Aeronautics

R&D

Second research center in France

With more than 10,000 researchers, Provence is home to a number of leading laboratories whose activities can be applied to the field of aeronautics, including:

- ONERA (Office National d'Etudes & de Recherches Aérospatiale): pilot-system interaction and human factors, generic simulation of infrared cameras
- CLAIRE (Centre LAser Industriel Regional – Regional Industrial Laser Center): laser cutting
- MECASURF: surface / material engineering, surface finishing
- The laboratories of the Ecole Centrale Marseille: mechatronics, mechanics, electronics, advanced material science
- CETEGELEC (Technology Center for Electrical Engineering): Electrical and Electronic Engineering
- CCRM (Microwave Resource Center): electromagnetic compatibility
- The UNIMECA laboratories (Inter University Center for Mechanics and Mechanical Technology): fluid and solid mechanics and materials
- LMA (Laboratoire de Mécanique et d'Acoustique – Mechanics and Acoustics Laboratory): mechanics and acoustics
- CP2M (Multidisciplinary Center for Electronic Microscopy and Microanalysis): material and surface analysis
- The Fresnel/L2MP Institute (Materials and Microelectronics Laboratory of Provence): signal and image processing, optoelectronics
- CARMA (Regional Center for the Development of Advanced Materials): advanced materials science