Edito - November/December 2017

2017 was an important year for Inria: the French national research institute for computer science and mathematics celebrated its 50th anniversary!  Wrapping up a year of celebration, a 2-day event was organized in Paris in November, gathering more than 600 participants. Inria placed its 50th birthday under the sign of foresight and collective intelligence, convinced that tomorrow's digital world will be the one we have designed together.  Also, the key role of international cooperation was highlighted during the Inria 2017 Award ceremony, as the "Support for Research and Innovation Award" was  given to Inria’s International Partnerships team for its contribution to the impact of the institute on every continent.

With 2018 just around the corner, we take the opportunity in this edition to have a look at all the events that made of 2017 another great year for the Inria@SiliconValley program!

Also this month, we begin introducing joint Inria-California projects that were launched since 2015, starting with LargeBrainNets between the Inria PARIETAL team in Saclay and the Stanford Cognitive and Systems Neuroscience Laboratory.

With 11 start-ups created this year, Inria continues to encourage and strongly support the creation of start-ups originating from the research teams. In 2017, two "made in Inria" start-ups, iEx.ec and Lybero.net, were selected by the NETVA program to spend a one-week immersion program respectively in San Francisco and Washington D.C. to learn about the U.S. ecosystem for innovation in order to assess future opportunities for their business in the U.S.

In order to keep on strengthening the fruitful Inria-California cooperations in 2018, we encourage you to apply to available funding opportunities that are currently open to support your research collaborations! 

We wish you all a great holiday season and are looking forward to starting 2018 with new ambitious research and innovation projects! 

Valerie Issarny, program scientific coordinator, on behalf of the Inria@SiliconValley Team

NEWS

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1967-2017: Inria celebrated its 50th anniversary!
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FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES

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France-Stanford 2018 call is now open!
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