What is IFP Energies nouvelles?
IFP Energies nouvelles (IFPEN) is a public-sector research, innovation and training center active in the fields of energy, transport and the environment. Its mission is to provide public players and industry with efficient, economical, clean and sustainable technologies to take up the three major challenges facing society in the 21st century: climate change and environmental impacts, energy diversification and water resource management. It boasts world-class expertise.
IFPEN sets out 5 complementary, inextricably-linked strategic priorities that are central to its public-interest mission:
- Producing fuels, chemical intermediates and energy from renewable sources,
- Producing energy while mitigating the environmental footprint,
- Developing fuel-efficient, environmentally-friendly transport,
- Producing environmentally-friendly fuels and chemical intermediates from fossil resources,
- Providing environmentally-friendly technologies and pushing back the current boundaries of oil and gas reserves.
An integral part of IFPEN, its graduate engineering school prepares future generations to take up these challenges.
For more information, www.ifpenergiesnouvelles.com
6 - 7 December 2011


