This pole involves close collaboration between research and advanced industries: Limoges hosts the research activities of IRCOM (Research Institute in Microwave and Optical Communications) as well as the Legrand group, worldwide leader in low-voltage electrical appliances.
This pole of competence is further strengthened by the specialization in Electronics and Communications offered by ENSIL, (the Limoges National Graduate School of Engineering), and by CRITT Electronics Optics, which meets industrial demand by developing an electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) testing center.

The electricity and electronics sectors represent a leading network employing nearly 7000 people in Limousin. On the ESTER site, SITEL (Legrand’s Industrial Site for Electronic Technologies) elaborates electronic products, while IRCOM has become internationally famous in high-frequency electronics, electromagnetism, and photonics.

GERAC (Regional Testing Center in Electronics and Electromagnetism, formerly (CR3E) offers many services: consulting, aid in design and product adaptation, testing in conforming to immunity and emission standards in radiation disturbance. CREAPE (Research Center in Electromagnetism for Antennae with Electronic Positioning) brings together the IRCOM electromagnetism research team and an industrial team specialized in hyperfrequency electronics.

The ENSIL specialization in Electronics and Communications further strengthens this pole by offering two career orientations: Microelectronics and Communications, which aims at bringing together skills from telecommunications as well as from microelectronic and optoelectronic devices; Instrumentation, Industrial Measuring and Testing, which answers a strong industrial demand.

“The Electromagnetism pole is the fruit of dense research and academic activities in electronics and optics…”