News & events

Élisabeth Crépon is Vice President for Education and Student Life at the Institut Polytechnique de Paris since May 12, 2025. Her appointment reflects a clear ambition: to make the student experience a powerful driver of academic excellence and international visibility for the Institute, both in France and beyond.

Estelle Iacona has been appointed Director General of ENSTA. She will officially take office on May 12, 2025. In this capacity, she will also join the Executive Board of the Institut Polytechnique de Paris, the governing body that brings together the leadership of the six member schools of the Institute.

On May 20–21, 2025, the Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris) will take an active role in SPRING, the flagship innovation event of the Paris-Saclay cluster, held this year on the École Polytechnique campus.

The Institut Polytechnique Paris (IP Paris) and the Interdisciplinary Centre for Defence and Security Studies (CIEDS) are pleased to invite you to this not-to-be-missed event dedicated to innovation for defence and security! This one-day event is a unique opportunity for industrialists, researchers and defence operators to meet on an excellent academic campus.

On the Plateau de Saclay, the founding members of Quantum-Saclay are creating synergies between the various local quantum players. Among them, the Institut Polytechnique de Paris contributes to this dynamic thanks to the specificities of its schools in quantum physics and quantum information and communication. The establishment offers innovative research, cutting-edge training and a bridge between the academic and business worlds.

Bpifrance and Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris) are stepping up their commitment to breakthrough innovation. On April 22, alongside seven other top Grandes Écoles, the two institutions signed a partnership aimed at accelerating the emergence and growth of Deeptech start-ups born from academic research. This agreement, part of the Deeptech Plan led by Bpifrance on behalf of the French government, aims to structure a more fluid and efficient national innovation ecosystem.

This year's final of the Swarm Rescue Challenge took place on 19 and 31 March. Organised by the Interdisciplinary Centre for Defence and Security Studies (CIEDS) of the Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris) with the French Defence Innovation Agency (AID) and the Indian Defence R&D Organisation (DRDO), the Swarm Rescue Challenge is a Python programming competition. Its aim is to stimulate students' interest in defence and security issues, with a particular focus on strategies for navigation, exploration and coordination between agents.

Institut Polytechnique de Paris is delighted to host an interuniversity version of the Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) competition. The final will take place on Tuesday June 10, 2025 at Telecom Paris. This scientific mediation event enables doctoral students from participating institutions to present their research work in just three minutes, in English, in a language accessible to the non specialist audience.

As a result of malformations or genetic diseases, some children experience a distraction - an elongation - of the mandible. Jean Boisson, a teacher-researcher at ENSTA's Laboratoire de Mécanique et ses Interfaces (LMI*), is using his expertise in mechanics and magnetic systems to develop mandibular distractors that are more precise and less painful than existing devices.

In this very first episode of the "Les Entretiens du CIEDS" video-podcast series dedicated to defence innovation, the Interdisciplinary Centre for Defence and Security Studies invites you to meet Colonel Thomas Brucker, Director of the French Army's Battle-Lab Terre. The interview was conducted by scientific journalist Didier Jamet.

Anticipating the effects of a treatment on a patient, informing the decisions of anesthesiologists... Digital twins open up new perspectives in medicine and limit invasive procedures. Dominique Chapelle, Director of Research at Inria and researcher at the École Polytechnique's Solid Mechanics Laboratory (*LMS), is developing these “patient twins” using mathematical models based on the description of cause and effect in numerous phenomena. On World Health Day, April 7, 2025, we focus on these digital patients and their predictive capabilities.

Join the first MicroscopAI conference, an unprecedented meeting of researchers focused on quantitative microscopic imaging, with an emphasis on the needs and opportunities for innovations driven by AI. When? June 20, 2025, from 10 AM to 4 PM Where? At...