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CENTERS OF EXCELLENCE
Brittany is ranked 5th among French regions for the number of its researchers, behind the Ile-de-France, Rhône-Alpes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur and Midi-Pyrénées, with over 4,000 researchers in the public sector and at least that many in industry.

Finistère, for its part, has some 1,400 researchers in the public sector, divided between Brest (with more than 1,250), Roscoff, Quimper and Concarneau.

Research as such plays a vital role in Finistère's economic and social development. It is potentially a generator of innovation and is one of the area's major attractions.

In the Département, we have many Centers of Excellence:
marines sciences and techniques
The Brest center encompasses numerous other skill centers including the Université de Bretagne Occidentale (University of Western Brittany or UBO) - www.univ-brest.fr and:

European University Institute of the Sea (IUEM) - www.univ-brest.fr/IUEM,
French Institute for the Exploitation of the Sea (IFREMER) - www.ifremer.fr,
Navy's Hydographic and Oceanographic Department (SHOM),
Center for the Documentation, Research and Experimentation for Accidental Water Pollution (CEDRE) - www.le-cedre.fr,
Paul-Emile Victor Institute (IPEV) - www.ifremer.fr/ifrtp,
Naval Academy (www.ecole-navale.fr,
Advanced Institute of Electronics and Digital Applications (ISEN),
Ecole Nationale for Weaponry Studies and Techniques (ENSIETA) - www.ensieta.fr,
Ecole Nationale for Telecommunications (ENSTB) - www.enst-bretagne.fr,
Ecole Nationale for Engineers in BREST (ENIB) - www.enib.fr - which works in such areas as underwater acoustics and radar.

It is worth noting that IFREMER is the most important site of the Brest Center of Excellence, with 740 employees.
materials and mechanical engineering
Various laboratories of the UBO (www.univ-brest.fr) are involved in research in the fields of materials, physics, earth sciences, chemistry and mechanical engineering.
They are:

magnetism laboratory
Electronics and Telecommunications Systems Laboratory (LEST)
research unit for chemistry, molecular electrochemistry and analytical chemistry
research unit for chemistry and biochemistry of active substances
oceanic research unit …
health and life sciences
With the presence in Finistère of:

French Research Institute for the Exploitation of the Sea (IFREMER) - www.ifremer.fr
National Scientific Research Center (CNRS) in Roscoff - www.sb-roscoff.fr
Institute for Food-Processing and the Rural Environment (ISAMOR) - www.iutquimp.univ-brest.fr
Brest Advanced School of Microbiology and Food Safety (ESMISAB) - www.univ-brest.fr/esmisab
Association for the Development of Applied Research for the Food-Processing Industries (ADRIA) - www.adria.tm.fr
Quimper University Laboratory for Applied Microbiology (LUMAQ).


In this sector of research, the recent establishment of a Génopole Ouest - operational since January 1, 2002 - brings together 46 research units with a total of 750 researchers from Brittany and the Loire area.
information and telecommunications technologies
The leaders in this field in Brest which, following the example of Rennes and Lannion, is making its name as one of Brittany's major sites in this field, are :

National Advanced Telecommunications School (ENSTB) - www.enst-bretagne.fr
University of Western Bretagne(UBO) - www.univ-brest.fr
Electronics and Telecommunications Systems Laboratory (LEST)

For the record, 35 % of French research in the telecommunications sector is undertaken in Bretagne.

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