Strong, long-term collaboration with institutions and laboratories of excellence at the international level
These partnerships help reinforce existing collaborations and allow IMT to develop new priority areas of research.
Collaboration with TUM (Germany)
In 2015, as part of the partnership between the French Alliance for Industry of the Future and the German platform Industrie 4.0, IMT and Technische Universität München (TUM) presented a plan for the German-French Academy for the Industry of the Future. Learn more
Collaboration with Technion (Israel)
In 2014, IMT and Technion signed an agreement to confirm their ambition to collaborate in teaching and research in fields such as big data and sustainable smart cities. In 2016, a workshop on materials science and engineering was organized at Technion. Learn more
Partnership agreement with Russia
IMT, the Russian Academy of Sciences and Tomsk State University signed an agreement to create a joint laboratory, called Qualipso, in the area of web applications quality. Research will focus in particular on the use of formal methods for addressing issues concerning service validity and reliability. This laboratory is the result of a long-standing partnership between researchers at Télécom SudParis and from the IT department at Tomsk University. This initiative aims to strengthen and boost collaboration, in particular by promoting mobility among experienced researchers, PhD students and post-doctoral students from the three partner institutions.
CNRS Joint Research Unit IPAL – Image Pervasive Access Lab (Singapore)
IPAL is a bilateral French-Singaporean research laboratory created in 1999, dedicated to the fields of indexing and image retrieval by content and signal processing analysis. The laboratory, which became a CNRS joint research unit in 2007, has six different partners. Partners on the Singapore side include NUS (National University of Singapore) and A*STAR (Agency for Science, Technology and Applied Research) while its French partners include CNRS, Université Joseph Fourier (Grenoble), IMT and UPMC (Paris). IPAL works in the fields of medical image understanding (MIU team) and support for assisted living (PAWAM team – Pervasive Access & Wellness Management). Learn more
Partnership agreement with KAIST, ETRI, the Hankuk University of Foreign Studies and Kwangwoon University (Korea)
The ILLUMINE laboratory (International Laboratory on Future Media and Services), created in 2013, brings together IMT and four major Korean research players: KAIST (Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology), ETRI (Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute), the Hankuk University of Foreign Studies and Kwangwoon University. Developed around a multidisciplinary team, this laboratory draws on cutting-edge expertise in software systems, service architectures, the internet of things and social media. One main focus of the partnership is the consolidation of joint standardization initiatives at ITU-T and IETF. It is co-directed by two scientific directors: Noel Crespi (Télécom SudParis) and Ilyoung Chong (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies).
Partnership agreement with IIT Indore (India)
In 2013, IMT signed a cooperation agreement with IIT Indore (Indian Institute of Technology, Indore). Signed at the Technology India-France Technology Summit 2013, the agreement pertains to teaching and research.
Agreement with NICT (Japan)
In 2013, IMT continued its long-standing collaboration with the NICT (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology of Japan) by signing a new cooperation agreement to facilitate the launch of joint research projects, the circulation of information, mobility among research professors between the two institutes and the organization of joint scientific events.
Partnership with ICT4V Uruguay
IMT and the Uruguayan Technological Center ICT4V signed a partnership agreement in digital technologies in 2015. This agreement focuses on research, innovation and training in the field of digital technologies and applications in “vertical” sectors such as energy, health/biology, transportation, the environment, the agri-food industry and finance.