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Organisation Description

Institut Mines-Télécom is a public institution under the aegis of the Ministries for Industry and Digital Technologies, working on a broad spectrum of themes and with extensive geographical coverage. Always attentive to the economic world, it combines strong, longstanding academic legitimacy with close corporate relations. A major player at the juncture between sciences / digital technology and the engineer, the Institute focuses the skills of its graduate schools on key areas of transformation: digital technologies, energy, production and their impact on the industry of the future, the city of the future, healthcare and autonomy.

 Its activities are conducted across French territory in nine engineering graduate schools: Mines Albi, Mines Alès, Mines Douai, Mines Nantes, Mines ParisTech, Mines Saint Etienne, Télécom Bretagne, Télécom ParisTech and Télécom SudParis; and one business school: Télécom École de Management.

 Institut Mines-Télécom plays an active role in national research programming alliances and is a founder member of the association Industrie du Futur. The quality and intensity of its research partnerships have also been rewarded by two Institut Carnot accreditations in 2006, renewed in 2011.

Institut Mines-Télécom supports innovation and corporate development. It trains 13,000 outstanding engineers, managers and doctors for the benefit of the economy. It stimulates the production of value-creating research: every year, 75 patents are filed and 2,000 A-ranking publications make their contribution to scientific progress. In addition, it promotes entrepreneurship and project incubation: every year some 100 start-ups come out of the schools’ incubators.

Institut Mines-Télécom plays an active role in national research programming alliances. The Institut is a member of the board of Allistene (Alliance for Digital Sciences and Technologies) that contributes to the definition of the French National Research and Innovation Strategy in ICT. Institut Mines-Télécom’ s researchers are nationally and internationally renowned for their excellence (6 ERC grants, IEEE senior members, Marconi Prize, Google Faculty Research Award, Blondel Medal, France Télécom Prize of the French Académie des Sciences, CNRS medals, …).

The Institut Mines-Télécom has a strong connection with industrial partners: joint labs (with Alcatel-Lucent, Orange, Safran, EDF…), Telecom Foundation with industrial partners (France Telecom/Orange, Alcatel-Lucent, SFR…), research chairs (Innovation and Regulation of Digital Services, Social Networks, Machine Learning for Big Data, Personal data values and policies,…). The quality and intensity of Institut Mines-Télécom research partnerships have also been rewarded by two Institut Carnot labels in 2006, renewed in 2011. Each year, some one hundred start-ups come out of the schools’ incubators. 

Institut Mines-Télécom is a global player with an international outlook, attracting people from far beyond French borders: 33% of students following Masters or PhD programs are from overseas and the Institute sends its students out to the best universities abroad. It is developing numerous research projects through the ICST Asia and ICST South America programs.

The Institute is constantly striving for excellence and is preparing the future by lending its collective weight to the development of a bold program to convert all courses to digital. The success of its many MOOCs (currently in French and from 2016 in English and Arabic) is just one public illustration of the teaching innovations introduced in its graduate schools.

Institut Mines-Télécom has participated in more than 100 FP7 ICT projects. The Institut has been the coordinator of a network of excellence on future networks (Euro-NF) as well as 2 current projects in security and cyber defence: NECOMA (Nippon-European Cyberdefense-Oriented Multilayer threat Analysis) and PANOPTESEC (Dynamic Risk Approaches for Automated Cyber Defence). The Institut Mines-Télécom plays a major role in Horizon 2020 by acting as National Contact Point (NCP) for ICT and as as National Contact Point for SMEs. IMT is currently participating in more than 50 Horizon 2020 projects