Section: Bilateral Contracts and Grants with Industry

Bilateral Contracts with Industry

Mumps Consortium (2014-2019)

In 2016, in the context of the Mumps consortium (http://mumps-consortium.org):

• We have signed two new membership agreements, with Free Field Technologies and Safran in 2016, on top of the on-going agreements signed in 2014 and 2015 with Altair, EDF, ESI-Group, LSTC, Michelin, Siemens SISW (Belgium) and TOTAL.

• We have organized point-to-point meetings with several members.

• We have provided technical support and scientific advice to members.

• We have provided non-public releases in advance to members, with a specific licence.

• We have organized the second consortium committee meeting, at Michelin (Clermont-Ferrand).

• Two engineers have been funded by the membership fees, for software engineering and software development, performance study and comparisons, business development and management of the consortium.

• 0.5 year of a PhD student were funded by the membership fees (see Section 9.1).