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The year 2013 saw some major renovation work at Maison MINATEC. The improvements include automatic doors to improve handicapped accessibility, digital signage at the entrance to the main corridor and in front of each conference room to better steer visitors to their destinations during events, and new lighting and projection equipment in the auditorium for […] >>

Starting on April 11, the complimentary sandwiches offered to attendees of the Midi-MINATEC brown-bag lunch talks will be made by a volunteer “sandwich team.” The idea is to help break the ice and make the event even friendlier and more welcoming by getting as many people as possible to participate. To sign up for the […] >>

In mid-February French Minister for Higher Education and Research Geneviève Fioraso broke ground on the Grenoble Institute of Technology-Phelma expansion slated for delivery in mid-2015. The campus expansion project includes a seven-story building—with classrooms, labs, a student lounge, and a tech transfer center for second-year student projects—and a 500-seat auditorium with enough room for an […] >>

Since January, MINATEC has spun off four start-ups, with an additional two just over the horizon. While this is a new record for the innovation campus, it is largely to chance! The new companies are: ISKN, maker of the iSketchnote smart iPad cover that digitizes handwritten notes and drawings Pollen Technology, a specialist in data […] >>

As part of the inaugural edition of FADEx, the French-American Doctoral Exchange seminar, the French Embassy in Houston organized a trip to France for a group of ten US Ph.D. students in nanocharacterization. The visiting Ph.D. students attended lectures on the latest developments in nanometric chemical analysis in Toulouse before travelling to Grenoble on March […] >>