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Pascale Amenc-Antoni, Senior Advisor to the ITER Director-General, explains the project's layout to Maryse Joissains-Masin, the Mayor of Aix-en-Provence. On the right: Francois Gauché, Director of Agence ITER France. © J-C Carbonne - Mairie d'Aix
On Wednesday 13 May, Mayor Joissains-Masini and a party of some 60 CPA officials visited the ITER site and attended several presentations given by Kaname Ikeda, ITER Organization Director-General; François Gauché, Director of Agence ITER-France (AIF); Jean Therme, Head of CEA-Grenoble and CEA Director for Research and Technology; and Serge Kovacs, Deputy Director of CEA-Cadarache in charge of development.
"ITER's economic benefits have come faster than we expected", said Mayor Joissains-Masini after listening to Director-General Kaname Ikeda's and AIF Director Francois Gauché's presentations.
The participants were then introduced to the "Energy Valley" project, a prospect project for CEA-Cadarache presented by the CEA Deputy Director Serge Kovacs, and also to the highly successful experience conducted in the Grenoble area where collaboration between research, universities and local governments has been stimulating industrial development for more than 40 years.
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