Centrale Nantes news - 2022

Centrale Nantes and Audencia Business School are joining forces to offer a new Advanced Master's (Mastère spécialisé®) Programme in Resources and the Circular Economy for the 2023-24 academic year. This Master's degree is designed for individuals who wish to develop the technical, scientific and managerial skills needed to deploy the principles of the circular economy in organisations and actively contribute to ecological transition.

Optimisation problems in parametrized graphs

Meet the people behind the research at Centrale Nantes in our series of video interviews. In this edition we meet Associate Professor Tugdual le Néel in the Research Institute of Civil and Mechanical Engineering (GeM).

Rebecca Fribourg, teacher and researcher at Centrale Nantes, and Luciano Vidal, researcher in the GeM, both gave a talk at TEDxRennes on 25 June 2022.

Only complete applications received by 28 February can be considered in the second round for 2023 entry to our Master's programmes.

The French Government has launched a major national consultation on the energy mix entitled "Our energy future is being decided now" and is organising a tour of the country with meetings involving local players and the general public in each region. Centrale Nantes will host the Pays de la Loire stopover on 14 December.

The Laboratory of Digital Sciences of Nantes (LS2N) will be hosting the General Assembly of the 3D Consortium on the Centrale Nantes campus.

Join us online at 1.00 pm on Thursday 12 December (UTC+1) for all you need to know about our Master's Programme in Mechanical Engineering - Energetics and Propulsion

Fractional chaotic pseudo-random number generator design and application to image cryptosystem

Multi-Sensor based Perception and State Estimation for Autonomous Vehicles

Greenov, a Nantes-based start-up supported by the Centrale-Audencia-Ensa Incubator in Nantes, was selected at the beginning of November by the highly selective "Accelerator" programme of the European Innovation Council (EIC). The result is a €2.39 million grant and a potential €2.5 million equity investment in the company in 2024.

Join us online at 1.00 pm on Thursday 8 December (UTC+1) for all you need to know about our Master's Programme in Civil Engineering - Materials and Structures in their Environment

Our upcoming Ecological Transition Morning will feature Jean-Baptiste Thony, co-founder of Low-Tech Bordeaux and municipal councillor in charge of circular economy at Bordeaux City Hall.

Join us online at 1.00 pm on Tuesday 6 December (UTC+1) for all you need to know about our Master's Programmes in Industrial Engineering.

Numerical methods for Glioblastoma Multiforme and for solving inverse problems around reaction-diffusion systems

Join us online at 2.00 pm on Monday 5 December (UTC+1) for all you need to know about our Master's programme in Marine Technology - Hydrodynamics for Ocean Engineering

You need to evaluate the techno-economic performance potential of early-stage wave energy converter concepts ? The Technology Performance Level Assessment tool can help you: Join us for this presentation and tutorial for the online Technology Performance Levels (TPL) assessment tool.

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 2 December 2022.

Join us online at 2.00 pm on Thursday 1 December (UTC+1) for all you need to know about the Master Control and Robotics, Signal and Image Processing (CORO SIP).

As part of a conference series organised by the Research Institute of Civil and Mechanical Engineering (GeM), Dr. Michalis Fragiadakis will give a conference on Thursday 1 December 2022 at 2 pm in Lecture Theatre E at Centrale Nantes.

AUTOSAR compliant multi-core RTOS formal modeling and verification

Automated flexible insulin therapy - Prototype of an artificial pancreas

Tests for the HP_Flow project took place in June 2022 in the Hydrodynamic and Ocean Engineering Tank at Centrale Nantes. Watch the footage of this test campaign on the hydrodynamics of heave plates which are designed to damp the heave motion of floating wind turbines.

Decentralized control and estimation of a flying parallel robot interacting with the environment

Control strategies for permanent magnet synchronous machines without mechanical sensors by sliding modes

To mark #GivingTuesday, the Fondation Centrale Nantes is launching a donation drive to help develop its five key programmes in 2022-2023

The fourth Horizons Forum will be held at IMT Atlantique on Thursday 24 November (pm).

The HEMI cluster aims to bring together researchers, professionals and students from different fields of engineering sciences and humanities and social sciences to improve how human factors and user experience are taken into account in industrial design, manufacturing and production processes.

See you on 22 November 2022 for the first edition of this year's Ecological Transition Mornings, with Quentin Mateus, coordinator of the Low-tech Lab surveys.

Join us at the Study Tour Nigeria 2022 for all you need to know about studying engineering at Centrale Nantes!

