Lille Metropole
5 clusters
The Lille area excels in several economic sectors and the French State has thus granted it five clusters labels.
I-TRANS, THE RAILWAY INDUSTRY AT THE HEART OF INNOVATIVE TRASNPORT SYSTEMS
Become the first European competitiveness cluster to win worldwide recognition for excellence in the design, manufacture, competitive operation and maintenance of innovative transport systems with leading positions in terms of market share, capacity for technical innovation, growth and attractiveness.
4 strategic themes:
- Interoperability,
- Intermodality for freight or passengers,
- Intelligent transport systems,
- Inovation for economic development.
TRADE INDUSTRIES
This Cluster has set itself 4 objectives for the coming decade:
- to develop decision-making centres and strategic functions within the region,
- to become a globally recognized laboratory where the trade of the future is invented and tested,
- to have leading companies (in their respective fields) on all the major consumer markets in the world,
- to turn "Lille Metropole" into the international capital city for the trade of the future.
UP-TEX
Its mission is to bring together and assist all the stakeholders in the textile-clothing sector in the field of innovative textiles and customization thanks to proven economic, industrial, scientific, marketing and technological skills.
"UP-tex", acting as the network's promoter, works in close cooperation with all the scientific, technical and economic resources at a regional, national and international level. It encourages companies to participate in innovation and R&D projects aiming at creating new offers in products and services so as to conquer new markets.
NUTRITION, HEALTH, LONGEVITY
This Pole was jointly established by the scientific community and industrialists working in the fields of Biology/health and Agro-Food. It promotes, and contributes to, research partnerships in the field of functional food, nutritional additives and foods to prevent diseases associated with metabolic disorders and ageing (diabetes, obesity, hypertension...).
R&D general themes :
- Formulation and development of foods and functional ingredients
- Identifying, then validating new biological targets
- Selecting molecules likely to act on such targets and controlling their synthesis and integration into a food, ingredient or drug
- Developing and improving suitable preventing pratices.
MAUD, MATERIALS FOR DOMECTIC USE
This Pole brings together, on the one hand, companies specializing in vegetal chemistry and domestic materials (paper, cardboard, glass, ceramics, polymers, steel), and, on the other, public and private institutions focusing on materials chemistry.
The objective is to achieve synergies in order to generate economic growth by improving the performances of materials for domestic use.
