CNIM and its subsidiaries are committed to support trade and competitiveness clusters which aim to structure regional R&D activities.
The Group experts actively contribute to these organizations.

Trade associations

Environment and energy

• AMORCE (National Association of Communities, Associations and Businesses for Waste, Energy and Heating Network Management)
• AFITE Network of experts for the environment
• AFNOR
• ASTEE (Scientific and Technical Association for Water and the Environment).
• ATEE (Energy Environment Technical Association).
• CEWEP (Confederation of European Waste to Energy Plants).
• ESA (Environmental Services Association).
• ESWET (European Suppliers of Waste to Energy Technology).
• FEAD (European Federation for Pollution and Environmental Activities).
• FEDENE (Energy Environment Services Federation).
• FNADE (French Federation for Pollution Control and Environmental Activities).
• ISWA (International Solid Waste Association).
• OFATE Franco-German Office for Energy Transition
• SER (Authority on Renewable Energy).
• SNIDE (French National Union of Designers and Builders in the Waste Industries). 
• SVDU (French National Syndicate for Treatment and Recovery of Urban and Assimilated Waste).

The Group is also represented :

Naval activities

• GICAN (French Marine Industries Group).

Defense and terrestrial security

• GICAT (French Defense and Security Industries Group) : Bertin Technologies is a member of the Board of Directors, the Executive Board, and chairs the Innovation Commission.

• within the EDA (European Defence Agency), as an expert in CapTech (Capability Technology) EOST (Electro Optical Systems and Technologies).

Nuclear 

• GIFEN : Groupement des Industriels Français de l’Industrie Nucléaire, the professional union of the French nuclear industry;
• PFCE (China-France Electricity Partnership). PFCE aims to promote the long-term involvement of French midcaps and SMEs in the construction of the Chinese nuclear program;
• PFME (France Global Electricity Partnership), which brings together suppliers to EDF’s French nuclear program.

NBC threat detection

• GIE Défense NBC, which brings together the main French businesses active in the NRBCE (nuclear, radiation, biological, chemical and explosive) sector.

Medical equipment and device activities :

• within the Strategic and Scientific Council of the Grand Défi Bioproduction de médicaments.

Cybersecurity

• Bertin Technologies est membre du conseil d’administration et membre du bureau exécutif de l’association HexaTrust,
• CLUSIF (French IT Security Club);
• CICS (French Trust and Security Industry Council);
• CECyF (French Center of Expertise on Cybercrime);
• IRT SystemX (technological research institute).
• as a founding member of the IdAML Chair (Industrial Data Analytics and Machine Learning) with ATOS, CEA, SNCF and Michelin as industrial players and ENS Paris Saclay and ENSIIE as academic players ;
• PEC (Pôle d’Excellence Cyber)

In associations that promote research and innovation

• ANRT (French National Association for Research and Technology);
• ASRC (French Association of Contractual Research Structures);
• France Innovation.
• Toulon Var Technologies, which supports innovation in the Var department ;
• UIMM, Union des Industries et Métiers de la Métallurgie ;
• Team Henri FABRE, an association of industrialists whose vocation is to develop the industry of the future in the French Southern region;
• SEATECH  board of directors ;
• Université de Toulon scientific council;
• as a member of the Evaluation Committee of the Instituts Carnot ;
• Winlight member of Freeform Optics Recherche & Solutions.

Competitiveness clusters
 

• Cap Énergies, whose purpose is to control energy consumption and work on the shift toward non-greenhouse-gas-generating energy sources, as a member of the Board and of the project evaluation committee;
• Mediterranean Sea cluster, an international landmark in the maritime and coastal sector;
• Optitec, an international landmark in the maritime and coastal sector :

o Bertin Technologies member (ETI group), member of the board of directors and member of the bureau as treasurer ;

o Winlight member

• Safe Cluster, which covers security and aerospace;
• Systematic cluster, active at the crossroads of eight company-level technological markets (transport, energy, telecoms, security, health, smart cities, information technology and the factory of the future) and two general technological fields (free software and complex systems).
• The Aerospace Valley cluster, dedicated to the aeronautics, space and UAV sectors, in the Occitania and New Aquitaine regions;
• The Defense Club of the Aériades cluster, dedicated to the defense activities of the players in the Grand-Est region.