Meet the people behind the research at Centrale Nantes in our series of video interviews. In this edition we meet Senior CNRS Researcher Carlo Cossu in the LHEEA Laboratory.

Timed Petri nets for the synthesis of pipelined circuits

Join us online for all you need to know about studying engineering at Centrale Nantes!

Alessio Ferrari, professor at the EPFL, Switzerland, will be presenting a conference entitled "Multiphysical geomechanics for underground nuclear waste disposal" at Centrale Nantes on 8 November 2022.

This ranking confirms the school's commitment to and exemplarity in the area of sustainable development, with regard to its own impacts, its research and training remit, and its dealings with its partners.

Eolink, Valorem and Centrale Nantes have received €14.9m in funding from the “France 2030" funding programme. The financed project includes the manufacturing and commissioning of an innovative floating wind turbine developed by EOLINK.

Join us at the Choose France! Pakistan Study Tour 2022 for all you need to know about studying engineering at Centrale Nantes!

Applications open on 31 October for our new Bachelor of Science in Engineering (BSc) programme which will welcome its first intake of students in September 2023.

Following several years of development in the LHEEA laboratory (Centrale Nantes / CNRS) a first offshore measurement campaign with a stabilised scanning LiDAR has been completed. This measuring device, the result of technological development in the laboratory, was deployed to characterise the wake of a floating wind turbine, FLOATGEN, installed on the SEM-REV test site.

Centrale Nantes will host the welcome ceremony for the EIT Manufacturing Master School on 27-28 October 2022 and is delighted to welcome on campus the new intake of students and university representatives for the two-day event.

The T.I.M.E. General Assembly 2022, will be hosted by the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia from 26-28 October 2022.

Join us online with Centrale Nantes’ Catherine da Cunha, Professor of Industrial Engineering, together with Ambrogio and Alessandro, both M2 students, on Tuesday 25 October at 11 am (UTC+1).

The ERC Synergy Grant 2022 call results are out today. The selected proposals include X-MESH submitted by Professor Nicolas Moës of Centrale Nantes and the Research Institute in Civil and Mechanical Engineering (GeM).

Centrale Nantes enters the top 200 in Engineering and the top 400 in Physical Sciences in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings by Subject 2023, out today.

At the end of March 2022, the school signed the Cpas1option charter at a seminar held at Centrale Marseille. Read on to learn more about this charter.

PWM control optimization of a two-level inverter : apllication to electric and hybrid vehicles

Professor Fouad Bennis and Marie-Pierre Pechoutre, International Master's Manager, will be representing Centrale Nantes to meet with other representatives of the Heritage Network at IIT Madras in India on 20-21 October 2022.

Cooperative navigation of a fleet of mobile robots

Join us at the "SAPEF" fair in Cameroon for all you need to know about studying engineering at Centrale Nantes!

Reflecting the school's commitment to CSR and its desire to promote diversity and prevent discrimination, Centrale Nantes signed l'Autre Cercle's Charter of LGBT+ Commitment for Higher Education on Thursday 13 October. L'Autre Cercle is a French association promoting an inclusive workplace for LGBT+ professionals.

Jules Richeux undertook an internship in the Research Laboratory in Hydrodynamics, Energetics & Atmospheric Environment (Centrale Nantes and CNRS) on the numerical simulation of hydrofoils. He explains it all by video and immediately the challenges become clear!

Alexandre Simos, Associate Professor at the University of Sao Paolo, is invited by the Research Laboratory in Hydrodynamics, Energetics and Atmospheric Environment (LHEEA).

Sylvie Retailleau, the French Minister for Higher Education and Research, visited Centrale Nantes on 14 October as part of a trip to the Loire Atlantique area.

Bidirectional Electric Vehicle Charger Control.

The HyMot project will focus on an innovative technology: the hydrogen engine. By exploring the possibilities to convert an internal combustion engine to hydrogen, this project will demonstrate the feasibility of an alternative to electrification for light vehicles. Supported by eight major players from the public and private sectors, including Centrale Nantes, HyMot was one of the projects selected in the CORAM 2021 call for projects.

Centrale Nantes taking part in the Erasmus Days on 13 and 14 October and showcasing the Erasmus+ programme.

Centrale Nantes is positioned in the top 600 in the latest Times Higher Education World University Rankings out on 12 October. At the national level, the school is the 5th ranked engineering school.

