Photo Stéphan ROUVERAND

Stéphan Rouverand

R&I Project Manager

My responsibilities

  • Facilitation of industrial clusters
  • Support for setting up pre-competitive research projects
  • Project management

My passions in life

  • Motorcycles, scooters, bicycles, even scooters: anything with two wheels is an invitation to change your horizons for a ride
  • Gardening (vegetable garden) and baking

If I were…

  • A dish: a tomato, anchovy, and basil salad, to keep my Mediterranean side alive.
  • A kitchen utensil: a knife with a beautiful damask blade and a boxwood handle.
  • A sports item: a badminton shuttlecock. I’ve always dreamed of having a feather skirt and being as fast as lightning.
  • An innovation: a cure for sleep, so I’d have more time to do more things!
  • A country: Brittany. Oh, it’s not a country? Then the Cévennes, because the water that flows in the streams there is clearer than tap water. What? It’s not a country either? Darn it!
  • An artist: Mathurin Méheut, because his paintings can help you understand a profession or activity you didn’t even know existed!
  • A cocktail: any cocktail! As long as it has rum in it!
  • A song: “Petite sirène” by Francis Cabrel, because I’ve been a dad for 16 years (for the first time), but this song always makes me feel like it was yesterday.
  • An object I would take to a desert island: my mountain bike, because you can’t play badminton on your own.
  • A film: “Star Wars,” because I’ve never had a friend like Chewbacca or Jar Jar Binks.

My motto

“Words only convey the intention to please, while actions demonstrate the will to do.”

My Proustian madeleine

Taking a knife out of my pocket to carve a whistle out of a chestnut husk, eating an apple stolen from the neighbor’s garden, cleaning the stem of a mushroom, making myself a honey sandwich, removing a splinter from my little brother’s finger while he screams like a banshee, etc.