IRISA

IRISA (Institut de Recherche en Informatique et Systèmes Aléatoires), created in 1975, is a joint research unit (UMR 6074), including CNRS, University of Rennes 1 (main establishment), INSA Rennes and ENS Cachan (Brittany site) all being signatory establishments for the 2008-2011 new contractualisation.

IRISA, laboratory associated with INRIA, has numerous common teams with the INRIA within the INRIA Rennes – Bretagne Atlantique research center. IRISA also has a common team with the INSERM (Visages unit).

IRISA and Inria Rennes – Bretagne Atlantique research center share a common management team.

Through its approximately thirty teams on the sites of Rennes and Lannion, IRISA spreads its research activities in the field of STIC (information and communication sciences). It is made up of 575 people, including 95 professors-researchers (Rennes 1, Insa Rennes, ENS Cachan), 90 full-time researchers (Inria, CNRS, Inserm), 55 administrative personnel (Inria, CNRS, Rennes 1, Insa Rennes) and 190 PhD students.

IRISA is highly integrated in the region’s research landscape (Media and networks cluster, Ouest-Génopole, PRES UEB). It participates in an important number of projects financed by the ANR as well as to numerous European projects. Significant collaborations have been put in place with the industrial world, big groups and SMEs, and several start-up have been created from the IRISA research activities.

Through its professors-researchers and its researchers, IRISA contributes to training provided by Rennes 1 (IFSIC), INSA Rennes (IT Department), ENS Cachan (Brittany site, IT department), as well as contributing to other structures.

Thus, IRISA accomplishes all its missions, scientific excellence, technology transfer and development, training in and by the research activities.

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