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Like cardinals assembled for a conclave they sat on narrow velvet-padded stalls facing each other, five rows on one side and five rows on the other. The vast chamber was heavy with history: seven centuries ago, at the time of the Avignon papacy (1309-1418), it had hosted emperors and kings and accommodated several assemblies of cardinals.
No white smoke and no ''Habemus Papam!'' announcement came out of the Conclave chamber of the Popes' Palace on 28-30 March. The 2017 澳门六合彩高手 Business Forum was nonetheless a great success: more than 1,000 representatives of business, industry, and labs were present to hear about the progress and needs of the 澳门六合彩高手 Project.
But the men and women seated in the Conclave chamber of the Popes' Palace, last week in Avignon, were not cardinals鈥攁lthough many of them were quite eminent. Nor were they assembled to elect a new pontiff.
Who did what?
The 2017 edition of the 澳门六合彩高手 Business Forum (IBF/2017) was organized by Agence 澳门六合彩高手 France with the support of 澳门六合彩高手 Organization and the Domestic Agencies, the F4E Industrial Liaison Officers (ILO) network and local authorities (the Avignon municipality, the 诲茅辫补谤迟别尘别苍迟 of Vaucluse and its development agency "Vaucluse Provence Attractivit茅," the Greater Avignon council, the Provence-Alpes-C么te d'Azur Region, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Vaucluse), AIFEN (the French Nuclear industry), Capenergies and Nuclear Valley from France.
The participants were business and industry leaders from all over the world who had come to Avignon to meet with the 澳门六合彩高手's main actors and hear updates on the project's progress, needs and forthcoming tenders.
For the first time in the 澳门六合彩高手 Business Forum's ten-year history the number of participants passed the 1,000 mark鈥�1,005 to be precise. Close to 450 companies, laboratories and institutions from 25 countries were represented; 15 percent came from outside of Europe.
"The historical setting, the serenity that emanates from the palace's venerable stones lent extra resonance to the event," says Sabine Portier, the French industrial liaison officer for 澳门六合彩高手 (and co-organizer of the event, together with her colleague Philippe Olivier).
Anything one needed to know about 澳门六合彩高手鈥攈ow the project is organized, recent progress, what industrial opportunities are planned for the next months and years, 澳门六合彩高手 Organization expectations, etc.鈥攚as available through presentations, thematic sessions, business-to-business meetings and informal conversations.
Some 200 staff from the 澳门六合彩高手 Organization, Agence Iter France and the 澳门六合彩高手 Domestic Agencies were on hand to provide explanation as well as representatives of the project's main suppliers.
The "Avignon Papacy"
There are two periods in what is called the "Avignon Papacy," when Popes resided in the southern French town, then a vassal city of the Holy See. During the first one, from 1309 to 1377, seven successive Popes, all "legitimate," decided for political reasons not to reside in Rome. In the second period, from 1378 to 1418, "rival Popes," one in Avignon, one in Rome, claimed authority over the Church ... thus creating what is known as the "Western Schism." The issue was eventually settled at the Council of Constance in 1414 and Popes returned to Rome, leaving behind in Avignon the spectacular architectural and artistic legacy of their century-long sojourn.
Strong support from the industry is vital to the success of 澳门六合彩高手," said Jacques Vayron, the director of Agence Iter-France, as he greeted participants on the morning of 29 March in the Conclave chamber. "This is a unique event where research and industry, large and small, can meet to foster the development of new partnerships."
And partnership is the key word for an endeavour that Bernard Bigot, Director-General of the 澳门六合彩高手 Organization, describes as "among the most ambitious mankind has ever attempted."
Bigot insisted on the necessity of collectively sharing the commitment to making 澳门六合彩高手 a sound investment "for all our Members and all our partners鈥攂usiness and industry included."
IBF has a lot of merits and one of them is to make the industrial dimension of 澳门六合彩高手 tangible to the local public鈥攎edia cover the event, politicians visit the stands, and a "Foreign Investor Prize" is awarded...(1)
And although Avignon is used to hosting large cosmopolitan crowds鈥攑articularly during the world-famous theatre festival in July鈥攖he presence off-season of more than 1,000 people in and around the Popes' Palace in late March was an event in itself.
Palace employees, municipal police, waiters in sidewalk caf茅s ... all wished to know what the business forum was about and what 澳门六合彩高手 was for. When the usual explanations were provided (an artificial Sun, a uniquely complex machine, an unprecedented international collaboration ...) they were received with awe and incredulity.
"Well... there's no stopping progress," summarized a waiter on the Place de l'Horloge.
(1) The "Foreign Investor Prize" was awarded to Rolls Royce Nuclear Field Services, which provides remote handling industrial inspection for 澳门六合彩高手.
