News at Centrale Nantes

Building on the success of the first edition, the Séisme forum returns to Rennes on 25 and 26 September 2024.

Celebrate the start of the new academic year with Nantes Université (of which Centrale Nantes is a component institution) back-to-school festival. The festival takes place on 26 September, on the Ile de Nantes campus. This is an opportunity to welcome and bring together this new community of students and staff.

As part of the National Science Fair (Fête de la science), which will focus on the theme of ‘Ocean of Knowledge’ in 2024, and in the context of the Year of the Sea (2024-2025), the institutions on the ‘Maritime Campus’ - Centrale Nantes, Ifremer and the École Nationale Supérieure Maritime - are coming together and jointly opening their premises to visitors under the banner ‘Seas & Oceans Campus’.

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The Centrale Nantes campus will play host to the 19th edition of the Hydrodynamics Days (Journées de l'Hydrodynamique), organised by the Research Laboratory in Hydrodynamics, Energetics & Atmospheric Environment (LHEEA) from Tuesday 26 to Thursday 28 November 2024.

Future graduates, parents, families, alumni, teachers, institution and industry representatives will come together at the Cité Nantes Events Center for the graduation ceremony on Friday 13 December 2024.

Each year, Centrale Nantes chooses a class patron for its incoming students. They welcome the students at the start of the academic year and support them throughout their studies, right up to graduation.

Gildas Guiheneuf, a sports teacher at Centrale Nantes, will be taking part in the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games, which begin on 28 August.

Centrale Nantes is proud to have three new proposals for Erasmus Mundus Joint Masters accepted by the European Commission, reflecting the excellence of its study programmes, its international outlook and the quality of its academic partnerships.

Jessy Simon was awarded 2nd prize by ESCM for the best thesis defended in 2022 at ECCM21 (ECCM21 – 21st European Conference on Composite Materials for Academia and Industry), held in Nantes from 2 to 5 July 2024.

Centrale Nantes is one of the partners in the FORTEIM project, involving 15 academic and industrial organisations.

Interactive and collaborative ship outfitting in Virtual Reality

This symposium is the worldwide meeting of specialists in research and development in fluid mechanics as they relate to naval hydrodynamics.

AIESMA (Artificial Intelligence-enabled Innovation & Entrepreneurship for Sustainable Manufacturing) Summer School 2024 will explore the synergy between artificial intelligence (AI) and sustainability practices in the manufacturing sector.

Imane Bekrine, a PhD student in the GeM Institute, received the award at the 12th ACI/RILEM International Conference held in Toulouse from 23 to 26 June 2024.

Centrale Nantes and Nantes Université are organising the 21st European Conference on Composite Materials (ECCM21), which will be held at the Cité des Congrès in Nantes from 2 to 5 July 2024.

5th Generation Roads : Unveiling the Potential of Triboelectric Power Generation to Power Sensors

Vincent Tourre was invited as a guest professor to the School of Environmental Art, part of the Hubei Institute of Fine Arts in China, from 20 May to 7 June.

Centrale Nantes took part in the "Beyond Borders and Boundaries: 20 years of Erasmus Mundus" conference organised by the European Commission on 27 and 28 May to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Erasmus Mundus programme.

Automatic Assessment of the Visual Perception of the Urban Space by Pedestrians

Centrale Nantes is ranked in the top 600 worldwide and in 13th place among the French institutions in the ranking.

The CARGO Cluster and the other NExT Clusters are pleased to invite you to their conference on the theme of decarbonation FROM and VIA research, on 11 June at the Cité des Congrès in Nantes, as part of the Scientific Days (Journées Scientifiques) organised by Nantes Université.

Nantes Université and its member institutions are organising the first edition of the ‘rencontres de l'emploi’, a day to discover the professional opportunities offered within a unique establishment in France, which brings together Centrale Nantes, the university, the École des Beaux-Arts Nantes Saint-Nazaire, Nantes University Hospital, the Nantes School of Architecture, Inserm and the IRT Jules Verne.

Two PhD students from the Research Institute in Civil and Mechanical Engineering (GeM) were awarded research prizes at RUGC (Civil Engineering University Conference) 2024 held in Le Havre from 28 to 30 May 2024.