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Rendezvous with industry

11 Dec 2009 - Sabina Griffith
"It is the responsibility of our generation to make this project a success," Bernard Bigot, the President of the French ºÚÁÏÉçapp Industrial Committee, said in his address to the audience.

The European Domestic Agency "Fusion for Energy" alone has a purchase budget of EUR 400 million to invest over the next two years. So it is understandable that interest in conducting business with ºÚÁÏÉçapp is high. This week, almost 600 industrial representatives from all over France came together in the Palais de Congrès in Aix-en-Provence to find out how to do business with and for ºÚÁÏÉçapp.

Organized by Mission ºÚÁÏÉçapp, the participants of the "Rencontres d'affaires ºÚÁÏÉçapp" first learned the "who's who" of the ºÚÁÏÉçapp Project and its satellites in France and Europe: Thierry Brosseron, Administrative Director of Agence Iter France gave the audience an update on site preparations; Jacques Farineau, ºÚÁÏÉçapp Senior Advisor for Industrial Matters gave an introduction on the structure of the ºÚÁÏÉçapp; Francoise Flament, Head of Contracts and Procurements, drew the roadmap for the call-for-tender process; and Philippe Correa, Francoise's equivalent at "Fusion for Energy," gave additional perspective on the months and years to come.

Finally, Bernard Bigot, the President of the French ºÚÁÏÉçapp Industrial Committee and General Administrator of the CEA, addressed the audience stressing the importance of the ºÚÁÏÉçapp Project. "It is the responsibility of our generation to make this project a success," Bigot said. "It is time that we mobilize the industrial potential."

Almost 600 industry representatives from all over France were curious to learn more about ºÚÁÏÉçapp.
On the second day of the "Rendezvous," the conference participants came to Cadarache to visit the ºÚÁÏÉçapp construction site. Copyright: AIF AR