Paris has the Station F start-up campus, Sarcelles will have Station Numixs (for digital and mixed) by the end of 2022. This Thursday evening, the first stone of the Maison du numérique, carried by the Roissy agglomeration community. Pays-de-France (RPF) and CY Cergy Paris Université, was placed on the right-of-way of the IUT of Sarcelles, in the heart of the priority district.
On this occasion, the name of this equipment at 9 million euros, subsidized by the European Regional Development Fund, the State (as part of the France relaunch plan), the Ile-de-France region and the departmental council du Val-d’Oise, has been unveiled.
If the largest city of Roissy-Pays-de-France was chosen to host the bridgehead of the agglomeration’s digital network, “we have decided to link the territory with Numixs laboratories, which will replicate everywhere what the ‘we are doing here so that businesses and residents can go as close as possible to their homes, ”says Charles Soufir, vice-president in charge of digital in the agglomeration.
Training for jobs with digital technology
Because beyond innovation, digital inclusion is at the heart of this equipment, which plans to fight against electronicism, to support companies in their digital transformation and to train young people and job seekers towards digital professions.
For Marie-Christine Cavecchi (LR), president of the departmental council, “this house is part of a local economic development strategy which identifies the territory of Roissy-Pays-de-France as a land where applications, jobs and the jobs of tomorrow ”.
The Numixs Incubator, launched on avenue du 8 mai 1945, will join the structure to accommodate around thirty young companies. The FacLab Numixs, currently hosted at the IUT, will allow everyone to use state-of-the-art machines driven by computers to make objects and prototypes.
As a coincidence of the call for tenders, the architect Francis Soler, resident of Montmorency, lived more than fifteen years in Sarcelles. He imagined a circular building to facilitate collaborations between entrepreneurs, students and residents who will attend this Digital House.
“This is a major step and the next will be to make Sarcelles a real university hub,” said Patrick Haddad (PS), the mayor of the 14th poorest city in France, where half of the population is under 25 years old.
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