Institutional, regional and scientific partners

Département de Santé Animale
Centre de recherche de Tours - 37380 Nouzilly - France
Tél : +33 2 47 42 77 76 - Fax : +33 2 47 42 77 72
http://www.inra.fr/sante_animale

Centre de recherche de Jouy-en-Josas
Domaine de Vilvert - 78352 JOUY-EN-JOSAS cedex - France
Tél : +33 1 34 65 21 21
http://www.jouy.inra.fr/

Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire d'Alfort
7, avenue du Général de Gaulle
94704 Maisons-Alfort Cedex
France

Les Haras nationaux
BP 6
19231 ARNAC POMPADOUR CEDEX - France

► A public service provider
Our essential mission: to promote the French Horse Branch while creating social, economics and cultural value.

► A network
The "Haras nationaux" is present over the whole country, at the regional level and at the local level.

► A partner
The "Haras nationaux" is a public service provider which acts at the request of the government, the socio-professional organizations and the local authorities.

Région Basse-Normandie
Abbaye-aux-Dames - Place Reine Mathilde
BP 523
14035 Caen Cedex

First region in France for horse breeding, Basse-Normandie is also known as a region of the first rank for horse training. In 2005, the equine sector was awarded the label “competitiveness cluster” by the French government for its research and development project. The Basse-Normandie regional Council strongly supports this symbolic sector that employs over 7,000 people.

Conseil des Chevaux de Basse-Normandie
Pôle de compétitivité Filière équine
23, rue Pasteur - 14120 Mondeville - France

France’s horse industry economic cluster
A network of innovative companies, research centres and training organizations. A role of supporting projects so as to strengthen the excellence of the French horse industry.

Within a competitiveness perspective of the French offering on international markets, the national economic cluster must be able to be based on the concentration and visibility that Normandy offers to make it a reference and anchoring point for a French network of innovative businesses and thus succeed in maintaining French excellence with regard to the horse. The challenges of the Cluster can be summarized in 3 goals:

• Research and Innovation
• Employment and Training
• International development

The Société de Biomécanique (SB) was funded in 1975 to organize a close cooperation between researchers, clinicians engineers and industrial in the fields of life science. The society now includes more than 200 members and nearly 100 french-speaking teams (France, Canada, Suisse, Belgique). One international congress is organised each year by the SB.