ACADEMY
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20 January 2020
Attractiveness of the professions, attractiveness of the territories and challenges for industry
The contribution that the various uses of technology can make to the attractiveness of jobs, companies, training and regions. Technologies, particularly the digital technologies, but also technologies that contribute to the ecological transition and the fight against global warming help to improve the attractiveness of the industry’s trades/professions and territories. The digital technologies reduce the handicaps of small and medium-sized towns and rural territories by reducing distances; they facilitate access to health services, they enable the development of knowledge and skills everywhere, and they contribute to the competitiveness of industrial companies, wherever they are located18. In the medium term, they […]
21 September 2018
The rise in technological skills of SMEs: the case of industrial companies
On 20 September at Dassault Systèmes Prime Minister Édouard Philippe presented the government’s plan to transform French industry through digital technology, stating that “this new industrial revolution must not remain the prerogative of a few groups”. At approximately the same time, the National Academy of Technologies of France, in a report adopted in plenary session on 12 September, calls for a general and immediate mobilisation to boost the technological skills of industrial SMEs. After the publication of the report “Industry of the future: from the technical system 4.0 to the social system” (2017), the National Academy of Technologies of France […]
10 July 2017
A robot-intensive strategy to re-industrialize France – Advice note
Advice Note adopted by vote by the National Academy of Technologies of France (NATF)in Plenary session, July 5, 2017 In the framework of the Programme “A new industrial France” and with the perspective of seeing French robotics playing a key role in the re-industrialization of our economy with a restoral of national competitivity on the global market-place, the National Academy of Technologies of France (NATF) has analysed and presents herein a status report on French robotics. The Academy underscores the challenges the country must face and issues recommendations to reposition the French robotics sector in terms of international competition. Current […]
08 January 2017
Technologies and innovation territories
Where is the economic dynamism, where is wealth created, what are the drivers of innovation? Where are we today in terms of territorial dynamics and innovation dynamics? The National Academy of Technologies of France devoted its 2017 annual seminar (11 and 12 October) to studying this vital subject for France. This seminar shows that at a time when France has experienced both a territorial reform (NOTRe law of 2015) and a metropolitan development of (MAPTAM law of 2014), and multiple initiatives aimed at developing its potential for competitiveness and innovation, the challenges of innovation in the territories are still fundamental. […]
10 November 2015
Technology and climate change several solutions to mitigate the effects and to adapt
Advice Note adopted by vote by the National Academy of Technologies of France (NATF) in Plenary session, November 4, 2015 Ever since the National Academy of Technologies of France (NATF) was established [2000], it has dealt with the relationships – in its academic reports, advice notes and recommendations – between technology and the economic, social and environmental impacts due to the deployment of human activities. The COP21 conference is an important milestone is the framing of a global policy in the area of climate change, but certainly will not spell the end of a process that will continue for numerous […]
15 May 2013
The use of english in higher education
Following suit to various opinions expressed in the preparatory phases of a new French law for Higher Education, in regard to use of the English language in French Higher Education, the national Academy of technologies of France (NATF) approves the measures proposed by the Government, taking into account the following two considerations: Non national students and academic teaching staff in France In the ongoing global economic competition, knowledge represents a strategic challenge. France’s Higher Education must be in a position to attract the most promising non national students and the best international research scientists, who will later become our ‘ambassadors, […]
07 July 2009
Reform of teacher recruitment and training
NATF (the French National Academy of Technologies) ISSUES A RECOMMENDATION IN RESPECT TO RECRUITING AND TRAINING OF TEACHERS FOR FRANCE’S ‘PROFESSIONAL LYCEES The National Academy of Technologies of France wishes to draw public attention to the current situation in French ‘Professional’ Lycées that NATF is following closely. NATF strongly recommends that the majority of the teacher recruitment be carried out in the professional sectors, especially in those areas where the skill or trade does not have an academic or university base, inasmuch as the skills and know-how are acquired “hands on”. Arrangements should be made so that highly qualified and […]