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This year’s inaugural First Step Challenge—designed to identify the most promising start-up ideas based on CEA Tech projects (see the October 2012 issue of Minanews)—received an overwhelming 23 applications from aspiring young entrepreneurs. 14 of these applications have been selected for the next phase of the challenge; most of the projects selected were officially launched […] >>

Dr. Yves Bréchet, a Grenoble Institute of Technology-Phelma professor and researcher at the French Materials and Process Engineering Laboratory (SIMaP), has been appointed France’s High Commissioner for Atomic and Alternative Energy by the country’s Cabinet of Ministers. This appointment follows a recommendation by the French Minister of Research and Higher Education, Geneviève Fioraso. With this […] >>

The Grenoble Institute of Technology class of 2011 graduation ceremony, held on November 24, 2012, counted numerous high-profile guests among its ranks, including French Minister of Research and Higher Education Geneviève Fioraso and Gérard Matheron, Manager of the STMicroelectronics site at Crolles and class of 2011 sponsor. Representatives from the school’s corporate partners were also […] >>

Launched just before the summer holidays, a new website called “38 de Sciences” (sfp.grenoble.cnrs.fr)—set up jointly by the French Physics Society, Fondation Nanosciences, and Institut Néel’s IT department—gives Grenoble-area researchers a one-stop shop for information about upcoming seminars, conferences, thesis defenses, and other research-related events. For now the information is given in French only and […] >>

Phelma is counting on you to submit your ideas for student research projects and lab experiments! First-year students will complete their group projects during the second semester. Regardless of the field—physics, electronics, electrochemistry, robotics, or another science or technology—the projects will give students an opportunity to learn how to work as a team. The potential […] >>