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Cleaning up polluted tertiary wastewater from the agri-food industry with floating wetlands
Energy & environment, In the News
In 2018, IMT Atlantique researchers launched the FloWAT project, based on a hydroponic system of floating wetlands. It aims to reduce polluting emissions from treated wastewater into the discharge site.
Claire Gérente, researcher at…

Antoine Fécant, winner of the 2021 IMT-Académie des Sciences Young Scientist Prize
Energy & environment, In the News, Portrait
Antoine Fécant, new energy materials researcher at IFP Energies Nouvelles, has worked on many projects relating to solar and biosourced fuel production and petrol refining. His work has relevance for the energy transition and, this year, was…

David Gesbert, winner of the 2021 IMT-Académie des Sciences Grand Prix
Digital, In the News, Portrait, Uncategorized
EURECOM researcher David Gesbert is one of the pioneers of Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) technology, used nowadays in many wireless communication systems. He contributed to the boom in WiFi, 3G, 4G and 5G technology, and is now exploring…

Governments, banks, and hospitals: all victims of cyber-attacks
Digital, In the News
Hervé Debar, Télécom SudParis – Institut Mines-Télécom
Cyber-attacks are not a new phenomenon. The first computer worm distributed via the Internet, known as the “Morris worm” after its creator, infected 10% of the 60,000…

Can technology combat chronic stress?
Digital, Health, In the News
Stressors in individuals can occur on a regular basis, especially in uncertain contexts such as the current health situation. To prevent a state of stress from becoming chronic and causing mental health problems, approaches involving positive…

Technology for improving the recycling of plastics and composites
In the News, Materials
Plastics and composites aren't recycled as often as we might wish, as a result of a lack of facilities, the right technologies not yet existing or not being profitable, or hazardous waste deposits. IMT Nord Europe have been working in…

Zero-click attacks: spying in the smartphone era
Digital, In the News, Uncategorized
Zero-click attacks exploit security breaches in smartphones in order to hack into a target's device without the target having to do anything. They are now a threat to everyone, from governments to medium-sized companies.
“Zero-click…

Delivery riders seeking social protection
In the News, Society
Cynthia Srnec, Sciences Po and Cédric Gossart, Institut Mines-Télécom Business School
“In the ideal world of the delivery platforms, we would say nothing, just smile politely, “Hello, sir”, “Goodbye”, get on our bikes, make…

Facebook: a small update causes major disruption
Digital, In the News
Hervé Debar, Télécom SudParis – Institut Mines-Télécom
Late on October 4, many users of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp were unable to access their accounts. All of these platforms belong to the company Facebook and were all…

Caring for the population or one’s earnings? A dilemma for marketers in the pharmaceutical industry
In the News, Society
Loréa Baïada-Hirèche, Institut Mines-Télécom Business School ; Anne Sachet-Milliat, ISC Paris Business School et Bénédicte Bourcier-Béquaert, ESSCA École de Management
The pharmaceutical industry is rocked by scandals on a regular…

3D printing, a revolution for the construction industry?
Digital, In the News, Materials
Estelle Hynek, IMT Nord Europe – Institut Mines-Télécom
A two-story office building was “printed” in Dubai in 2019, becoming the largest 3D-printed building in the world by surface area: 640 square meters. In France, XtreeE plans…

How our Web browsing has changed in 30 years
Digital, In the News
Victor Charpenay, Mines Saint-Étienne – Institut Mines-Télécom
On August 5, 1991, a few months before I was born, Tim Berners-Lee unveiled his invention, called the “World Wide Web”, to the public and encouraged anyone who wanted…

Waste management: decentralizing for better management
Energy & environment, In the News, Society
Reducing the environmental impact of waste and encouraging its reuse calls for a new approach to its management. This requires the modeling of circuits on a territorial scale, and the improvement of collaboration between public and private…

Natacha Gondran
Our expertsMines Saint-Étienne | Circular economy, Ecodesign, Ecological transition, LCA

Hospitals put to the test by shocks
Health, In the News, Society
Benoît Demil, I-site Université Lille Nord Europe (ULNE) and Geoffrey Leuridan, IMT Atlantique – Institut Mines-Télécom
The Covid-19 crisis has put lasting strain on the health care system, in France and around the world. Hospital…

Anuragini Shirish
Our expertsInstitut Mines-Télécom Business School | Management of information systems, Digital innovations, Technology law

A real way to look at fake news
In the News, Society
The SARS-CoV2 virus is not the only thing that has spread during the Covid-19 pandemic: fake news has also made its way around the world. Although it existed even before, the unprecedented crisis has paved the way for an explosion of fake…

Easier access to research infrastructure for the European atmospheric science community
Energy & environment, Europe EN, In the News
Improving access to large facilities for research on climate and air quality and optimizing use are the objectives of the European ATMO-ACCESS project. Véronique Riffault and Stéphane Sauvage, researchers at IMT Nord Europe, one of the project's…

Nuclear fission reveals new secrets
Energy & environment, In the News
Almost 80 years after the discovery of nuclear fission, it continues to unveil its mysteries. The latest to date: an international collaboration has discovered what makes the fragments of nuclei spin after fission. This offers insights into…

Learning to incorporate values in collective design
In the News
Designing projects implies that individuals or groups must pool their values to collaborate effectively. But the various parties involved may be guided by diverging value systems, making it difficult to find compromises and common solutions.…

Bitcoin crash: cybercrime and over-consumption of electricity, the hidden face of cryptocurrency
In the News, Society
Donia Trabelsi, Institut Mines-Télécom Business School ; Michel Berne, Institut Mines-Télécom Business School et Sondes Mbarek, Institut Mines-Télécom Business School
Wednesday 19 May will be remembered as the day of a major…

Circular economy – dive in, there is so much to discover!
Energy & environment, In the News, SocietyTo effectively roll out circular economy policies within a territory, companies and decision-makers require access to evaluation and simulation tools. The design of these tools, still in the research phase, necessarily requires a more detailed consideration of the impact of human activities, both locally and globally.

ThermiUp: a new heat recovery device
Energy & environment, In the News, Start-up-en
ThermiUP helps meet the challenge of energy-saving in buildings. This start-up, incubated at IMT Atlantique, is set to market a device that transfers heat from grey water to fresh water. Its director, Philippe Barbry, gives us an…

Graphene, or the expected revolution in electronics: coming soon
In the News, Materials
Thibaut Lalire, IMT Mines Alès – Institut Mines-Télécom
"Material of the 21st century," a "revolutionary material": these are some of the ways graphene has been described since it was discovered in 2004 by Konstantin Novoselov…