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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. […] >>

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 […] >>

Maison MINATEC will welcome the 7th French-American Workshop on June 21–22, 2018. The event, which is run by GIANT, aims to build a French-American network of stakeholders from research and industry. Nearly 150 students, researchers, members of the diplomatic corps, and representatives of financing agencies are expected to attend. On Thursday, Grenoble Institute of Technology […] >>

The CEA-ILL’s Local Information Commission newsletter recently published an announcement that LAMA (the active materials testing lab) had been removed from the French government’s list of nuclear sites following a government decree issued on October 13, 2017. The lab, located behind H1, was in operation from 1961 to 2002. It was used to study the […] >>

The June 2018 issue of Mina-News marks an anniversary of sorts: It is the 50th issue of the MINATEC campus newsletter. Mina-News was first published in October 2008. Since then, more than 1,200 articles have been published in French and English! Over the years, Mina-News has maintained its focus on topics like technological innovations, campus […] >>