The Founding Members
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societal challenges
• Health, Well-Being and Aging • The Digital Challenge • Smart Territories, Prevention and Management of Risk
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Academies of excellence • Networks, Information, and the Digital Society • Complex Systems • Space, Environment, Risks and Resilience. • Complexity and Diversity of Living Systems • Human Societies, Ideas, and Environments
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Center of Modeling, Simulation, and Interactions
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Virtual Center of Pedagogical Innovation
Associated Members: Other partners of UCA through mutual agreements: INSERM, INRA, IRD, L’Ecole MINES ParisTech (for its Sophia Antipolis campus), EURECOM, CSTB, and the University of Paris VI (through the Oceanological Observatory of Villefranche). The University of Toulon is also affiliated with UCA through a partnership agreement
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The University of the Côte d’Azur is created
UCA’s strategic objectives:
The UCAJEDI Excellence Initiative
The French university landscape has recently changed. UCA is now one of 25 major academic clusters in France. The dynamism offered by research, training, and innovation will now be able to be fully expressed, offering a new dimension to the Côte d’Azur region.
• T o become a world-class research establishment that
The Excellence Initiatives (IDEX) are part of the national Investments in the Future Program. Their goal is to create, in France, pluridisciplinary clusters of higher education and research institutions that are highly competitive at the international level
• T o reinforce the capacity of its members and
partners to respond successfully to major national and international calls for proposals.
• T o promote excellence and innovation through new
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dynamic training and research programs, in particular through joint transdisciplinary projects.
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is highly visible and internationally attractive.
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• T o place UCA among the top 50 European universities
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in the area of commercialization and become a major actor in the creation of startups.
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• T o foster new relationships among its members and
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its partners in order to transform the research and training potential of our region and accompany its development.
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The UCAJEDI IDEX project is structured around five Academies of Excellence that reflect the scientific ambitions of the region, and targets three major societal issues: “The Digital Challenge,” “Health, Well-Being, and Aging,” and “The Smart territory, Prevention and Management of Risk.” These issues will be addressed through three Reference Centers which will ensure local anchoring of the project, harboring high level collaborative technological platforms in public-private partnerships.
• T o strengthen strategic local areas in order to increase
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UCA is the motor for an ambitious local strategy for the Côte d’Azur region, a strategy expressed through UCA’s candidacy for the IDEX award
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their international visibility and attractiveness, such as Sophia Antipolis, the Eco-valley, and the future East Nice health district.
The UCAJEDI project, which stands for “Joint, Excellent, and Dynamic Initiative,” was awarded the IDEX label in January 2016.
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“The Smart territory, Prevention and Management of Risk “
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Community of universities and establishments (COMUE)
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“Health, Well-Being, and Aging“
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“The Digital Challenge”