ACADEMY
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29 September 2017
Joint recommendations for the nuclear energy future
In the later part of the year 2016 the Chinese Academy of Engineering and the French Academies (National Academy of Technologies of France and French Academy of Sciences) set up a joint Franco-Chinese study group. Its general objective was to prepare a common position paper to distil policies and technology options, including safety and waste management, for making nuclear power generation a component of future energy mixes in countries with the appropriate potential for implementing this energy. Nuclear energy contributes to the reduction in emissions of CO2 in the atmosphere Regarding overall civil nuclear activities, France and Russia may, at […]
11 July 2017
Modifying thermal regulations for new buildings to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions at least cost
Advice Note adopted by vote in Plenary session, July 5, 2017 In autumn 2016, in compliance with decisions taken at the COP21, France lodged with the UN headquarters the French nationally determined contributions (NDC) for the Climate. As of now, only GHG (greenhouse gas) emission reductions are compulsory. Strategies to improve energy efficiency and the development of renewable energy sources must therefore be subordinate to the NDCs, while taking into account the development of associate industrial sectors and their economic efficiency to limit GHG emissions at least cost. The future regulations for new buildings, so-called RBR 2018-2020 (1) do not […]
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. […]
13 July 2016
Opinion on the regulation of targeted mutagenesis in plant breeding
Opinion adopted by the Academy of Agriculture of France and the Academy of Technology on July 7, 2016 Since the early 1990s techniques of induced mutagenesis targeted by biotechnological processes have been developed. Targeted mutations obtained are of great interest for plant breeding as they can accelerate the creation of varieties of interest and therefore reduce costs associated with it. In a regulatory landscape still confused at the European level, and in the absence of hindsight on concrete data from the field, the two French Academies in their opinion voted on July 7, 2016 call public authorities permit the development […]
28 June 2016
How we perceive risk factors
In their new Academic Report, the National Academy of Technologies of France (NATF) – recalling that their motto is ‘Sharing reasoned, chosen Progress – analyses the question of how we perceive risks that accompany any form of innovation. The Report acknowledges the controversies that surround certain applications of science and certain technological innovations and raises the implicit political issue of the ‘city’s project’ and its objectives: what do we wish to do collectively with new knowledge and powers conferred by science and technology? Embedded in the controversies that certain applications of science and certain technological innovations raise, progress per se […]
17 June 2016
Health’ foods
The National Academy of Technologies of France (NATF) has been led to the conclusion – following in-depth studies on recent results due to introduction of new technologies in the complex area of health issues and their interactions with foodstuffs and feeding – that there are emerging generations of new products that underscore the importance of this sector to the French economy. NATF would strongly welcome a modification of existing rules and regulations that would enhance and accelerate their development. Certain companies in the foodstuff sector either produce and/or use molecules or microorganisms (probiotics) in their formulae that have noteworthy effects […]
21 April 2016
Technology and climate change: several solutions to mitigate the effects and to adapt
The fight against the adverse effects of climate change has become a civilization issue, as much as is the objective to seek ‘peace on Earth’. Thus, measures to ensure reduced GHG emissions and to allow for preventive adaptations are necessary as of now. The areas concerned are numerous: agriculture and forests, energy, urbanism and transportation, industrial sectors, coast-line preservation, qualitative and quantitative supplies of drinking water, new manufacturing modes and shared economies, lean and adaptive management of Earth’s resources and their utilizations … It is primordial, henceforward, to shift to a more intense level the actions engaged to date and […]
02 March 2016
Joint academic report and recommendations in regard to implenting next generation genome (NGS) sequencing techniques in France
An Academic Report sets out the official stance of the Academy – the National Academy of Medicine of France (ANM) adopted the Report and Recommendations at its plenary session convened Tuesday February 23, 2016 by a vote. Next generation sequencing (NGS) technologies, which allow high speed automated DNA sequencing, DNA sequence analysis and comparisons using big data algorithms are being used more and more in medical diagnosis, to provide prognosis information and for choosing a treatment that best fits the patient. The French “Académie nationale de médecine” (ANM) and “Académie des technologies” (NATF) jointly stress the scientific and medical importance […]
07 January 2016
Biodiversity and land-planning policies
Biodiversity and land-planning policies: local and global aspects, specifics and generalities Academic Advice Note adopted by vote in the NATF at its Dec.9, 2015 Plenary session The National Academy of Technologies of France (NATF) recommends that dynamic management policies in favour of biodiversity be included in land planning schemes. The Academic Advice Note approved by vote in the NATF’s December 2015 plenary session – resulting as it did from several years of investigations and debates carried out jointly with the Academy of Agriculture of France – recommends that all land planning schemes and projects include, as of the formal impact […]