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Recherche and innovation
The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) is a key player in research, development and innovation.
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NEWS | PRIZES AND AWARDS | INSTITUTIONAL | PHYSICS | QUANTUM PHYSICS
Awarded to John Clarke, Michel Devoret, and John Martinis, this Nobel Prize recognizes their pioneering work demonstrating the macroscopic quantum tunneling effect and the quantization of energy at the scale of a superconducting quantum circuit.
The Council of Ministers appointed, on Friday, July 11, 2025, Anne-Isabelle Etienvre as Chairman of the CEA.
PRESS RELEASE | ENERGIES | FUSION THROUGH MAGNETIC CONTAINMENT | NUCLEAR FUSION
On 12 February, the CEA’s WEST machine was able to maintain a plasma for more than 22 minutes. In doing so, it smashed the previous record for plasma duration achieved with a tokamak. This leap forward demonstrates how our knowledge of plasmas and technological control of them over longer periods is becoming more mature, and offers hope that fusion plasmas can be stabilised for greater amounts of time in machines such as ITER.
PRESS RELEASE | INSTITUTIONAL | INNOVATION FOR INDUSTRY | AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE
Valeo, the key technology partner of mobility players, and the CEA, Europe's most innovative research organization, have announced a 4-year collaboration to anticipate future technological advances and encourage exchanges within the French and European research ecosystems.
PRESS RELEASE | CLIMATE | CLIMATIC MODELS
The physical processes behind cloud formation and snow precipitation above the Antarctic ice cap remain poorly understood. Co-directed by the CNRS, the CEA, the EPFL, and l’École Polytechnique, the AWACA project will deploy innovative equipment with support from the French Polar Institute, in order to better characterize the atmospheric water cycle above Antarctica.
NEWS | HEALTH ＆ LIFE SCIENCES | NEW TECHNOLOGIES | BRAIN
ONWARD Medical N.V. (Euronext: ONWD), the medical technology company creating innovative spinal cord stimulation therapies to restore movement, function, and independence in people with spinal cord injury (SCI), today announces that it has signed an exclusive license with CEA to develop and commercialize the investigational WIMAGINE BCI designed by Clinatec as part of its investigational ARC-BCI System to restore thought-driven movement and function of the human body.
PRESS RELEASE | NEW TECHNOLOGIES | HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING
Following a call for tenders launched in January 2024, EuroHPC and EuroQCS-France have announced the acquisition of Europe's most powerful universal photonic quantum computer from a consortium formed by Quandela (France) and attocube systems AG (Germany). The system, owned by EuroHPC and co-acquired by GENCI, will be hosted and operated by CEA at TGCC. It will be coupled to the Joliot-Curie supercomputer, and will be made available to scientific communities in 2025 as part of open research.
PRESS RELEASE | PARTNERSHIPS | BATTERIES | ELECTRIC VEHICLES | RENEWABLE ENERGIES
Stellantis and CEA, one of the world’s most innovative research institutions, today announced a new, five-year collaboration that targets in-house design of next-generation battery cells for electric vehicles.
PRESS RELEASE | INSTITUTIONAL | NEW TECHNOLOGIES | HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING
The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking has signed a hosting agreement with GENCI for its next exascale supercomputer, Alice Recoque, which will be operated by CEA. It will pave the way for new scientific discoveries and post-exascale HPC and AI services.
PRESS RELEASE | HEALTH ＆ LIFE SCIENCES | BRAIN | MEDICAL IMAGING | NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES | COGNITION
The CEA is revealing a series of in vivo human brain images acquired with the Iseult MRI machine and its unmatched 11.7 teslas magnetic field strength. This success is the fruit of more than 20 years of R&D as part of the Iseult project, with one pillar goal being to design and build the world’s most powerful MRI machine. Its ambition is to study healthy and diseased human brains with an unprecedented resolution, allowing us to discover new details relating to the brain’s anatomy, connections, and activity.
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CEA is a French government-funded technological research organisation in four main areas: low-carbon energies, defense and security, information technologies and health technologies. A prominent player in the European Research Area, it is involved in setting up collaborative projects with many partners around the world.