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With a presence on Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s Atlanta campus, GT-CNRS UMI 2958 IRL was proud to host a meeting on Tech\u0026rsquo;s main campus, bringing together all of the UMIs in North America.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe two-day workshop, held during the annual France-Atlanta event in October 2019, was a great opportunity for the North American UMI\u0026rsquo;s to come together to tackle important global issues, such as climate change and sustainable development, as part of the United Nation\u0026rsquo;s 17 Sustainable Development Goals, established to transform our world.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAbdallah Ougazzaden, Director of Georgia Tech-Lorraine and Co-president of Institut Lafayette, the open innovation platform in optoelectronics located in Metz, France, gave an overview of the GT-CNRS UMI2958 IRL activities, and Jean-Paul Salvestrini, Director of GT-CNRS UMI 2958 IRL focused on highlighting the lab\u0026rsquo;s achievements, including two new projects funded by the Horizon 2020 European Union Funding for Research \u0026amp; Innovation, and four new projects funded by the \u003Cem\u003EAgence Nationale de la Recherche\u003C\/em\u003E (ANR). Other projects in the frame of the PIA include ISITE (\u003Cem\u003EUniversit\u0026eacute; de Lorraine\u003C\/em\u003E) and LABEX (Ganex \u0026amp; Damas).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe group also discussed achievements and projects under way with Institut Lafayette including a pH sensor based on simplified MOS structure (Au\/Sc203\/GaN) to measure low volumes of liquid, low-cost and dense array of inorganic flexible micro-LED sensors, and E-skin for burn care and cosmetic applications. Another important joint project between Institut Lafayette is Project IBIS with Groupe PSA, an Intelligent Battery Integrated System for electric vehicles.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESalvestrini also called out the contributions of two CNRS researchers who joined the IRL in Metz in 2019, Claire Berger, a French physicist at Georgia Tech, and Director of Research at the CNRS N\u0026eacute;el Institute in Grenoble, France, and Thierry Leichle, a researcher at the CNRS. Also joining the III-Nano Structures \u0026amp; Devices Lab is William Hunt, from Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAnother major achievement is the establishment of the Aerospace Systems Design Lab @ Georgia Tech-Lorraine. 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