INNOV’NIGHT 2026: A Night to Turn Your Ideas into Projects
A night to explore the stages of innovation
INNOV’NIGHT 2026 is open to students and PhD students from IP Paris (École Polytechnique, ENSTA, École nationale des ponts et chaussées, ENSAE Paris, Télécom Paris and Télécom SudParis as well as their incubators) and partners, including HEC Paris and Sciences Po Paris.
For about 15 hours, participants will take part in an immersive experience to turn Ideas into action.
Their missions?
- Transform an innovative idea into an impactful project
- Challenge a new one or strengthen an existing one
- Build a compelling pitch.
Participants will develop their projects around one of the following 5 categories:
🚀 Energy & Environmental Transition – How can we rethink energy production and consumption for a more sustainable future?
💰 Security & Fintech – What innovations can secure data, transactions, and digital exchanges?
🩺 Health & Well-being – How can technology improve health and daily well-being?
🏙 Sustainable City & Mobility – Imagining solutions for smarter, more inclusive, and eco-friendly cities.
🏭 Industry 4.0 & Digital Transformation – Exploring the opportunities of AI, automation, and digitalization.
Throughout the night, teams will receive guidance from mentors and experts to help them structure, challenge, and enhance their ideas.
What’s new in 2026 ?
A new way of building teams
Participants can just come alone (track 1) or as a complete team (track 2) :
- Track 1 – Need a team?
Designed for students who are alone or whose team is incomplete, this track includes dedicated team-building sessions, including the Match’Night, to form teams of 4 to 6 participants. - Track 2 – Already have a full team?
Designed for teams already complete (4 to 6 participants), with or without a pre-existing idea, and ready to start working immediately.
Exciting opportunities for the Best Projects
The jury will evaluate each project based on four key criteria: storytelling and pitch clarity, ability to illustrate the solution convincingly, project feasibility and project impact.
Winning teams will each receive €2,000 to help develop their projects.
All participating teams will also be eligible to apply for international programs such as the EuroTeQaThon or the EuroTeq Bootcamp, offering opportunities for European collaboration and increased visibility.
Program
- 6:30pm : Welcome in the Thévenin auditorium (Télécom Paris)
- 7:00pm : Opening conference & roundtable with inspiring guests
- 7:45pm : Program presentation
- 8:15pm: Dinner & team formation
- 9:00pm - 6:30am : Collaborative work session with coach support
- 7:00am - 8:00am : Final pitches in front of the jury
- 8:15am - 9:00am : Closing ceremony, winner announcements & award distribution
Success stories of INNOV’NIGHT 2025
The project EKKO, led by Kelly Claire and Anne Kondolas, Master’s students in the IREN program, reflects this trajectory. Born within the IP Paris student ecosystem, this impact-driven project continues to grow and develop with support from the IP Paris Innovation Lab.
Alizée Mesnard applied to the 2025 IP Paris Prematuration Call for Projects, led by the Innovation Lab, with her project ShiftElec: a decision-support software designed to optimize and shift factory electricity consumption without affecting production. Her project was selected among 19 winning projects of the 2025 edition.
These journeys illustrate the purpose of INNOV’NIGHT: to spark ideas and provide students with the opportunity to develop them sustainably within the IP Paris innovation ecosystem.