The Altran Foundation, Technological Innovation for the General Good

As a partner in innovation to its customers, the Altran Group plays the same role in the company through the Altran Foundation for Innovation. The most conspicuous of the Group’s sponsorship activities, the Foundation promotes technical, scientific and/or technological innovation as a civic commitment. Now ten years old, the Altran Foundation continues to cut a pioneering path in which innovation is at the service of mankind.

A double investment

The work and the success of the Altran Foundation reflect a twofold commitment: that of the Group’s employees, consultants and administrative personnel, who devote themselves to the Foundation all year round in their own countries; and that of the judges, who lend their scientific and moral support for one year. Everyone concerned is essential to the success achieved by the Altran Foundation for Innovation, rewarded in 2006 by the Admical-Fondation de France Prize for its sponsorship and public-spirited activities.

Its work

Each year the Foundation selects a new theme in line with a major issue of society. An invitation for entries is put out worldwide and a short list subsequently drawn up by the Altran consultants. A panel of judges made up of recognised figures, scientific, political or academic, then assesses the projects proposed by the finalists prior to awarding the Altran Foundation Prize for Innovation.

The award consists of a year’s technological support and a sum of up to one million euros. It is followed up by teams of scientific and technological experts from Altran’s various international subsidiaries. The purpose of the award is to give the prize-winners the best chances of success by accelerating the maturation and development of the project.