Centrale Nantes news - 2023

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.

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!

NEMOH is a code based on the boundary element method (BEM) for the calculation of wave loads on offshore structures. To date, 4300 users have been registered in the NEMOH v2.0 database

Join us online at 1.00 pm on Thursday 5 January (UTC+1) for all you need to know about the Master Control and Robotics, Advanced Robotics (CORO IMARO).

See you on 10 January 2023 for a new edition of the Ecological Transition Mornings, with Antoine Hardy, PhD student in political science at the Centre Emile-Durkheim.

Centrale Nantes is expanding its international education offer with the creation of a new Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Engineering. With a first intake in September 2023, the programme is designed for international students and will be taught in English on its Nantes campus. The three-year BSc programme is now accredited by the CTI (Commission des Titres d’Ingénieur) and students that obtain this degree will be awarded a national bachelor level certificate.

Join us online at 1.00 pm on Thursday 12 January (UTC+1) for all you need to know about our two Master's Programmes in City and Urban Environments: 'Atmosphere Water and Environment' and 'Architecture, Ambiances and Urbanity'.

Join us online at 1.00 pm on Tuesday 17 January (UTC+1) for all you need to know about our Master's Programme in Mechanical Engineering - Advanced Manufacturing

See you on 17 January 2023 for the next Ecological Transition Morning, with Sylvain Breuzard, CEO of Norsys and inventor of the "perma-entreprise" concept. The conference will be held by videoconference from Centrale Nantes.

Join us online at 1.00 pm on Thursday 19 January (UTC+1) for all you need to know about our Master's programme in Marine Technology - Atlantic Master on Ship Operation and Naval Engineering

Hubert Chanson, professor at the University of Queensland (Australia), is at Centrale Nantes on the invitation of the LHEEA - Research Laboratory in Hydrodynamics, Energetics and Atmospheric Environment (Centrale Nantes/CNRS). His lecture "Fluid Mechanics applied to Natural Disasters" will take place in lecture theatre E from 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm. It will be held in English.

Meet the people behind the research at Centrale Nantes in our series of video interviews. In this edition we meet Elwan Héry, a young researcher in the Laboratory of Digital Sciences of Nantes.

Join us online at 1.00 pm on Friday 27 January (UTC+1) for all you need to know about our new Bachelor of Science in Engineering opening in September 2023!

Preventing human-induced seismicity to fight against climate change is the main thrust of the INJECT project selected in the ERC Consolidator Grant call and led by Professor Ioannis Stefanou at Centrale Nantes and the Research Institute in Civil and Mechanical Engineering (GeM).

SIRIC certification of the ILIAD project, in which Centrale Nantes is a partner, has been extended for a further five years! This confirms the excellence of the ILIAD SIRIC as a research site integrating medical, scientific and social research in cancer.

A startup challenge designed for students in the Ecoles Centrale Group with an entrepreneurial project.

Join us on Thursday 2 February 2023 at Stereolux, Hall 6 West. For this new edition of the "Nuit Blanche des Chercheurs" in Nantes on the theme "Vibrations". Come along and discover the buzzing world of research in Nantes! Centrale Nantes' research teams will give presentations on themes ranging from Marine Renewable Energies to earthquakes and the properties of explosions!

Future students join us on campus for our Open Day on Saturday 4 February 2023 from 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm for all you need to know about our study programmes.

Register for the second session of Centrale Nantes' MOOC "From probabilities to Bayesian estimation" from 6 February 2023.

Join us on 7 February 2023 for a new edition of the Ecological Transition Mornings, with Anaïs Voy-Gillis, holder of a PhD in geography from the French Institute of Geopolitics.

75 high school girls are invited to meet women working in research and in industry in mathematics and computer science on the Lombardy campus of Nantes Université on Tuesday 7 February 2023 to discuss their studies and their careers.

Centrale Nantes confirms its excellence with a 7th place in L'Étudiant's ranking of French engineering schools published on 9 February 2023.

