Centrale Nantes news - 2021

Rémi Parrot, a PhD student in the Control and Real-Time Teams at the Laboratory of Digital Sciences of Nantes and of the Renault-Centrale Nantes chair received the Best Young Researcher Paper Award at the MSR 2021 conference.

Potentiel et prévision des temps d'attente pour le covoiturage sur un territoire.
(Capacity and prediction of waiting times for carpooling in a given area.)

Controlling earthQuakes (CoQuake) in the laboratory using pertinent fault stimulating techniques

Development towards autonomous navigation and automatic handling of palletized freight units by an autonomous vehicle with forks

Join us online on 16 December 2021 for our Information Webinar for all you need to know about JEMARO - Japan-Europe Master on Advanced Robotics - an Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree.

Processus et outils de co-design avec des habitants, designers et architectes pour adapter l'habitat pavillonnaire périurbain au vieillissement
(Co-design process and tools with residents, designers and architects to adapt ageing suburban housing)

The Board of Governors of Nantes University met on Thursday 16 December to elect the president of the new institution.

Analyse multiéchelle de la texture des chaussées - effet sur l'adhérence des revêtements routiers
(Multi-scale analysis of road surface texture - effect on skid resistance)

Luciano Vidal and Jean-Yves Hascoët have embarked upon a new project at Centrale Nantes: 3D biofabrication of an intestine from human pluripotent stem cells for transplantation.

Breast cancer is the most common cancer. Lifestyle and environment are now considered as risk factors for cancer.

Étude des émissions de particules d'un moteur à combustion interne de type allumage commandé
(Study of particle emissions from a spark ignition internal combustion engine)

La plage urbaine spontanée : le dépaysement comme moteur d'appropriation et de renouvellement de l'espace public contemporain
(Spontaneous urban beaches: a change of scenery as the driving force for the appropriation and the renewal of contemporary public spaces)

Join us on Tuesday 14 December 2021 at 10.15 am for the 17th edition of the Ecological Transition Mornings, with Christelle Didier.

Numerical modeling of earthquake faults

Laminar-to-turbulence Transition Modeling of Incompressible Flows in a RANS Framework for 2D and 3D Configurations

Étude théorique et expérimentale d'architectures innovantes de robots inspirées du cou des oiseaux : conception et commande
(Theoretical and experimental study of innovative robot architectures inspired by bird necks: design and control)

Characterization of fabric layups by pressure print analysis and simulation of dual-scale flow based on topological skeletonization: application to composite materials processing

Towards a multi-scale analysis of dynamic failure in architectured materials

Learn more about the BBA Big Data and Management at Centrale Nantes during the Choose France! United Arab Emirates and Dubai World Expo

Investigation of dynamic fracture of elastomers: on the role played by viscoelasticity

Coulis alcali-activés pour des travaux souterrains : structuration au jeune âge et à long terme et identification des phases formées
(Alkali-activated grouts for underground construction: early and long-term structuring and identification of formed phases)

Cabin air quality improvement by smart air filtration with energy savings in vehicles

Prédiction de la progression du myélome multiple par imagerie TEP : Adaptation des forêts de survie aléatoires et de réseaux de neurones convolutionnels
(Prediction of multiple myeloma progression by PET imaging: adaptation of random survival forests and convolutional neural networks)

See you at 10.15 am on 7 December 2021 for the 16th edition of the Ecological Transition Mornings, with Marine Miller.

Caroline Braud, research fellow at the LHEEA, talks about the ePARADISE project, which develops and tests aerodynamic sensors for wind turbines in production. These sensors were tested at full scale on a wind farm operated by VALOREM at Saint-Hilaire de Chaléons (Pays-de-loire).

A delegation from the Ecoles Centrale Group, including Linda Sérandour of the International Relations Department at Centrale Nantes, Simon Davies of Centrale Lille, and Julie McDonald of Centrale Supélec, embarked upon a four-day trip to Denmark and Sweden to discuss double degree agreements.

