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International, Institution, Sustainable Development
31.03.23
École Polytechnique hosts EuroTech Alliance symposium on Sustainability
Presiding the EuroTech Universities Alliance in 2022-2023, École Polytechnique organized the "EuroTech Universities: An alliance working for global sustainability" symposium on March 28, 2023. The event brought together researchers, professors, and the leadership from the EuroTech Alliance's six European partner universities.
Innovation, Research
21.03.23
Plasma-assisted methanation for CO2 recycling
Edmond Baratte, a recent doctor from the Plasma Physics Laboratory, is leading a project combining plasma technologies to produce methane from carbon dioxide in the most carbon-neutral way possible. Thanks to funding from SATT Paris-Saclay, the aim is to design a prototype showing the process's efficiency
International, Education
16.03.23
Alliance - 20 years of transatlantic collaboration
The founding partner institutions of Alliance, including École Polytechnique, celebrated the 20th anniversary of their international collaboration on March 13, 2023, in Paris. On the occasion, a conference on climate change brought together internationally renowned researchers from the four partner universities who discussed the real impact and limitations of different economic tools aimed at direct decisions towards more sustainable solutions.
Institution
16.02.23
The French minister of Industry asks polytechnicians to tackle the zero carbon revolution
Roland Lescure (X87), the French Minister in charge of Industry, came to meet École Polytechnique’s students and start-ups of its ecosystem of entrepreneurship and innovation supported by its incubator, the Drahi X-Novation Center. He pleaded for École Polytechnique’graduates to fully support the new industrial zero carbon revolution.
Research
31.01.23
Four ERC Consolidator grant recipients
Camille Duprat (Hydrodynamics Laboratory), Roland Rathelot (Centre for Research in Economics and Statistics), Balt Van Rees (Centre for Theoretical Physics) and Maks Ovsjanikov (Computer Science Laboratory of the École Polytechnique) are carrying out projects funded by the European Research Council.
Research
16.01.23
École polytechnique releases an online dynamic digital brochure to present its Research and Laboratories
École Polytechnique has published online a dynamic digital presentation in French and English of its 23 laboratories, their teams and ambitions. École Polytechnique, a founding member of the Institut Polytechnique de Paris, has made the promotion of its research within IP Paris a cornerstone of its 2022-2026 development plan.
Entrepreneurship, Innovation
09.01.23
Three start-ups supported by École Polytechnique made the trip to the CES 2023
The 2023 edition of the Consumer Electronic Show in Las Vegas, the world's largest tech exhibition, took place from January 5 to 8 with a smaller delegation of French start-ups, including three young companies supported by the Drahi-X Novation Center, the incubator of the École Polytechnique, as well as Valeo's R&D center, which has been working on safer, cleaner, smarter mobility for several years.
International, Education
02.12.22
Two student teams from École Polytechnique among the EuroTeQaThon's finalists
The final international competition, EuroTeQaThon, took place at the Technical University of Munich from November 23 to 25, 2022. The event brought together the best teams from EuroTeQ Engineering University's member institutions, including two teams from École Polytechnique, who presented their innovative solutions to the "Leave No Waste Behind!" competition challenge.
Sustainable Development, Education, Research
Facile
18.11.22
COP27: École Polytechnique as observer
A delegation of researchers and students from École Polytechnique and the Institut Polytechnique de Paris attended COP27, the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference. The conference took place from 6 to 18 November in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt.
International, Education
12.11.22
Three École Polytechnique’s students at the ICPC world finals in Bangladesh
The final of the world's most prestigious programming contest, the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC), took place from November 6 to 11 in Dhaka, Bangladesh. École’s Polytechnique’s finalists had been preparing for this event for months.
International, Education
10.11.22
Portrait - Mariam Gedenidze in exchange at Nanyang Technological University
As part of her third year in École Polytechnique’s Bachelor of Science program, Mariam Gedenidze currently studies as an exchange student at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore. She is one of the first students to benefit from the new partnership agreement École Polytechnique and NTU signed to facilitate study exchanges for undergraduate students of the two prestigious institutions.
Entrepreneurship
09.11.22
Gerondeau - Safran Awards 2022: Entrepreneurship, a long-term challenge
The 12th edition of the Gerondeau - Safran Prize, awarded on November 9, confirmed the commitment of its founders to long-term entrepreneurship, and rewarded three disruptive start-ups with strong industrial and technological components: Amphitrite, Stratolia and Surge.