Can we re-establish a pyrotechnic culture in the Cher? In Bourges, cradle of powder reserves under Napoleon III? Where for 100 years, from 1866 to 1967, the greatest specialists were trained at the Central School of Pyrotechnics?
In an industrial basin closely linked to the defense sectors, this training ambition driven by Hub Tech Center Val de Loire
on a legitimate territory in the matter, does not intend to remain in the state of utopia. End of September, around twenty industrialists, academics, experts, elected officials, and soldiers
shared the amphitheater of the Cher chamber of commerce and industry to “boost the Pyro project”.
Need for skills This national project was born from an observation: skills decrease
while the training needs to maintain and improve them in order to facilitate recruitment are significant. Gérard Frut, from the Association of specialists in explosives and pyrotechnics, and Lionel Hairault, president of the Pyrotechnics Working Group, wanted to launch a first inventory with businesses and schools. “There is a skills issue in this pyrotechnic sector because there is a halt in the training of high-level specialists
», Laments Anne-Lucie Clausse, director of Hub Tech. She, who ran the Hubert-Curien school in Bourges, remembers the specialties of industrial risk management.
In the Center-Val de Loire region, the Cher well armed in the defense sector
The stakes are all the greater as new regulations in 2013 require specialized training of technicians and supervisors in pyrotechnics. According to a study launched by the working group and led by Serge Lecume and Anne-Lucie Clausse, “Technologies & Processes”, “Testing” and “Mechanics / Design & Prototyping” skills are the most in demand today
by industrialists. “The fact remains that in France, the” presence of pyrotechnics training remains discreet “observe the authors of the study.
“Ideal territory” We must “work at a adequate balance between basic academic training and practical learning
among manufacturers for a solid pyrotechnic course. “ The proximity of the benchmark industrialist in land defense, Nexter, and the multiple training offer already present in Bourges, “ the ideal territory to initiate this renaissance action
“, Further advances the study. For Anne-Lucie Clausse, it is a matter of “capitalizing on what we have in Bourges.” » Armament industries, military sites, a Polygon firing test center, the Defense Industries Resource Center.
But also the Insa Center-Val de Loire engineering school.
A combination of expertise conducive to developing a project locally. “The defense of the scientific and industrial heritage of the Cher in this area is at stake,” insists Patrick Barnier, vice-president at Bourges Plus and at the departmental council in charge of higher education and research.
Hub Tech Center-Val de Loire, carries this project “in a transitory way” as a platform for exchanges and networking, “while waiting for a more legitimate carrier. Bourges has a glorious past, it is here that we have to imagine the future ”, is convinced Anne-Lucie Clausse.
Thomas Migault
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