CETIC in a few words...
CETIC is an applied research centre dedicated to support enterprises active in the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) sector. Through national and international research programs, CETIC brings its expertise in advanced ICT technologies to these enterprises, providing them with technology transfer and support. This is the meaning of our motto: ‘Your connection to ICT research’.
History
CETIC was created in 2001 through the initiative of three Belgian universities – the Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix de Namur (FUNDP), the Catholic University of Louvain (UCL) and the Faculté Polytechnique de Mons (FPMs). Through its ongoing relationships with university teams, CETIC remains permanently updated on current and emerging scientific progress in Belgium, Europe and the World.
CETIC’s expertise at your service…
ICT activities are an important sector in itself, but also leverage all other industrial sectors. About 50% of competitiveness gains obtained in all industrial sectors are the results of a better or quicker use of new ICT technologies.
CETIC develops its activities towards companies around three complementary and interdependent research axes:
Software and System Engineering: to help enterprises designing products and services improving their quality, reliability, security, enforcing internal norms, by providing a methodological support.
Software and Services Technologies: to help enterprises to exploit the most of new distributed, dynamic and services oriented architectures, to speed up the transformation process from knowledge information to semantic technologies, to take advantage of effective opportunities of Open Source and to provide them with advanced technological expertise.
Embedded & Communication Systems: to help enterprises to embed more intelligence and connectivity in their products, to develop technological proofs of concepts and prototypes, to transfer new technologies related to embedded systems and software.
An international mission…
Present in regional research projects, more in particular within the Marshall Plan for the economic development of Wallonia, CETIC extends its activities internationally. CETIC implemented strategic partnership agreements with Centre Henri Tudor in Luxemburg and with Ecole de Technologie Supérieure of Montreal. Leader of several international projects, involved in several European technological platforms and in numerous projects in the 6th and 7th Framework Programmes for Research and Technological Development, CETIC develops partnerships with technological leaders and European industries and speed up these technological transfer to regional enterprises.
Our slogan: Helping businesses!
In addition to its partnership within collective research projects, CETIC supports enterprises in the innovation and improvement of products, methods and services. CETIC mainly carries out missions in technological or methodological consulting, realisation of prototypes, proofs of concepts or feasibility studies.
All businesses in all industrial sectors are directly concerned. ICT is boosting innovation, creativity and competitiveness thanks to its many multiplier effects. ICT is impacting our daily lives. As citizens, customers or consumers, we are all concerned. Whether for public sector services, our dealings with government (e-Government), our education system and continuing training (e-Learning), or health (e-Health), IT is becoming more and more the first link between service recipient and provider. This creates new challenges in terms of reliability, security and accessibility of these services for all.
Among these sectors, CETIC invests in eHealth. Indeed, in a global context of an aging population combined with a shortage of doctors, ICT offers high added-value solutions to provide better care for elderly people at home. This social issue is at the heart of CETIC’s strategy for the future.
Mastering ICT skills and knowledge is a major social, economic and political challenge. Having regional expertise, research and innovation capacity available to citizens and businesses is neither a luxury nor an option but rather a major requirement for a region that needs to accelerate its economic development.
That is the mission of the CETIC research centre accredited by the Walloon Region.
Collective Research Center
Since 2004, CETIC is officially recognized as "Collective Research Center” by the Walloon Region. The main criterion of this official recognition is the ability to self-financing the activity, key indicator of CETIC benefits to industry.
The rate of CETIC’s self-funding amounted to 21.3% in 2005, 38.5% in 2006, 41% in 2007 and 54% in 2008.
