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Programme AKT Acceleration

A 16-week acceleration programme as part of the AKT incubator.

AKT Acceleration proposes three thematic areas:
EdTech : digital technologies for education,
ICC : cultural and creative industries,
ESS Social economy and solidarity.

The programme allows participants to benefit from scientific and strategic support through:

  • training and workshops,
  • support from a community of researchers and entrepreneurs,
  • access to databases and prototyping platforms,
  • the definition of performance indicators and evaluation methodologies.

AKT also focuses on evidence-based practices to help project leaders develop reliable, measurable and impact-oriented solutions.

The programme is open to:

  • start-up created or being created,
  • ETI and SMEs,
  • intrapreneurial projects,
  • student entrepreneurs.

At the end of the acceleration program a further incubation or personalized follow-up can be proposed.

 

 

Applications opened for the autumn 2026 session.

Deadline for receipt of applications: 30 September 2026 at 12:00.

Start of programme NOVEMBER 2026

DownloadCall for applications

Download the EdTech project application file

Download the Application file for ICC projects

Download the Application file for ESS projects

 

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

  • Economic project
  • Service Delivery
  • 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 team

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Gregory Chaume
Vice-President Innovation 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

Under recruitment
Deputy Director of Economic Development

Maïlys Dejean
Communications Officer

Quentin Bonnefond
Head of Partnerships

Jérémy Demange
Tools development

Céline Bertin-Guillot
Marketing Manager

Kadija Siby
Responsible for the development and support of startups

Anna Vieira
Responsible for administrative and financial management

Ange Anclin
Legal Assistant

Célio Zanotti
Graphic designer

Maëlle Motay
Global Design

Sofiane Salmi
Developer

Camille Lozada
Head of Industrial Club Development

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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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