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On May 30, international learned society IEE EDS will hold a free, open-access colloquium at the Phelma auditorium. The organization will have its biannual board meeting on May 28 and 29, also in Grenoble. The mini-colloquium, which runs from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., will feature academic research scientists and industrial R&D professionals working in […] >>

The FMNT (Federation for Micro and Nanotechnologies) saw its mandate renewed for an additional five years on January 1, 2016. The organization took advantage of the occasion to bring in three new labs, bringing its total headcount to nearly 500—a 30% increase. The FMNT is now one of France’s largest research organizations in the fields […] >>

Leti plans to use some of its Instituts Carnot matching funds to pay for exchange programs with foreign labs and market Leti internationally, with the overriding objective of working with top-tier partners around the globe. The institute will set up chairs and researcher exchange programs each year, starting in 2016. These activities will strengthen ties […] >>

The second Minalogic Business Meetings will be organized by Minalogic and its partners at Grenoble’s World Trade Center on April 14, 2016. A total of 60 large corporations and 60 solutions providers—many of them international—will gather to meet the perfect match for their micro and nanoelectronics, photonics, and software needs. In addition to the one-on-one […] >>

On March 11, 2016—just three days after International Women’s Day—the Grenoble Institute of Technology-Phelma library will cut the ribbon on a new “women in science” collection to be followed by a series of lectures and a Midi MINATEC brown bag lunch on the same topic. The project, initiated and financed by France’s APMST (association for […] >>