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AKT support and acceleration programme

Discover a unique accompaniment around the Human and Social Sciences!

After several promotions rich in digital projects for education, the CY EdTech Labs program led by the PUI CY Transfer transforms for a new stage embodied by AKT Acceleration. AKT Acceleration extends the spirit of CY EdTech Labs and expands to two other channels.

Now structured around three sectors: EdTech, Cultural & Creative Industries (ICC) and Social & Solidary Economy (ESS), the program offers acceleration to projects at all stages of maturity.

For project promoters: this is the opportunity to integrate a redesigned programme, to benefit from strengthened resources and amplified networking.

The call for applications to join the next promotion of the acceleration programme will soon be launched.

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  • Start-ups
  • To ETI / SMEs
  • Intrapreneurship
  • To student entrepreneurs
  • To researchers (only for Innovations and Companies)

AKT, a device dedicated to SHS

The PUI CY Transfer set up a project continuum in order to accompany the porters as closely as possible in the life of their project.

 

1. For researchers from PUI CY Transfer, Innovations and Companies Premature Program of the PUI CY Transfer supports projects from the Social Sciences and Humanities for the socio-economic exploitation of research results. This programme enables a degree of maturity to be achieved, i.e. more substantial funding or start-up.

 

2. A programme AKT Acceleration over 4 months of masterclass in visual and face-to-face that allows young entrepreneurs to challenge their project and prepare for its continuation. The programme takes shape around a common core covering the business, French specificities and research pillars, strengthened individual monitoring, as well as the specificities of each sector (EdTech, Cultural and Creative Industries, Social Economy and Solidarity).

 

3. AKT incubator hosts and continues to accompany carriers and projects. Download the presentation brochure to learn more about the offer.

By developing the first incubator scientific research dedicated to projects in the Human and Social Sciences, the PUI CY Transfer is developing an original tool to boost SHS transfers to the socio-economic world. Located at the house of research Annie Ernaux, AKT is located in the heart of the social and human sciences laboratories of CY Cergy Paris University, in the premises of CY Transfer.

The + AKT programmes

  • An Personalized support tailored to your concept or product and your needs
  • A privileged access to the expertise of the PUI CY Transfer in Education Sciences, as for example EMA, GOOD, Paragraph and LDAR, and test sites in real-life situations in primary school, college and high school.

For more information, contact our team:
cy.transfer@cyu.fr

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On C4T, it is possible to apply for different types of projects, including:

  • Economic project
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  • Confidentiality Agreement (NDA)
  • Training and awareness raising
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Declaration of innovation

The innovation declaration is the first step in a development project and the communication medium for your research results or innovation to CY Transfer. It allows your interlocutors to understand and grasp the interest of your innovation, to understand the path that has taken you there.e, to identify the people involved in obtaining it, to understand the objectives you associate with it, to report your proposed publication concerning it. It's mostly a basis for dialogue between CY Transfer and you.

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Awareness raising

A set of actions that are implemented at universities and research institutions to familiarize research personnel with the value-added and transfer of their work to the socio-economic world.

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Transfer

This is the mechanism for actors such as associations, communities, businesses, ... to take advantage of innovative work and results from public research in order to facilitate their activity or to offer new products and/or services. The innovation conceptualised by the research team is thus put into practice or proposed by these actors to their ecosystem (users, users, clients...).

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Development

Exploitation is the activity which leads to the further development of research results in the form of a project in order to transfer these results to socio-economic actors. In particular, it operates in the following dimensions:
– Scientists and application, consolidating the results,
– economic, by considering how to use the results, and
– Legal, by organising through contracts and intellectual property the protection of fruits and the conditions and modalities of their use and exploitation.

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Societal impact / SROI

The return on social or societal investment (ROI – English term, social return on investment) is an analytical tool that allows the value of a project to be considered more broadly than by the financial prism, as the ROI does, considering in particular its social or societal, environmental and economic costs and benefits. It requires mapping the expected impacts of the project and their value and involving the stakeholders involved in the project.

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Organization chart of the operational team

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Olivier Romain
Vice-President Innovation and Transfer for CYU

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Christelle Ventura
Deputy Director in charge of Human and Social Sciences Development

Isabelle Hoefkens
Deputy Director, Project Management and Development Support

Odile Dubois
Deputy Director of Economic Development

Céline Bertin-Guillot
Marketing Manager

Quentin Bonnefond
Head of Partnerships

Jérémy Demange
Tools development

Anna Vieira
Responsible for administrative and financial management

Ange Anclin
Legal Assistant

Maïlys Dejean
Communications Officer

Célio Zanotti
Graphic designer

Kadija Siby
Responsible for the development and support of startups

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The enhancement of the Human and Social Sciences, a unique characteristic, unique to the PUI CY Transfer.

In its strategy, the PUI CY Transfer has a special interest in the Human and Social Sciences: it is on its territory the operator of their socio-economic development. The PUI CY Transfer links SHS researchers to the concrete needs of local actors. Work on societal issues – whether social innovation, education, urban dynamics or digital transformation – is echoed in partnerships with communities, businesses and associations.


The mission of SHS is to ensure that the knowledge and expertise produced within the university is fully exploited to meet contemporary challenges.

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The meeting app between researchers and innovators !

With Konekti, you have an application (web and mobile) for matching, which allows you to connect the laboratory staff of PII establishments (researchers, engineers, etc.) with the industrialists.

The objective: a simpler and faster contact between the academic world and companies.

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