European Satellite Navigation Competition

Nice-Sophia Antipolis, gateway for SATNAV applications

 

In 2011, the Nice Sophia Antipolis region has once again confirmed its participation in the eighth Galileo Masters event. This event marks an important step, Team Côte d'Azur is involved alongside the PACA EST Incubator in organising our region's participation in the competition.

 

This is a new and important step which, now that the competition is established, confirms Team Côte d'Azur’s desire to promote the organisations that support new projects and companies across our region, which remains the primary reason for our participation in this competition.

 

This cooperation will provide greater opportunity to present the ideas coming from our region in the competition and allow better identification of those that will become the start-ups of tomorrow.

 

The Sophia Antipolis Foundation, a historical partner, is still closely involved in organising this competition.

 

The competition of ideas officially starts on 1st April and will end on 30th June 2011.

 

An official launch will take place in Sophia Antipolis on 16th May 2011, during which the company Robocortex will be named Regional Winner 2010 of the Conseil Général des Alpes Maritimes' prize.

 
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They chose the Côte d'Azur

"Sophia-Antipolis is a very attractive region for any semiconductor company, for several reasons. The first one is that in the technology park of Sophia-Antipolis there is a solid tradition of analog and digital design, which is due to the presence of other big companies working in the same or similar markets, like Texas Instruments, Intel, STM and others. The second reason is linked to presence in the technology park of the Polytech'Nice-Sophia and other important schools.

That will guarantee our future growth since the region will always offer both experienced design engineers and you talents to hire."

Interview with Paolo Cusinato, Design Director of MAXIM Sophia-Antipolis design center

Talents

"For me, Sophia Antipolis is unique in Europe because of its multicultural nature which is evident daily, but also the concentration of a multitude of companies from the computing world in a single location."

Interview with Davide NOARO, Computer Engineer, Ausy, Sophia Antipolis

Our Experts

Jean-François CHAPPERON

•Inward Investments Manager

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Jean-François CHAPPERON was appointed in 2008 as Inward Investment Manager within the Business Unit in charge of  Information Technologies. Jean-François' direct responsibility covers Microelectronics & StatNav /ITS sectors.
Previously, Jean-François was responsible of Asian & Middle East markets for TEAM COTE D'AZUR. His major tasks included supervision of Asia Representative Office & Definition, Execution & Budgeting of Strategic Marketing Policies of Côte d'Azur area and Sophia-Antipolis International Science Park in Asia (Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Taïwan, China, India, Singapore , Malaysia, Middle East region).
He holds a Master Degree in Economics with a specialization in Marketing Management from the Institute for Business Administration of The Nice Sophia Antipolis University.

Key fact & figures

 

100 membership companies
8 world-class contractors
Pegase Competitiveness cluster

 

Companies:
Acri, Akka, Altran, Ausy, Benomad, Cobra Automotive Technologies, Dassault Systems, Elg, EPCOS, Geoimage, Geosat, GFI, Grooviz, Infoterra, EADS, Kuantic, One Too, Orolia, RASI, ,ScaiTech, SeaSatCom, Simplysim, Sita Equant, Sopra Group, Soditech, SpaceEyes, Studiel Ingemeca, Systems' ViP, Temex, Thales Alenia Space, Thales Underwater Systems, UDCast, Visteon

 

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