Centrale Nantes will be in the United Arab Emirates to meet with high school students from 12 to 16 October 2022

Join us at the French Education Fair 2022 in India for all you need to know about studying engineering at Centrale Nantes!

Yuri Shtessel, Emeritus Professor at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (USA) and Adjunct Professor at Centrale Nantes, will be present at the LS2N Laboratory from 10 to 30 October.

Join us at the "Bienvenue en France!" fair in Vietnam for all you need to know about studying engineering at Centrale Nantes!

Invest in digital people (IDP) is an innovative recruitment scheme for candidates with atypical backgrounds for the digital sector. Centrale Nantes has been selected to run this programme for the second time.

As part of the CPER NEMO, the upgrade works of the Hydrodynamic and Ocean Engineering Tank took place last spring.

Applications for the second intake on the European Master Dynamics Of Renewables-Based Power Systems (DREAM) are open. Apply by 31 January 2022 to be considered for an Erasmus Mundus or Consortium scholarship.

Are you a high school student in Hong Kong or France interested in pursuing a bachelor programme combining engineering and management in France? Join us online for a panel discussion on Blockchain on 30 September.

Discover the video presenting the project objectives and activities.

On 22 September 2022, LHYFE and the Sealhyfe project partners inaugurated the hydrogen production platform that is to be installed in the coming months on the Centrale Nantes offshore test site, SEM-REV. This test of hydrogen production from offshore renewable energy is a world first.

CFM (French Mechanics Congress) brings together the French and French-speaking community in the field of mechanics under the aegis of the Association Française de Mécanique (AFM).

The B-International Project Management Board members will meet in Cardiff, Wales from 19 to 21 September 2022.

Congratulations to Marinelle El Khoury, who recently completed her PhD at Centrale Nantes, on her best paper award in the category ''Sustainability and Materials / Sustainable Development and Life Cycle Assessment'' at the 14th fib PhD Symposium.

The 'Printemps de la Recherche' 2022 on "Offshore wind energy: challenges and prospects in energy transition" will take place on Thursday 15 September 2022 at La Carrière - Saint-Herblain (Nantes). This national event will bring together more than 200 representatives from business, research and education, government and local authority officials, associations, etc., and explore all aspects of offshore wind energy from the perspective of innovation.

The 9th edition of Nantes Digital Week, a digital festival open to all, will take place from 14 to 25 September. Several faculty members from Centrale Nantes will be present.

Centrale Nantes is delighted to welcome to campus Dr Ari Krisna Mawira Tarigan, Associate Professor at the University of Stavanger in Norway.

Congratulations to Ilhame Harbouz, Centrale Nantes engineer and PhD student in the Research Institute in Civil and Mechanical Engineering (GeM).

Following on from the successful first edition, Centrale Nantes is offering a new session of the 'Boost your calculations' MOOC. Join in to discover what a supercomputer is, how to use it, what benefits it offers and how to introduce parallelism in your calculation codes.

Two welcome sessions were held on 2 and 5 September 2022 for the first student intake on our new Erasmus Mundus Joint Master - Dynamics Of Renewables-Based Power Systems (DREAM).

Motion strategies for a haptic interface with intermittent contacts to ensure safe human-robot interaction

Centrale Nantes is inviting applications for the appointment of external representatives to the school's governing boards, which will be renewed in December 2022.

Experimental and theoretical methods for assessing residual pavement service life based on the properties of its extracted bitumens

The Early Age Behaviour of Ultra-High Performance Concrete Incorporating Superabsorbent Polymers : Shrinkage Reduction, Crack Mitigation and Self-healing Potential

Centrale Nantes has once again made its mark in the U-Multirank ranking. In the 2022 edition, the school is one of three French institutions with the highest number of overall top scores.

CFM (French Mechanics Congress) brings together the French and French-speaking community in the field of mechanics under the aegis of the Association Française de Mécanique (AFM). The 2022 edition will be hosted in Nantes, from 29 August to 2 September. It is organised by Centrale Nantes, the CNRS, alongside Nantes University, the University of La Rochelle and the École Navale.

Contributions to utilize a Cobot as intermittent contact haptic interfaces in virtual reality

The journal 'Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements' established its Best Paper Award in 2018 as an annual award for articles with the most scientific impact in the three preceding years. The journal itself has an impact factor of 3.3, having climbed steadily in recent years. The article's lead author, PengNan Sun, spent 2 years as a Post-Doc at the LHEEA between 2018 and 2020.

