The public research centre Henri Tudor in Luxembourg offers collaborative partnerships to enhance innovation in various sectors, including advanced materials and environmental technologies. They provide support through tailored research services, innovation programmes, and access to funding opportunities, aiming to enhance companies' innovation capacities and market competitiveness. With over 25 years of experience, they prioritize client collaboration, scientific excellence, and sustainable solutions to address societal needs.

1. Are you looking for a partner to help make your innovation
project a success? The Public Research Centre Henri Tudor
is committed to working alongside you, adopting a coconstructive approach based on trust, honesty and dialogue.
Discover our five types of collaboration.
PARTNERSHIP
for innovation?
THINK TUDOR.
Innovating together

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WHO WE ARE
A key player in the field of research and innovation in
Luxembourg, CRP Henri Tudor mobilises its skills in advanced
materials technologies, environmental technologies, healthcare
technologies, information and communication technologies, and
business organisation and management, in order to respond to
market and society needs. Combined with the motivation of more
than 450 collaborators, these skills enable the Centre to pursue its
objectives: to reinforce the innovation capacity within organisations
and companies, to provide scientific and technological support for
national policies and to contribute to the international reputation
of the Luxembourg scientific community.
OUR VALUES
Scientificity | Openness
Utility | Responsibility
Creativity | Expertise

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WHAT WE CAN DO FOR YOU
• Improve your products and services
• Analyse, characterise, test and validate your materials
• Guide you in your innovation processes for the development of
new products and services
• Improve the environmental performance of your products/services
• Offer you our scientific and technological support through the
realisation of contractual applied research projects or doctoral
research projects
• Introduce new technologies
• Simulate and model organisation systems
• Conduct economic intelligence and technology watch analyses
• Advise you in intellectual property matters
• Develop training courses and train your collaborators
OUR INNOVATION PROGRAMMES
In order to respond to your needs, we have developed nine innovation programmes.
MANUFACTURING Industry
Mobility
Public Services
Construction
Transport & Logistics
InnoFinance
Ecotechnology
Health
Human Capital
To find out more about these programmes, visit www.tudor.lu/innovation-programmes

4. -4WE OFFER
Types OF COLLABORATION

5. -51. COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH
Through collaborative research projects, partners from various fields
(SMEs, major corporate groups, research centres, universities, professional associations, groups of companies, administrative bodies, etc.)
decide to pool their knowledge and expertise to resolve a mutual problem. The project is realised jointly, with tasks distributed in accordance
with the skills of each party and with project management that respects
the interests of all those involved.
Main characteristics:
• Identification of common interests, joint design and implementation
• Joint financial participation and risk-taking
• Possible national or European co-financing
• Sharing of results and profits
• Confidentiality
Benefits of this type of collaboration:
What makes this partnership interesting is the complementarity. It allows
us to:
• Address extremely complex problems with regard to scientific research and innovation, which a business or research centre could not
overcome alone due to limited skills, time constraints, risks or costs;
• Consider different perspectives when addressing a problem and to
open new lines of research, ultimately resulting in greater opportunities for success and results that, as a general rule, surpass the
individual expectations of each partner;
• Let partners benefit from the knowledge and expertise of others.
This is collective enrichment!
• Create synergies between players and thus develop new long-term
partnerships.
GOOD TO KNOW
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At a national level, activities that fit into this type of research can
benefit from financial assistance from the Ministry of the Economy
and Foreign Trade within the context of the "R&D Projects or Programmes" aid scheme (RDI law of 5 June 2009), from the Ministry of
Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises and Tourism within the context
of the innovation and R&D scheme for the promotion of Small and
Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) (law of 30 June 2004), as well as
from the National Research Fund (FNR) within the framework of its
CORE measures and many more.
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At a European level, several programmes support these collaborations, such as ERDF (regional competitiveness and employment),
certain FP7 programmes (e.g. COOPERATION, PEOPLE, JTI), Life+
(environmental protection), CIP (market placement and economic
exploitation of technologies or innovative products), ESA (space
technologies), AAL (Ambient Assisted Living), etc.

