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13 years of innovation for human benefit
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Discover the Altran Foundation
Created in 1996 the Altran Foundation has :
A mission: to support and promote technologicalInnovation for human benefit
An award: an international award given each year ona specific topic.
A grant: one year of scientific and technologicalconsultancy offered by the Altran Group
A rigorous selection: an international panel ofspecialists independent from the Altran Group
The Altran Foundation for Innovation has been awarded twice at the ADMICAL Oscars.
It has received the special Jury Award in 2002 and the Fondation de France Award in 2006.
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How to get involved in the Foundations actions ?
Throughout the Award process
Thinking about new themes
Finding candidates and jury members to the Award
Coaching candidates
Short-listing projects: Short-Listing Week-End
Auditing finalists
Supporting the annual Laureate
and also promoting the Foundation actions
During external or internal events
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Altran Foundation for Innovations topics
1997: Memory& heritage
1998: Fightingagainst pain
1999:Water quality
2000:Food safety
2001:Improvingurban life
2002:Developingcountries
2003:Early
childhood
2004:Discovering,
understanding &enjoyingscience
2005:Overcoming
social exclusion
2006:Energy
2007:Mending thehuman body
2008 :Reducing CO2
levels
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2003 Award winner: Pierre-Henri BENHAMOU
DBV TechnologiesPatch for diagnosis of childhood allergies
Technological innovation
Ready-to-use patchesA way to identify a childs tolerance to main allergens (milk and soy)Results obtained after 48 hours and easily readable by doctors and parentsRelieves the child from distressing clinical procedures
One year later
Diallertest available mid-
June 2004 in France !
Altran Support:Finalization of product development (equipment, processes, form,quality, control system), Resolving production problems (seekingand managing partners), Market surveys (positioning, marketing,packaging, price, etc.), Design of a running industrial pilot
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2005 Award winner: Jonathan Wolpaw
BCIA Brain-Powered Remote ControlFor Paralyzed People
Laboratory of Nervous System Disorders of the Wadsworth CenterUSA
This new HMI records brain waves from the scalp and then
decodes them. This radically new system allows people tomove a cursor up and down and left and right, tospellwords, and evento control a robotic arm.
Objective:
transfer the technology from laboratoriesto patients home.
April 2006:a first email has been sent by a patient
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2007 Award winner: Jos SahelVision Institute
1,5 millions of people worldwide are suffering from maculardegeneration.
The retinal prosthesis will be introduced at the original position ofthe photoreceptor to stimulate the remaining retinal cell layersand thus produce visual images.
Developing a retinal implants based on new biocompatiblediamond structures
The prototypes realization is planned in 2009.
The first artificial retina is intended to be available in 2013
Objective of the support:Creating the basis of an industrial project
1. Audit / Diagnosis
2. Definition and operational deployment of a multidisciplinary team
3. Contextual analysis / State of the art
4. Simulation of a Biophysical System
5. Ex-nihilo creation of a new product
Artificial RetinaEnabling blind people to partly recover vision
functions
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2008 Award
Reducing CO2 levels in the atmosphere
our technological challenge!
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2008 Award First results
More than 25.000 people were directly informedMore than 780 people asked for the application form
159 project holders decided to apply138 international coaches are involved in the coaching scheme
Number of candidates in France
Number of candidates per country
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The 2008 Schedule
April, 7th 2008 Prize Closure
June 2008 Consultants week-end - first selection of 40projects
September 2008 First meeting of the Jury - selection ofthe 6 finalists
October 2008 Grand Oral - Selection by the jury of thelaureate
January 2009 Disclosure of the laureates nameAnd of the Collaborators Favourite Award
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The 6 Finalists
Francisco GALLO MEJIA, Universidad del Pas Vasco UPV/EHU Basque's CountryUniversity (San Sebastian Donostia, Spain)Habitable Carbon Dioxide sink depot
Olivier LPINE, AlgoSource Technologies Company, partnership with JCLEnvironnement, Laboratoire GEPEA/CNRS (Nantes, France)AlgoSource Technologies
Christian MULLER, Holtzheim, Cooltech Applications (Holtzheim, France)MagCool
Arnaud MULLER-FEUGA, Microphyt Company (Montpellier, France)RUBISCO2
Siglinda PERATHONER, University of Messina (Messina, Italy)
Convert CO2 back to fuel
Casper VAN OOSTEN, Eindhoven University of Technology, Peer+ Company(Eindhoven, The Netherlands)Smart Energy Glass
Collaborators Favourite
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The winner is
Francisco GALLO MEJIA, UPV Basque's Country University (Spain)
BAMBOO BUILDING COMPOSITES FOR SUSTAINABLE HOUSING
This project is a bio-composite based on Guaduabamboo that can be used forbuilding in tropical areas and particularly in Colombia.
His ambition: Turning his dream of economic development for the people and
protection for the environment into a reality.
The project seduced the jury members by its three-dimensional and complementaryapproach: technical (realisation of efficient and cheap building boards, social andeconomic (development of the local economy) and environmental (CO2 storageand less emitting production).
Winning the Foundation Awardis a great pleasure: I expect theAltran team to reinvent therelationship between man,environment, economy and
society.
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Where to find information about the
Foundation ?
Website: www.altran-foundation.org
E-letter: www.altran-foundation.org
Direct: World Knowledge
Fondation Altran Community
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Thank you for your attention
Christian LE LIEPVREFoundation Director
christian.leliepvre@altran.comfondation@fondation-altran.org
+33 (0)1 46 17 45 11