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What motivated you to set up this Masters program focused on scientific method and experimentation? We feel that these are fundamental skills. And not only for scientists. Students planning careers in industrial R&D need them, too. Experimentation is vital to testing and development cycles. What we are seeing with our students’ culminating projects is that […] >>

EIT* Raw Materials recently renewed the EIT seal for the five-partner international AMIS (Advanced Materials for Innovation and Sustainability) Masters program coordinated by Grenoble INP-Phelma. And there are several notable additions to the curriculum. The program now includes classes on the materials lifecycle and on electric vehicles. These totally new classes will provide students with […] >>

The Covid-19 pandemic has not kept startups commercializing MINATEC technologies from raising funds. From June to September six MINATEC startups announced fundraising rounds for a total of €38 million in fresh capital.MagIA Diagnostics (€3 million) is now positioned to scale up its portable HIV and hepatitis B and C screening device. Apix Analytics (€5 million) […] >>

The High Level Forum (HLF) was created to bolster cooperation between the world’s leading innovation ecosystems, one of which is Grenoble’s own GIANT campus. The traditional annual summit planned for the fall in Grenoble has been postponed to 2021. Key HLF stakeholders have adapted to this changing context by rolling out a year-long calendar of […] >>

MINATEC’s legendary Midi MINATEC Friday brown bag lunch talks, put on hold in mid-March, started up again on Friday, October 2.  The next talk, scheduled for Friday, October 9, will be given by Grenoble’s contenders in the iGEM synthetic biology competition.To ensure compliance with Covid-19 prevention measures, the number of open seats in the auditorium […] >>