From September 8 to 26, students of the 2019 class of the Ingénieur Polytechnicien Program participated in their personal development and military training at the military camp of La Courtine. Find what it is like to spend a day with them.

The Useful Fictions project held a week-long multidisciplinary and international symposium on the campus of École Polytechnique.

On Saturday October 12th, École Polytechnique will welcome the general public for the annual Science Fair, with a special focus this year on the school’s 225th anniversary. Researchers will present their work and scientific progress from the research center’s 23 laboratories.

The application-specific integrated circuit SPACIROC, designed and developed at the École polytechnique OMEGA Laboratory, was launched onboard a Soyuz rocket on August 22. Destination: the International Space Station.

Patrick Drahi (l'X alumnus), CEO and Founder of Altice, Eric Labaye, President of École Polytechnique and Jean-Bernard Lartigue, Executive Director of the École Polytechnique Foundation, inaugurated on September 18th the new extension of the La Fibre Entrepreneur – Drahi - X Novation Center.

École Polytechnique ranks among the world’s best institutions, as evidenced by results released in recent weeks.

Times Higher Education ranks École Polytechnique among the top 100 of the world’s 1,400 best universities. The school ranks 3rd among French institutions and 32nd in Europe.

L'X’s Center for Theoretical Physics will benefit from two ERC grants to support its research. Andréa Puhm has been awarded an ERC starting grant and Razvan Gurau an ERC consolidator grant that starts in September.