The 2022 edition of the Shanghai Global Ranking of Academic Subjects is now out. Centrale Nantes stands out in Mechanical Engineering, climbing to the top 151-200, and entering the Management ranking in the top 301-400.

Jeroen Wackers, a research engineer in the METHRIC team, works on the simulation of maritime flows using the automatic mesh refinement method. These simulations provide an understanding into the interactions between a ship and its environment in real conditions in order to optimise the energy performance of ships.

Tour Into Painting : System Design for Virtual Exhibition of Chinese Hand-Scroll Painting

Rogue waves are very high ocean waves, compared to their immediate neighbours, which can form on both calm and rough seas. This sudden and unpredictable phenomenon may be rare, but it needs to be studied because of its danger to sea users. These rogue waves are the subject of joint collaboration between researchers from Centrale Nantes - via the LHEEA - the CNRS and the universities of Paris and Lille as part of the ANR DYSTURB project.

The 3-week Innovation & Entrepreneurship for Sustainable Manufacturing (IESMA) - EIT Manufacturing Summer School - is currently underway at University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI). Two faculty members from Centrale Nantes presented a module on Design Thinking in week one.

Development of a knowledge based decision-aid framework for managing the additive manufacturing value chain

Stanford University has recently published an updated list of the top 2% most widely cited scientists in different disciplines - the World's Top 2% Scientists. 16 researchers from Centrale Nantes are included in the updated list - up from 9 last year.

At the beginning of 2022, Lab Citoyen launched a call for projects to join its accelerator programme. Centrale Market, led by Antoine Grosse, a Centrale Nantes degree apprenticeship student, was one of the projects selected.

Low-rank and sparse approximations for contact mechanics

Meet the people behind the research at Centrale Nantes in our series of video interviews. In this edition we meet assistant professor Vincent Leroy in the LHEEA Laboratory - a young researcher working on offshore wind.

Are you a student, researcher, doctor, nurse, physiotherapist or psychologist? LUNG O2 is holding a summer school to raise your awareness of precision medicine applied to respiratory disease.

Longitudinal monitoring of metastatic breast cancer through PET image registration and segmentation methods based on trained and untrained neural networks.

Come along to the next TEDxRennes to meet Rebecca Fribourg, Associate Professor at Centrale Nantes, Luciano Vidal, researcher in the GeM Institute and Emma Biard, a recent Centrale Nantes graduate. All three will be speaking at the next edition on 25 June.

Development of a fast and reliable solver based on simplified formulae for ship grounding analyses

Successful entrepreneurs are showing deeper commitment to society nowadays. We know about Bill Gates or Sara Blakely, but France also has more and more of them. Why do they get involved? How do they do it? What do they think about the role of entrepreneurs for the future of our societies? Sciences Po Alumni Ouest Atlantique is holding a conference (in French) on this subject at Centrale Nantes with the testimony of two well-known figures, Yann Rolland and Denis Metzger.

Centrale Nantes is fully committed to actions to combat violence and discrimination. The school appointed Marta Herrera Equality & Diversity Coordinator at Centrale Nantes on 1 June 2022.

Topology optimization of reactionless robots

Design and analysis of a five degrees of freedom parallel robot for fast pick and place operations

The LiftWEC European project aims to develop a novel and commercially attractive wave energy converter whose working principle is based on the hydrodynamic lift of rotating hydrofoils around a horizontal axis. Discover the whole project and the series of tests carried out in the LHEEA Ocean Tank on the Centrale Nantes campus in 2021.

As part of Centrale Nantes' participation in Seanergy 2022, join us on June 15 at 5:30 p.m. at the Pavillon des Pays de la Loire (Stand EF1 Hall 2).

Centrale Nantes will be present at Seanergy, the Marine Renewable Energy (MRE) event from June 15 to 17 in Le Havre.

Join us online at the Choose France - Education Fair Indonesia 2022 for all you need to know about studying engineering at Centrale Nantes!

Numerical simulation and experimental investigation of the forming of tailored fibre placement preforms: a mixed embedded-ALE finite element formulation

As part of its work on innovation in healthcare, the ARS des Pays de la Loire is organising a two-day workshop to discuss future healthcare on 9 and 10 June. Several faculty members from Centrale Nantes will be attending.

Centrale Nantes has signed an agreement with the jeveuxaider platform. This partnership means that the school's students can access civic engagement or volunteering opportunities by theme or location, and also discover projects in other fields to expand their horizons.

