News & events

Artificial intelligence, climate change, technological sovereignty, and the future of industry: today's major challenges are putting science and innovation at the center of economic and societal change. In an interview on B SMART's Face à Thomas Hugues, Thierry Coulhon, President of Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris), discusses the evolving role of leading scientific and academic institutions in a rapidly changing world.

On November 24, Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris) will return to Station F for the third edition of its DemoDay. Nearly 40 startups from its incubators will showcase their innovations to French and international investors, alongside representatives from IP Paris. The event aims to foster connections, accelerate these young companies’ development and unlock new funding opportunities.

In this sixth episode of the video podcast series CIEDS Interviews, dedicated to defence innovation, the Interdisciplinary Centre for Defence and Security Studies invites you to meet Professor Antoine Rousseau, Research Director at the Plasma Physics Laboratory (LPP) at École Polytechnique and co-founder of the start-up Plasana Médical.

Among the 35 early-career women researchers recognised by the 2026 L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science France Young Talents Award, nine have ties to Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris) and its member schools. Three are currently conducting research in laboratories at École polytechnique, while six are former students or doctoral researchers at École polytechnique or École nationale des ponts et chaussées. This recognition highlights the scientific excellence of women researchers who have studied or pursued research at IP Paris member schools.

On September 25, 2026, the student association IP Paris Défense formalized the signing of a partnership agreement with the French Defense Procurement Agency (Direction générale de l’armement – DGA). This milestone embodies the shared ambition of Institut Polytechnique de Paris and the French Ministry of the Armed Forces to bridge top-tier engineering education with major technological, industrial, and strategic challenges in national defense.

Following the success of its inaugural edition, Welcom’IP Paris reached a new milestone on October 1st by bringing together more than 800 participants from across the six schools of Institut Polytechnique de Paris.

Élise Coudin will officially take up her position on 1 November 2026, having served as Interim Director of ENSAE Paris since January. Her ambition is to build on the School’s academic and research excellence and strengthen its role within Institut Polytechnique de Paris.

Institut Polytechnique de Paris and its partners are pleased to announce the opening of GATE, the Paris-Saclay Welcome Desk for International Talents, a key initiative to support international students, researchers, and employees in settling in France.

Eight projects from Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris) are among the 2026 awardees of the French State Innovation Competitions (Concours d’innovation de l’État), covering a wide range of fields including space technologies, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, medical technologies, industrial optimization and ocean observation.

Jacqueline Bloch is a professor and lecturer at École Polytechnique and a CNRS research director at the Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (C2N), a joint research unit of CNRS and Université Paris-Saclay. Also a member of the French Academy of Sciences, she receives this gold medal, the highest distinction of the CNRS and one of the most prestigious French scientific awards. She is notably recognized for her fundamental research work dedicated to polaritons, hybrid particles resulting from the coupling between light and matter.

On October 10th, the Fête de la science is coming to Institut Polytechnique de Paris. École nationale des ponts et chaussées (Champs-sur-Marne) and École polytechnique (Palaiseau) invite curious minds of all ages to interactive workshops exploring this year's 2026 theme — Saveurs savantes ("Scientific Flavors") — as well as science in a broader sense.

Starting October 1, 2026, Vincent Jolys will join Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris) as Director General of Services. With more than fifteen years of senior leadership experience in higher education, he joins the Institute at a pivotal moment as it prepares its 2027–2031 Strategic Objectives and Performance Agreement and transitions beyond its experimental institutional status.