The first DREAM Winter School is being held at Centrale Nantes from 13 to 17 February 2023.

Passionate about e-mobility? The third E-PiCo Winter School was held at Centrale Nantes from 6 to 10 February 2023.

Centrale Nantes is hosting 8 students from the University of Keio - Tokyo (Japan) on campus for a cultural stay from 13 February to 26 March 2023.

Centrale Nantes was present at the 6th edition of the 'Nuit Blanche des chercheurs' organised by Nantes University on 2 February 2023.

Building on their long-standing collaboration with Nextflow Software, Centrale Nantes and Siemens Digital Industries Software are stepping up their cooperation in the field of numerical simulation applied to fluid mechanics by launching a new joint research chair. The agreement provides for multi-year funding to the tune of several million euros, with the aim of keeping both organisations at the forefront of digital simulation technology using SPH methods.

In 2022, the offshore test site SEM-REV began a phase of investment and works to enhance its capacity to host new demonstration and research projects. Following the award of the underwater equipment supply contract launched in 2022, a consortium, led by INYANGA, recently delivered the new submarine cables and connectors.

The Mervent 2025 project led by Zéphyr & Borée and its partners CWS, GTT and Centrale Nantes was selected as part of the CORIMER Call for Expression of Interest 2022. Mervent aims to build the first container ship powered by hybrid sail/synthetic fuel.

Following the selection committee meeting on 8 February, 4 projects were selected by the panel comprising representatives from the three schools, entrepreneurs, investors and experts.

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

The 2nd year students of the BBA Big Data & Management have made a good start to their study semester on the Centrale Casablanca campus. This four-year Bachelor's programme, co-created by Centrale Nantes and Audencia, combines engineering and management in the field of data collection, analysis and management.

On 8 March, Warsaw University of Technology hosted the 4th selection meeting of the Japan-Europe Master on Advanced Robotics.

The European research project FLOATECH is back at the LHEEA's wave and ocean engineering tank for a second test campaign. The teams involved continue to study the hydrodynamic forces that impact a floating wind turbine in order to improve its performance.

Educating engineers and scientists and the challenges posed by ecological transition: how to prepare for, adapt and find solutions for a predicted post-growth situation? A conference (in French) organised by the association Ingénieurs et scientifiques de France.

Consortium representatives from Centrale Nantes, Universita Degli Studi dell'Aquila, Christian-Albrechts-Universitaet zu Kiel and Universitatea Politehnica din Bucuresti came together in Italy on 8 to 10 March for the selection meeting for 2023/24 entry to the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master E-PiCo programme.

Two PhD students from Centrale Nantes are through to the Pays de la Loire final of the "My thesis in 180 seconds" competition.

The 1st Low-Tech Forum will be held on Tuesday 21 March 2023, at Centrale Nantes, bringing together local players, students, teachers from Nantes and regional institutions, and companies interested in the concept.

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 Rankings - Subject Rankings 2023 - one of the most respected world rankings. Centrale Nantes is positioned in the world's top 200 for Engineering and Technology and notably in 87th place for Mechanical Engineering.

Centrale Nantes is proud to be one of the founding members of the OPEN-C Foundation and of our role in creating the largest European offshore testing facility, as pioneered by our SEM-REV test site.

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

Centrale Nantes is organising for the first time an Erasmus+ staff week in April 2023. We look forward to welcoming 12 participants from our partner institutions who will spend a week on campus.

Train to play your role in ecological transition!

GLiCID is a joint supercomputing structure serving research staff in the Pays de la Loire Region, and their academic and/or industrial partners.

Investment on the SEM-REV site continues! After receiving the site's new cables and connectors, the teams, led by INYANGA, have completed the installation of the connectors on the cables and prepared them for the installation offshore.

Are you a high school student interested in pursuing a bachelor programme combining engineering and management in France? Join us online for a webinar presenting the BBA Big Data & Management at Centrale Nantes and Audencia on Friday 28 April.

