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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.
Discover the main research areas on which the CEA works.
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NEWS | INSTITUTIONAL | INNOVATION FOR INDUSTRY
The CEA, alongside with the CNRS, Inserm and IFPEN, helps France top the European ranking of public research’s patent filing. This is the result of a study conducted by the European Patent Office covering the period 2001-2020.
PRESS RELEASE | NEWS | NEW TECHNOLOGIES
Soitec and CEA-Leti partner to advance automotive cybersecurity with FD-SOI technology
NEWS | INSTITUTIONAL | NUCLEAR ENERGY
On 15 October 2025, the French Embassy in Rome hosted the conference “Franco-Italian scientific cooperation: a pillar of the future of the nuclear industry”, organized by the CEA.
NEWS | PRIZES AND AWARDS | CLIMATE | ENVIRONMENT | CARBON CYCLE
Philippe Ciais, a physicist at the LSCE, has received the prestigious 2025 Eni Award for Advanced Environmental Solutions, in the presence of Sergio Mattarella, President of the Italian Republic. This distinction honors his outstanding work on the terrestrial carbon cycle and its impacts on climate change.
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.
NEWS | PRESS RELEASE | HEALTH ＆ LIFE SCIENCES | NEW TECHNOLOGIES | MEDICAL IMAGING
France 2030 has announced its support for the ImaSpiiR-X consortium, providing €18.2 million in funding over 60 months to move from black-and-white X-ray medical imaging (which displays only tissue density) to full-colour spectral imaging (capable of identifying tissue composition). To achieve this, the consortium will develop next-generation flat-panel detectors that will provide enriched digital radiographic images, along with advanced analysis algorithms.
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.
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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.