News : Innovation & Society

Sodimas, France’s leading elevator manufacturer, is teaming up with Schneider Electric and Grenoble Institute of Technology to develop a smart-grid-connected elevator that is powered both by the grid and by alternative energy sources. The R&D is taking place under the EU Arrowhead project. CEA-Leti is also involved in the project, supplying a virtual platform to […] >>

The IRT Nanoelec education program will soon be putting an original educational video online. The short animated video aims to teach non-specialists about nanoelectronics and its applications. The video’s attractive visuals and irreverent tone are intended to resonate with the high-school and college set, highlighting the nanoelectronics research taking place in Grenoble and sparking interest […] >>

Semicon Europa, the world’s leading microelectronics-industry trade fair, has been held every year for the past 35 years. But not once has the event taken place in Grenoble—until now. Semicon Europa 2014 will come to Grenoble’s Alpexpo expo center from October 7 to 9. And the local microelectronics community is pulling out all the stops […] >>

eVaderis, a Grenoble-based start-up created on September 5, is developing microcontrollers that could use ten times less energy in standby mode while offering features equivalent to the components currently on the market. The company, which will soon count around ten employees, leverages technology invented at Spintec (INAC) to develop self-powered communicating objects, which must be […] >>

The “Mobility Village” project, an initiative of the MINATEC IDEAs Laboratory, launched in April in the town of St. Martin d’Uriage, outside of Grenoble. The project aims to identify local residents’ mobility-related needs to help better target emerging solutions. And, to get people interested, IDEAs Lab set up a tent in the town center for […] >>