Locked in a laboratory with a team of scientists, you have to save one of the team suffering from kidney failure. Only you can help him!

Identification of material properties and phase distribution of heterogeneous materials through data-driven computational methods: Towards an enhanced constitutive space

Thermal modelling and simulation of different vehicle hybrid powertrain architectures

This conference is being held as part of the "Journées Scientifiques" of Nantes University on Friday 03 June 2022 at the Cité des Congrès in Nantes.

Centrale Nantes and Stellantis (formerly PSA Groupe) have been working together since 2018 on an R&D programme focusing on digital simulation for powertrain design. A budget of €4M was specifically allocated to digital simulation for powertrain design with a view to bringing low-emission vehicles to market faster. Read on for a programme update.

Experimental and theoretical contributions to multiaxial fatigue of elastomers - Towards a kinematic criterion

Centrale Nantes, represented by Linda Sérandour of the International Relations Department, attended the Annual General Assembly of the Franco-German University network hosted by University Toulouse - Jean Jaurès on 2-3 June 2022.

On 24 March 2022, a first-ever evacuation exercise by helicopter from a floating wind turbine (FLOATGEN) took place on the SEM-REV offshore test site in France. This exercise in real conditions required cooperation between CROSS Etel, the Sécurité Civile, the SNSM, BW Ideol and Centrale Nantes.

Join us online in China and learn more about our study opportunities starting September 2022 and 2023!

Congratulations to Soukaina Riad, PhD student at the GeM and winner of the CSMA 2022 Poster Award for her paper in the category "Lifetime of structures" at the 15th National Conference on Structural Computations - CSMA 2022.

Development of a creep assessment protocol for underwater structures: design of a multi-scale model and a chemo-mechanical experimental device

Kymatio offers a new methodological perspective on AI by combining deep learning and wavelet theory.

One of the major challenges in the maritime field today is to take extreme sea conditions into account when designing marine structures. The WASANO project, which brings together 10 international universities and 3 companies, is addressing these issues through several disciplines. Read on to learn more about the first series of tests carried out in March in the Centrale Nantes towing tank.

Are you a project leader or entrepreneur looking to develop your startup in a dynamic ecosystem? The Centrale Audencia ensa incubator is recruiting its September intake. Apply before 17 June 2022.

Combination of direct and indirect visual SLAM in an industrial environment

Centrale Nantes is hosting the research school "High-dimensional approximation and Deep Learning" from 16 to 20 May.

Meet the people behind the research at Centrale Nantes in our series of video interviews. In our fourth edition of 2022, we meet Myriam Servières, Deputy Director of the Ambiances, Architectures, Urbanités Laboratory

Analysis and design of an intrinsically safe underactuated parallel robot

A long-term working relationship between Mann+Hummel and Centrale Nantes, via the LHEEA, began over 13 years ago with several collaborative projects. These joint research activities led to the creation of two chairs led by David Chalet. The first between 2014 and 2018 was on "Innovative intake manifolds and thermal management". A new chair is underway, until 2023, on a different topic: "Filtration systems: fluid dynamics and reduced energy consumption". Read on for an update on this chair!

Maritime transport is currently experiencing rapid growth and it is also the most efficient form of transport in terms of GHG emissions (gCO2/Tonne/km). Centrale Nantes, via the LHEEA, and MAN Energy Solutions have been working together on this subject since 2018, as part of an industrial chair on the gradual decarbonisation of marine propulsion and electricity production. Read on for an update on this chair.

Centrale Nantes features in the Times Higher Education Impact Rankings for the fourth consecutive year and is ranked in 8th place among the French institutions in the ranking.

Learn more about studying at Centrale Nantes during the Choose France! Education fair ASIA 2022.

The cast iron shells of the IBOCS project developed by FMGC to ballast submarine electrical cables have been successfully removed from the SEM-REV test site! They were immersed on site for 3½ years, with regular monitoring throughout the experiment within the European FORESEA and OCEAN DEMO programmes. We take a look back at this experiment!

Jean-Jacques Ingremeau, an expert in nuclear physics and accidents at the IRSN (Institut de Radioprotection et Sûreté Nucléaire) will give a conference on the safety of nuclear reactors from 5 to 7 pm in Lecture Theatre S on 14 April. Also broadcast live on Zoom.

