Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting for small tracking devices pre-proposition accepted

A preproposition on Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting devoted to supply small tracking devices for animal tracking has been accepted by the ANR. This project is coordinated by Micky Rakotondrabe and involves the LPO (Ligue pour la Portection des Oiseaux), additionnally to FEMTO-ST. Congrats to the whole team!!!

The GreeM International Master gets accepted

The proposal of International Master on Control for Green Mechatronics (GreeM), a speciality of Control and Robotics (ministerial name), and which is coordinated by Micky Rakotondrabe has been accepted by the I-SITE project of the UBFC university. This master will start on September 2017 and already involves two partner universities in Mexico, one partner university in Qatar, and ongoing discussions in other countries.

A website devoted to the GreeM master will be available online soon.

Feel free to contact Micky Rakotondrabe (mrakoton at femto-st dot fr) for more information or applications.

MSCN European project on hybrid Energy Harvesting accepted

The proposal of MSCN European project on hybrid Energy Harvesting which is coordinated by Ausrine Bartasyte (FEMTO-ST) has been accepted. This project involves:

In France:
- UFC/FEMTO-ST (with two departments: AS2M and TF) in Besançon,
- INPG Grenoble,
- INSA Lyon,
- FrecInSys company in Besançon,
- CEDRAT Technology company in Grenoble,
- and the support of PEUGEOT.
In UK:
- Imperial College,
- EpiValence,
- KTN.
In Germany:
- UCO Univ Cologne,
- AIXTRON.
In Italy:
- INSTM.
In Switzerland:
- ST Microelectronics,
- EPFL.

Congrats to Ausrine for the leading of this proposal and to all the partners and members.