Boost your research and speed up your development

Centrale Nantes boasts exceptional test facilities on campus, some of which are unique in Europe within higher education.

The creation of an industrial chair is a highly effective way for a company to develop a strategic training and research partnership with the school in a specific field.

Centrale Nantes is involved in the following chairs and joint laboratories:

• Joint Laboratory of Marine Technology - Naval Group, Centrale Nantes, University of Nantes
• Bureau Veritas - Centrale Nantes Chair
• ESI Group - Centrale Nantes Chair
• Faurecia - Centrale Nantes Chair
• Fondation EADS - Centrale Nantes Chair
• Mann+Hummel - Centrale Nantes Chair
• Renault - LMS, A Siemens Business - Centrale Nantes Chair
• RTE - Centrale Nantes Chair
• TNO - Centrale Nantes Chair
• EDYCEM - Centrale Nantes Chair
• Renault - Centrale Nantes Chair

40% of the school's operating budget comes from its activities in collaboration with companies, mainly through collaborative research projects and direct services.

This provision involves a company recruiting a PhD student (on a temporary or permanent contract) who is tasked with undertaking strategic research for the development of the company. The relevant research institute within the school supervises the PhD student's research.

The Centrale-Audencia-ensa business incubator brings together initiatives stemming from the Centrale, Audencia, ensa Nantes Alliance. The three establishments decided in January 2015 to combine their entrepreneurial support services on offer to their researchers, students and graduates in order to boost the creation of innovative start-ups.

Ensure that entrepreneurs benefit from the best environment in which to develop their project, test business models and build their teams.

Bertrand ALESSANDRINI: Director of Development
Isabelle LANGLET: Assistant

Careers and Corporate Relations
Laure QUEDILLAC: Head of Corporate Relations
Alice LEVARD /Amélie POIRON: Corporate Relations
Alison DURAND: Corporate Relations
Fabienne HAMON: Careers Service
Yvane LE DOT: Careers Service

Development and Project Engineering:
Isabelle ROUILLARD: Development & Innovation
Michel LABROUSSE: Development & Innovation - Centrale Innovation

Executive Education:
Laurence LOUATRON: Head of Executive Education

Alumni:
Vanessa LE GARREC