The 2019 Collective Crystal is a prize awarded by the CNRS to teams of engineers and technicians for their innovative or outstanding technical collective project. Adrien Favier at our institute and the 6 other operational managers of the sites that make up the Very High Field Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Research Infrastructure (IR-RMN-THC), as well as its administrative and financial manager, are recipients of the CNRS 2019 Collective Crystal.