News : innovation

Paola Ceccato, who graduated from Phelma in 2015, won an award from the Fondation Norbert Ségard for her startup, Oikos Sphère, founded in 2017, Paola’s goal is to develop a cooperative for the manufacturing and sale of biofertilizers. Oikos Sphère is innovative in more than one way. In addition to a novel approach to agronomy, […] >>

Ideas Laboratory will host its third Ideas Days on July 3 and 4. This year’s event will be devoted to technology for the climate, with a program that includes four plenary sessions and around 40 30-minute breakout sessions for a professionals-only audience. Speakers will include specialists from construction, farming, environmental sciences, mobility, biomimetics, robotics, artificial […] >>

Aubin, François, Jérémy, and Thibaud—engineering students at Grenoble and Bordeaux Institutes of Technology’s Phelma, Ense3, and ENSEIRB-Matmeca schools—have just booked their flights to Katmandu, where they will arrive on September 12. They are taking a gap year, which they will devote to an outdoor sports and community outreach project they have named “Four Hundred Leagues […] >>

Maison MINATEC will welcome the 7th French-American Workshop on June 21–22, 2018. The event, which is run by GIANT, aims to build a French-American network of stakeholders from research and industry. Nearly 150 students, researchers, members of the diplomatic corps, and representatives of financing agencies are expected to attend. On Thursday, Grenoble Institute of Technology […] >>

LMGP is investigating whether it is possible to design superhydrophobic coatings that repel water for their entire lifetime. The research is being conducted under the French-American REACT project financed by the French National Research Agency, the CEMAM Laboratory of Excellence, and the US National Science Foundation. One of the goals of the project is to […] >>