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CEA

The Commissariat à l’Énergie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives (Commission for Atomic Energy and Alternative Energies) is a French public research organization of a scientific, technical and industrial nature. In France, the CEA’s 16,000 employees, nearly a third of whom are women, work in its nine French centers. They are involved in four areas of research, development and innovation: defense and security, nuclear and renewable energies, technological research for industry and fundamental research (material and life sciences).

Relying on a recognized expertise capacity, the CEA participates in the implementation of collaborative projects with numerous academic and industrial partners. It is intended to contribute to technological development and the transfer of knowledge, skills and techniques to industry.

The CEA was decided by French President Charles de Gaulle (1890–1970) in 1945, in the aftermath of the Second World War, when the various uses of nuclear energy took on a modern strategic character. France’s political ambition is to carry out “scientific and technical research with a view to the use of atomic energy in the various fields of science, industry and national defense”.

Nowadays, CEA’s missions have been adapted to many new scientific challenges – in particular those of life sciences and the environment.

www.cea.fr

CEREMA

The Centre d’Etudes et d’Expertise sur les Risques, l’Environnement, la Mobilité et l’Aménagement ...