Integrating skills: the key to success
ARCSIS (Association for the Research on Components and Secured Integrated Systems)
Dedicated to the promotion of know-how, ARCSIS offers its members the opportunity to pool their technical and human skills to increase their innovation capacity.
ARCSIS is built around an extensive network of partners including a privileged partnership with Sophia Antipolis Microelectronics (SAME) around design technology for advanced electronic circuits.
It brings together 5 major groups (Atmel, Gemalto, Philips, STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments), and dozens of area SMEs, schools, research laboratories and universities.
ARCSIS participates in assuring sustainability, full economic development and enhanced competitiveness of the regional microelectronics industry and communicating objects.
The world competitive cluster Secure Communication Solutions (SCS)
The SCS cluster - "From Silicon to applications" - is the product of the combined synergies and expertise of the Provence-Alpes-Cote d’Azur (PACA) major ICT industry players, universities, schools and many SMEs in the field.
Their objective, in line with the label of 'world competitiveness cluster’ they have been awarded, "is to make the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region a leader in the most reliable and secure solutions for transmitting, processing and exchanging information.
The SCS Cluster's mission is to contribute to innovation policies and:
- Promote the emergence of innovative cooperative projects
- Support the development of SMEs
- Participate in the creation of an ecosystem suitable for the overall regional development of ICT.



