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Third-year Grenoble Institute of Technology-Phelma student Jordan Broisin won four medals at the French National Adaptive Skiing Championships at Pra-Loup in March 2016, including a gold for the Super-G. A rising star on France’s national adaptive ski team, Jordan is enrolled at Phelma under a special athletics program that allows him to combine training and […] >>

Michel Barsoum (Drexel University, Pennsylvania): « I hope to spend more time in Grenoble in the coming years » You are known worldwide for your work on materials, particularly MAX phases. What brought you to Grenoble for three months? In materials science, to gain real understanding of a material you need large single crystals. The […] >>

Just two years after it was founded, Aryballe Technologies has raised €2.6 million in fresh capital from five investors, including the CEA. The influx of funds will pay for industrial scale-up of the company’s product—a portable, universal odor detector—and the start-up of manufacturing operations in early 2017. The new investors were won over by the […] >>

The SOI Industry Consortium, which counts among its members around twenty large companies and universities from around the globe, will be moving into offices on the MINATEC campus before summer. The members of the consortium, which include Soitec, STMicroelectronics, GlobalFoundries, Leti, and UC Berkeley, will soon have a neutral meeting point and independent address. The […] >>

Shanghai’s Sitri research institute and MINATEC have signed a memorandum of understanding establishing a framework for ongoing talks that should result in a partnership agreement. Sitri, which specializes in More than Moore solutions, would like to intensify its activities in the field of IoT, focusing on topics like MEMS and sensors, RF technologies for 5G, […] >>