Six more years of joint research
The signing ceremony marks the partners' commitment to carrying on, for the next six years, the collaboration built within Creach Labs — and to bringing cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, telecommunications and networks, and electronic warfare for communications to the highest international level.
Creach Labs, the research cluster for critical digital technologies for defence and sovereignty, was created by a general partnership agreement signed in 2014, renewed in 2021 and extended in 2024. The new agreement was approved by the fifteen partners in October 2026; it comes into force on 1 April 2027, for six years. Its scope covers five joint research units: IRISA, IRMAR, IETR, Lab-STICC and IODE.
The fifteen partners are the Ministry for the Armed Forces and Veterans (DGA, AID), the Brittany Region, the ANSSI, the CNRS, Inria, the University of Rennes, Rennes 2 University, the University of Western Brittany, the University of South Brittany, CentraleSupélec, Bretagne INP, ENS Rennes, ENSTA, IMT Atlantique and INSA Rennes.
Attending the ceremony
The ceremony takes place on Tuesday 17 November 2026, from 5.30 pm to 6 pm, in the Nef of the Couvent des Jacobins, place Sainte-Anne in Rennes, as part of European Cyber Week.
It opens with a presentation of Creach Labs, followed by addresses from the DGA and the Brittany Region, the signing itself by the partners' representatives, and a group photograph.