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> Trailblazing Women Holding the Key to Engineering Future (Special Feature)
The ICWES, the Fourteenth International Conference of Women Engineers et Scientists was held in Lille, from July 15 to 18, 2008. After the 2005 ICWES in Seoul and pending the 2011 ICWES in Adelaide, Lille is the first French city to host the event sin ... [Lire]

> METSA - Increasing Electronic Microscopy Availability (Special Feature)
Next November 20, the UltraSTEM scanning transmission electron microscope, a unique instrument in France, will be inaugurated at the Laboratory of Solid State Physics (LPS), Paris-Sud Orsay University. During the event, the national platform called M ... [Lire]

> Active Packaging for the Food-processing Industry (Cluster Update)
This is the goal of EMAC, a project that has been co-certified by three competitive clusters (Vitagora, Plastipolis and Industries et Agro-Ressources) and retained by the Sixth Call for projects of the Fonds Unique Interministériel (FUI, government a ... [Lire]

> A Unique Master's Degree in Equine Science and Management (Education Outlook)
Propelling equine research in Basse-Normandie to world class status is the goal of the "Equine Network" competitive cluster. It has set the same objective for education, an area where only technical training courses have been available, until now. Th ... [Lire]

> Total Inaugurates Pilot Plant Producing Methanol Based Plastics (Innovation News)
Today's oil and natural gas derivatives, naphtha or ethane, are used to produce olefins, which are subsequently converted into polyolefin, the raw material for plastics. To diversify the source of plastic feedstock, Total has just cleared the way for ... [Lire]

> Curie Institute Opens the Center of Developmental Biology and Cancer (Innovation News)
Inaugurated last October 13, the international research center marks a new stage of the Curie Institute's scientific and medical policy, underscored by a 16% growth in research activity. A staff of one hundred with recruitment ongoing has been broken ... [Lire]

> More than 40% of New CNRS Patents Already Commercialized (Innovation News)
This is a very positive result for the optimization of French public research From July 1, 2007 to 30 June 2008 , the CNRS published 284 patents, as owner or co-owner, of which 116, or 41%, have already been commercialized. They should be added to th ... [Lire]

> A Unique Animal House for Studying Prion Diseases et Emerging Diseases (Spotlight on the Regions)
In France, INPREST (French acronym for enclosed national facility for communicable spongiform encephalopathy research) is a unique enclosed animal house for the study of prion diseases and emerging diseases, which was inaugurated last July. The 4,120 ... [Lire]

> Sixth Week of Sound (Event)
The Sixth Week of Sound will be held in Paris from January 13 to 17, 2009, and tour the regions from January 21 to 25, 2009. The next Show will feature even more events and meetings and visit numerous towns since 24 cities are on the agenda. The Week ... [Lire]

> Ninth Science et Timber Industry Conference (Event)
Next November 20 and 21, the Ninth Science and Timber Industry Conference will be held in Bordeaux. Organized by the Association for Research on Forestry Production and Wood in the Aquitaine Region (ARBORA), the purpose of the Conference is to report ... [Lire]