All the LabComs

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The University of Bordeaux is involved in more than twenty joint laboratories (LabComs), which are invaluable tools for scientific and industrial cooperation between universities and businesses.

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The purpose of a LabCom between one or many companies and a laboratory is to fuel a partnership based on structured research and likely to have a leverage effect on both scientific production and innovation. Through its contractual framework, a LabCom is designed to embody a long-term approach based on the parties involved together building a scientific programme that will best address the technological challenges faced by the industry. Human, material and intangible resources are pooled together within the joint research unit, which is based on shared governance between the company and the academics.

Under the name ‘LabCom’, the University of Bordeaux includes joint laboratories but also mixed research units (UMR) that the company supervises, OpenLabs and JointLabs, Scientific Interest Groups (GIS), joint research teams, and others.

LabComs involving the University of Bordeaux

Valid as of 1 January 2024, the list below (links in French only) is ordered alphabetically based on the repository of sectors in Nouvelle-Aquitaine.

 

Aeronautics, space and defence

Agriculture, food and fisheries

Chemistry and materials

Sustainable construction

Electronics

Forest, wood and paper

Digital technology

Photonics, laser technology and microwave systems

Health

LabComs in which the University is involved in pursue several goals, namely to work in a spirit of ethics and trust with industry players, to remove critical technological barriers to development, and to create value. The nature of the value could be academic (by producing results that can be published in journals) or technological (by filing patents and, where possible, their industrial transfer), not to mention the training provided to Master’s degree and PhD students, who progress in an environment that is especially conducive to making them more employable.

Eric Papon, Project Manager for Industrial and Socio-economic Sectors

List of LabComs that have stopped operating (since 2022)