Centrale Nantes news - 2019

Christophe Binetruy, Professor at École Centrale de Nantes and member of the GeM Laboratory (PMM team), was appointed Affiliate Faculty in the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the University of Delaware, in September 2019 for a period of 3 years.

Jean-Michel Buf, Councillor for the Pays de la Loire region, will give a conference at Centrale Nantes - from 9.30am to 12pm on 17 December in Lecture Theatre A - on the circular economy, as part of the Ecological Transition Mornings series.

Centrale Nantes is one of eight university teams from around the globe taking part in the SuMoth Challenge.

Dr. Francesca Casini, of the Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile e Ingegneria Informatica, Università degli studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" (Italy), will be on the Centrale Nantes campus at the invitation of Anne-Laure FAUCHILLE of the GeM Laboratory from 12 to 20 December 2019.

Centrale Nantes plays host to a conference on "Energy and Mobility: vehicle electrification at the heart of energy transition", organised by ID4CAR and S2e2, in Lecture Theatre S on Thursday 12 December.

Students of the Engineering for Ecological Transition Option will be taking part in a Hackathon on the Circular Economy organised by Téo Saal - Centrale Nantes alumni, class of 2016 - of WigWam Ingénierie, and by Duret Promoteur on 10 December.

Building on twenty years of research collaboration, EDYCEM and CENTRALE NANTES have renewed their research chair for another five-year term to focus on environmentally responsible concrete.

FLOAting Wind Energy netwoRk (FLOAWER) is an Innovative Training Network (ITN), a European project that brings together leading academics and industry leaders in the offshore wind industry, and floating wind turbines in particular. Its goal is to strengthen the leadership and competitiveness of this industry in Europe.

Professor Nicolas Moës, of Centrale Nantes and senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France, received the 2019 ONERA Award for Mechanical Sciences for Aeronautics and Aerospace.

Antoine DUCOIN will present his defense for his HDR (accreditation to supervise research) on "Contributions to the hydro-elastic study of flexible blades under unsteady loadings", which will be held on Friday 22 November at 2pm in Lecture Theatre E at Centrale Nantes.

"Two-way coupling between potential and viscous flows for a marine application".

As part of the European Disability and Development Week 2019, this conference aims to inform and facilitate discussion on this topic.

Jeroen Wackers will present his defense for his HDR (accreditation to supervise research) on "Adaptivity for complex flows", which will take place on Tuesday 19 November at 9 am in Lecture Theatre E at Centrale Nantes.

Following the highly successful first three editions, the "Citylab Hackathon" returns to Nantes, from 19 to 22 November. The fourth edition of Citylab will bring together students of the Centrale - Audencia - Ensa Nantes Alliance, who will try to imagine solutions to the problems proposed by our partners. They will have three days to come up with new services / objects to improve urban mobility.

In line with GDRI GEOMECH's research activities, the GeM is organising a workshop at Centrale Nantes from 18 to 20 November 2019 on: "Advanced methods for the characterization of the durability of porous media".

Dr. Frédéric Alauzet, Senior Researcher and head of the Gamma team at INRIA Saclay, will speak on the topic "Impact of mesh adaptation for turbulent flows in aeronautics. On the way towards the certification of digital solutions?"

A presentation by Camille Jeunet, CNRS research fellow at the CLLE laboratory, University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès.

SBM Offshore is developing a unique type of wave energy converter, which measures 60 metres in length and 1.2 metres in diameter. The operating principle of this prototype is based on wave propagation which deforms a flexible structure made of Electro Active Polymers, thus generating electricity.

Centrale Nantes is a member of EIT Manufacturing, which will hold its inauguration event in Paris Saclay on 7 November.

The 15th EAWE PhD seminar on wind energy in Europe was held at Centrale Nantes from 29 to 31 October 2019.

Centrale Nantes is organizing the 15th PhD Seminar on Wind Energy from 29 to 31 October 2019 under the aegis of the European Academy of Wind Energy.

Centrale Nantes is pleased to announce that the EMship+ programme, an Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree, has been renewed for 4 more years.

Professor Michael ORTIZ, of the California Institute of Technology (USA), will be on the Centrale Nantes campus at the invitation of Laurent Stainier of the GeM Laboratory from 21 to 25 October 2019.

Currently visiting the AAU Laboratory at Centrale Nantes, Pietro FLORIO, Lecturer in Building Physics at EPFL (Switzerland), will give a lecture entitled "The social dimension of ecological transition" on 17 October 2019 in lecture theatre S from 10.15 am to 12.15 pm.

