On October 14, 2025, École Polytechnique hosted the University Fair, bringing together six Grand Corps of the French State, fifteen international universities, and twelve French higher education institutions. Organised by the International Affairs Office, the Direction of the Ingénieur Polytechnicien Program, and the Direction of the Bachelor's Program, this event allowed École Polytechnique’s students to explore the opportunities offered by the participating institutions in order to inform their further career choices.
École Polytechnique celebrated international mobility, cultural diversity, and language exchange at its on-campus International Day event, held on campus on Thursday, October 16. The event was filled with enriching encounters and discoveries.
For Science Day 2025, École Polytechnique paid tribute to women. Four female scientists from l’X recounted their career journeys and shared their passion with secondary school students. Take a look back at this inspiring event!
École Polytechnique welcomed a delegation from the Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute of the National Technical University of Ukraine on campus on September 22nd, 2025. To deepen their collaboration, Laura Chaubard, President of École Polytechnique, and Anatolii Melnychenko, Rector of the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, signed a Memorandum of Understanding aimed at fostering academic and scientific cooperation. École Polytechnique has also secured Erasmus+ funding to support international mobility with the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, further strengthening this new partnership.
“Air quality modeling in South America: context and Franco–South American collaborations” was at the center of the lecture given by Sylvain Mailler, researcher (ENPC ) at the Dynamic Meteorology Laboratory of École Polytechnique, during his visit to the National Polytechnic School of Quito this summer. Renowned for its high level of scientific excellence, the institution is an international partner of École Polytechnique in Ecuador.
As part of a joint research project with Christophe Josserand, Deputy Director of the Hydrodynamics Laboratory (LadHyX) and lecturer at the École Polytechnique and the CNRS, École Polytechnique welcomed a visit from Sergio Rica, a researcher from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (PUC). This international mobility was supported by the Erasmus+ program was granted for its application to foster collaborations with partner universities in Chile.
Three student teams from École Polytechnique’s Master's program STEEM (Energy Environment: Science, Technology & Management) participated in the international competition EuroTeQaThon 2025, which was organized at Eindhoven University of Technology from June 14 to 16, 2025. The event brought together over twenty teams of students from the EuroTeQ Engineering University alliance, of which École Polytechnique is a member.
The European Physical Society has awarded the Aflvén Prize to Michel Koenig, CNRS Research Director at the Intense Laser Laboratory (LULI*), for his contributions to plasma physics.
École Polytechnique hosted the 8th edition of Paris-Saclay Spring 2025, the annual entrepreneurship and research event on the Plateau de Saclay, one of the world's leading innovation and entrepreneurship hubs. Eight start-ups supported by X-UP, the École polytechnique's incubator, or stemming from its research ecosystem, are among the 50 young companies selected as the most promising on the Plateau de Saclay. One of them, Plasana Médical, is the winner of the Spring 50 competition.
The annual summit of the International Alliance of university presidents U7+ focused this year on "The Role of Universities in Advancing Artificial Intelligence". Invited as a panelist in the opening session, Laura Chaubard, President of École Polytechnique, was among the 37 university leaders who participated in this seventh edition of the U7+ Presidential Summit. The event brought together representatives from 42 universities across 16 countries at the University of Ottawa on April 22–23, 2025. As Canada prepares to host the G7 Summit in June 2025, this year's U7+ Summit concluded with the official delivery of a communiqué, endorsed by U7+ member universities, to the Canadian government. The document underscores higher education institutions' crucial role in shaping responsible AI.
In the latest episode of the podcast of the Alliance program, of which École Polytechnique is a member, Antoine Guibal speaks about American expatriate writers who settled in Paris at the beginning of the 20th century. Antoine Guibal chairs the Department of Languages and Cultures at the École Polytechnique and spent a semester as a Visiting professor at Columbia University at the beginning of this academic year.
Sébastien Lecornu, Minister of the French Armed Forces, was on hand to inaugurate the Research Department of the Ministerial Agency for Artificial Intelligence in Defense (MAAID) at École Polytechnique, and announced the construction of a Defense Institute on the School’s campus. The new building, financed to the tune of 15 million euros, is intended to act as a bridge between the Ministry of the Armed Forces and École Polytechnique, thus reaffirming the latter's militarity, emphasized the Minister.
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