Learn more about our engineering programmes from Bachelor to Master at the Study in France Fair with Campus France Nigeria

Evaluation of kneading compaction method and the long-term performances of lime-treated soils.

Dynamic Control and Singularities of Rigid Bearing-Based Formations of Quadrotors

Luc Rolland, professor at the University of the West of Scotland (UWS) will be visiting Centrale Nantes at the invitation of Damien Chablat of the LS2N Laboratory.

Design of Robot End-Effector for Collaborative Robot Works

The European Commission granted the HR Excellence in Research Award to Centrale Nantes on 18 November 2021

Andrea Colagrossi has been appointed Adjunct Professor at Centrale Nantes from 1 November 2021 to 31 October 2026.

Filip Biljecki, Assistant Professor at the National University of Singapore will be visiting the AAU Research Laboratory.

Measurers of the City, ethnography of participatory metrologies integrated into environmental public action.

Michael Ortiz, Emeritus Professor at California Institute of Technology, is appointed Adjunct Professor at Centrale Nantes.

Would you like to contribute to improving student life and act for a more sustainable campus? Come and discover the Lab Citoyen Campus du Tertre on Thursday 25 November during a afterwork kickoff!

Contribution à la compréhension du mûrissement des mélanges granulaires à l'émulsion de bitume
(Contribution to understanding the curing process of granular mixtures with bitumen emulsion)

Learn more about studying at Centrale Nantes during the Choose France! Education and career fair ASEAN 2021

See you at 10.15 am on 23 November 2021 for the 15th edition of the Ecological Transition Mornings, with Timothée Parrique.

Interested in studying engineering in France?
Meet us online during the European Education Fair Taiwan on 23 November 2021 for all you need to know about our programmes.

Applications were open from 21 May 2021 to 31 July 2021. The selection committee met on 15 November 2021 and selected 8 projects.

Unified Numerical Modeling of Forming and Consolidation of Thermoplastic Composites with Prepreg Patches

Professor K. P. Karunakaran, of the Hybrid Manufacturing Laboratory (HM Lab) at IIT Bombay, is invited to Centrale Nantes from 22 November to 23 December at the invitation of Alain Bernard, Emeritus Professor in the LS2N Laboratory.

Professor Paola Nardinocchi from Sapienza University of Rome will be visiting the GeM Research Institute from 21 to 27 November at the invitation of Professor Giulio Sciarra.

Meet the people behind the research at Centrale Nantes in our series of video interviews. Two for the price of one in our sixth edition where we meet Mira Rizkallah and Vincent Lostanlen - new recruits in 2020 to the SIMS research group in the LS2N Laboratory.

Centrale Nantes was delighted to welcome on campus Dr. Sérgio Lifschitz of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro on 18 November.

See you on 16 November 2021 at 10.15 a.m. for the 14th edition of the Ecological Transition Mornings, the first of the 2021-2022 academic year!

This first, publicly available, environmental impact statement presents the work carried out, the observations and the results obtained on the SEM-REV offshore site, which is run by Centrale Nantes and the CNRS, on the Floatgen floating wind turbine. This 2 MW demonstrator, whose floating platform was developed by BW IDEOL, is deployed offshore and has been producing electricity since 2018.

Multi-scale unfolding homogenization method applied to bidomain and tridomain electrocardiology models

Tony Ribeiro, a post-doctoral student in the LS2N Formal Methods for Bioinformatics research group - in the framework of a Franco-Japanese collaborative project co-financed by the National Institute of Informatics (NII, in Tokyo) and the RFI Atlanstic 2020 -, received the "best paper award" at the 30th International Conference on Inductive Logic Programming (ILP)

Centrale Nantes is working with LADAPT to offer several activities for the European Week for the Employment of People with Disabilities, which runs from 15 to 21 November.

Learn more about studying at Centrale Nantes during the 13th European Higher Education Fair Indonesia 2021.

Join us online in Mexico for the EuroPosgrados fair: the ideal opportunity to learn more about graduate studies in engineering at Centrale Nantes!