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

On 13 April 2023, the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research celebrated the 1500 ERC grant holders with ground-breaking research projects funded by the European Research Council (ERC). Ioannis Stefanou, professor at Centrale Nantes, is one of the three ERC grant-holders invited to share their passion for research at this event.

The FOWT 2023 conference (Floating Offshore Wind Turbines) will be held in Nantes on 10 and 11 May. These two days will be followed by technical visits, one of which will take participants offshore to visit the SEM-REV site.

If you have four or five years of higher education under your belt and want to know more about our Advanced Masters programmes, join us for an online information session organised by Audencia.

Velella aims to develop several technological components and methods needed to prepare the deployment of commercial floating wind projects under the best economic, social and environmental conditions.

The Executive Education team will be present for a Digital Career Safari (Safari des métiers numérique) to be held on Thursday 25 May in Hall 6 Ouest, Nantes.

Centrale Nantes is a consortium member of SAM (Sector Skills Strategy in Additive Manufacturing), an Erasmus + funded sector skills alliance programme which got off the ground in 2019. Centrale Nantes is playing host to the project's final consortium meeting from 30 May to 1 June 2023.

Emmanuel Rozière, Professor and Director of Sustainable Development at Centrale Nantes, won the AFGC 2022 prize. It was presented to him on 3 May 2023 by Emmanuel Ferrier, chairman of the association's Scientific and Technical Committee.

Centrale Nantes features in the Times Higher Education Impact Rankings 2023.

The conference (in French) is organised as part of the Nantes University Scientific Days which will take place on 5 June 2023 at the Cité des Congrès in Nantes.

The congrès Français du Génie Civil (French Civil Engineering Congress), organized by AFGC, AUGC and École normale supérieure Paris-Saclay, was held in Gif sur Yvette from 23 to 25 May 2023.

The study semester at Centrale Casablanca is drawing to a close for our 2nd-year BBA Big Data & Management students. This four-year Bachelor's programme, co-created by Centrale Nantes and Audencia, combines engineering and management in the field of data collection, analysis and management.

Centrale Nantes attended the annual EIT Manufacturing Master School consortium meeting held on 6-7 June at Aalto University in Finland.

As part of the Student Business Project on the engineering programme curriculum, 4 teams of students present their projects in response to the challenge posed by Veolia and Articonnex: How can materials from construction site waste be re-used?

Thomas Heuzé will defend his Accreditation to Supervise Research (HDR) on 13 June 2023.

Imane Elkhaldi, who holds a PhD in Civil Engineering from Centrale Nantes, received the award at the Congrès Français du Génie Civil, held at the École Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay in May 2023.

Philippe Spalart studied Mathematics and Engineering in Paris, and obtained an Aerospace PhD at Stanford/NASA-Ames in 1982. Still at Ames, he conducted Direct Numerical Simulations of transitional and turbulent boundary layers. Moving to Boeing in 1990, he created the Spalart-Allmaras one-equation Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes turbulence model. He wrote a review and co-holds a patent on airplane trailing vortices. In 1997 he proposed the Detached-Eddy Simulation approach, blending RANS and Large-Eddy Simulation to address separated flows at high Reynolds numbers with a manageable cost. He became a Boeing Senior Technical Fellow in 2007, was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2017, and received the AIAA Reed Award for 2019. His papers have been cited 45,000 times. Recent work includes refinements to the SA model and DES, computational aeroacoustics, theories for aerodynamics and turbulence, and the design of research experiments. Philippe retired from Boeing in 2020.

Centrale Nantes is delighted to host the B-International Consortium meeting from 19 to 23 June 2023.

The low-tech festival - organised by the APALA association (Aux Petits Acteurs L'Avenir) - will be held from 22 to 25 June at Halle 6 West in Nantes.

The Sixth International Conference on Cable-Driven Parallel Robots will be held at the Laboratory of Digital Sciences of Nantes (LS2N) from 25 to 28 June 2023.

