News : Innovation & Society

The Y.Spot building, which closed on March 16, partially reopened the very next day for a project to develop reusable masks, initially for the Grenoble University Medical Center. The partners, who came from across the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, began by tackling the design aspects of the project. Y.Spot staffers and Liten filtering media specialists also helped. […] >>

Leti’s FD-SOI transistor model, used by companies like Samsung and STMicroelectronics, was recently recognized by the Si2 Compact Model Coalition, a working group made up of 30 international semiconductor industry stakeholders. The fact that Leti’s L-UTSOI model is now recognized as a standard model guarantees that it will be maintained and updated to meet the […] >>

Grenoble startup eLichens finished rolling out 30 air quality monitoring stations in San Francisco in March. The stations’ sensors monitor fine particles, carbon dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, ozone, and methane in real time. And, because they are installed 2 meters to 3 meters off the ground, the stations monitor the air that people are actually breathing. […] >>

The Grenoble-Alpes medtech industry will soon have a 150 sq. m promotional and event space all its own at Biopolis, near Grenoble University Medical Center. The new space, called Medytec, will be home to a showroom and conference and meeting facilities. Around 30 events are scheduled to take place at Medytec between now and September. […] >>

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 […] >>