Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

International Initiatives

Inria International Labs

Discussions with Inria Chile have started about organizing Pharo lectures in Chile. A first visit to Inria Chile in fall 2019 did not happen due to the political situation in Chile.

Inria Associate Teams Not Involved in an Inria International Labs

VUB Brussels, Belgium

Participants: Guillermo Polito, Stéphane Ducasse, Marcus Denker.

Collaboration with SOFT started 2016, from 2020 Inria Lille North-European associated team funding with SOFT/VUB for 2 years.

Student: Matteo Marra, collaboration with Eliza Gonzalez Boix.

Marcus Denker gave a lecture at VUB in October 2019.

Inria International Partners

Informal International Partners

Uqbar Argentina

Participants: Pablo Tesone, Esteban Lorenzano, Guillermo Polito, Stéphane Ducasse.

From 2015, ongoing.

We are working with the Uqbar team from different Argentinian universities. We hired three of the people: Nicolas Passerini(engineer), Esteban Lorenzano (engineer) and Pablo Tesone (PhD).

Pharo in Research:

Participants: Pablo Tesone, Esteban Lorenzano, Guillermo Polito, Marcus Denker, Stéphane Ducasse.

From 2009, ongoing.

We are building an ecosystem around Pharo with international research groups, universities and companies. Several research groups (such as Software Composition Group – Bern, and Pleaid – Santiago) are using Pharo. Many universities are teaching OOP using Pharo and its books. Several companies worldwide are deploying business solutions using Pharo.