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Thierry Célérier-Femmes & Sciences Prize: call for applications now open
April 30, 2025 - June 30, 2025
The call for applications for the Thierry Célérier-Femmes & Sciences Prize to encourage talented young women with disabilities to develop scientific or technological projects is open from 30 April to 30 June.
Fast-track your innovative idea with the Centrale - Audencia - Nantes Université Incubator: applications now open!
May 26, 2025 - June 22, 2025
The Centrale Nantes - Audencia incubator, which has just been joined by Nantes Université, offers two tailor-made support programmes, which are completely free of charge, with no equity stake and adapted to the maturity of your project.
Centrale Nantes is organising the Wind Energy Science Conference - WESC 2025
June 24, 2025 - June 27, 2025
Centrale Nantes is organising the Wind Energy Science Conference (WESC2025), a major international event focusing on scientific research in the field of wind energy.
National Science Fair 2025: visit the Seas & Oceans Campus
October 11, 2025
For the second year running, Centrale Nantes, the École Nationale Supérieure Maritime and Ifremer are coming together and jointly opening their premises to visitors under the banner ‘Seas & Oceans Campus’.This year, the National Science Fair invites you to explore the theme of ‘Intelligence(es)’ in all its forms.See you on Saturday 11 October 2025.
NoMaD (New Materials and Sustainability) conference in Nantes on 13 and 14 November 2025
November 13, 2025 - November 14, 2025
This conference is organised by Ahmed Loukili, professor at Centrale Nantes and head of the Research Institute in Civil and Mechanical Engineering (GeM). It will be held at Halle 6 Ouest in Nantes from 13 to 14 November 2025.
Graduation Ceremony - Class of 2025
December 12, 2025
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 12 December 2025.
Centrale Nantes Open Day: join us on campus on Saturday 31 January 2026
January 31, 2026
Centrale Nantes is opening its doors to future students to find out more about the school, its courses, admission opportunities, campus and projects.See you on Saturday 31 January 2026.Free admission.

Latest news

Centrale Nantes in the world's top 600 - Times Higher Education "Impact Rankings" 2025
June 18, 2025
Centrale Nantes is ranked in the top 600 worldwide and in 12th place among the French institutions in the ranking.
PhD thesis defense - Mohammad Javad MIRZAEI - ED SIS
June 17, 2025
Contributions to adaptive super twisting control: application to floating wind turbines
PhD thesis defense - Antoine MONOT - ED SIS
June 13, 2025
Development of a stochastic forcing method to reduce modeled stress depletion for hybrid RANS-LES turbulence models
PhD thesis defense - Angèle PILLOT - ED SIS
June 5, 2025
The ecological study of the sense of volume: an aesthetic experience of built environments beyond vision
Study in France Live Session
June 5, 2025
Are you a high school student interested in studying in France? Join us online in collaboration with EDHEC Business School and Ecole Ducasse for an hour's information session for the keys to studying in France.
PhD thesis defense - Pooria BANIADAM - ED SIS
May 26, 2025
Designing Restorative Small Urban Green Spaces
A new deeptech momentum for the Centrale Nantes - Audencia incubator with the entry of Nantes Université
May 26, 2025
Nantes Université joins the governance of the academic incubator alongside Centrale Nantes and Audencia. This new collaboration cements the alliance of three institutions of excellence around a shared vision: to strengthen deeptech entrepreneurship, by leveraging the resources of their academic and scientific ecosystems.
Study of the effect of breaking waves on different wave fields: tests carried out in the large ocean engineering tank at Centrale Nantes
May 26, 2025
The large ocean engineering tank at Centrale Nantes recently hosted an experimental test campaign as part of the WASANO international research partnership (I-SITE NExT project), the aim of which is to study the effect of breaking waves on different wave fields.
Fast-track your innovative idea with the Centrale - Audencia - Nantes Université Incubator: applications now open!
May 26, 2025 - June 22, 2025
The Centrale Nantes - Audencia incubator, which has just been joined by Nantes Université, offers two tailor-made support programmes, which are completely free of charge, with no equity stake and adapted to the maturity of your project.
Meet us online at EmpleaTEC in Mexico
May 14, 2025 - May 16, 2025
Interested in studying for a Master's in engineering in France? Join our international admissions team online in May 2025 at EmpleaTEC organised by Tec de Monterrey.
Centrale Nantes is taking part in the 7th Pays de la Loire Mobility Challenge
May 13, 2025 - May 23, 2025
Centrale Nantes will be taking part in the 7th edition of the Mobility Challenge in Pays de la Loire from 19 to 23 May 2025. This event is the perfect opportunity to rethink the home-work commute and experiment with alternative modes of travel such as walking, cycling, carpooling or public transport.
PhD thesis defense - Antoine QUÉGUINEUR - ED SIS
May 9, 2025
Translating microstructural, mechanical and process insights to part-level design in directed energy deposition
Thierry Célérier-Femmes & Sciences Prize: call for applications now open
April 30, 2025 - June 30, 2025
The call for applications for the Thierry Célérier-Femmes & Sciences Prize to encourage talented young women with disabilities to develop scientific or technological projects is open from 30 April to 30 June.
Inclusion and prevention: Centrale Nantes renews its commitment at the CPas1option seminar
April 25, 2025
As in previous years, Centrale Nantes was present at the CPas1option seminar hosted by at ESSCA Anger on 17-18 March 2025. It was an opportunity for the school to renew its active involvement with CPas1option and to reaffirm its commitment to the prevention approach.
Applying for an MSc? Don't miss the final deadline on 28 April for the 2025 intake!
April 16, 2025 - April 28, 2025
The final deadline for M1 and M2 applications is 28 April.
‘Toward a unified fluid/solid DFT-based formulation to describe multiphysics couplings appearing in nanoporous materials’: a seminar with Prof. David Grégoire
April 3, 2025
This event is part of the Research Institute in Civil and Mechanical Engineering (GeM)'s external seminars.
Conference - The mining rush of the 21st century: an investigation into metals in the era of transitions, with Célia Izoard
March 27, 2025
The next Ecological Transition Morning at Centrale Nantes will take place on Thursday 27 March 2025 with journalist Célia Izoard.
PhD thesis defense - Min WANG - ED MASTIC
March 26, 2025
Learning and recognizing landmarks to improve the mobility and positioning of visually impaired people