[DesCartes Program] Throwback to the DesCartes School 2022
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The DesCartes team, together with Her Excellency Mrs the Ambassor of France to Singapore Minh-Di Tang, DesCartes partners and other prestigious guests, 14 October 2022.
Last month marked the first anniversary of the DesCartes Program (a CNRS@CREATE program initiated in large part by IPAL and now involving several researchers from the lab) ! For the occasion, a week full of events was organised from October 10 to 15.
The first three days were dedicated to the students involved in the project: with classes, workshops and activities on all three pillars of the program (ie: Intelligent Comuting; Empowering people in smart cities; Engineering and builder) as well as some informal events.
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The Friday (October 14) was also dedicated to the One Year anniversary of the program.
On the agenda: presentations by the different work packages, video presentations of the builders as well as a cocktail event gathering all the researchers, students, academic & industrial partners as well as the French Embassy.
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Gathering more than 80 people in total, this 2022 edition of the DesCartes School was a success, and will be coming back next year: with new classes, new conferences and new events!
For a day-to-day recap of the whole week, click here: https://www.cnrsatcreate.cnrs.fr/throwback-on-the-descartes-school-2022/