Dr Maria Miteva (CiTCoM Cnrs/Inserm, Paris) will give a conference at Centrale Nantes for bioinformatics students and biologists on structural bioinformatics and drug metabolism. Objective: Harnessing structural bioinformatics to predict drug /metabolizing enzyme interactions.

Centrale Nantes confirms its standing in the 2020 Times Higher Education World University Rankings in Engineering and Technology which is published today.

SEE ("Société de l'Électricité, de l'électronique et des technologies de l'information et de la communication"), has launched a call for applications for the 2019 André Blanc-Lapierre "Youth" Award, at regional and national level

Pierre Durand took over as Director of the joint Centrale Nantes, Audencia, and Ensa business incubator on 1 September 2019.

Pietro FLORIO, Lecturer in Building Physics at EPFL (Switzerland), will be on the Centrale Nantes campus at the invitation of Guillaume MOREAU of the AAU laboratory from 14 to 25 October 2019.

Aurélien Babarit, researcher at the LHEEA, will speak in the program "Le labo des savoirs" this Saturday, October 12 as part of the Fête de la Science.

Zephyr & Borée, sail freight pioneer and start-up in the Centrale-Audencia-ensa incubator also supported by Atlanpole, is a shipping company specialized in the design and use of low-carbon shipping.

The LHEEA has recently acquired a scanning LiDAR, an innovative measuring device to characterize wind and atmosphere. It will be used for marine renewable energy (MRE), urban atmosphere and air quality applications.

Centrale Nantes welcomed today the first intake of trainees on the "Web in pulse" programme: a free training course for web-developers, for which no previous experience or qualifications are required.

Given the geographical distance, the language barrier and the predominance of American-European perspectives, research advances in Asia can be little-known on our shores. The objective of scientific exchanges between Centrale Nantes, the National Institute of Informatics (NII Tokyo) and the University of Kobe in Japan seek to promote exchanges between young researchers – especially in the fields of bioinformatics and artificial intelligence.

Centrale Nantes is hosting a Science Village at the beginning of October and opening its doors to the public.

Centrale Nantes is playing host to the HFES (Human Factors and Ergonomics Society) international conference from 2 to 4 October 2019. HFES (Human Factors and Ergonomics Society) is the world's largest scientific association in human factors / ergonomics.

The Dynamic and Static Test Centre (CRED) at Centrale Nantes is organising a forum (invitation only) on 1st October: "Towards an enhanced vision of material characterisation"

Centrale Nantes today celebrated the arrival of a high-speed, high-resolution camera at the Research Institute in Civil and Mechanical Engineering. Only a handful of such devices exist in the world today.

The General Assembly of the Magalhães Network is organised and hosted this year at Centrale Nantes. We very much look forward to welcoming delegates to Nantes on Monday 30th September and Tuesday 1st October 2019.

Hera-MI, start-up in the Centrale-Audencia-ense Nantes incubator, has been recognised for its international development. Hera-MI won 1st prize in the International Pitch Challenge on 30 September. The Challenge, organized by the Chambers of Commerce and Industry in the Pays de la Loire region, was held in Laval and rewarded the international development projects of companies in region.

The "Blue Growth Farm" project involves the development of a multi-purpose offshore platform which will accommodate an aquaculture system, a wind turbine and wave-power systems.

Mocean Energy is a fast-growing company based in Edinburgh researching ocean wave energy. Mocean is developing wave energy converters – WECs – machines that convert the mechanical energy of ocean waves into electricity.

With the advent of fall in France, members of the International Relations Department will fly to India for the 3rd Steering and Executive Committee of the Heritage Network. Prof. Fouad Bennis, Director of the International Department and Director of the Heritage Network, will be accompanied by Prof. Frédéric Dorel, General Secretary of the Heritage Network, and Leslie Cubizolles, International Masters Manager.

Centrale Nantes maintains its place in the 401-500 grouping of the world’s top universities in the prestigious Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2020, which are published today. On industry income Centrale Nantes is ranked 93rd globally.

Following the success of the first edition, Make IT Agri, the agricultural innovation competition for engineering students, is back for the 2019/2020 academic year.

The Net-Zero Emissions project-based specialisation prepares students to support companies in their efforts to reduce their carbon footprint.

On Wednesday 21 August 2019, the WAVEGEM wave energy recovery platform was installed on Centrale Nantes' SEM-REV site, kicking off 18 months of offshore testing.

