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Brevo, founded in 2007 by Armand Thiberge (X2002) and now part of the exclusive club of French unicorns, those start-ups valued at over €1 billion. Pennylane, co-founded in 2020 by five alumni of the École Polytechnique and already a unicorn, will end 2025 by becoming a centaur, exceeding €100 mill…

Nicolas Mottis and Cécile Chamaret during the graduation ceremony of the 3rd class of the Executive MasterAt the origins of the Executive Master, which he has directed since its launch, Nicolas Mottis, professor in the Management of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Department, wanted to entrust Céci…

X-Novation offers corporate mentoring as part of its X-Up intensive program. During incubation, one day is dedicated to mentoring. Start-ups meet with former X students, with the aim of finding 2 to 3 mentors with complementary profiles to support them in their project. These mentors are…

École Polytechnique’s Bachelor’s program (BX) tops the French Figaro newspaper special issue on higher education first ranking of Engineering Schools’ Bachelors. The Cybersecurity Bachelor's program at EPITA, of which École Polytechnique is a partner, ranks second in its category. Le Figaro Etudian…

Highly selective and internationalized, École Polytechnique's Bachelor of Science program is a springboard to prestigious master's and doctoral programs for the vast majority of its graduates. Three years after graduation, 54% are still pursuing university studies, but just over a third have starte…

For the 5th year running, the Chair “Econophysics and Complex Systems” is receiving applications for the CFM Women in Quantitative Finance scholarship, which provides funding for a doctoral thesis pursued by a top candidate. Natascha Hey, the 2022 laureate, describes her work on video.

The call for applications for the CFM Woman in Quantitative Finance Fellowship is now open. The first laureate was welcomed in 2020 within the "Econophysics & complex systems" Chair, at the origin of this distinction. The thesis grant of 2250 euros per month supports the early career …

The École Polytechnique site, which is part of the Institut Polytechnique de Paris campus, offers students, researchers, staff and visitors a wide range of services, facilities and activities that offer a dynamic campus life.

Technologies to stem the increase in carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere are a priority in many strategic academic and industrial areas. The Chemistry Department offers a number of related topics, from the most fundamental aspects of removing CO2 from the atmosphere by direct capture (DAC), to C…

The École Polytechnique campus offers many services including two restaurants and cafeteria, a bank, post office and other convenientservices.

Catherine Rolland is project manager of the GameLab of the "Science and Video Games" Chair at the École polytechnique, for which she is preparing the new programme. She has been involved in a number of projects on education about the medium. In autumn 2023 she was named one of the 100 Cultural Wome…

Catherine Vautrin, French Minister for the Armed Forces and Veterans, visited École Polytechnique on April 17 for the Defense Quantum Forum, organized at École Polytechnique by the Defense Innovation Agency. She reviewed the X24 and X25 classes and reminded them of the historic significance of the …

Catalysis plays a very important role in chemistry as it promotes and accelerates reactions. In particular, organometallic catalysis, which uses metal-based catalysts, is now widely deployed. However, the metals still most commonly used - palladium, rhodium or ruthenium - are rare, expensive and th…

Since its creation in 2009, the Mathematical Modelling and Biodiversity Chair (MMB), supported by École Polytechnique and its Foundation, in collaboration with the National Museum of Natural History and supported by Veolia, has been exploring the major challenges of biodiversity at the interface be…

Chairs Blockchain & B2B PlatformsFinance, energy, healthcare, dataThrough four axes, cryptography, consensus, smart contracts, and digital assets, the "Blockchain & B2B Platforms" Chair, supported by Capgemini, Nomadic Labs, and the Caisse des Dépôts, supports a research team and offers tea…