Welcome to the Charles Delaunay Institute website
Since 1 January 2008 all the UTT research teams have joined forces under the auspices of the Charles Delaunay Institute (CDI/ICD) and have been in association with the CNRS (National Scientific Research Centre) since 2006 as a FRE. (Formation de Recherche en Evolution : FRE 2848)
Beyond the scientific excellence sought in each field of research, the objective of the CDI is to increase the synergies of its teams under the heading:
“Science and Technologies for Risk Control”
The Charles Delaunay Institute is composed of 7 research teams representing the main disciplines in Engineering and in Information and Communication Sciences and Technologies.
They are assisted by technical staff in their research activities using state-of–the-art technology. Each one with his or her specific scientific expertise helps the CDI and its institutional and industrial partners, which in turn makes large-scale multi-disciplinary research programmes possible.
More than 80% of the funding, excluding in-house researchers’ salaries , comes from research contracts, a quarter of which corresponds to contracts with companies .The results of the research carried out can be seen both in international scientific publications and technology transfer.
Editorial
Dependability and security are terms which have become increasingly important within companies, organisations and in everyday life. Research in this domain can only be transversal and carried out in full collaboration on a double front : technology linked to Engineering Sciences and economics, organisation and society and the Human and Social Sciences involved. In order to broach this field of research in the best possible conditions, the UTT has called on all the synergies among its own teams from different areas of research and at the same time national scientific and industrial specialists to work on vast research programmes.
This was how the Charles Delaunay Institute came into being. A single research structure with a transversal risk control research theme and the GIS “Systems surveillance, dependability and security” with a dozen or so academic, institutional and industrial partners.
The National Research Agency (ANR) has chosen the UTT as its support structure in the ‘Concepts, Systems and Tools for Global Security’ call for projects . This can but reinforce the growing reputation of the CDI in its particular field of research.
Jacques Duchêne