Applications are open for the five programmes on offer through the EIT-M Master School at a consortium of European universities, two of which are available at Centrale Nantes. Don't miss the 1 March deadline for applications!

Representatives from 53 of the 57 members came together for the T.I.M.E. General Assembly 2021, held online and hosted by KTH Royal Institute of Technology on 5-6 October.

The GeM (Research Institute in Civil and Mechanical Engineering) is organising the 7th Photomechanics IDICS Conference, which will be held from 3 to 5 November 2021 at the Cité des Congrès de Nantes.

On the eve of the Photomechanics-IDICS conference, a workshop on "Uncertainties in DIC measurements" will be held at Centrale Nantes on 2 November, from 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., in a hybrid format (face-to-face or online).

Professor Vito Rubino from the California Institute of Technology will be visiting the GeM Research Institute from 31 October to 11 November at the invitation of Professor Michel Coret.

Don't miss the deadline for the first admissions round!
Only complete applications received by 15 December can be considered in the first round for 2022 entry to our Master's programmes.

Learn more about studying at Centrale Nantes during the Campus France Master's Online Fair Morocco.

Congratulations to Rebecca Fribourg who received the Séphora Berrebi Women in Advanced Mathematics & Computer Science scholarship at a ceremony held on 4 October.

The 3rd edition of Infrastar's (Innovation and Networking for Fatigue and Reliability Analysis of Structures - Training for Assessment of Risk) training week will take place from 26 to 29 October 2021 at Centrale Nantes.

Join the MOOC - open to all - to discover what a supercomputer is, how to use it, what benefits it offers and how to introduce parallelism in your calculation codes.

Meet the people behind the research at Centrale Nantes in our series of video interviews. In our fifth edition we meet Professor Christophe Binetruy of the Research Institute in Civil and Mechanical Engineering (GeM)

A nacelle-mounted LiDAR, which allows upstream wind measurements, was installed in October 2020 on the floating offshore wind turbine, Floatgen, being tested on the Centrale Nantes offshore test site, SEM-REV.

Last July, the Hydrodynamic and Ocean Engineering Tank at Centrale Nantes, managed by the LHEEA, hosted testing on floating solar panels for the first time. This technology is being developed by the company HelioRec.

Passionate about e-mobility?
Applications for the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree in Electric Vehicle Propulsion and Control (E-PiCo) open on 18 October 2021.

Passionate about Robotics and AI?
Applications open for the 2022 intake of JEMARO, the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree on Advanced Robotics co-coordinated by Centrale Nantes (France) and Keio University (Japan).

Méthodes d'imagerie ultrasonore avancées et rapides pour le contrôle non destructif de matériaux atténuants et diffusants
(Advanced and fast ultrasound imaging methods for non-destructive testing of attenuating and scattering materials)

The French Ministry for Higher Education, Research and Innovation (MESRI) announced on 21 October 2021 the inclusion of THeoREM on the 2021 National Roadmap for Research Infrastructures.

Deep learning for computer-aided early diagnosis of breast cancer

Nicolas MOËS, Professor at Centrale Nantes and the Research Institute in Civil and Mechanical Engineering (CNRS/Centrale Nantes/University of Nantes) is a newly elected member of the Académie des sciences. Reception ceremony for elected members on Tuesday 12 October.

Constructive generative design methods for qualified additive manufacturing

Centrale Nantes confirms its standing in the 2022 Times Higher Education World University Rankings in Engineering and Technology, which was published on 6 October 2021.

12 students from the Disrupt' Campus Nantes programme took part in the Nantes Start-up Weekend on 1-3 October to experience a creative marathon.

The iD (Identités Diversités) festival is jointly organised by the BDE, Centr'elles and Stonewall, alongside the CLAC association at Nantes School of Architecture.

A new milestone has been reached on the road towards establishing Nantes University with the publication of the decree in the Official Journal on 3 October 2021. The new institution created by Centrale Nantes, the University of Nantes, Nantes University Hospital, Inserm, Nantes Saint-Nazaire School of Fine Arts, Nantes School of Architecture and Jules Verne Institute of Technology (IRT) will come into being on 1 January 2022.