6. -62. RESEARCH Services
3. DELIVERY OF INNOVATIVE SERVICES
This type of collaboration provides a tailor-made response to a Research, Development and Innovation (RDI) problem specific to a company. It is aimed
at both small and medium-sized companies that do not have the resources
required to conduct research, as well as large corporate groups that wish to
outsource a proportion of their RDI, while retaining ownership of the results.
Through this type of collaboration, the Centre makes available the skills and
expertise that it has built up over the years, as well as the scientific and technological means, mainly from the laboratory for material characterisation
(tests, analyses, measurements, trials) belonging to its Advanced Materials &
Structures (AMS) department. These services have a positive impact on innovation within a company.
Main characteristics:
• A customised response to the business’s RDI needs
• Financial coverage of the project met by the business
• Possible national co-financing
• The business retains the material rights to the results and profits of the
collaboration
• Calculation of the business’s investment using pre-defined commercial
pricing
• Confidentiality
Benefits of this type of collaboration:
• The company’s problem is approached from an external perspective, thus
providing a greater chance of finding a solution.
• The business avoids having to develop specialist internal skills which are
available elsewhere.
• The business benefits from a tailor-made solution that enables it to exercise sustainable competitive advantage.
Main characteristics:
• Commercial offer established at the beginning of the collaboration
• Possible national co-financing
• The business retains the material rights to the results and profits of the
collaboration
• Calculation of the business’s investment using commercial pricing
• Possibility of working per day or per project
• Confidentiality
Benefits of this type of collaboration:
• The company acquires concrete results within a short period of time.
• The company benefits from hands-on advice.
GOOD TO KNOW
Companies can receive several types of financial support:
•
Certain technical feasibility studies, which are a prerequisite to R&D
projects, can be subsidised through the "Technical Feasibility Studies"
aid scheme (RDI law of 5 June 2009).
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The RDI law of 5 June 2009 also co-finances innovation advisory services and innovation support services within SMEs.
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In the fields of ecotechnology and sustainable development, certain
studies may benefit from financial support from the Ministry of the
Economy and Foreign Trade.
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The Ministry of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises and Tourism assists
SMEs in their investments in expertise and advice, primarily with regard
to technology watch operations, feasibility studies or through advisory
activities regarding environmental protection.
GOOD TO KNOW
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The activities that fit into this type of research can benefit from a
subsidy from the Ministry of the Economy and Foreign Trade within the
context of the "R&D Projects or Programmes" aid scheme (RDI law of
5 June 2009).
More specifically, further financial assistance is allocated to SMEs by the
Ministry of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises and Tourism within the
context of the innovation and R&D scheme for the promotion of SMEs
(law of 30 June 2004).

7. -74. NETWORKING
5. WELCOMING RESEARCHERS
CRP Henri Tudor participates in many European research projects involving
scientific research and innovation networks with the aim of benefitting companies in Luxembourg.
In this type of collaboration highly qualified personnel (doctoral students,
post-doctoral students, research engineers) are made available to the company, or alternatively, our Centre hosts company collaborators seeking training.
Main characteristics:
• Joint participation in innovation networks
• Possible national or European co-financing
• Sharing of network results
Main characteristics:
• Identification of common interests, joint design and implementation
• Joint financial participation and risk-taking
• Possible national or European co-financing
• Sharing of results and profits
Benefits of this type of collaboration:
• Joint participation with a public research centre in international networking projects represents an introduction to research and innovation for
many companies.
• Companies share their experiences and expertise, acquire new knowledge, and pool and share their resources.
GOOD TO KNOW
Companies can receive several types of financial support for this activity:
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The "Investment in Innovation Clusters" and "Management of
Innovation Clusters" aid schemes from the Ministry of the Economy
and Foreign Trade (RDI law of 5 June 2009) encourage interaction, the
sharing of equipment, the exchange of expertise and knowledge and
technology transfer.
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At a European level, networking opportunities exist through the
European programmes FP7 and CIP.
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The COST programme also supports the coordination of national
research in carefully targeted fields, through the funding of activities.
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As regards the LuxLAUNCH measure, this is aimed at studies on the
positioning of companies or research bodies in the aerospace field with
satellite telecommunications, satellite navigation and Earth observation
as key priorities.
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Finally, the Fit4Europe measure encourages the participation of
Luxembourgish companies in European research programmes.
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CRP Henri Tudor and Luxinnovation, the National Agency
for Innovation and Research, work in close collaboration
in order to be better able to advise and assist businesses.
To learn more about the different aid schemes, visit the
websites
www.luxinnovation.lu and
www.innovation.public.lu
Benefits of this type of collaboration:
• The company benefits from the specialist skills of a doctoral student,
post-doctoral student or research engineer in implementing concrete
and tailored innovation within the company.
• The company can train its collaborators in a new technology over an
extended period of time and within the scientific environment of CRP
Henri Tudor.
GOOD TO KNOW
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The Ministry of the Economy and Foreign Trade co-finances SMEs
interested in this type of collaboration through the "Temporary
Secondment of Highly Qualified Personnel" aid scheme.
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The ‘Marie Curie Actions’ under the ‘People’ Programme of the 7th
European Framework Programme helps companies wanting to develop
links with universities.
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Finally, FNR (www.fnr.lu) finances doctoral theses through its research
training grants (Aides Formation-Recherche, AFR).

