Rachel Maguer, Vice President, Marketing and International Relations, École Polytechnique, and Yves Berthelot, Vice Provost for International Initiatives, Georgia Tech, signed an agreement on November 27, 2018, at Georgia Tech aimed at facilitating student exchanges and research at the undergraduate and graduate levels between the two institutions.

The EuroTech Universities Alliance invites highly talented experienced researchers to submit interdisciplinary collaborative research project proposals for one of the fellowships provided by the EuroTechPostdoc Program.

The BepiColombo space mission was launched on the night of October 19-20, 2018 aboard an Ariane 5 vehicle from the spaceport in Kourou, Guiana. The Plasma Physics Laboratory is responsible for two of the instruments on board the MIO probe set to explore the magnetosphere of Mercury.

Seven Ingénieur Polytechnicien students participated in the International Astronautical Congress held from October 1st till October 5th in Bremen, Germany. They presented their scientific CubeSat project: IonSat.

On October 18th, 2018, École Polytechnique signed a new partnership agreement with Institut National Polytechnique Félix Houphouët-Boigny, Yamoussoukro, Ivory Coast, in the presence of Jean-Yves Le Drian, French Minister of Europe and Foreign Affairs.