CIMO - Interdisciplinary center Seas and Ocean
Presentation
France holds a leading international position in economic, industrial and scientific fields related to the sea. Bringing together interdisciplinary research teams from IP Paris and Ifremer. CIMO is fully aligned with French initiatives to reduce the ecological footprint or maritime activities and strenghten environmental monitoring of marine environments.
The merger of ENSTA in 2025 within IP Paris, with two campus in Palaiseau and Brest offers a new dynamic in research, training and innovation to meet the major issues facing the maritime sector.
Our Missions
The ambition of Seas and Ocean Center is to contribute the major challenges of our time in connection with the ecological transition and the preservation of the ocean, around four pillars:
- To promote IP Paris's cutting-edge scientific research through maritime applications
- To conduct interdisciplinary research to address major scientific and societal challenges related to the seas and oceans.
- To expand IP Paris's teaching programs in the maritime field (Master and PhD Track)
- To increase partnerships with major maritime research institutes
- To seek fundings from private companies or public agencies to develop research projects
Research
Their interdisciplinary work covers three areas:
Education
One of the missions of the CIMO center is to train students, drawing on the expertise and complementarity of the IP Paris's engineering schools.
- Maritime genius (campus of Palaiseau)
- Hydrography and Oceanography (campus of Brest)
- Naval and Offshore Architecture (campus of Brest)
- Advanced Modeling of Materials and Structures (campus of Brest)
- Autonomous Robotics (campus of Brest)
- Offshore and Naval Architecture (campus of Brest)
- Embedded systems (campus of Brest)
- Physique, parcours Physique de l'Océan et du Climat (campus of Brest)
- Physique, parcours Géophysique marine (campus of Brest)
- Physique, parcours Sciences des données océanographiques (campus of Brest)
- Physique, parcours Hydrodynamique navale (campus of Brest)
- Specialised Masters Programme in Maritime Engineering (campus of Palaiseau)
- Specialized Advanced Master in Marine Engineering/Naval and Offshore Architecture (campus of Brest)
- Specialized Advanced Master Marine Renewable energies expert (campus of Brest, with École Navale and IMT Atlantique)
The CIMO center also supports the mentoring of young scientists at doctoral and post-doctoral levels.
Key figures
120
permanent researchers
22
laboratories
4
scientific and technological platforms
Supports
Our collaborating institutions
Events
| 01/29/2025 | Inauguration of the CIMO- Interdisciplinary center seas and ocean |
06/4 to 6 06/7 06/9 to 13 01/13/2026 | 2025, year of the sea with many events: "Once Ocean Science Congess" organized by Ifremer "Coalition Ocean Rise and Costal Resilience" organised by the city of Nice Thired United Nations Ocean Conference Nice The IP Paris Seas and Ocean Forum at ENSTA in Palaiseau |