industrial potential."