The fourth call for the EU-funded MaRINET2 project opens today until 30th September. The project offers free access to a world-leading network of testing and research infrastructure. The call is open to offshore energy technology developers, including offshore wind, wave and tidal energy at system and component level.

XSun presented its SolarXOne solar-powered drone at the 53rd International Paris Air Show (SIAE), the world's largest event in this field. A success for the startup supported, among others, by Centrale Nantes.

SEM-REV, Centrale Nantes' offshore test site, which has been in place for over ten years now, continues to develop its operational and research tools. You can now consult the metocean data recorded at the offshore site located 10 nautical miles from Le Croisic and in the surrounding area.

SIRIC ILIAD - a regional consortium of which Centrale Nantes is a partner - is organising its second Scientific Day, an important event for the oncology research community in the Nantes-Angers area.

Hugues Digonnet, as a former member of the Hi-fi Computational Mechanics team from Mines ParisTech, was awarded the 2019 Atos – Joseph Fourier prize on High-Performance Computing.

The sea harbours many secrets and treasures, which man has sought to exploit as a resource for transportation or food. It poses many questions for the scientific community and represents a vast field of study.As part of the "La Mer XXL" exhibition which will take place from 29 June to 10 July 2019 in Nantes, seven key players in higher education and research will come together to present their research on this vast subject to the general public.

Centrale Nantes is taking part in the "Mer XXL" exhibition in July 2019 - as an exhibitor in the "Carré des Sciences" - but also as the organiser of 3 conferences.

Maxime Robira received the 'René Houpert' young researchers award at the 'Rencontres Annuelles Universitaires de Génie Civil', (Association Universitaire du Génie Civil), which was held in Sophia Antipolis from 18 to 21 June 2019.

Publisher Elsevier awarded the authors of the article "Discrete reconfiguration planning for Cable-Driven Parallel Robots", published in the 2016 issue of the scientific journal "Mechanism and Machine Theory", with the Crossley Best Paper Award.

SEANERGY 2019 closed its doors today. Centrale Nantes and the SEM-REV test site were particularly well represented at the forum, notably through their presence in the Pays de la Loire pavilion alongside other regional players in MRE. A look back at the highlights over the 3 days!

Professor Fouad Bennis and Frédéric Dorel will be representing Centrale Nantes to meet with other representatives of the Heritage Network in Lisbon in May.

Centrale Nantes & D-ICE Engineering are very pleased to announce the first release of the FRyDoM-CE framework under the GPLv3 open source license.

EU Sustainable Energy Week (EUSEW) is Europe's largest event dedicated to renewables and efficient energy use.

The first Ocean DEMO call for applications is now open. Successful applicants will receive free access to test their ocean energy products and services in real sea environments at the project’s network of test centres. Technology developers can apply for support packages to test multi-device farms or single devices able to scale up to multi-device in the future.

ASME (the American Society of Mechanical Engineers) recognises the peer-review contribution of Stéphane Caro of the RoMaS research group and LS2N Laboratory.

Matthieu Furet, PhD student in the ReV team and Philippe Wenger received the silver best research paper award at the MEDER conference (IFToMM Symposium on Mechanism Design for Robotics), which took place in Udine, Italy from 11 to 13 September 2018.

AIRBUS, AIRBUS Développement & Centrale Nantes signed a partnership agreement on 30th April to forge closer links between AIRBUS Development, Centrale Nantes and the Centrale-Audencia-ensa Nantes Incubator *.

SEM-REV has been involved in environmental monitoring of its site for more than 10 years. This requires measurement and monitoring tools to be installed.

The €2.5 million Blue-GIFT (Blue Growth and Innovation Fast Tracked) project is pleased to announce the 1st call for applications. Funded by Interreg Atlantic Area, the Blue-GIFT project is a coordinated ocean energy technology demonstration programme encouraging longer-term demonstration and technology de-risking across the Atlantic Area regions.

The six conferences of the TEDx held at Centrale Nantes on 9 February 2019 are now online.

Centrale Nantes is delighted to welcome a delegation from Harbin Institute of Technology, Weihai, China on Tuesday 16th April.

The SARAH research project, led by several academic and industrial players in the aeronautics field, focuses on emergency ditching for helicopters and airplanes.

With the support of GDR-EMR, GDR-EGRIN (CNRS), Inria and Amies, the conference "Simulation and Optimization for Renewable Marine Energies" will be held in Roscoff from 2 to 5 July 2019 at the Research and Teaching Centre in Marine Biology and Ecology.

