Director's word

André Sulpice

 

 

 

 

 

 

The "Consortium de Recherches pour l’Emergence de Technologies Avancées" (CRETA) is a CNRS service unit, created on January 1st of 1999, in partnership with the industrial sector. It aims to promote and valorise the research conducted in the Grenoble partner laboratories and to provide teams with floor space and platforms for industrial project development in the field of material science and engineering.

Its activity deals with projects that rely on various federative themes:

• Functional material processing (superconductors, bulk metallic glasses, magnetic and magneto-caloric materials, thermo-electrical material etc).
• Energy and environment: applications of superconductivity, solid storage of hydrogen (fuel cells), magnetic water treatment
• Biophysics
• Magneto science
  
  

CRETA’s projects are based on an approach which integrates the following:

• Material processing or process development.
• Physical analysis of materials.
• Creation of a demonstrator or a prototype for applications.
  
  
  

Projects bring together more than twenty researchers, teachers and non-permanent staff from partner laboratories who benefit from the skills of the CRETA technical staff, specific processing as well as physical and chemical measurement equipments.

CRETA attracts many pre-PhD and PhD students who are provided with the means to enhance their skills and knowledge in projects conducted in collaboration between research and industry.