Lhyfe's offshore hydrogen production test platform has been towed some 20 km off the Atlantic coast and successfully connected to the SEM-REV electrical hub.

Interested in studying engineering in France?
Meet us online during the 'Webinar Week: 2023 Study in France and Scholarship' to learn more about our 14 Master of Science (MSc) programmes!

Four days of discussion and training in Nantes with international experts in nuclear medicine research for 20 students, young researchers or clinicians.

Building on five years of successful research cooperation, Centrale Nantes and MAN Energy Solutions France are extending their industrial research chair for a further eighteen months. 

The CARGO cluster, newly created in 2023, brings together all the Nantes-based research players involved in meeting the challenge of decarbonizing maritime transport.

10 years after the installation of the export cable, the SEM-REV marine renewable energy test site has enjoyed further investment. The aim was to upgrade the site and pave the way for hosting future prototypes. Thanks to funding from the French State, the Pays de la Loire Region and Europe, which Centrale Nantes applied for as part of the "France 2030" programme, the site has been able to connect new prototypes since April.

The all new Bachelor of Science in Engineering programme kicked off today with the first intake of 15 international students on the programme.

A warm welcome to the fourth intake of students on the Erasmus Mundus Master Programme E-PiCo!

Philippe Turcry, faculty member at La Rochelle University, is visiting Centrale Nantes at the invitation of the Research Institute in Civil and Mechanical Engineering (specifically the 'Green engineering approaches' & the 'Processes and durability of materials and structures' Research Groups.) He will give a seminar on 14 September at Centrale Nantes.

It's official: as of 1 September 2023, the SEM-REV offshore test site is now solely in the hands of the OPEN-C Foundation. Centrale Nantes, which in 2007 initiated what will rapidly become the first multi-technology offshore test site, is continuing its research activities and supporting the site in its development. Through this transfer of activity, and as a founder of the OPEN-C Foundation, Centrale Nantes is playing its part in driving forward France's energy transition through Marine Renewable Energies. We take a look back at SEM-REV's progress to date, and its future within the newly-created OPEN-C Foundation, which will coordinate offshore testing focused entirely on floating wind turbines and marine renewable energies!

Nicolas Chevaugeon will defend his Accreditation to Supervise Research (HDR) on 18 September 2023.

The 10th edition of Nantes Digital Week - a digital festival open to all - will take place from 14 to 24 September 2023. Several Centrale Nantes researchers will be taking part.

A warm welcome to the second intake of students on the Erasmus Mundus Master Programme DREAM!

This event organized by Centrale Nantes and INRAE will take place on campus and will focus on biomasses (polymers, fibers, assemblies and colloids), processes and characterization methods, as well as the materials and composites used on a daily basis.

Centrale Nantes is ranked in the world's top 500 in the latest Times Higher Education World University Rankings published on 27 September.

The CARGO cluster is joining forces with the Pôle Mer Bretagne Atlantique, the MEET 2050 institute and CORIMER to co-organize a national event on the theme of "GreenShip and GreenPort". See you on 4 October at Centrale Nantes!

Centrale Nantes will be present at the 'Salon de l'Etudiant des grandes écoles', to be held at the Nantes Convention Center on Saturday 7 October. Émilie Poirson, the school's Deputy Director, will be taking part in two round tables.

Centrale Nantes is taking part in the Erasmus Days again this year, from 9 to 12 October, and showcasing the Erasmus+ programme.

Siddhartha H. Ommi was one of two finalists to receive a Ioannis Vardoulakis PhD prize at the annual ALERT Geomaterials workshop held in Aussois from 25 to 27 September 2023.

Rana Al Nemer, postdoctoral researcher at the GeM in the Environmental Geomechanics Research Group, received the Best Poster Award at the ALERT Geomaterials workshop held in Aussois from 25-27 September 2023, for her poster titled “Multiphase Flow through a Granular Material under Hydro-Mechanical Loading.”

