The challenges facingthe industry of the future require the involvement of multiple players, combining their strengths around common objectives. Created in 2004 by the government, competitiveness clusters are fully involved in this drive for innovation.
At the regional level, they bring together companies, research laboratories, and educational institutions around common themes such as energy, transportation, and digital technology. They thus play a key role in the development of innovative projects. Thanks to its diverse expertise and regional roots, Arts et Métiers of this collaborative approach as a member of several competitiveness clusters:
Dedicated to materials and processes, Materalia brings together more than 140 industrial and academic members. Located in the Grand Est region, the cluster has sites in Charleville-Mézières and Metz. Its projects focus on the materials of tomorrow, in terms of increased performance, weight reduction, functionality, and sustainable development.
The only competitiveness cluster dedicated to global security, SAFE Cluster has nearly 600 members. Located in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region, it focuses on several themes: resilient cities and territories, security and safety of sensitive infrastructure, defense, helicopters, satellites and airships, and autonomous systems.
Combining the Nouvelle Aquitaine and Occitanie regions, Aerospace Valley brings together a third of France's aerospace workforce and 8,500 researchers. Their skills are put to use in cooperative projects in several areas: aircraft, carriers, equipment and engines, energy, and autonomous aerospace systems.
Located in Loire-Atlantique, EMC2 operates in the field of advanced technologies, serving six sectors: aeronautics, naval, land transport, energy, boating, and equipment. The competitiveness cluster has close ties with a dynamic regional sector, that of mechanics and materials.
ViaMéca, located in the heart of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, is dedicated to innovation in the field of mechanics. With more than 150 members, the competitiveness cluster focuses its projects on four themes: surface engineering, advanced manufacturing processes, intelligent systems and robotics, and usage and service engineering.
ASTech Paris Région is a key partner in several sectors—space launch, business aviation, propulsion, and equipment through innovation. With more than 260 members, it drives projects in various fields, including onboard energy, testing and instrumentation, materials and processes, propulsion, vehicle architecture, and equipment.
Located in Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur and Corsica, Capenergies draws on a network of more than 500 members to meet the challenges of the energy transition. The competitiveness cluster calls on their expertise in three areas: energy efficiency, energy systems adapted to islands and isolated areas, and carbon-free energy production.
iDforCAR is a competitiveness cluster covering the automotive sector in the Pays de la Loire and Brittany regions. Its focus is on vehicle electrification, sustainable development, and the diversification of forms of mobility. In particular, it supports the 3DMAT innovation platform to develop a digital sector dedicated to vehicles.
With a thousand members, Cap Digital aims to make the Île-de-France region a European benchmark for digital technology. It has two missions: developing R&D projects and creating an ecosystem that encourages start-ups and investors to meet. Cap Digital organizes the Futur en Seine festival, an annual event for the digital economy.
Located in Brittany, the Images & Networks competitiveness cluster focuses on digital technologies. Its members work on six themes: networks and the Internet of Things; big data and multimedia; digital security and trust; interactions, immersions, mixed realities; software and engineering; and the user as a collaborative producer.
The Burgundy Nuclear Cluster brings together more than 200 players in the French nuclear industry. It is active in several areas: eco-design and sustainability of nuclear components; testing of high-performance components; maintenance and decommissioning in hostile environments; nuclear concrete, civil engineering, and sensitive buildings.
In the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region, Optitec, with more than 200 members, drives innovation in the field of photonics. The technologies developed (lasers, optical fibers, imagers, light-emitting diodes, adaptive optics) are of interest to several sectors, such as energy, the environment, health, security, transportation, and space.
The SCS (Secure Communication Solutions) competitiveness cluster in Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur has more than 300 members covering the entire value chain of information and communication technologies. Its objectives focus on contactless technology, networks, mobile services, security, and digital identities.
