For its 3rd edition, the European symposium END'26 (EU Symposium for Digital & Electronics Sustainable Technologies) will take place in Grenoble. The event brings together researchers, industrialists, and students to discuss the challenges of eco-innovation, semiconductors, and sustainable digital technologies. The University Grenoble Alpes (UGA) and its research ecosystem play a central role in this initiative.
Europe possesses the necessary expertise for a more responsible digital sector, focusing on frugality, regulation, and ethics, creating quality jobs. Mastery of data, materials, and energy is crucial for the sustainability of digital components and integrated circuits. Sustainable hardware and software solutions for information and communication technologies (ICT) will be at the heart of the discussions.
The symposium's manifesto emphasizes that Europe's reindustrialization and digital sovereignty must be based on eco-design and the sustainability of the entire value chain. It criticizes a model solely focused on performance, leading to obsolescence and overconsumption, and advocates for sobriety and early assessment of environmental and societal impacts.
Labeled "Grenoble, European Capital of Innovation", the END'26 symposium is actively supported by the University Grenoble Alpes and its key partners, such as the LabEx Microelectronics and research laboratories of the Scientific Polygon (CEA, CNRS, IRT Nanoelec). This institutional backing demonstrates the university's commitment to developing digital solutions with low environmental impact.
The program is structured around three complementary parts: a Student Hackathon (December 11-13) to foster innovative digital sustainability projects, a free Tutorial Day (Monday, December 14) on eco-design in electronics, and the Scientific & Industrial Symposium (Tuesday, December 15) featuring conferences in English on responsible digital practices, eco-efficient AI, and energy management.
