The innovation and technology transfer center of the EIL Côte d’Opale: EIL’Lab

The EIL’Lab innovation and technology transfer center is a support structure for innovative R&D projects for companies. It provides its technical and technological resources, a space for hosting projects and the scientific, technical and educational skills of the specialized staff of the EIL Côte d’Opale and the supporting research laboratories. It allows the company to express its research potential and its capacity for innovation.

Your needs
– You want to give more impetus to your projects.
– Your projects require high-level technical and technological support.
– You need additional hardware and software resources.
– You want an answer to a problem that has not been solved in the state of the art.

Our services/expertise
– A technical and technological collaboration.
– A collaboration of research partnership.
– A collaboration as part of a CIFRE grant.

– A transfer of know-how within your company.
– A dedicated, ergonomic and multidisciplinary innovation space.

Operation
Projects are managed by a project team made up of teacher, researchers, expert research engineers for the scientific supervision part, engineers and technicians for the technical support.

Technical and technological collaborations are entrusted to 4th and 5th year engineering students for a period of 3 to 12 months depending on the requirement:

– An Innovation and Design Project, which deals with an immediate and targeted innovation need, and managed by a group of final-year engineering students.
– An End-of-Studies Internship, which deals with a complete engineering project, carried out in a company.
– A Technical Project that deals with a technical problem in an innovative way managed by a group of 4th year engineering students.
– An Assistant Engineer Internship, which deals with an issue at the level of a beginner engineer, carried out in a company.

Research collaborations are entrusted to one of our support laboratories according to their areas of expertise. They are carried out within the framework of either a CIFRE grant or an R&D contract, in the short, medium or long term depending on the needs.

Our know-how
The EIL’Lab R&D center offers the possibility of accessing a wide range of skills:

• Data science, artificial intelligence, optimization,
• Collaborative industrial robotics,
• Industrial computing, software engineering, automation,
• Additive manufacturing processes, virtual and augmented reality, digital engineering, functional surfaces and materials, non-destructive testing, 
• Signal processing, imaging, machine and environmental vision,
• Prototyping, embedded systems,
• Fluid mechanics and hydraulics,
• Big data and high-performance computing,
• Energy, renewable energy and smart grid,
• Food safety,
• Useful and pathogenic marine flora,
• Spoilage, freshness of aquatic products.

Technical and technological resources
– Open space including desks and high-performance computers,
– Meeting and project review space,
– Room dedicated to Technical Projects and Innovation and Design Projects,
– Mechanics and metrology area,
– Work space in electronics, automation, mechanical machining and additive manufacturing,
– Space for design and modeling work,
– Space for embedded systems.

Terms
The support package for the realization of your projects includes:

– The provision of equipment,   hardware and software,
– The welcome of engineering students in a unit adapted to the good management of your projects,
– A scientific and technical supervision.

Contact
Alice POREBSKI
Head of the Innovation and Technology Transfer Center
directionqitt@eilco.univ-littoral.fr

EIL Côte d’Opale
Centre d’Innovation et de Transfert Technologique : EIL LAB
50 rue Ferdinand Buisson – CS 30613 – 62228 Calais Cedex