An innovative ecosystem for digital transformation
The National Center on Networks and Systems for Digital Transformation is an Institut Mines-Télécom initiative to promote an ecosystem combining advanced research, innovation, skills transfer and development. It establishes a continuum between the academic world and companies to make a major contribution to meeting the challenges of digital transformation. It designs and integrates emerging technologies and new architectural paradigms into its work, taking into account the imperatives of sober resource consumption and new business models. The center accelerates synergies between the digital sector and other business sectors, such as energy, transport, healthcare and the industry of the future. It supports economic and social development through structural partnerships with companies and its global network of academic players.
Sectoral roots for tailor-made solutions
The Center works with players in the business world and the public sector, both in its core business and in several strategic sectors, such as energy, transport, industry 4.0 and healthcare.
For example, in the energy sector, work is focused on smart grid solutions to support the energy transition. In the transport sector, the Center is contributing to the development of connected infrastructures with highly distributed intelligence, particularly at the edge, integrating vehicular networks. In healthcare, it focuses on critical infrastructures for telemedicine, connected health and medical data security. For Industry 4.0, it addresses the sector’s specific challenges, notably in terms of responsiveness, robustness and security, while integrating new paradigms such as digital twins and mixed realities by placing the human at the center. In a transversal way, it deals with artificial intelligence for networks and systems, as well as networks and systems for artificial intelligence, which is becoming increasingly distributed.
A multi-school, multi-partner, multi-activity ecosystem
The Center federates the skills of Institut Mines-Télécom’s various schools, offering a portfolio of services that articulate research, innovation, skills transfer and development.
This coordinated approach, bringing together several schools, disciplines and activities, gives companies access to complementary and increasingly convergent expertise in fields such as telecommunications, cloud, IoT, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence for networks and systems, and advanced services. BearingPoint, Capgemini, Cisco, Ericsson, EDF, SNCF, Renault, Eviden, Hackuity, Nokia, Orange , Kineis and Thales, as well as IRT B-Com and SystemX, have already expressed their support for the Center as it tackles the technological challenges of tomorrow. Meetings are underway with many other players from a wide range of sectors.
The Center fully embodies the training-professional activity continuum, supporting both the development of talents’ skills and companies’ technological innovation. It will offer activities that enable companies to get involved in this continuum at an early stage, notably through end-of-training courses geared towards industrial projects, in conjunction with their business units. To this end, it will draw on ITM’s initial and continuing training courses and the IMTfor5G+ program, while developing new activities in synergy with the economic sector.
It fosters entrepreneurship by developing innovative activities, drawing on the Institut Mines-Télécom’s network of incubators.
A strategic lever for competitiveness, sovereignty and sustainable development
As a player in the field of digital sovereignty, the Centre helps companies meet the challenges of competitiveness by supporting them in their efforts to stay at the forefront of innovation.
The Centre plays a key role in major European and national research programs, notably those co-sponsored by the Institut Mines-Télécom, such as the PEPR “Networks of the Future” and FRAMExG (maturation/pre-maturation program), while also developing activities linked to international standardization processes, to which it contributes.
Thanks to its articulated approach, the Center is able to tackle subjects requiring a high degree of cross-functionality, such as sustainable development. The aim is to make the digital age less resource-intensive and help all socio-economic activities to better control their environmental footprint. Our work also takes into account issues of societal acceptability and regulatory aspects, as well as new sectoral and multi-sectoral geographies and emerging business models.
Institut Mines-Télécom, a privileged partner for companies
Institut Mines-Télécom is France’s leading public group of engineering and management Grandes Écoles.
Created to meet France’s economic and industrial development needs since the 19th century, the Grandes Écoles of the Institut Mines-Télécom have accompanied every industrial and communications revolution. Through research and the training of engineers, managers and PhDs, Institut Mines-Télécom meets the major industrial, digital, energy and ecological challenges facing France, Europe and the world. Today, together, we are imagining and building a world that reconciles science, technology and economic development with respect for the planet and the men and women who inhabit it.
News
- Launch of the Centre national Réseaux et systèmes pour la transformation numérique on January 30, 2025
- Winter training school : AI for Digital Infrastructure – Digital Infrastructure for AI-IMT NE, November, 4th – 7th, 2024
- Institut Mines-Télécom launches its National Center: Networks and Systems for Digital Transformation
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Members
A member of the Centre is a player committed to research and innovation, aiming to increase the impact and visibility of his or her activities.
He or she contributes to the valorization of research, participation in European projects, and the strengthening of links between teaching, research and industry.
The Center operates in a collegial and horizontal manner, encouraging each member to propose and pilot new activities while receiving information on events and making recommendations on its operation.
