IRT Jules Verne, set up in 2012, is an industrial research centre dedicated to manufacturing. Its vocation is to improve the competitiveness of strategic industrial sectors in France by creating disruptive technologies for manufacturing processes. Its mission is to speed up innovation and technology transfer to factories. IRT Jules Verne offers 5 areas of technological expertise: - Robotics and Cobotics; - Composite Materials and Processes; - Metallic Materials and Additive Processes; - Modelling and Simulation; - Characterisation, Monitoring and Control. Working closely with production equipment manufacturers and integrators, IRT Jules Verne caters to 4 strategic industrial sectors: aeronautics, automotive, energy and naval. In its bid to provide comprehensive solutions up to scale-1 demonstrators, IRT Jules Verne installs and utilises a wide range of exclusive state-of-the-art equipment. Since 2015, the 8 French Technological Research Institutes and the 7 Institutes for Energy Transition have come together under the roof of the “French Institutes of Technologies” association, whose main aim is to promote the IRT and ITE model in France and internationally, but also to promote exchanges, as well as coherence and complementarity of research programmes, between the different institutes.