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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

[email protected]@fondation-altran.org

+33 (0)1 46 17 45 11

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