  EDELWEISS is a direct dark matter search situated in the low radioactivity
environment of the Modane Underground Laboratory. The experiment uses Ge
detectors at very low temperature in order to identify eventual rare nuclear
recoils induced by elastic scattering of WIMPs from our Galactic halo. The
commissioning of the second phase of the experiment, involving more than 7 kg
of Ge, has been completed in 2007. Two new type of detectors with active
rejection of events due to surface contamination have demonstrated the
performances required to achieve the physics goal of the present phase.

Astrophysics;Instrumentation and Detectors