FINMINA: A French national project to promote innovation in higher education in microelectronics and nanotechnologies

Abstract

In order to maintain the quality of the higher education, the French government launched in 2011 a program entitled “Excellence Initiative for Innovative Education”, IDEFI in the frame of a more general policy towards “Investments for the Future”. The innovation may have several forms, in the new pedagogical approaches as well as in the new practice adapted to the students but also in the evolution of the sciences and the technologies for the economical world. The field of microelectronics that had an extremely fast evolution during the last fifty years is particularly concerned.