News : MINATEC

Did you know that the roof of the GreEn-Er building has been home to two beehives since the spring of 2016? The bees are currently resting for the winter under close surveillance—because the hives are connected! The high-tech hives were built and equipped with instruments by Grenoble Institute of Technology-Ense3 students for a class project. […] >>

At the end of November the First Step Challenge jury selected five startups to receive funding. A total of €676,000 was awarded to the five projects, with individual amounts determined according to the maturity of the project and the needs expressed. Additional support could be awarded within three to six months. In 2016 the projects […] >>

Startup APIX Analytics raised €8 million in late 2017 to speed up its development on international energy and environmental markets. The company, which currently does 60% of its business outside of France, opened an office in Beijing early this year and plans to open a US office by the end of June. The influx of […] >>

The artificial light from mobile phone displays has a damaging effect on the mitochondrial networks of dermal fibroblasts, according to a two-year study conducted by Gattefossé, a manufacturer of cosmetic excipients and other ingredients, and Grenoble-based biotech company Cytoo, headquartered at MINATEC. Cytoo used its micropatterning technology to explore the architecture of the skin cells. […] >>

Jean-Michel Hartmann, Director of Research at Leti, recently won the Helmholtz International Fellow Award in recognition of more than a decade of cooperation with German research institute ForschungsZentrum Jülich (FZJ) that has resulted in nearly 70 joint publications and numerous nanoelectronics and photonics research projects. Most notably, Leti supplied FZJ with multiple Si/SiGe stacks on […] >>