Study of hydro-mechanical instabilities in geomaterials

Are you a high school student in Indonesia interested in pursuing a bachelor programme combining engineering and management in France? Join us online for a Campus France Indonesia webinar presenting the BBA Big Data and Management at Centrale Nantes and Audencia on Thursday 14 April.

Enedis has already connected more than 536,000 renewable energy installations in the Pays de la Loire region and is committed to playing an active role in renewable energy development across France. The power grid operator has thus responded positively to the requested increase in power capacity on Centrale Nantes' offshore test site, SEM-REV.

Improvement of the quantification of yttrium-90 PET images

Numerical and experimental study of flows around a flexible hydrofoil, including cavitating conditions

Development of an automotive testing methodology combining real-time models and engine testbench (HIL approach)

Colin Bonatti, post-doctoral fellow with the Chair of Artificial Intelligence in Mechanics and Manufacturing, MAVT Department at ETH Zurich, will give a conference on Thursday 7 April 2022 at 2 pm at Centrale Nantes.

Meet the people behind the research at Centrale Nantes in our series of video interviews. In our third edition of 2022, we meet Jean-Yves Hascoët, of the Research Institute in Civil and Mechanical Engineering (GeM).

Centrale Nantes is ranked among the top French schools and universities for the quality of its research and its reputation in the QS World University Ranking, one of the most respected world rankings. Centrale Nantes is thus positioned in the top 5 in France in mechanics, aeronautics and manufacturing as well as in civil engineering.

Take part in the Audencia Virtual Open House to learn more about the BBA Big Data & Management. This four-year post-secondary programme, created by Centrale Nantes and Audencia, combines engineering and management in the field of data collection, analysis and management.

With 295 applications received, 170 projects selected and the funding of more than 600 weeks of access to the MaRINET2 consortium's test facilities, the outcomes of the MaRINET2 Transnational Access program are extremely positive. This transnational program is a major component of the MaRINET2 project (H2020-INFRAIA, 2017-2021) aimed at accelerating the development and deployment of Marine Renewable Energy (MRE) technologies.

Work began offshore ten years ago on installing the export cable, thereby making SEM-REV - Centrale Nantes' offshore test site - a reality. Since then the site has certainly lived up to its initial promise.

SNCF, Centrale Nantes, VLM Robotics and 4DPioneers are today launching the Additive4Rail consortium with state support. The aim is to speed up the industrialisation of additive manufacturing technologies in order to streamline train maintenance and reduce costs by producing components piecemeal or in small batch runs. The four partners have set up a production line in Saintes to manufacture and repair metal parts, with a view to transforming railway maintenance.

Centrale Nantes, via its Sports Association, is co-organising the French Schools Basketball Championship from 5 to 7 April 2022. The final stages will take place on the Nantes University campus and at Centrale Nantes.

A record number, indicative of the institution's growing international excellence.

The SEM-REV offshore test site is tasked with meeting the R&D challenges of Marine Renewable Energy technologies. To this end, measurements have been made on the offshore site since 2009. SEM-REV has just published a report summarising the meteorological and oceanic data from the site, located off the coast of Le Croisic.

Offshore wind environmental monitoring and impact studies are an important component of the research conducted at the SEM-REV offshore test site. The PIAFF&CO project will improve knowledge of flying fauna - birds and bats - in the vicinity of offshore wind farms. The project is run by Centrale Nantes in conjunction with the Centre d'Écologie et des Sciences de la Conservation du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, the St Nazaire offshore wind farm and BW Ideol.

Centrale Nantes Professor Nicolas Moës, of the Research Institute for Civil and Mechanical Engineering (GeM) and elected member of the Académie des sciences, was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Liège on 19 March.

The students of the Environment - Mobility - Health project-based specialisation invite you to discover their MINT project through an exhibition from 18 to 25 March at Centrale Nantes.

Are you a researcher and wondering how to give your research more impact? Are you a PhD student with questions about your future and your employability? Take part in the Deeptech Tour!

The Pays de la Loire CSR Awards ceremony will take place on 17 March 2022 at the l'Hôtel de Région des Pays de la Loire. The winners, assessed in particular by the students of the Engineering for Ecological Transition option, will be revealed.

Towards the evolution of the protocol for the qualification of concrete exposed to freeze-thaw in the presence of de-icing salts: contributions of multi-scale modelling in conjunction with an analysis of climate variability

On the interaction of fast traveling Ocean Waves and the Atmospheric Boundary Layer: A Mechanistic Approach combining Field Measurements and High-fidelity Simulations.

