TECHSUD

• Easy access by road

• Guaranteed development and building standards: architectural and sustainable development committee, energy conservation, etc.

• Unique green space environment, landscaped to enhance and preserve the site

• Strategically located close to a dynamic network of partners (University campus, IUT (University Technology Institute), South Reunion Hospital Centre, Regional Centre for Innovation and Technology Transfer, Plant Protection Centre, etc.)

• High added value activity zone managed by the Technopole de La Réunion

• A service sector centre, home to services and local shops

• A residential area is planned

• A 40-room hotel complex is planned to receive visitors; a business corner and a seminar room will offer corporate facilities.

• An “aqua-leisure” park is under construction.

• Provision of shared services: monitoring requirements related to (re)location, a science park space with fully equipped meeting rooms, Living Lab and Fab Lab planned, etc.

• Business development project support: project engineering, partner search, funding proposals, grant research, preparing financial aid requests, incubator entry preparation, etc.

• Regular organisation of meetings, conferences, breakfast sessions and themed events related to innovation

• Organisation of “Innovation Workshops” on a specific problem, led by an expert and limited to project developers and park businesses

• Promotion of the park, its members and their activities and projects via INTENSE newsletter, the website, e-mail campaigns, meetings, and via the planned science park space with a show-room and mini-conference area.

TRAINING STRUCTURES

• University of Reunion Island University Technology Institute (IUT)

Training in Business Management and Administration, Civil Engineering, Biological Engineering, Networks and Telecommunications, Social Careers, Insurance, Banking, Finance and Management.

• University of Reunion Island’s ESIROI School of Engineering – “Construction and Energy” Department on Le Tampon Campus

RESEARCH ORGANISATIONS

• Branch of the SEAS-OI, Satellite-Aided Environmental Monitoring in the Indian Ocean.

This station aims to generate numerous research and application projects based on remote sensing and space imaging, thus creating a regional momentum of cooperation in the Indian Ocean.

• University laboratories and research teams (IUT)

*Laboratory of Physics and Mathematical Engineering for Energy and the Environment (Laboratoire de Physique et d’Ingénierie Mathématique pour l’Énergie et l’Environnement – PIMENT),

*Chemistry of Natural Substances and Food Sciences Laboratory (Laboratoire de Chimie des Substances  Naturelles et des Sciences des Aliments – LCSNSA), and Energy Systems,

*Electronics and Processes Laboratory (Laboratoire  d’Energétique, d’Electronique et de Procédés – LE2P).

• The Centre for Medical and Health Research

It  will house, on grounds of more than 3,800 m2, the following teams: Clinical Investigation Centre-Clinical Epidemiology (CIC-EC), an INSERM (French National Institute of Health and Medical Research) -accredited structure; the Clinical Research and Innovation delegation (Délégation à la Recherche Clinique et à l’Innovation – DRCI); and the Directorate of Research, Innovation and Education (Direction de la Recherche, de l’Innovation et de l’Enseignement – DRIE). The University Hospital of Reunion Island (CHU) manages the centre.

COMPANIES

• Construction of commercial premises for 2014.