This year, Centrale Nantes is taking part in the National Science Fair (Fête de la Science) with a online tour of campus. Immerse yourself in a fun and informative way to discover Centrale Nantes!

Sara Al Haj Sleiman, a PhD student in the Research Institute in Civil and Mechanical Engineering (GeM) at Centrale Nantes, won the Ecole Française du Béton's Corporate Social Responsibility prize, for her research results presented at the 13th Fib PhD symposium held in Paris on 22 July 2021.

Yuri Shtessel, Emeritus Professor at the University of Alabama, is appointed Adjunct Professor at Centrale Nantes.

On Monday 27 September, Annick Girardin, the Minister for the Sea, was present on campus for the foundation stone ceremony for the new building that will house an ENSM branch on the Centrale Nantes site.

Learn more about studying at Centrale Nantes during the Choose France Tour Online - India.

Meet the people behind the research at Centrale Nantes in our series of video interviews. In our fourth edition we meet Professor David Le Touzé of the Research Laboratory in Hydrodynamics, Energetics and Atmospheric Environment (LHEEA).

Last July, Centrale Nantes acquired a selective laser melting (SLM) additive manufacturing machine. This new equipment can be used to manufacture parts for various sectors: aeronautics, aerospace, naval industry, automobile, railway, etc., but also for the medical field.

The Executive Education team will be present at the "Safari des métiers numérique 2021", (Digital job safari 2021) - part of Nantes Digital Week - on Tuesday 21 September in Hall 6, Ile de Nantes.

Sustainable development and social responsibility are part and parcel of Centrale Nantes' strategy. For the first time, the school is taking part in European Sustainable Development Week.

Interested in studying engineering in France?
Meet us online during the One Health webinar, part of the 'France to Hong Kong Education Tour' on 17 September 2021.

"Experimental Investigation of the High Speed Ditching of Helicopters"

JEMARO (Japan-Europe Master on Advanced Robotics) students and consortium partners will come together for the online JEMARO Days on 16-17 September.

Centrale Nantes maintains its place in the top 500 institutions for Physical Sciences in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings by Subject 2022, published today.

The next module "Efficient buildings and energy renovation" of the City & Architecture Institute is scheduled for 15, 16 and 17 September 2021.

Centrale Nantes will be present at this year's Seanergy event in Nantes from 21 to 24 September 2021!

Arthur Gosset's documentary received the "Coup de Coeur" prize at the Festival International du Film Ecologique et Social de Cannes (International Ecological and Social Film Festival), which was held from 10 to 12 July 2021.

Professor C. Can Aydiner from Boğaziçi University, Turkey will be visiting the GeM Research Institute from 11 to 20 September at the invitation of Professor Laurent Stainier.

"Immersive Visualization of Multilayered Geospatial Urban Data for Visual Analytics and Exploration"

On 9 September Centrale Nantes and Capgemini welcomed the 12 trainees for the 8th edition of the "Web Developer" training programme organised in partnership with the Employment Centre and Atlas.

A warm welcome to the first EMARO+ students who arrived in Nantes at the beginning of September.

A warm welcome to the second intake of students on the Erasmus Mundus Master Programme JEMARO!

A warm welcome to the second intake of students on the Erasmus Mundus Master Programme E-PiCo!

Professor Arzu Çöltekin from the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW) will be visiting the Crenau team at the AAU laboratory from 5 to 11 September at the invitation of Vincent Tourre, lecturer at Centrale Nantes.

Centrale Nantes is positioned in the top 600 in the latest Times Higher Education World University Rankings out on 2 September. At the national level, the school is ranked 18th.

The all new Bachelor in Business Administration (BBA) Big Data & Management kicked off today with the first intake of 26 students on the programme. This four-year bachelor programme, co-created by Centrale Nantes and Audencia, combines engineering and management in the field of data collection, analysis and management.

Professor Bilal Saad of the Dhahran Global and Tehcnology Center (Saudi Arabia) will be visiting the Jean Leray Mathematical Institute from 30 August to 20 September at the invitation of Professor Mazen Saad at Centrale Nantes.