Join us on 15 March 2022 at 10.15 am for the 18th edition of the Ecological Transition Mornings with Jean-David Zeitoun.

Vérification formelle et apprentissage logique pour la modélisation qualitative à partir de données single-cell
(Formal verification and machine learning for qualitative modelling from single-cell data)

Learn more about studying at Centrale Nantes during the Choose France Tour Online - India.

The webinar presenting the "RESOURCECODE Marine Data Toolbox" and the associated sea state hindcast, organized on Thursday, March 10, 2022 by Ifremer and the project partners, was a great success with the participation of more than a hundred listeners from the research community and industry.

What if we took time out to discuss and understand the career challenges for younger generations at a time of ecological and societal transition? Centrale Nantes and Sens&co are joining forces for an evening of discussion between students and companies.

After a little more than two years of development, Ifremer, Centrale Nantes and the partners of the RESOURCECODE project (Ocean energy Era-Net Cofund project) are launching the "RESOURCECODE Marine Data Toolbox". A presentation webinar will be held on 10 March 2022 from 11:00 to 12:30 (CET) [10AM - 11.30AM GMT].

Amélioration de granulats de béton recyclé par bioprécipitation
(Improvement of recycled concrete aggregates by bioprecipitation)

Effectiveness of arc based processes and deposition strategies on additive manufacture structure for naval and aerospace applications

Meet the people behind the research at Centrale Nantes in our series of video interviews. In our second edition of 2022, we meet Alain Bernard, Emeritus Professor of the Laboratory of Digital Sciences of Nantes (LS2N).

On 10 March 2022, Prime Minister Jean Castex, following the recommendations of the international panel of the Investments for the Future programme (PIA), confirmed I-site certification for Nantes University's NExT project. This certification, and the funding that comes with it, will allow Nantes University to develop its unique governance model and to accelerate its scientific projects in both health of the future and industry of the future, with the capacity for action of a world-class university.

Applications for the first intake on the European Master in Dynamics of renewables-based power systems (DREAM) are open. Apply by 20 March to be considered for an Erasmus Mundus or Consortium scholarship.

The French Ministry for Higher Education, Research and Innovation (MESRI) announced on 21 October 2021 the inclusion of THeoREM on the 2021 National Roadmap for Research Infrastructures. This roadmap was published on 08 March 2022.

Representatives from Centrale Nantes, Keio University, University of Genoa and Warsaw University of Technology will meet online for the third selection meeting for the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master JEMARO on 3-4 March.

Didier Lime was appointed to a newly-created post of professor in real-time systems at the beginning of the 2021/22 academic year. This position is designed to develop new teaching and original research activities.

Centrale Nantes is launching a new Mooc on probability and Bayesian estimation. Registration opens on 28 February.

Future students join us on campus for our Open Day on Saturday 26 February 2022 from 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm for all you need to know about our study programmes.

"Tu maestria en Francia" online fair: the ideal opportunity to learn more about studying at Centrale Nantes!

Take a closer look at our new Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree European Master in Dynamics of renewables-based power systems (DREAM) and join us live to learn more on Tuesday 22 February at 03.00 pm (French time).

Consortium partners came together for the formal kick-off of the new European Master in Dynamics of renewables-based power systems (DREAM) - a very selective Erasmus Mundus Joint Master’s Degree.

Applications are still open for the five programmes on offer through the EIT-M Master School at a consortium of European universities, two of which are available at Centrale Nantes. Don't miss the 31 March deadline for applications!

Caractérisation expérimentale de l'impact de la houle sur le comportement aérodynamique des éoliennes flottantes
(Experimental characterisation of the impact of waves on the aerodynamic behaviour of floating wind turbines)

Christelle Morançais, President of the Pays de la Loire Region, visited Centrale Nantes on 8 February and was welcomed on campus by school Director Jean-Baptiste Avrillier to discuss, in particular, energy transition, engineering for health and entrepreneurship.

Passionate about e-mobility? The second E-PiCo Winter School will take place virtually from 7 to 11 February 2022.

Construction d'un Framework de pilotage des collaborations inter-entreprises : application au développement des Systèmes Produit-Service
(Development of a framework for the management of inter-company collaboration: application to the development of Product-Service Systems)

Congratulations to Audrey Somera, 3rd year PhD student at the Research Institute in Civil and Mechanical Engineering (GeM), for her Mécamat 2022 "Emilie du Châtelet" poster award.

