News : Research

Once again this year, CEA Tech startups have brought home a bumper crop of awards in the i-Lab national competition for innovative tech startups. A total of €820,000 will go to the following four projects: EnWires, founded in 2016, is developing new electrode materials for Li-ion batteries leveraging high-quality-silicon nanowires Sublimed, founded in 2015, is […] >>

Semicon Europa first came to Grenoble in 2014, attracting record numbers of exhibitors and visitors. Semicon Europa 2016, to be held on October 25–27 at Alpexpo, has some high standards to live up to. And the pressure is on! A number of other cities in Europe would love the chance to host this leading trade […] >>

In March you took on a new role: heading the Grenoble-based Instituts Carnot Chair for Bio-inspired Technology. What’s it all about? I’m a guest researcher, and will be spending at least 20 days per year on site. I’ll be helping Leti researchers on several projects that should ultimately produce demonstrator systems. The first two involve […] >>

The EXPERIMENTA art, science, and technology fair, to be held on October 6–8, will feature around 20 installations combining art and technology in truly novel ways. Visitors will get a chance to discover new experiences and performances, from going “inside” a drawing or seeing the pages of a book “grow” to using bacteria to generate […] >>

The 2016 Parvis des Sciences, which coincides with France’s 25th annual national Science Week, is expanding considerably this year, with twice as much event space and more than 40 activities, up from 27 in 2015. October 6 and 7 will be open to school groups only; the general public is welcome to attend the event […] >>