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MEMS are expensive to develop: Each new component requires its own fabrication processes. Leti has been working to develop generic manufacturing processes (M&NEMS) since 2010. A new partnership with a major industrial company could have M&NEMS ready for batch fabrication within three years. As the name suggests, M&NEMS combines microelectromechanical parts and a 250 nm-diameter […] >>

Construction on the future Open Innovation Center (as it has been temporarily named) began on Nelson Mandela Square in May. The 3,500 sq. m, three-story building is slated for delivery in mid-2019. It will host 70 people working on CEA Tech’s collaborative innovation programs and will also be home to a showroom and prototyping workshop. […] >>

Paola Ceccato, who graduated from Phelma in 2015, won an award from the Fondation Norbert Ségard for her startup, Oikos Sphère, founded in 2017, Paola’s goal is to develop a cooperative for the manufacturing and sale of biofertilizers. Oikos Sphère is innovative in more than one way. In addition to a novel approach to agronomy, […] >>

Ideas Laboratory will host its third Ideas Days on July 3 and 4. This year’s event will be devoted to technology for the climate, with a program that includes four plenary sessions and around 40 30-minute breakout sessions for a professionals-only audience. Speakers will include specialists from construction, farming, environmental sciences, mobility, biomimetics, robotics, artificial […] >>

Aubin, François, Jérémy, and Thibaud—engineering students at Grenoble and Bordeaux Institutes of Technology’s Phelma, Ense3, and ENSEIRB-Matmeca schools—have just booked their flights to Katmandu, where they will arrive on September 12. They are taking a gap year, which they will devote to an outdoor sports and community outreach project they have named “Four Hundred Leagues […] >>