Collaborating with us to advance research & innovate

Seminars & company visit

• We organise seminars within the institute on industry topic 
• We organise or on topic within your company to enhance knowledge of colleagues
• site visits are organized in the context of some courses/event

Internship

• 9 weeks duration (summer or academix year)
• mainly supervised by company
• service to a compan
• not mandatory 

HOW? Propose internship topic at anytime via Louvain School of Engineering 

Master thesis

• Over one year (50%)
• Supervised by ICTEAM Professor and company
• Mandatory in master2
• Research topic

HOW? Propose a master topic ideally by Feb via ICTEAM Professors

Industry-inspired project

• Groups of students work together to find solution to an industry challenge
• Supervised by ICTEAM Professor with regular contacts with the company

HOW? Propose a topic for a course or semester project

Collaborative PhD project

• Initiative might come from industry or university
• Typically 4 years for a PhD
• Requires involvement from industry (co-supervision)
• Funding opportunities (e.g. Wallonia Win4Doc, Innoviris Applied PhD, Europe MSCA doctoral network)

Postdoctoral research collaboration

• 2-4 years
• Funding opportunities (e.g. postdoctoral fellowship MSCA (Eu))

Publicly funded applied reserach projects

• Timing and budget vary
• Funding opportunities (e.g. Europe Horizon, UCLouvain/WBI Action de Recherche Concertée (ARC))

Framework agreement and call-off contract for industrial research 

• Consultancy agreement can be done to cover work done by an ICTEAM expert (Igr, PostDoc, Professor)
• It can be covered by a framework agreement if multiple tasks are planned

Sponsored research chairs

• Typically 5 years
• Aim to support a permanent professor and a research team
• Opportunity to focus reserach on a specific topic/area

Here is an example with the chair held by Professor Cristel Pelsser