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

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. Apply before 29 January 2023!

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.

Calling all graduates from the classes of 2018 to 2022: 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.

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'.

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

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.

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.

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

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

"Tu maestria en Francia" online fair: the ideal opportunity to learn more about our Master's Programmes!

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Join us online at 3.00 pm (UTC+1) on Friday 14 April for all you need to know about our new Bachelor of Science in Engineering opening in September 2023!

Only complete applications received by 30 April can be considered in the final round for 2023 entry to our Master's programmes.

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.

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. Apply before 14 June 2023!

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.

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

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

As in previous years, Centrale Nantes is opening its doors to the public as part of the national Fête de la Science. Come along and discover the laboratories and teaching platforms, student projects, etc., whether you are a science enthusiast, a prospective student or simply curious. We look forward to seeing you on Saturday 7 October 2023 from 2.00 to 6.00 pm.

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

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 1 December 2023.