Pierre Moscovici, European Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs, is visiting Centrale Nantes to meet with three of the incubator’s start-ups: XSun, Bee Healthcare and AKRYVIA.

You could qualify for a Nantes Excellence Trajectory (NExT) scholarship for one of our 2019 Master Programmes. Applications open until 15 May 2019.

On Saturday 30 March 2019, Centrale Nantes hosted the 5th edition of the Entretiens de l'Excellence, whose objective is to re-establish equal opportunities by giving all young people, regardless of their origin, the desire to follow their dreams and build their ambitions.

FOWT - where the big names in the offshore floating wind industry meet once a year.

Centrale Nantes is pleased to host the annual general meeting of the EMARO+ Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree Programme from 28 to 29 March 2019.

OCEANEXT 2019 is the second edition of the international multidisciplinary conference, initiated in 2016 by the COSELMAR programme (2013-2017). Organized by the 'Institut Universitaire Mer et Littoral (IUML)', the general theme of OCEANEXT 2019 is "Building the future of marine and coastal socio-ecosystems". The conference will bring together international scientists and will emphasize the multidisciplinary nature of the issues addressed.

View here the video of the full conference (in French) with Matthieu Orphelin filmed on 4th March 2019 for the fourth Ecological Transition Morning at Centrale Nantes.

Maroua EN-NAJJARI, PhD student at the AAU Laboratory - Centrale Nantes, is through to the Brittany-Pays de la Loire final of the "My thesis in 180 seconds" competition, which will take place on Thursday 21st March in Le Mans.

The 5th edition of the Ecological Transition Mornings with Vincent Liegey on the theme "The Engineer and Degrowth", will be held in lecture theatre S on Tuesday 19th March from 9am.

Following the launch of the NExT Deep Tech Founders training programme, three teams of researchers have been selected to take part and to benefit from NExT I-Site funding: Batiprint 3D, MIURA and Optimized 3D.

The 4th edition of the 'Matinales de la Transition Écologique' (Ecological Transition Mornings), will be held in the presence of Matthieu Orphelin - MP (representing the 1st constituency of Maine-et-Loire) and Centrale Nantes alumni - on Monday 4th March from 10:30 am.

FORESEA is an €11m project which helps to bring offshore renewable energy technologies to market by offering free access to a world-leading network of test centres: EMEC (UK), DMEC (NL), SEM REV (FR) and SmartBay (IE). 5 new technologies will be tested in this framework.

The international forum dedicated to Offshore Wind and Marine Renewable Energy is taking place from 5th to 7th June 2019 in Dunkirk (France)

In early 2019 the team at SEM-REV were asked to contribute to a work of art using the movements of a buoy installed on SEM-REV and subjected to wave action.

Prof. Alain Bernard, of Centrale Nantes, and head of research at the Laboratory of Digital Science of Nantes (LS2N), has been appointed a Fellow of the National Academy of Technologies of France.

The PHC Sakura project, a Franco-Japanese collaboration between Centrale Nantes and the University of Kobe has just been accepted. The project aims to facilitate and promote cooperation between young Japanese and French researchers.

Naval Group and Centrale Nantes have printed the first demonstrator of hollow propeller blades by metal additive manufacturing as part of the European H2020 project, RAMSSES. Funded by the European Commission, this collaborative programme aims to reduce the environmental impact of ships.

In October 2018, the OPIN (Ocean Power Innovation Network) Project was approved in the sixth INTERREG NWE call for projects. It is coordinated by SEAI (Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland). OPIN aims to accelerate the growth of the European MRE industry by improving the innovation performance of SMEs in North-West Europe, notably by developing their network and their knowledge of innovation.

The new Interreg NWE project Ocean DEMO is officially launched today. It provides funding to developers of marine renewable technologies to test their products or services in real sea environments.

The second edition of the CNRS Workshop on Marine Renewable Energies of the GdR CNRS 3763 EMR will take place this year in Le Havre, Normandy from 13 to 17 May 2019.

Calling all graduates from the classes of 2014 to 2018: 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. The results are very important to us. We would like to thank you in advance for the few minutes of your time it will take to participate.

In October 2018, the OPIN (Ocean Power Innovation Network) Project was approved in the sixth INTERREG NWE call for projects. It is coordinated by SEAI (Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland). OPIN aims to accelerate the growth of the European MRE industry by improving the innovation performance of SMEs in North-West Europe, notably by developing their network and their knowledge of innovation.

Dr. Gaetano D'AVINO from the University of Naples Federico II, Italy, will be present on the Centrale Nantes campus from 7 to 31 January 2019.