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New Guide to Shared Digital Services at UGA: Get into the right digital habits!

May 28, 2026

As part of the “Compétences et métiers d’avenir” VerIT project, and at the initiative of Françoise Berthoud, research engineer at GRICAD, University of Grenoble Alpes (UGA) is publishing a practical guide dedicated to shared digital services. This document is intended for all staff members (including administrative and academic staff) and aims to:

Raise awareness of existing digital services,
Encourage their use and adoption,
Support the evolution of digital practices

Toward a digital ecosystem that is efficient, secure, and sustainable.

SO Cast : Exploring Open Science

May 27, 2026

The Code Data Grenoble Alpes (CDGA) Office and GRICAD are launching a podcast series to explore the various facets of open science, whether from the perspective of publications, data, or research code and software.

Exhibition on Digital Sobriety in ESR

Apr 27, 2026

GRICAD pays particular attention to issues of digital sobriety. As such, our unit supports you in assessing the environmental footprint of your digital activities, as well as in implementing a digital sobriety policy tailored to your projects or your laboratory.

Data Challenges Day

Apr 27, 2026

IMAG Auditorium*

2026-06-03

The Academic Committee and Data Challenges (ACDC) Unit, which is dedicated to supporting the creation and implementation of scientific data challenges, invites you to take part in a training day on this topic: the Data Challenges Day (JDC): Data challenges as tools for research and training.

Exhibition promoting sustainable and environmentally friendly digital technology

Mar 27, 2026

IMAG Hall

From 01 to 30 of April 2026

To mark Grenoble Alpes University’s Eco-Responsible Digital month, the IMAG hall is hosting a travelling exhibition dedicated to sustainable digital practices.

GATES DATA SHS - The 2026 needs assessment campaign is open !

Mar 25, 2026

As part of the GATES project and its focus on social sciences and humanities research data, the annual 2026 needs assessment campaign has been launched. Its aim is to select the projects on which the GATES data engineers will work for the coming academic year (2026/2027).

Call for Support from Research Engineers

Feb 19, 2026

Launched in 2025, and renewed for 2026, MIAI Cluster is opening a new call to support research projects in artificial intelligence (AI) by providing short-term assistance from a research engineer hosted at GRICAD.

Inauguration of the CINAURA-Kraken cluster: a strategic supercomputer for innovation and digital sovereignty in Grenoble research

Feb 16, 2026

On 27 January 2026, the CINAURA-Kraken computing cluster was inaugurated at the Laboratory of Subatomic Physics and Cosmology (LPSC) in Grenoble. With CINAURA-Kraken, the Grenoble site strengthens its capabilities in high performance computing (HPC) and data analysis (DA) and positions itself among the leading academic centers.

Blog GATES

Feb 12, 2026

The GATES team blog has been updated with two new posts on the “OpenGre” platform and the “Parcours de vie” project.

Guix-HPC Activity report

Feb 6, 2026

February 2026

The new Guix-HPC activity report is now online ! One can read it following the link: report-2025. Guix-HPC is a collaborative effort to bring reproducible software deployment to scientific workflows and high-performance computing (HPC). Guix-HPC builds upon the GNU Guix software deployment tools and aims to make them useful for HPC practitioners and scientists concerned with dependency graph control and customization and, uniquely, reproducible research.