AKTANTIS

AKTANTIS (former Pôle SCS), created in 2005, is a digital cluster based in the SUD Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur and Occitanie regions, in France, and gathers more than 300 members, including companies (and 70% of SMEs), research centers and educational institutions mainly in the fields of Microelectronics, IoT, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, Digital Security and Photonics/imaging, applied to Health, Smart cities, Industry 4.0, Transport & mobility and Defence. The cluster represents 60 000 jobs in these fields, 26 multinational companies, 1200 researchers in the public sector and 18 educational institutions training 1500 engineers per year. Its aim is to promote the development of competitive R&D projects between all these players with the support of local communities, in order to design and develop new solutions targeting high-growth markets such as IoT, smart cities, smart homes and smart buildings, smart grids, Industry 4.0, logistics and transport or e-health.