Newsletter
Sophia Antipolis: Alcatel-Lucent acquires OpenPlug
OpenPlug's acquisition expands company’s developer tools to make applications available on diverse operating systems and in more service provider stores
Alcatel-Lucent acquires OpenPlug, a cross-platform mobile software development tool provider based in Sophia Antipolis.

Sophia Antipolis: Monaco Telecom joins the Eurecom GIE group of industrial partners
The first of its kind, this partnership between Monaco and Sophia Antipolis opens the way to new forms of cooperation in information technologies
For EURECOM, the international engineering school and communication systems research centre, this new agreement strengthens their policy of close collaboration with enterprises and attests to the momentum in favour of technological innovation in the Sophia […]

SKYTEAM chooses Côte d’Azur to bring together its EMEA Sales & Marketing teams
SkyTeam will hold their quarterly meeting in Nice on 1rst and 2nd September in the Côte d’Azur showroom, upon the invitation of Team Côte d'Azur
Sales and marketing representatives of the SkyTeam Airline Alliance will hold their quarterly meeting in Nice on 1rst and 2nd September in the Côte d’Azur showroom, upon the invitation of Team Côte d'Azur, the economic […]

Join in the 2010 PACA ICT Innovation Awards
The 3rd PACA ICT Innovation Awards will be held to reward nine winners having focused their strategy on innovation
After the success of the first two Awards events, the SCS Cluster, in partnership with PRIDES SCS member associations (ARCSIS, Med Multimed, MedinSoft, MobiSmart, SAME, Telecom Valley) and with support from FEDER and the PACA […]

ESA extends ExoMars mission contract with Thales Alenia Space
The European Space Agency (ESA) has awarded a Contract Change Notice to Thales Alenia Space worth 98 M€ for the ExoMars mission to Mars
The contract extension will cover all program activities through March 2011, allowing the ExoMars industrial team to carry out the System PDR (Preliminary Design Review) in autumn 2010.

Amadeus delivers strong growth in first half results
Growth spread across both Distribution and IT business areas during 2nd quarter and 1st half of 2010. Adjusted net profit for the period increased 38.0%
Year-on-year first half highlights (six months ended 30 June 2010): • Adjusted net profit for the period increased 38.

Côte d'Azur: Virbac, operating profit records a very high increase : +68.4%
Growth in the companion animals segment has been very steady and sales in the food producing animals segment have also increased strongly
Net sales have grown by 26.

Sophia Antipolis: Creation of SKEMA Alumni
SKEMA Alumni, with 20,000 graduates the world over, is one of the strongest alumni networks in France
SKEMA Alumni was founded after the announcement, in July 2009, of the merger of the Groupe ESC Lille and the CERAM Business School to create the SKEMA Business School.

Agenda
- September 9: Smart Grids - Sophia Antipolis
- September 15: Information Meeting on calls for projects - SCS Cluster - Sophia Antipolis
- September 14: Minikonf "Employees' inventions: how to protect them?" - Sophia Antipolis
- September 16: Scientific Conference by Marcel Rufo - Sophia Antipolis
- September 17: Sophia Café - Eurobiomed - Sophia Antipolisa
- September 20 (Deadline): Call for applications - Prix Brillouin 2010
- September 23: Ecotox Evaluation of NCS - Grasse
- September 21-24: Smart Event 2010 - Sophia Antipolis
- Sept. 30 - October 1st: 3rd Forum Ecobiz des Communautés et Réseaux d'Entreprises - Nice
- October 1: OSE 2010 event - Water and Energy Colloquium - Sophia Antipolis
- 5-6 October: ETSI Business Innovation Summit to explore Transport systems - London
- October 6-7: SAME 2010 - Sophia Antipolis Microlectronics Forum
- October 7-8: ARCSIS Electronics Packaging Days - Gardanne
- October 19: Rencontres du Tourisme - Tourism and Mobility - Nice
- October 19-20: ETSI M2M Workshop - Sophia Antipolis
- November 15-21: Entrepreneurship Week
- December 2nd: Les entreprenariales - Nice Acropolis
- December 10: Green Investing Conference - Nice