Digital Tourism in the Seine Valley call for experimentation

Client profile: Local tourism professionals

Client needs: Digitalize tourism industry to improve the services to client.  

Provided solutions

Digital Tourism in the Seine Valley call for experimentation was organised by the TES Cluster and Cap Digital (Paris cluster) including the specification of tourism local players. 

This project is part of the Interregional State - Region Plan for the Seine Valley that promotes cooperation between Normandy and the Ile de France region and aims to encourage innovation in the tourism industry in the area.

Advantage for the start-ups:

The award-winning start-ups thus benefit from special contacts with tourism players allowing them to introduce their devices in Deauville, from professional personalised support and from a workspace at Deauville Tourism’Up. The programme allows start-ups specialising in e-tourism to take advantage of this exceptional testing ground to try their devices in real-life conditions.

8 projects were launched.

AGRI’UP

Client profile:

Farmers in Normandy // Digital startups.

Client need:

Help farmers increase profit and sustainability of their operations by bringing efficient and breakthrough innovations all along the Agricultural value chain.

Make Normandy a key place for digital Agriculture by offering startups a unique environment to launch and grow their business, providing them with high technology infrastructures, guided expertise from the Village partners and field testing opportunities.

Provided solutions to meet the needs

AGRI'UP was created to promote the agricultural sector and attract start-ups in this field.

AgriUp is an association formed by TES, the Credit agricole Normandie, the Regional Chamber of Agriculture in Normandie and the cooperative Agrial. It includes a working place (le Village by CA normandie ) and a unique program.

Unique field testing program allowing startups to test, assess, and improve their products or services on a representative basis with significant statistical data.

Personalized Evaluation : Before selecting your Startup, Agri’Up assesses its target, needs and business model.

Offices: Startups are hosted on a business center dedicated to digital innovation : the Campus Effiscience

Relocation : Agri’Up helps startups located outside from Normandy settle in the Village thanks to the “Welcome Pack”, a simplified procedure designed by the Normandy Agency of Development.

Market: Startups receive advisory from Agrial and the Normandy Chamber of Agriculture to target their market, define and implement a commercial strategy.

Finance: Credit Agricole innovation specialists will bring their expertise on your business plan, your financial strategy and your subsidies applications.

Technology: IT experts from the TES cluster (e-secure transactions) can develop digital solutions to achieve your project and bring it to your customer fingertips.

Village network: The Village concept features a powerful network of nearly 24 upcoming Villages on the French territory and offices worldwide.

Ecosystem: Connected innovation clusters are the ideal environment for Startups to bring their ideas on the market in a structured and competitive way.

Community: A community of various actors in the Ag Business, all of them specialized in digital Agriculture.

Testing: The Chamber of Agriculture research facility is available for testing. Agrial 300 real farms network is also ready to test your product, give a constructive feedback and evaluate it on a significant statistical basis.

Communication: The Startups can communicate both individually and collectively, for stronger impact and cost optimization.

Mentoring: Your startup will have an industrial expert mentor dedicated to your business. You will work together to speed up the company’s development.

Collaborative innovative projects between members

Client profile:

Companies (large, SME's, MidCaps and research laboratories)

Client need:

Finding partner to develop innovative solutions and answer regional, national and european innovative call.

Provided solutions to meet the needs

TES is supporting its membres with individualized answer to help them to find partner and answer innovative calls: to find complementary competencies to fulfill consortia,  to identify the appropriate call, to get a label recognizing the quality of the answer

DU E-SANTE

A degree programme (Diplôme Universitaire (DU) e-santé), to train in the challenges of digital health issues: such is the offer by Université Caen Normandie  as a partnership with EM Normandie's InsIDE and the Pôle TES

Client profile:

Medical professionals and technologicaklSME’s.

Client need:

Needs and interrogations of health professionals, who have to cope  with the transformation of medical practices and engineers and manufacturers who wish to design new innovative solutions.

Provided solutions to meet the needs

This DU e-santé comprises 5 modules: Medicine, Law, Industrial Technique, and Entrepreneurship, offering 220 on-campus hours in total, combining academic lectures and practical applications. The legal and ethical framework, the recommendations by the National Medical Association are introduced, as well as societal and economic stakes.  The programme also helps getting acquainted with development stakes linked to e-Health solutions, as well as the launching methodology for a start-up, an area for which InsIDE contributes with its knowhow.  

The first session was opened in January 2018, 8 candidates was successfully graduated.

The next session will open in January 2019 will be mostly online and 16 candidates have already registered.

TECH DAY CARSAT Normandie

Client profile:

CARSAT Normandie is the representative of the French Pension scheme in Normandie.

Client needs:

Find technological solution to keep elderly people at home.

Provided solutions to meet the needs:

CARSAT Normandie is working together with the cluster to define its strategy and to meet the innovative company that are able to offer innovative solution. ON the other hand, the cluster is woking with innovative companies to introduce the market and to define the best solution at efficient cost.

3 projects are currently experimented: MADOPAN, PRESAGE and SKIP IT.