CAP ELENA, shaping the Future of Electronics in Nouvelle-Aquitaine

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Winner of the "Skills and Professions of the Future" call for expressions of interest (AMI CMA) launched as part of the national France 2030 plan, the CAP ELENA project offers a response to the growing demand for electronic skills in Nouvelle-Aquitaine.

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The university of Bordeaux and its CAP ELENA project partners have conducted an assessment of the alignment between the supply and demand for electronics training in Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Regional companies are primarily integrators of electronic solutions, as opposed to component manufacturers; they face significant challenges in recruiting the profiles they need, which hinders their innovation and development. 

These difficulties have repercussions across the entire regional territory and, more broadly, on the national economy, as electronics represent a family of technologies with widespread influence across all value chains involved in environmental and digital transitions.

The CAP ELENA project aims to:

  • Rely on the characterization of recruitment needs in the electronics sector in Nouvelle-Aquitaine. 
  • Implement an unprecedented collaboration between the Academic Region and higher education institutions in the region to address the lack of attractiveness of electronics careers and training programs.
  • Network all training stakeholders, academic, industrial, initial, and continuing education, to energize the overall training offer and better align it with the needs of industries in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region.

Target Audience

CAP ELENA is built on a partnership designed to strengthen Bac +3 and Bac +5 (Bachelor’s degree and Master’s degree) programs as well as continuing education. To increase high school students’ awareness of the challenges of the electronics industry, its careers, and training opportunities, the consortium brings together a wide range of expertise, including education, businesses, public decision-makers, academic guidance, and secondary education. CAP ELENA is aimed at: high school students, Bac +1, +3, and +5 students, employees in training, and academic guidance personnel.

Key Focus Areas

  • Establishing or strengthening synergies between partner higher education institutions through experience sharing and the pooling of educational resources.
  • Implementing a communication plan targeting high schools and middle schools in the region, including participation in trade fairs, summer schools, and career guidance initiatives toward the electronics sector.
  • Developing new teaching methods to attract new learners.
  • Structuring continuous Industry-Training interaction in Nouvelle-Aquitaine to adapt initial training offerings and expand continuing education.

Objectives

Based on the national assessment, incorporating the regional specificities of skill requirements, the CAP ELENA project aims to:

  • Increase the number of students enrolling in in-person initial training programs.
  • Retain them in electronics careers through innovative teaching methods.
  • Significantly increase the number of apprentices.
  • Promote diversity, equal opportunities, and gender equality.
  • Involve industry players in training design to experiment with new apprenticeship and continuing education models.
  • Explore synergies between industrial and academic training.
  • Maintain continuous interaction with the electronics sector to enhance youth outreach efforts and improve training offerings in response to evolving skill needs.

Project Identity Card

  • France 2030 Objective: Decarbonizing our industry
  • Theme: Electronics and Robotics
  • Project Leader: Noëlle Lewis, university of Bordeaux
  • Funding: €5.30M
  • Project Duration: 5 years
  • Consortium Members: university of Bordeaux, University of Limoges, University of Poitiers, University of Pau and the Adour Region, Bordeaux Institute of Technology (BxINP), École Supérieure des Technologies Industrielles Avancées (ESTIA), Nouvelle-Aquitaine Academic Region / GIP FCIP d'Aquitaine (Public Interest Group for Continuing Education and Professional Integration in Aquitaine), I2S - Innovative Imaging Solutions, EXXELIA, Symbiose, EMS Factory, COFIDUR EMS, SERMA Group, Cap’tronic, Inovelec, FEDD, Nouvelle-Aquitaine Region, Association for the Development of Industrial Apprenticeship in Aquitaine (ADAIAQ), THALES AVS France SAS.
  • CAP ELENA LinkedIn

This work was supported by the French government, managed by the National Research Agency (ANR), under the France 2030 program with reference ANR-23-CMA-0021.

Contacts

  • Noëlle Lewis

    Project Leader

  • Mélanie Ravon

    CAP ELENA Project Manager

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  • University of Limoges & ENSIL-ENSCI

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  • University of Poitiers : David Helbert

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  • University of Pau & ENSGTI : Laurent Pécastaing

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  • Bordeaux INP - ENSEIRB MATMECA : Thierry Taris

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  • ESTIA : Guillaume Terrasson

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