Aspiring entrepreneurs launch their projects at Smart City!
During Welcome Week, step into the shoes of an entrepreneur. Take part in an immersive and fun team game to discover and experience the eight steps involved in starting a business. The goal? To go through the different stages of setting up your business and put it on the road to success. In two hours, you will learn everything there is to know about entrepreneurship at Centrale Nantes!
Are you looking to launch a new venture during your studies? Do you have the soul of an entrepreneur, but are afraid to go it alone and would like some guidance? Or do you simply want to develop your entrepreneurial skills? Several options are at hand! Centrale Nantes provides support during your studies to help you explore and launch your new activities. From raising awareness to supporting your project, all your entrepreneurial aspirations can flourish during your studies!
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During the Welcome week, several highlights focused on raising awareness of socio-ecological transition issues await you. Centrale Nantes has chosen to focus particularly on raising awareness of:
Centrale Nantes has set itself the goal of raising awareness among all its students of the three aspects of sustainable development: environmental, social and societal. In 2025, Centrale Nantes reaffirmed its commitment by adopting a new Master Plan for Sustainable Development. The school is a signatory of the Grenoble Accord (COP2Etudiante), the Cpas1option charter, the 'Charte de l'autre Cercle' and the 'StOpE Initiative' — a manifesto for eco-responsible industry. Beyond the climate and societal issues explored during Welcome Week, other concepts, such as access to resources, biodiversity, carbon footprinting, life cycle analysis and raising awareness of secularism, ordinary sexism and LGBTQIA+phobia, will be addressed throughout the study programmes. Students can engage with these issues through the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Committee, by becoming a sustainable development representatives, via student associations, or by setting up projects with the support of the CVEC fund or through civic engagement.
Professor at Centrale Nantes - Head of a research group, Center for Research in Transplantation and Translational Immunology
Pr Sophie Limou is a full professor of human genetics in Nantes. She is the head of an engineering curriculum focusing on genomics and bioinformatics in Centrale Nantes (Digital sciences for life sciences and healthcare specialisation), and the head of an interdisciplinary research group in the Center for Research in Transplantation and Translational Immunology (CR2TI).
She trained as a molecular epidemiologist in HIV-related association studies in Paris and then specialized in APOL1-mediated kidney diseases at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Frederick MD (USA).
Her research projects are at the crossroads between human genomics, immunology, bioinformatics and biostatistics. Her current research interests focus on characterizing the immunologic, genetic and HLA determinants of kidney diseases and allograft failure to define new therapeutic targets and predictive biomarkers.
To kick off the new academic year, the Social Sciences, Modern Languages and Sports Department is organising an original and surprising sports activity. You'll be taking part in an activity designed to develop your management and leadership skills. Put on your trainers and get ready to run!
