Inria centre
at Rennes University

The centre has 28 joint project teams in Rennes (including 24 with the IRISA mixed research unit) and 1 in Lannion. Its activities occupy over 600 people, scientists and research and innovation support staff, including 50 different nationalities. The Centre also operates 2 joint project teams in Nantes with LS22N (Nantes Digital Sciences Laboratory).

Scientific priority areas:

• Secure digital society;
• Human-robot-virtual world interactions;
• Biology and digital health;
• Digital ecology.

Strategic lines of development

• Active participation by the centre in the integrated university project conducted by the establishments on the site;
• Reinforcement of the digital security activity in line with the Breton ecosystem and the Ministry of the Armed Forces, by setting up a multi-partner "Cybersecurity Centre"; 
• Reinforced technological development of the entire site, which will imply training and access to tools.

Ecosystem & Partners

The centre's project teams are operated jointly with the IRISA mixed research unit and the following academic partners.

The centre also has numerous partnerships, with:  

• Public research actors: le Pôle d’Excellence Cyber, les IRT (Instituts de recherche technologiques) b<>com et Jules Verne, les Laboratoires d’excellence CominLabs et le centre de mathématiques Henri Lebesgue.
• Innovation ecosystem: La French Tech Rennes Saint-Malo, Le Poool, Le pôle de compétitivité Images et Réseaux
• Local authorities: Rennes Métropole, Nantes Métropole, Région Bretagne, Région Pays de la Loire
• Major groups:
  • Startups (récentes) : Open Agora, Golaem, Case Law Analytics, Dilepix
  • PME-ETI : Cailabs, Energiency, Kereval, Obeo, Svibs, etc.
  • Grands groupes : Airbus defense & space, Alstom, EDF, Facebook, Google, Microsoft research, Mitsubishi Electric, Nokia, Orange, PSA Groupe, Safran, Total
• International academic partners: le centre de recherche possède 20 équipes associées à des instituts internationaux en 2019 :CWI, UCL, EPFL, University of California, Brkely Lab, Argonne National Laboratory, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Laurier, Universidad de Chile, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Chinese Academy of Sciences, etc.

Adresse Inria Rennes - Bretagne Atlantique Campus universitaire de Beaulieu Avenue du Général Leclerc 35042 Rennes Cedex

• How to reach us

Contacts

• Tél. +33 2 99 84 71 00
• Fax +33 2 99 84 71 71
• E-Mail

Other sites:

• ENSSAT Lannion
• IMT Atlantique Nantes