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Philippe Michallon, Head of SPICE * « We want to leverage our showroom  to better promote our technologies »   You have several initiatives underway for your showroom. What are their key aims? Between 5,000 and 6,000 people visit our showroom every year, 90% of them from outside the CEA. It’s been a huge success […] >>

In late October, the three Grenoble area high-school students who won the first French-American Young Innovators Award will head off for a week in California for a program that includes a tour of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. The Award was set up by the U.S. Consulate in Lyon to reward talented local high-school […] >>

Nano@school, a fun, hands-on program to teach high-schoolers about micro and nanotechnology, now has its own website: www.nanoatschool.org. The website (in French only) is intended for both students and teachers, and includes information about the program and participant testimonials—including two videos produced by high-school students. The website also includes a secure area where teachers can […] >>

How do households manage their electricity use when all their energy comes from solar power? To find out, a Grenoble research team sponsored by MINATEC IDEAs Laboratory and IRT Nanoelec asked ten families to live in solar-powered homes for three winter months. The families were asked to compare their actual energy use with the amount […] >>

Of the thirteen projects submitted in June for this year’s Challenge First Step (to support promising business ideas), seven were selected: three from Leti and four from Liten. The winners were announced at a kick-off meeting on September 11. The budding entrepreneurs will now begin the business incubator program with a one-week residential training course […] >>