8. -88 reasons to work with us
1. In tune with your needs
To meet the needs of the market and society we have been developing for
25 years innovations that are directly applicable by our clients/partners.
2. Comprehensive and sustainable solutions
We mobilise our scientific and technological expertise in an interdisciplinary manner in order to offer comprehensive and sustainable solutions to
our clients/partners over time. Our approach is that, in order to be sustainable, an innovation cannot be limited to only technological factors, but
must also take organisational and human factors into account.
3. First-class scientific expertise
Thanks to the scientific quality of our work and to continuous investment
in developing our partners’ expertise, we have reached a high level of
expertise with international standing. This scientific excellence is placed at
the disposal of our clients/partners.
4. International gateway
For many companies, the Centre represents a gateway to international
scientific expertise, innovation networks and technological platforms, as
well as to sources of third-party funding. We are involved in numerous
European projects, including as coordinator. This gateway together with
our specific knowledge of the Luxembourg market means that we are
able to create innovative solutions in line with the problems faced by local
businesses.
5. A business geared towards performance
Even though we are a public organisation we are managed like a private
company, guided by market needs and geared towards results. Our financial, scientific, and socio-economic performance are periodically assessed
within the framework of our performance contract with the Luxembourg
government.
6. Client satisfaction
Being geared towards clients, their satisfaction is very important to us.
This is why we carry out satisfaction surveys every year with our clients/
partners and continuously improve the way in which we work. We have
ISO 9001 certification for all of our operations and have ISO 17025 accreditation for some analysis and testing operations. Our partners/clients can
consequently count on our reliable and rigorous methods in RDI project
management.
HOW DOES COLLABORATION
WITH THE CENTRE WORK?
Phase 1 Assessment, together with the partner, of the interest and scope
of the project
Phase 2
Joint definition of the terms and content of the partnership and
signature of a collaboration contract. In particular, this specifies
what each partner will bring to the project, the financing of the
project, to whom the results and benefits of the collaboration will
belong, confidentiality clauses etc.
Phase 3
Implementation of the project and its various work packages
under the coordination of an experienced project manager
Phase 4
Joint evaluation of the project results
Phase 5
Collaboration follow-up over the medium- and
long-term
7. Independence
As a public research actor we are independent of any particular economic
or social interests.
8. A solid partnership
We build lasting relationships with our clients/partners rooted in trust,
dialogue and openness. To this end, we encourage a co-designed and
collaborative approach.

9. -9Contacts
Partnerships, international relations, account management
. Joëlle Welfring | joelle.welfring@tudor.lu
Technology transfer and valorisation
. Jean-Pol Michel | jean-pol.michel@tudor.lu
We have a contact person for each key market:
Manufacturing Industry Programme
. Dr João A.S. Bomfin | joao.bomfin@tudor.lu
Construction Programme
. Fabrice Absil | fabrice.absil@tudor.lu
Ecotechnology Programme
. Dr Alex Cornelissen | alex.cornelissen@tudor.lu
Mobility Programme
. Dr Djamel Khadraoui | djamel.khadraoui@tudor.lu
Transport & Logistics Programme
. David Evaristo | david.evaristo@tudor.lu
Health Programme
. Dr Robert Lemor | robert.lemor@tudor.lu
Public Services Programme
. Pascal Lhoas | pascal.lhoas@tudor.lu
Innofinance Programme
. Dr Anne-Laure Mention | anne-laure.mention@tudor.lu
Human Capital Programme
. Linda Szelest | linda.szelest@tudor.lu
Luxinnovation is also at your disposal for any questions
about possible national or European co-financing.
. Marc Ferring | marc.ferring@luxinnovation.lu

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