UFR PhITEMPhysics, Engineering, Earth, Environment, Mechanics

Training through experimentation and project work is essential for learning about science and the technologies that go with it. That's why UFR PhITEM offers its students access to numerous practical work platforms.

Some are housed on our own premises, others in our laboratories (such as the practical subatomic physics platform at the Laboratory of Subatomic Physics and Cosmology).

Finally, others are part of inter-university initiatives with a strong national presence, such as CIME Nanotech (Inter-University Center for Microelectronics and Nanotechnologies) or S.mart Grenoble Alpes (Inter-University Center for the Industry of the Future), which pool resources that are also available to industry partners.

The highly innovative CESIRE ( Center for Higher Education and Introduction to Research through Experimentation) laboratory program offers third-year bachelor L3) and master’s (M1, M2) students—at the time they are making their career choices—the opportunity to conduct experiments in laboratories using state-of-the-art instruments. The experiments offered are highly varied and can be completed in half a day or may require several days. These experiments are also available as doctoral training courses designed to introduce students to new research topics.

Some twenty experiments are on offer in 11 units affiliated toUniversité Grenoble Alpes, CEA, CNRS and ILL. Around fifty groups (pairs or trios) are welcomed each year, for an equivalent of 1500 hours/student. Topics covered include astronomy, subatomic physics, condensed matter physics, biophysics, nanosciences and nanotechnologies, laser optics and many other disciplines...

In the geosciences, practical activities very often take the form of field trainingThese are considered to be one of the strengths of the Grenoble training program.