Four international research equipments are located in Grenoble and thus contribute to the international influence of Grenoble-Isère.

• ESRF: European Synchrotron Radiation Facility. A European cooperation in science. Eighteen nations work together to use the extremely bright beams of light produced by the ESRF's high-performance storage ring to study a remarkably wide range of materials, from biomolecules to nanomagnets, and ancient Egyptian cosmetics to metallic foams. The ESRF operates the most powerful synchrotron radiation source in Europe. Each year several thousand researchers travel to Grenoble where they work in a first-class scientific environment to conduct exciting experiments at the cutting edge of modern science. At the ESRF, physicists work side by side with chemists and materials scientists. Biologists, medical doctors, meteorologists, geophysicists and archaeologists have become regular users. Industrial applications are also growing, notably in the fields of pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, petrochemicals and microelectronics.
• ILL: Laue Langevin Institute. With its international funding and expertise, the Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL) offers scientists and industry the world's leading facility in neutron science and technology. From its Grenoble site in the South-East of France, the Institute operates the most intense neutron source on Earth. Our scientists and engineers, working with 1500 visiting scientists from 30 countries, carry out 800 experimental investigations per year on the microscopic structure and dynamics of materials.
• EMBL: European Molecular Biology Laboratory. EMBL Grenoble, France, is a laboratory of about 70 people, located in very close proximity to two unique European facilities for research in structural biology: the nuclear reactor of the Institut Laue Langevin [ILL], which provides high flux neutron beams, and the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility [ESRF], which produces amongst the world's most intense X-ray beams. EMBL Grenoble collaborates very closely with both these facilities in building and operating beamlines for macromolecular crystallography, in developing the associated instrumentation and techniques, and in providing biochemical laboratory facilities and expertise to help external visitors making measurements.
• IRAM: The Institut de Radio Astronomie Millimétrique was founded in 1979 and is operated as a French-German-Spanish collaboration. Its partner institutes are the CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France), the MPG (Max Planck Gesellschaft, Germany), and the IGN (Instituto Geográfico Nacional, Spain). The principal activity of IRAM is the study of cold matter (molecular gas and dust) in the solar system, in our Galaxy, and out to cosmological distances in order to determine its composition, density, mass, temperature, and kinematics.

This equipments welcome French and foreigners researchers durinf all the year.

 More info about international research.