Last June, as part of the SafeWAVE project, an offshore operation was conducted at SEM-REV with the project partner RTSYS, with the objective of collecting data near the WAVEGEM wave platform.

DNV, the independent energy expert and assurance provider, will lead the process safety study to identify the main environmental, safety and operational risks for the world's first offshore hydrogen production facilities.

Jean-Baptiste Avrillier, who was appointed Director of Centrale Nantes in July 2020, took over the position of President of the Centrale-Audencia-Ensa Nantes alliance on 12 July 2021. In accordance with the principle of rotating presidency, he succeeds Christophe Germain, Director of Audencia.

As part of the CPER Nemo project, two major upgrades are underway for the LHEEA's hydrodynamics and ocean engineering experimental facilities, located on the Centrale Nantes campus.

Via sensors placed out at sea and on the coastline, the website www.windmorbihan.com provides real-time wind measurements, freely accessible to all sea lovers. Initiated in 2014 by the Compagnie des Ports du Morbihan and the Ecole Nationale de Voile et des Sports Nautiques (ENVSN), windmorbihan.com remains attractive and pursues its development.

Centrale Nantes and Forssea Robotics are happy to announce their collaboration in the Offshore Wind Market survey field.

Following on from Prof. Alain Bernard's appointment to the Académie des technologies and Prof. Nicolas Moës's appointment to the Académie des sciences, Centrale Nantes wishes to reflect on the place of science and technology in the training of tomorrow's engineers.

" Étude d'un robot d'assistance pour la chirurgie endoscopique otologique et sinusienne"
(Study of robotic assistance for endoscopic otologic and sinus surgery)

"Numerical improvement and validation of a naval hydrodynamics CFD solver in view of performing fast and accurate simulation of complex ship-wave interaction"

"Vers une représentation sensible du vent à l'aide d'un environnement virtuel"
(Towards a sensitive representation of wind using a virtual environment).

" Gestion d'énergie optimisée pour véhicule hybride série " (Optimised energy management for standard hybrid vehicles)

On Friday 2 July, France 24 broadcast a feature on offshore wind energy in France. Meet Bertrand Alessandrini, a marine engineering researcher at Centrale Nantes, in the LHEEA Laboratory.

Startup FARWIND ENERGY has tested its wind-powered sailing ship prototype on Vioreau lake near Joué sur Erdre in Loire-Atlantique.

" Modélisation paramétrique de l'hyperémie fonctionnelle en IRMf ASL comme un mélange de sources " (Parametric modelling of functional hyperaemia in ASL fMRI as a mixture of sources)

Meet the people behind the research at Centrale Nantes in our new series of video interviews. In our third edition we meet Diana Mateus, professor in the Laboratory of Digital Sciences of Nantes (LS2N).

Jessy Simon, a PhD student in the Research Institute in Civil and Mechanical Engineering (GeM), received 2nd Prize for the best thesis at the 22nd Journées Nationales des Composites (JNC - National Composites Day), which took place online from 28 to 30 June 2021.

The Student COP2 - a student-led initiative to encourage higher education institutions to commit to ecological transition - took place in April 2021. 70 working groups produced a white paper and drafted an agreement for the institutions to adopt.

Congratulations to Centrale Nantes alumnus Erwan Jacquin who received the Henri Kummerman 2020 Ship Design and Operation Award from the French Marine Academy earlier this month.

"Approximation et réduction de modèle pour les équations aux dérivées partielles avec interprétation probabiliste "
(Model approximation and reduction for partial differential equations with probabilistic interpretation)

Congratulations to Antonella, Aurélien, Benjamin, Chloé, Etienne and Safae who impressed the SoliTudiant challenge jury during the final on 24 June! They received the "Coup de Coeur de la Transition Ecologique" prize for their P2E project "Feasibility study of an eco-solidarity activity" with a €5,000 prize for the ESAT de la Cholière.

Students, teachers, high school students, and other interested parties ... discover Centrale Nantes' research platforms live.

