News : Innovation & Society
June 04 2018
Nano@school sets new record in 2018
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Nano@school, a CIME Nanotech program for high school juniors enrolled in the science track, has been held at MINATEC since 2010. This year nearly 800 students from 25 high schools (including three international high schools) enrolled, setting a record for Nano@school! Back in 2010, Nano@school was an experimental program offered to just two Grenoble-area high […] >>
April 01 2018
Winter Olympics: innovation medal for Grenoble’s 5G technology
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Leti, which is coordinating the Europe-Korea 5GChampion consortium, gave a stellar performance at the Winter Olympics. In a world first, Leti and its partners successfully completed intercontinental proof-of-concept testing of the 5G network. The network, made up of terrestrial base stations, millimeter-wave multi-beam antennas, and a satellite emulator, enabled thousands of visitors to the Winter […] >>
April 01 2018
Lensless microscopy detects meningitis
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In research conducted at La Timone University Medical Center in Marseille, scientists from Leti completed proof-of-concept testing on technique that uses a lensless microscope to diagnose meningitis. The technique, tested on more than 300 samples, was demonstrated to be just as reliable as and much faster than the current technique, which entails visual counting on […] >>
April 01 2018
Exagan gets a warm welcome in China
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It would be difficult to imagine a better way to enter the Chinese market: Grenoble-based startup Exagan, which specializes in power components for converters, was selected for the Impact China 2018 program run by Business France and Bpifrance. The program will send Exagan to China on three trips totaling five weeks, giving the company ample […] >>
April 01 2018
Phelma students help spread the word about science
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First-year students at Grenoble Institute of Technology-Phelma are playing a major role in orchestrating the second edition of Phelma’s “Partager la Science” [Sharing Science] program as part of their first-year student projects. Some of the students have been facilitating science experiments, while six others will organize the program’s closing talk, which anyone can attend, on […] >>