News : Education

Planet Makers, a non-profit organization created this fall, has set up shop at Grenoble Institute of Technology’s Phelma engineering school, thanks to the support of the Fondation Grenoble INP. Planet Makers was founded by two self-proclaimed Phelma engineering geeks, Jérôme Martin and Andréa Battistella, who both share a passion for teaching. Their goal: to get […] >>

Emmanuelle Gourieux, a third-year student at Grenoble Institute of Technology’s Phelma engineering school, has been elected Student Vice President. She will represent her cohort to Grenoble Institute of Technology and sit on several commissions, including CSIE*, which she co-chairs and which provides financial support for student non-profit initiatives. Emmanuelle also represents her classmates to the […] >>

As part of the EU EduNano project, eight Israeli high-school teachers will come to CIME Nanotech in mid-December to expand their knowledge and discuss teaching methods with the Nano@school team. The program includes nano-biotech, atomic force microscopy, and PV characterization lab classes and even classes taught right in the clean room! In July, CIME hosted […] >>

Alps Design Lab, a CEA Tech Open Lab, has tackled the challenge of how to use a shipping-container-sized electrolyzer to create a “normal-sized” teaching demonstrator. In a few weeks, the lab will deliver to Liten a refrigerator-sized system that packs in a high-temperature furnace, heat exchanger, and steam generator—qualities sure to appeal to future users! […] >>

Grenoble-Alpes University received around 50 expressions of interest in response to its call for proposals for the IDEX (a French government program to boost cross-disciplinary programs on campuses across the nation) Cross-Disciplinary Program (CDP). In June and July, the university held three days of meetings with leaders of potential projects targeting all of the IDEX […] >>