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On December 5, 2025, marking the World Equal Opportunity Day, Institut Polytechnique de Paris and the four Écoles normales supérieures announced the creation of a new initiative: the Observatory for Equality of Opportunity, designed to analyze, document, and track access to the most selective pathways in French higher education.

The Institut Polytechnique de Paris is organizing its first Seas and Ocean Forum on January 13, 2026. This event will provide an opportunity for an initial assessment of the Interdisciplinary Seas and Ocean Center (CIMO), inaugurated a year earlier in collaboration with IFREMER, and will also bring together CIMO researchers and their partners around the major upcoming challenges in research and innovation.

For its second edition, the IP Paris Demo Day brought together nearly 200 participants, including 80 investors, at the heart of Station F on November 20, 2025. With 40 startups from four of the incubators of Institut Polytechnique de Paris, the event pursued a clear ambition: to strengthen the visibility of young tech companies, multiply matchmaking opportunities, and accelerate the transformation of scientific results into impactful innovations.

The Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris) presents to you the AI Experts Interviews Series, a collection of in-depth interviews with world-leading specialists in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data science. The series offers unique insights into the challenges and opportunities shaping the future of AI, as the global community prepares for the next AI Impact Summit in India, scheduled for February 2026 in New Delhi. The summit will bring together policymakers, researchers, and industry leaders to discuss AI innovation, ethics, and international collaboration.

Schneider Electric and Hi! PARIS are extending their partnership for an additional three years, reaffirming their shared commitment to developing open, responsible artificial intelligence that supports the energy transition.

In the third episode of the video-podcast “Les entretiens du CIEDS”, dedicated to defence innovation, the Interdisciplinary Centre for Defence and Security Studies invites you to meet Gabriel Vernhes, a postdoctoral researcher at ENSTA’s Applied Economics Unit (UEA).

You are a PhD student at IP Paris. You want to explore the potential impact of your thesis on tomorrow's society: this call for project is designed for you.

Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris) is proud to announce the third edition of the REFLEXIONS conference, an international scientific forum designed to address the most urgent energy challenges of our time. Following the success of earlier editions, REFLEXIONS 2026 reaffirms its ambition to establish itself as a reference point in global debates on energy by integrating technological, economic, environmental, and social dimensions into a unified vision.

Michèle Wigger, professor at the Information Processing and Communication Laboratory (LTCI*) at Télécom Paris, and Nicole El Karoui, a mathematician who has conducted much of her work as part of a chair held by the Center for Applied Mathematics at École Polytechnique (CMAP**), were honored by the French Academy of Sciences on October 30, 2025.

On October 21, 2025, the Institut Polytechnique de Paris hosted the first edition of its Cybersecurity and Defense Conference. Two hundred scientists, institutional representatives, industry professionals, and students came to listen to and discuss this sensitive topic with experts at the forefront of national and European issues. A video look back at this new annual IP Paris event.

Stéphane Mallat, alumnus of École Polytechnique (class of X81) and former chair of the applied mathematics department at École Polytechnique, Laurent Bopp, Director of Research at the Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (LMD*), and Stefania Cacovich, Research Fellow at the Institut photovoltaïque d'Ile-de-France (IPVF**), were honored by the CNRS for the year 2025. They received gold, silver, and bronze medals, respectively, for the quality of their work.

On November 20, the Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris) will return to Station F for the second edition of its Demo Day. Building on the success of the 2024 edition, this event will bring together 40 startups from the Institute’s incubators – X-Up (École Polytechnique), the Télécom Paris Incubator, IMT Starter, and Ponts Alumni –who will present their technological innovations to an audience of investors, partners, and stakeholders from the academic and industrial worlds.