Oct 21, 2026
The CNRS is encouraging public debate on digital moderation
As part of the Altimpact project, led by the CNRS, Ademe and Inria, the CNRS has been trialling local deliberative assemblies dedicated to digital moderation in several French regions (Grenoble, Lyon, Angers, Veynes and Mouans-Sartoux) for the past two years. Inspired by the citizens’ climate assemblies, these initiatives bring together citizens, scientists and local authorities to collectively discuss the environmental, social and societal impacts of digital technology.
Oct 9, 2026
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Monday 19 october, 1:30–2:00 pm & Tuesday 20 october, 1:30–2:00 pm
Haven’t heard of it yet? OpenAlex is a bibliographic and bibliometric tool, like WoS (Clarivate), Scopus (Elsevier) or Google Scholar. It is shaking up this landscape: it is free to use with no subscription, its data can be freely reused, and it is not produced by a commercial company but is a common good.
Here are two webinars to discover the tool, as part of Open Access Week :
Sep 28, 2026
The French Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Space has just published the 2026-2033 open science strategy, which aims to consolidate the achievements of the two previous national open science plans (2018 and 2021). Roughly a hundred pages long and organized in four parts (ambition, challenges, objectives and the 2026-2029 action plan), it places open science within a broader landscape – “openness is not practiced for the sake of openness” – and clarifies its contribution to the key challenges of research: visibility, reproducibility, integrity, sovereignty and innovation.
Sep 1, 2026
In 2026, GRICAD will celebrate its tenth anniversary. Established on 1 January 2016, our unit was created out of a desire to bring together the digital expertise and infrastructure of the Grenoble site in order to support scientific communities with their needs in high-performance computing, data management and research software. Building on the legacy of the CIMENT project (High-Performance Computing, Modelling, Numerical and Technological Experimentation), our unit has, over the course of a decade, become a key player in digital research in Grenoble.