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The Grenoble Institute of Technology Foundation has introduced two new programs for businesses. The first, called MyFondation, supports students involved in international social or sustainable development activities, as well as student artists and elite athletes. The second, Fast Track, lets donors allocate their gifts to short (maximum two-year) research programs with budgets of €500,000 or […] >>

Real estate development company Léon Grosse signed a construction lease with the CEA on June 21, 2017 for the new High-Tech Building (BHT-2). The real estate development contract was signed on July 4, and construction is slated to begin in mid-November for delivery of the new building in the spring of 2019. Like the first […] >>

In the space of just a year the FMNT (Federation for Micro and Nanotechnology) has hired three up-and-coming CNRS researchers, all of whom passed very selective competitive exams at the national level—proof of the quality of FMNT’s research and the attractiveness of its labs. Two research scientists joined FMNT’s LMGP lab in February: Monica Burriel […] >>

This year Grenoble Institute of Technology’s Phelma engineering school and Grenoble-Alpes University (UGA) will once again enter the iGEM synthetic biology competition held by Boston’s MIT. The Grenoble team, which includes four students from Phelma and six from UGA’s School of Pharmacy, will develop a portable, self-contained cholera test kit. A DNA sequence from the […] >>

The photonics platform, originally slated for delivery in November 2016—later pushed back to January 2017—, finally opened on May 2, 2017. In all, it took the builder six months to resolve the variety of issues plaguing the project and deliver a building compliant with the original specifications. One of the major problems observed was excessive […] >>