L'illustration de la carte de voeux 2026 de l'Université Grenoble Alpes.
Université Grenoble Alpes extends its best wishes for the New Year 2026. We hope this new year will be guided by high standards and excellence, in the service of the freedom to explore, to create and to share knowledge. The beginning of the year is also an opportunity to look back at the highlights that shaped 2025 at UGA.
Throughout the year, Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA) shone thanks to the commitment of its staff and the strength of its ecosystem. Discover the 2025 year in review.
January
13–23 January 2025
The French team crowned world champions at the Winter World University Games in Turin
On the slopes of the world’s largest winter multisport competition after the Olympic Games, UGA athletes won 19 medals! A record and a historic 32nd edition of the Winter World University Games for the French team, which finished well ahead at the top of the nations ranking with 40 medals. Learn more
February
11 February 2025
Inauguration of the MIA Cluster, the interdisciplinary artificial intelligence institute led by UGA
Selected through the AI Cluster call for expressions of interest alongside eight other national projects, the MIAI Cluster is the only center of excellence in research and training in artificial intelligence to be awarded the label in the Auvergne–Rhône-Alpes region. Learn more
28 February 2025
Quartz discovered for the first time on Mars, providing evidence of ancient water flows on the Red Planet
An international research team involving numerous French laboratories, including the Grenoble Institute of Planetology and Astrophysics (OSUG – CNRS / UGA), detected rocks attesting to ancient water circulation using NASA’s Perseverance rover. Learn more
March
24 March 2025
INPI ranking: UGA remains at the top among France’s most innovative universities
Ranked first among European universities for innovation by the European Patent Office in 2024, UGA also maintains its national lead by remaining first among French universities in the 2024 INPI ranking. It thus stands among the organizations investing most heavily in innovation in France. Learn more
April
15 April 2025
Inauguration of the FORESEE research program to study lived experiences of the consequences of climate change
The aim of this research program is to explore a largely unexamined dimension of climate change: the lived experience of its consequences. FORESEE examines the impacts of climate inequalities and injustices on fundamental legal and social concepts, focusing on the analysis of reactions and mechanisms of adaptation and resilience within territories, with the goal of informing and helping to build the foundations of a new social contract. Learn more
May
5 May – 7 July 2025
The family life of a pair of common kestrels on campus, live-streamed via a webcam installed by the French Bird Protection League (LPO)
With its 180 hectares of wooded areas, the Saint-Martin-d’Hères university campus is the largest LPO refuge in Isère! It is home to 98 bird species, including 81 classified as threatened. Learn more
19 May 2025
Inauguration in Grenoble of the Maison du Quantique Alpes led by UGA
Its objective is to serve as a hub for exchange between communities interested in hybrid quantum computing and to guide industries across all sectors in exploring and developing these approaches for their applications. Learn more
July
1 July 2025
UGA celebrates its staff
A friendly half-day event centered on gastronomy, meeting one another, games and exchanges, open to all UGA staff and national research organizations. A first!
22 July 2025
Twenty years of shared research between UGA and CNRS at the Lautaret Garden
Founded in 1899, the Lautaret Garden is today one of UGA’s and CNRS’s scientific research centers in the fields of ecology, the environment and geosciences. Learn more
August
15 August 2025
Shanghai Ranking 2025: UGA among the world’s top 200 universities for research
Consistently ranked among the world’s leading research universities since the Shanghai Ranking was first published 22 years ago, Université Grenoble Alpes is again placed in the top 200 this year. In addition, 30 UGA scientific disciplines are ranked globally in the subject rankings. Learn more
September
17–19 September 2025
AI Week: a unique event dedicated to legal artificial intelligence
The Faculty of Law at Université Grenoble Alpes hosted the very first edition of AI Week, an unprecedented event focusing on the challenges of artificial intelligence in the legal field. Learn more
18 September 2025
La Cornue renewed: UGA and its Foundation restore an iconic artwork on campus
A monumental sheet-metal sculpture designed by Alexander Calder in 1974, La Cornue is part of a collection of nearly 70 artworks spread across the university campus. Learn more
October
3 October 2025
Alain Aspect, Nobel Prize in Physics 2022 for his work in quantum physics, welcomed for an exceptional lecture at UGA
More than 800 people, including a large number of students, attended this highlight of the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology. Watch the lecture
22 October 2025
Air pollution in Europe: an unprecedented assessment using a new measure of exposure to particulate matter published in Nature
This study, conducted at 43 European sites by an international scientific team coordinated by UGA, highlights the importance of reducing emissions linked to road traffic and wood heating. Learn more
29 October 2025
Warming of the Southern Ocean, a consequence of climate change, threatens the viability of the White Continent
A Nature publication led by UGA shows that 60% of Antarctic ice shelves could disappear by 2300 if global warming reaches 12°C, accelerating the melting of the Antarctic continent and sea-level rise. Learn more
December
1 December 2025
The Grenoble Observatory of Earth Sciences celebrates its 40th anniversary
Founded in 1985, OSUG is an internal school of Université Grenoble Alpes, associated with the CNRS National Institute for Earth Sciences and Astronomy and supported by IRD, INRAE and Météo-France to explore the Earth, the Universe and the environment.
16 December 2025
Launch of the Senior Professor Research Chair held by Jean-Pierre Raskin to accelerate the transition toward more sustainable electronics
This chair, supported by Université Grenoble Alpes as part of its Microelectronics LabEx and the Carnot Institute CEA-Leti, in partnership with CNRS and the Nanoélec Institute of Technological Research, is part of the Grenoble site’s momentum toward more responsible, more efficient and more sovereign microelectronics. Learn more
Published on December 19, 2025
Updated on December 19, 2025
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