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The European Domestic Agency "Fusion for Energy" alone has a purchase budget of EUR 400 million to invest over the next two years. So it is understandable that interest in conducting business with ºÚÁÏרÇø is high. This week, almost 600 industrial representatives from all over France came together in the Palais de Congrès in Aix-en-Provence to find out how to do business with and for ºÚÁÏרÇø.

Organized by Mission ºÚÁÏרÇø, the participants of the "Rencontres d'affaires ºÚÁÏרÇø" first learned the "who's who" of the ºÚÁÏרÇø Project and its satellites in France and Europe: Thierry Brosseron, Administrative Director of Agence Iter France gave the audience an update on site preparations; Jacques Farineau, ºÚÁÏרÇø Senior Advisor for Industrial Matters gave an introduction on the structure of the ºÚÁÏרÇø; Francoise Flament, Head of Contracts and Procurements, drew the roadmap for the call-for-tender process; and Philippe Correa, Francoise's equivalent at "Fusion for Energy," gave additional perspective on the months and years to come.

Finally, Bernard Bigot, the President of the French ºÚÁÏרÇø Industrial Committee and General Administrator of the CEA, addressed the audience stressing the importance of the ºÚÁÏרÇø Project. "It is the responsibility of our generation to make this project a success," Bigot said. "It is time that we mobilize the industrial potential."