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).

Others are part of inter-university programs with a strong national influence, such as CIME Nanotech (Centre interuniversitaire de microélectronique et nanotechnologies) or S.mart Grenoble Alpes (Centre interuniversitaire de l'industrie du futur), which concentrate resources that are also open to industry.

The highly original CESIRE (Centre d'enseignement supérieur et d'initiation à la recherche par l'expérimentation) laboratory experiments offer students in their 3rd year of bachelor's (L3) and master's (M1, M2) degrees - at the time of their career choice - the opportunity to carry out laboratory experiments using cutting-edge instruments. The experiments on offer are highly varied, and can be carried out in half a day or over several days. These experiments are also available as doctoral training courses to discover new themes.

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.