The Télécom & Société numérique Carnot Institute is France’s premier Carnot Institute dedicated to 

information and communication sciences and technologies at a national level. It offers cutting-edge 

research and integrated solutions to the complex technological issues that have emerged in the ongoing 

digital revolution:

• Communication and data processing networks and systems, 

• Strong interactions between interfaces and contents, 

• Critical role of communication in the development of uses.

It also addresses the technical, economic and social consequences  

of this revolution on networks of the future and communicating objects,  

media of the future, uses and digital life, e-health and autonomy,  

the sustainable environment, digital services, and global security.

Working together to develop technologies and applications

for the Digital Society

Target markets

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Networks and communicating 
objects

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Media of the future and digital 
content, press, publishing

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Communication services  
for citizens and society 

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Corporate services and integration 
of ICT into  organizations

•  

Global security within and via 
information and communication 
technologies

•  

Transport, mobility and 
sustainable city

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Environment

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Technologies serving health and 
autonomy

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Uses and digital life, design of 
terminals, systems and services

More than 2000 researchers

More than 50 technology platforms

50 patents / year

More than 20 joint labs

Find out more 

http://carnottelecom.mines-telecom.fr

Our skills across the entire value 

chain  

 Fundamental technologies:  

electronics, physics, microwaves, 

optics and components, image and 

signal processing, digital and analog 

communications, data processing, 

networks, computer science, security, 

applied mathematics, modeling, cognitive 

sciences, automation and robotics,

 Interfacing with real issues: 

society, uses and design, 

management and organization, 

economics, law and regulation

State-of-the-art facilities and 

platforms

Our service offering 

 Research, consultancy and assessment 

contracts

 Access to our research or simulation 

platforms in full operational conditions

 Industrial research Chairs, joint 

laboratories and strategic partnerships for 

longer-term collaboration

 Technology transfer (patent assignment, 

licensing, transfers to start-ups)

 Support for entrepreneurship, 

incubation

 Support for innovative projects and 

standardization projects

 Fondation Télécom program: for 

public-interest research 

 Foresight and think tanks
 Ongoing and custom training
 Training of engineers and other 

professionals, internships