The selection panel of the SoliTudiant Challenge - a student challenge for the employment of people with disabilities - has selected the P2E project "Feasibility study of an eco-solidarity activity", carried out by engineering programme students, for the final to be held on 24 June.

Centrale Nantes is one of the world's best universities aged 50 or younger, according to the criteria of the Times Higher Education Young Universities Rankings.

With the objective of increasing the technical maturity and the cost competitiveness of floating offshore wind energy, FLOATECH aims to stimulate this transition.

To mark the 500th anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci's death in 2019, a team of Franco-Italian researchers specialising in fluid mechanics set out to retrace one of Leonardo's most famous drawings in the field of hydraulics. Read on to learn more about this original research project!

See the 18 June Campus Channel replay for all the answers to your questions on the engineering programme: admission, study programmes, degree apprenticeships, international study etc.

With the acquisition of Nextflow Software, the German group Siemens, already a market leader in automation and digitalization, is stepping up its capabilities in numerical simulation.

A digital solution to design the anchoring and electrical connections of floating wind farms, optimising the performance and output of subsea connections, has been developed by a group of expert companies within offshore renewables.

Meet the people behind the research at Centrale Nantes in our new series of video interviews. In our second edition we meet Ioannis Stefanou, Professor in the GeM Research Institute.

The event will take place entirely online.

The Pays de la Loire CSR Awards ceremony will take place on 15 June 2021 and will be broadcast live. The winners, assessed in particular by the students of the Engineering for Ecological Transition option, will be revealed.

Arbia Ben Khodja, a Michelin CIFRE PHD student in the LHEEA Laboratory, received the Libersky Prize for the best work by a student at the 15th International SPHERIC Workshop, which was held virtually from 8 to 11 June 2021 from New York. 24 PhD students were in the running. Arbia's paper was on the "Validation of coupled SPH-FE hydroplaning simulations using PIV measurements".

The International Towing Tank Conference (ITTC) is a voluntary association of worldwide organizations that have the responsibility for the prediction of the hydrodynamic performance of ships and marine installations based on the results of physical and numerical experiments. The 29th edition of its plenary conference was organized by the LHEEA (Centrale Nantes/CNRS) and the DGA in virtual June 2021.

"Prédiction déterministe de houle par mesure du profil de vitesse"
(Deterministic sea wave prediction by velocity profile measurements)

"Dispersion des particules issues du freinage des trains en stations souterraines"
"(Dispersion of particles arising from train braking in underground stations)

France Additive is organising the 25th edition of the European Convention for Additive Manufacturing (AEFA 2021) from 8 to 10 June 2021.

"Analyse, modélisation et optimisation d’un voilier hydro-éolien de production d’hydrogène"
(Analysis, modelling and optimisation of an energy ship for hydrogen production)

Centrale Nantes has been awarded the highest level (three stars) of the "Bienvenue en France' label by Campus France, the public institution tasked with promoting French higher education abroad and welcoming international students and researchers to France.

The EU-funded Ocean DEMO project 4th call opens on 4 June 2021. Successful applicants will receive free access to test their ocean energy products and services in real sea environments at the project’s network of test centres.

The world's first offshore hydrogen production facility, developed by Lhyfe and powered by electricity from a floating wind turbine, will be operational in 2022, off the coast of Le Croisic, at SEM-REV, Centrale Nantes' offshore test site.

Meet the people behind the research at Centrale Nantes in our new series of video interviews. In our first edition we meet Sandrine Aubrun, Professor in the LHEEA Laboratory.

Centrale Nantes is an academic sponsor of the 1st Natural Hydrogen Worldwide Summit (H-NAT 2021) which is taking place online on 2-3 June.

Simone BANCORA, PhD student at Centrale Nantes, is one of the finalists at the JEC COMPOSITE CHALLENGE.

The Shanghai Global Ranking of Academic Subjects is now out for 2021. Centrale Nantes is ranked between the 301st and 400th place in the world.

Congratulations to Filippo Masi, joint winner of the Centrale Innovation PhD Award 2021.

