News : Interviews

Edition of Kaleidoscope Week welcomed 1,600 students from Grenoble INP – UGA this October. Can you tell us more? Kaleidoscope Week was an innovative educational event for students across all our schools. Classes were cancelled for the week so that students from the different schools could come together and explore 31 options on offer on […] >>

You have been leading CEA-Tech’s efforts to assess the societal impacts of its research since 2021.What are the program’s objectives?The first, and most important, is to make sure our project, program, and partnership strategies incorporate these concerns, something we have already begun to do with ecodesign.Our research has a powerful impact on our lives, on […] >>

You have been at the CEA for 37 years and plan to retire in September. What is your main takeaway? I am really pleased to see that our younger scientists are just as passionate about their work as we were about ours back in the 80s.You can just see it, especially at events like PhD […] >>

The third Sustainable Electronics Workshop* was held in February.What are your key takeaways?Around 60 students—ten from GEM—attended and I was particularly impressed with their level of motivation. All stakeholders, and not just engineers, need to address sustainable electronics and the technology’s environmental and societal impacts.STMicroelectronics once again mobilized three of their top managers for the […] >>

CEA-Leti offers eco-innovation studies to some of its R&D partners. Why? Léa Di Cioccio:Environmental regulations–both in France and across Europe–are one of the factors driving demand for this kind of study among our R&D partners.SMEs have expressed a real need for support.Fabless manufacturers are seeking insights that will help them work more effectively with semiconductor […] >>