Deep Neural Networks (DNN) have become the state of the art in the fields of Image Classification, Object Detection and Machine Translation, among others. However, this comes at the cost of increased complexity: more parameters, computations, energy consumption. DNN pruning is an effective way to reduce this complexity and provide high performance, low energy DNN implementations for embedded systems. ProPruNN proposes to precisely study the impact of structured pruning. This exploration will be done by co-designing hardware architectures capable of taking advantage of this pruning. The first objective is to clearly identify the real impact of structured pruning on the performance of networks implemented on FPGA. Indeed, in the literature, this impact is underestimated, because only a fraction of the prunable parameters are actually pruned. The second is to design predictive models of this impact, to incorporate it in the training of networks in order to optimize their throughput, latency, and energy efficiency during the training itself.

"ERASMUS+ Mobility programme is part and parcel of the global international strategy to encourage international mobility of the students at ENSTA Bretagne. It is compulsory for the latter to validate an international quitus of minimum 12 weeks. The target of 50% of students abroad every year for all years and all majors is part of the objective of the ""Contrat d'Objectifs et Performances"" of ENSTA Bretagne. The ERASMUS+ program allows to achieve part of this goal. European mobility has been increasing on a regular basis for the 3 last years. 2014-2015 has seen 13 students in Study Mobility - 43 in Internship Mobility and 3 Staff Teaching Mobilities. Out of the 14 students who went on an ERASMUS+ study exchange, 8 did their last semester abroad (M2), the remaining went for their 2nd year of study (referring to an engineering cycle in 3 years, therefore they went for their M1). Regarding Mobility for Internsnhips, thanks to the new format of grants for internships (minimum 2 months) in ERASMUS+, 70% of the students have beneficiated from the program during their 2nd year internship (engineer assistant internship); The others used the program to perform their Master thesis (6 months) mostly in companies.Most of students have performed tasks in R&D according to their speciality.This mobility has offered the opportunity for the students, those in studies as well as those in internships, to improve their language skills, open-up to the world and acquire maturity in their professional project.On top of that study mobilities bring in to the students the possibility to experience another way of teaching and learning : university vs Engineering institution (Grandes Ecoles).Most of the students come back more mature (more adults), with a better motivation in the shaping of their professional project and a bigger tolerance towards the integration of foreign students in incoming mobility."

Nanoporous materials derived from clays feature textural properties and volumetric gas adsorption performances comparable to those of traditional industrial adsorbents for gas treatment process, such as bio-methane upgrading by CO2 capture. In this specific context, we have recently shown that smectites with residual moisture in the expanded interlayer space, exhibit not only higher gas adsorption capacity, but also the exceptional selectivity to CO2 over CH4. The combination of these specific properties with the availability of the natural precursors (smectites) makes clay adsorbents attractive for industrial applications. The present project aims at the design of novel high-surface-area clay-based porous materials (combing the strategies of smectite cation exchange, acidic activation etc.) supported by thorough characterization of their CO2/CH4 adsorption properties in a large range of P and T conditions and biogas upgrading process design relying on measured adsorption data.

This action supports physical and blended mobility of higher education students and staff from EU Member States and third countries associated to Erasmus+ to any country in the world. Students in all study fields and cycles can take part in a study period or traineeship abroad. Higher education teaching and administrative staff can take part in professional development activities abroad, as well as staff from the field of work in order to teach and train students or staff at higher education institutions.

This project aims at the constitution of a research network in Europe and in several emerging countries. It will be dedicated to the study of links between the new forms of technological engineering and engineer’s training policies at university or in institutions of higher education the national and international piloting bodies. The objective is to measure the adaptation of the trainings on engineers to the new challenges of the technological innovation. The project consist of the constitution of the research network and the conduct of a feasibility study, on the basis of field surveys in companies and training institutions, to build tools ant analysis and hypotheses. The contribution of the network would be two fold: in the short term, it would support and nourish the project to be submitted by our team; in the longer term, it would stimulate permanent collaboration. It is led by le centre de recherche sur la formation (EA 1410), équipe ENSTA Bretagne – CRF.