The Forum Séisme Grand Ouest - Bousculer les trajectoires (Transforming career paths) is the first recruitment forum to focus on positive impact in the West of France. It will be held in Rennes on 11-12 October 2023.

Your ideas, your thesis, your publications and your (future) research work could lead to a technology-intensive startup capable of changing our society and providing concrete answers to major social and environmental challenges.

The Intercentrales, a major sports tournament at Centrale Nantes, brings together athletes from the 5 schools of the Ecoles Centrale group.

Join us in Dubai from 14 to 15 October 2023

Centrale Nantes ranks 11th in the Figaro étudiant ranking published on 16 October 2023.

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

Cédric Bellis, CNRS research fellow at LMA, is visiting Centrale Nantes at the invitation of the Research Institute in Civil and Mechanical Engineering (specifically the 'Couplings and numerical methods for complex structures' & the 'Mechanics and multi-scale physics of materials ' Research Groups.) He will give a seminar on 19 October at Centrale Nantes.

Centrale Nantes is inviting applications for the appointment of an external representative to its Board of Governors, to fill a vacant seat.

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

Centrale Nantes is ranked in top 300 for Engineering and the top 500 for both Physical Sciences and Computer Science in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings by Subject 2024, out today.

The Shanghai 2023 "Marine/Ocean Engineering" GRAS ranks Nantes Université, which includes Centrale Nantes, France's leader player in ocean engineering, in 41st place worldwide. This makes it the first and only French institution in this ranking*, which lists the world's 50 best universities per academic subject.

For the third edition of this ranking, this top spot confirms the school's commitment and leadership in terms of sustainable development, with regard to its own impact, its research and training activities, and its relationships with its partners.

On Friday 20 October 2023, Centrale Nantes established an unprecedented partnership with Stevens Institute of Technology in the United States (New Jersey). This offers extremely advantageous conditions for engineering programme students, whereby they can work towards both a French PhD from Centrale Nantes and an American PhD from Stevens Institute of Technology.

Centrale Nantes will be present from 17-19 November at the European Education Fair in Paris, organized by L'Etudiant, on the Ecoles Centrale Group stand, Porte de Versailles.

Join us in China from 18 to 26 November 2023

Centrale Nantes will be present on 24-25 November at the 'Salon du Lycéen et de l'Etudiant' in Nantes held at the Parc des expositions de la Beaujoire.

Kernel-based testing and their applications to single-cell data

With the aim of expanding their collaboration to develop a genuine centre of maritime excellence in Nantes, Centrale Nantes is hosting the Nantes branch of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure Maritime (ENSM) in a new building shared by the two institutions.

Join us on 28 and 29 November 2023 at the Cité des Congrès in Nantes for the 2023 edition of the 'Assises de la mer', a key event for the French maritime community.

Our Bachelor of Science in Engineering students visited Loiretech on Thursday 23 November - a great opportunity to gain insight into the company's activities.

Marinelle El Khoury completed her PhD in the Research Institute in Civil and Mechanical Engineering (GeM) at Centrale Nantes. She was awarded the Centrale Innovation 2023 PhD Prize on 21 November during the organisation's 30th anniversary celebrations in Ecully.

Vice-Admiral Laurent Hemmer of the École navale, visited the Centrale Nantes campus on Thursday 30 November for a meeting with NAVAL GROUP.

Join us in Rome in 6 December 2023

The CARGO cluster is organising its first scientific half-day (in French) on Thursday 7 December 2023 from 8.45am to 2pm. The aim? To offer an initial overview of the research activities of Nantes laboratories in the field of maritime and port decarbonisation.

We were delighted to welcome onto campus on 8 December 2023 a delegation from our partner Huazhong University of Science and Technology for the signature of a new double degree agreement.

Runtime support for intermittent computing

Identifying and Analyzing Long-term Dynamical Behaviors of Gene Regulatory Networks with Hybrid Modeling

Join us on 19 December 2023 for the first edition of this year's Ecological Transition Mornings. Centrale Nantes welcomes Téo Saal and Jonas Teboul.