The Franco-German Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CFACI) and Fraunhofer IAPT research institute are co-organizing an online conference on design for additive manufacturing and the future of products.

As part of Futurobot - a series of events on the theme of robotics organised by the CNRS - Sophie Sakka will give a talk on 25 May entitled "Robotics: a therapeutic support tool for people with cognitive disabilities".

On Monday 24 May 2021, the 4th Heritage Network General Assembly met online to welcome newcomers to the Network and elect a new President and Vice-President. Centrale Nantes is a member of Heritage: a network between India and Europe for Education and Research cooperation in engineering sciences.

The summary report of the SPECIES project, which was published on 21 May 2021, documents the potential impact associated with the submarine power cables of MRE projects, a recurring issue in consultation processes. The results of this project, coordinated by France Energies Marines and under the scientific direction of Ifremer, are reassuring and do not show any major negative impacts, but do call for further study, particularly with regard to the impact of electromagnetic fields in situ. The SEM-REV team contributed to this project.

Join the second edition of the Heritage Network Webinar Series, hosted by Asst Prof. Nikesh Yadav of Warsaw University of Technology (Poland) and Prof. V. Rajesh Khana Raju of the National Institute of Technology Warangal (India).

During ICOE 2021 (International Conference on Ocean Energy), Thomas Soulard, Research Engineer at SEM-REV, participated in a live session regarding the European OCEAN DEMO programme. Together with Lisa Fitzpatrick, Project Manager at EMEC and James P. Murray, MSc, Programme Manager at Orbital Marine Power, they discussed "Scaling up to Multi-Device: What does it take?".

CAPP for Hybrid Additive Manufacturing

Centrale Nantes features in the Times Higher Education Impact Rankings for the third consecutive year.

Speak & Act's Best School Experience Happiness Barometer is now out for 2021. Centrale Nantes is ranked 5th among engineering schools offering the best student experience.

Learn more about studying at Centrale Nantes during the Asia Virtual Tour 2021

Congratulations to Yicha Zhang, former PhD student at LS2N and post-doc on a European project, who has just been awarded the CIRP Taylor Medal.

Students, teachers, high school students, and other interested parties ... discover Centrale Nantes' research platforms live.

"Outils de Réalité Virtuelle pour l'histoire et l'archéologie. Recherche, diffusion, médiation : le cas des théâtres de la Foire Saint-Germain."
(Virtual Reality Tools for History and Archaeology. Research, dissemination, outreach: the example of the Foire Saint-Germain theatres.)

During the 36th edition of the America's Cup, which took place in March 2021, NUMECA Int.'s FINE™/Marine software, whose ISIS-CFD fluid resolution module was fully developed at LHEEA (Centrale Nantes/CNRS), was again used by the winning team, ETNZ!

Sujet : "Etude de l'influence des additions minérales sur l'auto-cicatrisation des matériaux cimentaires : caractérisation expérimentale et modélisation des propriétés visco-élastiques"
(Study of the influence of mineral additions on self-healing in cementitious materials: experimental characterization and modeling of visco-elastic properties)

The first selection round for JEMARO applicants - applications submitted before 31 January - has concluded with 24 places offered. The second round of applications for self-funded candidates is still open.

Centrale Nantes welcomed today the fourteen trainees of the second intake on the "Web in pulse" programme: a free training course for web-developers, for which no previous experience or qualifications are required.

Learn more about studying at Centrale Nantes during the Asia Virtual Tour 2021

The Nantes-based startup Hera-MI is one of the 100 startups recognised this year by Challenges magazine. Its founder, Sylvie Davila, is the winner of the French business magazine's 'Startup and Innovation Summit'. Hosted in the Centrale-Audencia-Ensa incubator from 2018 to 2021, Hera-MI develops and markets advanced medical imaging software solutions for breast cancer in the field of e-health.

Don't miss the deadline for the final admissions round!
Only complete applications received by 30 April can be considered for 2021 entry to our Master's programmes.

The students of the Scientific Challenge 2024 Specialisation invite you to their end-of-year event.

