News & events

With the support of the interdisciplinary center Engineering for Health (E4H), Institut Polytechnique de Paris is launching a new podcast series dedicated to health and life sciences. Through these episodes, researchers and entrepreneurs share their work and innovations to tackle some of the greatest medical and societal challenges of our time.

On September 4, 2025, the KTH Royal Institute of Technology and the Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris) signed a Memorandum of Understanding aimed at deepening their cooperation in research and higher education.

This year, the Science Festival explores the many facets of intelligence. On October 4 and 11, 2025, two schools from the Institut Polytechnique de Paris will open their doors to young and old alike for an immersion into this theme and science in the broadest sense.

Vignesh Kannan from the Solid Mechanics Laboratory (LMS*, École Polytechnique), Thomas Debris-Alazard from the Computer Science Laboratory of the École Polytechnique (LIX*), Alejandro Alvarez Laguna from the Plasma Physics Laboratory (LPP*, École Polytechnique), and Anna Korba from the Center for Research in Economics and Statistics (CREST*, École Polytechnique/ENSAE Paris) have been awarded ERC grants for 2025 in the Starting Grant category. Their projects concern shape memory alloys, post-quantum cryptography, plasma propulsion, and statistical sampling.

The Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris) is strengthening its scientific strategy. The institution has announced the appointment of Jamal Atif as Vice President for Research and Innovation, with a mandate to enhance its standing among the world’s leading scientific institutions.

From November 4 to 12, 2025, the Institut Polytechnique de Paris will host its second Open Access Week. This international event promotes open science practices and raises awareness among the scientific and student communities about related issues

Institut Polytechnique de Paris appears for the first time in the top 250 universities worldwide in the Shanghai Ranking (ARWU), published on August 15, 2025. It ranks 224th, up 99 places in one year. At the national level, IP Paris now ranks 9th among...

Researchers from the Ecole Polytechnique's Optics and Biosciences Laboratory (LOB*) participated in a study published in Nature Genetics demonstrating the role of G-quadruplexes in regulating gene expression in mammals.

The Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris) has launched an exceptional fast-track admission procedure for international students who find themselves unable to begin their studies in the United States due to visa restrictions, administrative delays, or other uncertainties.

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? Initially scheduled for June 20, the event has...

25 scale-ups, either incubated by IP Paris or founded by alumni of its member schools, are featured in the new French Tech Next40/120 selection, which highlights the 120 most promising French Tech startups (FT120). Among them, 10 have joined the Next40 ranking, which distinguishes the top 40 most high-performing startups.

On July 9, 2025, in London, during the State Visit of the President of the French Republic to the United Kingdom, the Institut Polytechnique de Paris, HEC Paris, Université Paris-Saclay, the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge officially launched an unprecedented Franco-British strategic partnership in the field of artificial intelligence: the Entente CordIAle Paris-Saclay – Oxford-Cambridge AI Initiative.