Calling all graduates from the classes of 2017 to 2021: we need to know how your careers are progressing. The 'Conférence des Grandes Ecoles' is conducting its annual survey on the integration of 'grande école' graduates into the workplace.

Méthodologie de préparation à la fabrication de composants de grandes dimensions à partir de matériaux polymères thermoplastiques fondus
(Preparatory methods for the manufacture of large components from molten thermoplastic polymer materials)

Are you a high school student in India interested in pursuing a bachelor programme combining engineering and management in France? Join us online for a webinar presenting the BBA Big Data and Management at Centrale Nantes on Sunday 30 January.

Nantes University and Stereolux are joining forces for the 6th consecutive year for the "Nuit Blanche des Chercheurs". This evening event on 27 January, from 6pm onwards, is designed for the public to come and meet researchers. With a broad programme for all tastes, everyone can take part.

Modélisations numérique et analytique du comportement mécanique et multiphysique d'une phase haute-tension pour fermes offshores
(Numerical and analytical modelling of the mechanical and multiphysical behaviour of a high-voltage phase for offshore farms.)

Vers une auscultation par acousto-ultrasons des renforcements par composites collés de structures du génie civil
(Towards acousto-ultrasound monitoring of bonded composite reinforcements of civil engineering structures)

On 25 January 2022, Centrale Nantes signed up to the #StOpE Initiative to take action against everyday sexism in the workplace.

Researchers from the Laboratory of Digital Sciences of Nantes (LS2N) successfully established the basic technology for a wireless, battery-free acoustic biosensor. The result of their work was awarded the Best Paper Award at the Second International Workshop on the Internet of Sounds (IWIS 2021), organised in September 2021 by the Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science of the University of Trento (Italy).

Caractérisation thermomécanique du comportement dynamique des métaux via mesures de champs ultra-rapides
(Thermomechanical characterisation of the dynamic behaviour of metals via ultra-fast field measurements)

Meet the people behind the research at Centrale Nantes in our series of video interviews. In our first edition of 2022, we meet Professor Luisa Silva of the Research Institute in Civil and Mechanical Engineering (GeM).

The 3rd edition of the Horizons Forum will take place on Thursday 20 January 2022 in the afternoon.

Stimcar, an innovative specialist in the reconditioning of used vehicles and a start-up in the Centrale-Audencia-Ensa incubator, announces a new milestone in its development with the equity investment of Stellantis.

On 26 November 2021, Safran group CEO Olivier Andriès presented Léa Guipouy and Mathieu Robazza with 5th prize in the USAIRE Student Awards for their vision on the future of aviation.

Optimization of the capacity factor of energy ships for far-offshore wind energy conversion using weather-routing

Centrale Nantes Emeritus Professor Alain Bernard, of the Laboratory of Digital Sciences of Nantes (LS2N), was appointed a member of the Scientific and Educational Development Committee of the 'La Main à la Pâte' Foundation on 6 January 2022.

Centrale Nantes has just obtained €2.8 million in CPER funding (French state/regional infrastructure planning and investment programme) to set up the GENIUS project, a test platform for the production, storage and use of green hydrogen.

Caractérisation expérimentale et modélisation phénoménologique de l'apparition du cliquetis dans les moteurs à allumage commandé suralimentés
(experimental characterization and phenomenological modeling of knock occurrence in turbocharged spark-ignition engines)

Join us on 11 January 2022 at 10.15 am for the 18th edition of the Ecological Transition Mornings with François Jarrige.

The 12th edition of the CDEFI (Conference of Deans of French Schools of Engineering) is underway!
Submit your project or application before 8 March 2022.

Claudia Califano, Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer, Control, and Management Engineering, University of Rome La Sapienza, is visiting the Laboratory of Digital Sciences of Nantes from 9 to 16 January 2022.

Are you a project leader or entrepreneur looking to develop your startup in a dynamic ecosystem? The Centrale Audencia ensa incubator is recruiting its next intake for the programme starting in February. Applications open until 12 January 2022.

Applications are open for the five programmes on offer through the EIT-M Master School at a consortium of European universities, two of which are available at Centrale Nantes. Don't miss the 1 March deadline for applications!

Passionate about e-mobility?
Applications for the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree in Electric Vehicle Propulsion and Control (E-PiCo) open on 18 October 2021.

Passionate about Robotics and AI?
Applications open for the 2022 intake of JEMARO, the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree on Advanced Robotics co-coordinated by Centrale Nantes (France) and Keio University (Japan).