News : Education

At the end of January, you ran a day-long workshop on sustainable electronics for the 40 students in the Nanotech Master’s program. What were you aiming to achieve? Increasingly, our students want to know what the environmental impacts of their future careers are. Sometimes, the answer is hard for them to hear. We wanted to […] >>

Grenoble Institute of Technology-Phelma student government rolled out a hard-hitting campaign at MINATEC and on the university campus during the recent student elections. The student officers produced ten posters designed to raise student awareness of the dangers of partying. The posters very directly addressed drug and alcohol use, sexual assault, and violence. The incisive taglines […] >>

DigiFed, an EU project coordinated by IRT Nanoelec and Leti, officially kicked off on January 28 at Maison MINATEC. With a budget of €7.9 million, including €3.8 million in cascade funding for SMBs, the project will speed up European SMBs’ adoption of digital technology. The first DigiFed call for projects will start in April. Financing […] >>

On March 13 Maison MINATEC will host the 12th Junior Scientist and Industry Annual Meeting (JSIAM). The event is expected to draw 150 PhD and post-doc candidates currently doing research at labs and companies on the GIANT campus. The attendees will gain insights into the career opportunities available in industry and network with professionals. The […] >>

A team of engineering students from Grenoble headed to Boston in late November compete in the International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) competition. The team, which included four students from Grenoble Institute of Technology-Phelma, entered their invention, the Neurodrop teardrop test kit for Parkinson’s disease, into the contest. Neurodrop was nominated for track awards in three […] >>