Health and Life Sciences
02/09/2010
Côte d'Azur: Virbac, operating profit records a very high increase : +68.4%
Growth in the companion animals segment has been very steady and sales in the food producing animals segment have also increased strongly

Tourism
02/09/2010
Amadeus delivers strong growth in first half results
Growth spread across both Distribution and IT business areas during 2nd quarter and 1st half of 2010. Adjusted net profit for the period increased 38.0%

Tourism
01/09/2010
SKYTEAM chooses Côte d’Azur to bring together its EMEA Sales & Marketing teams
SkyTeam will hold their quarterly meeting in Nice on 1rst and 2nd September in the Côte d’Azur showroom, upon the invitation of Team Côte d'Azur

Information Technology
01/09/2010
Sophia Antipolis: Alcatel-Lucent acquires OpenPlug
OpenPlug's acquisition expands company’s developer tools to make applications available on diverse operating systems and in more service provider stores

Services and Corporate Functions
31/08/2010
Sophia Antipolis: Creation of SKEMA Alumni
SKEMA Alumni, with 20,000 graduates the world over, is one of the strongest alumni networks in France

Aeronautics & Space
31/08/2010
ESA extends ExoMars mission contract with Thales Alenia Space
The European Space Agency (ESA) has awarded a Contract Change Notice to Thales Alenia Space worth 98 M€ for the ExoMars mission to Mars

Information Technology
30/08/2010
Sophia Antipolis: Monaco Telecom joins the Eurecom GIE group of industrial partners
The first of its kind, this partnership between Monaco and Sophia Antipolis opens the way to new forms of cooperation in information technologies

Information Technology
30/08/2010
Join in the 2010 PACA ICT Innovation Awards
The 3rd PACA ICT Innovation Awards will be held to reward nine winners having focused their strategy on innovation

Information Technology
27/08/2010
Côte d'Azur: New apple store in Cap 3000
Apple will open its fourth French Apple Store Saturday, August 28, 2010 at 10 a.m. near the city of Nice

Information Technology
26/08/2010
SCS Cluster: 70% success rate for projects submitted to the 10th FUI call for projects
On 30th July, French Government announced funding for 73 new R&D projects, 5 of which are from the SCS cluster representing more than €27m of R&D expenditure

Clean Technologies
26/08/2010
Nice Côte d’Azur Tramway: Reinforcing sustainable transport
The Nice Côte d’Azur Tramway is increasing the frequency of service by nearly 20% with a tram every 4 minutes for passengers on Lignes d’Azur

Tourism
25/08/2010
University of Nice Sophia Antipolis: Creation of the Ulysses Institute
The University has decided to consolidate all its higher education courses in tourism within an Institute which it has called Ulysses

The Eco Valley
25/08/2010
University of Nice Sophia Antipolis: IMREDD, an institute dedicated to Sustainable Development
The institute (IMREDD) is meant to bring together the largest concentration of actors involved in sustainable development in Europe and the Mediterranean.

Information Technology
24/08/2010
Sophia Antipolis: Myxyty, appointment of Silvia Carter as Vice-President Marketing & Sales
Assigned to Senior Management, represented by Olivier COURTADE, Silvia Carter will be responsible for developing the sales and marketing strategy for Myxyty

Health and Life Sciences
23/08/2010
Sophia Antipolis: Laboratoires Genevrier launch a new center of biotechnology
Opened in 1998, the centre for cell culture in therapy, the first in Europe, is benefitting from an investment of € 3.5 million for its expansion.

Clean Technologies
23/08/2010
bewave: an innovative solution for energy management
This promising start-up is a member of the PACA Est incubator offers an integrated management solution to help improve energy management

Agenda
- September 9: Smart Grids - Sophia Antipolis
- September 15: Information Meeting on calls for projects - SCS Cluster - Sophia Antipolis
- September 14: Minikonf "Employees' inventions: how to protect them?" - Sophia Antipolis
- September 16: Scientific Conference by Marcel Rufo - Sophia Antipolis
- September 17: Sophia Café - Eurobiomed - Sophia Antipolisa
- September 20 (Deadline): Call for applications - Prix Brillouin 2010
- September 23: Ecotox Evaluation of NCS - Grasse
- September 21-24: Smart Event 2010 - Sophia Antipolis
- Sept. 30 - October 1st: 3rd Forum Ecobiz des Communautés et Réseaux d'Entreprises - Nice
- October 1: OSE 2010 event - Water and Energy Colloquium - Sophia Antipolis
- 5-6 October: ETSI Business Innovation Summit to explore Transport systems - London
- October 6-7: SAME 2010 - Sophia Antipolis Microlectronics Forum
- October 7-8: ARCSIS Electronics Packaging Days - Gardanne
- October 19: Rencontres du Tourisme - Tourism and Mobility - Nice
- October 19-20: ETSI M2M Workshop - Sophia Antipolis
- November 15-21: Entrepreneurship Week
- December 2nd: Les entreprenariales - Nice Acropolis
- December 10: Green Investing Conference - Nice