"Theoretical developments and experimental evaluation of a novel collaborative multi-drones grasping and manipulation system of large objects."

He will tell you about his experience, his passion and his business creation.

Sujet : "Liants ternaires à base d'argile calcinée - étude des mécanismes de structuration, optimisation mécanique et durabilité."
(Ternary binders based on calcined clay - study of structuring mechanisms, mechanical optimization and durability)

Learn more about studying at Centrale Nantes during the "la semana de estudios de ingeniería"

Students, teachers, high school students, and other interested parties ... discover Centrale Nantes' research platforms live.

The Mint team of students from the 'Environment, Mobility, Health' project-based specialisation, invites you to a conference on air quality and its impact on your health associated with daily travel.

Learn more about our Bachelor's and Master's programmes at the "Studying Engineering in France: Meet a School" online event in Nigeria on 17 March 2021.

Articonnex, a Nantes-based startup hosted in the Centrale-Audencia-Ensa incubator, has been selected in the ADEME's call for expressions of interest, launched last September, for impact contracts on the circular economy. Its project for structuring, organising and developing the re-use of building materials was one of 8 projects selected.

Join the very first edition of the Heritage Network Webinar Series, co-hosted by Prof. Sriram of IIT Madras (India) and Prof. Ferrant of Centrale Nantes.

Interested in pursuing an Advanced Master (Mastère Spécialisé®) programme? Join the online session organised by Audenica to learn more and ask your questions.

“Climat & Entreprises : il faudra bien s’y mettre un jour !” (Climate & Business: we'll have to get down to it sometime!"
Join us by videoconference on 9 March for the fifth and final conference of the Ecological Transition Mornings 2020-2021.

Due to the current health crisis, the Nantes final will be held behind closed doors at Stereolux and broadcast online.

Centrale Nantes has been recognized in the recently published QS World University Rankings bySubject 2021 in ‘Engineering and Technology’.

Learn more about studying at Centrale Nantes during the 4th edition Higher Education and Research Online Meetings of the Franco-Pakistani Institutions

Les facteurs biotique et abiotique interagissent-ils pendant le vieillissement du bois utilisé en classe d'emploi 3 ?
(How do biotic and abiotic factors combine to affect the weathering of wood surfaces in end-use class 3.2?)

Students, teachers, high school students, and anyone else who's interested ... discover Centrale Nantes' research platforms live.

Learn more about studying at Centrale Nantes during the Choose France - Education Fair Indonesia 2021.

Learn more about studying at Centrale Nantes during the Choose France Tour Online - India.

Congratulations to our researchers!

A €1.5 million project has been funded by the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF) programme of the European Union, which addresses the environmental concerns associated with emerging wave energy technologies.

Influence of clay fraction on the mechanical behavior of a soil-concrete

Sijo GEORGES will defend his PhD on Thursday, February 18, 2021 at 2.00pm. The PhD is entitled: "Direct Numerical Simulation of Transition Induced Vibration over a Flexible Hydrofoil Section" by videoconference from Centrale Nantes.

"Influence du couplage température et chargement mécanique sur la transformation allotropique du cobalt polycristallin"
(Impact of temperature coupling and mechanical loading on the allotropic transformation of polycrystalline cobalt)

"Contribution à l'étude des émissions à l'échappement des véhicules routiers et de leur impact sur l'environnement dans la ville d'Addis Ababa, en Éthiopie" (Contribution to the study of vehicle exhaust emissions and their impact on the environment in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia).

LHEEA's HeloFOW project, undertaken within the WEAMEC framework, aims to develop a hydro-elastic solver for the calculation of structural loads on floating wind turbine foundations.

Applications open on 15 February!

"Fast simulation - assisted shape correction after machining"

"Design and stability analysis of visual servoing on cable-driven parallel robots for accuracy improvement"

Join us online to learn more about our world-class graduate programs in control and robotics, marine technology, e-mobility, mechanical engineering and more ... all fully taught in English.

Within the scope of its national Additive Manufacturing project, the SCNF (Rolling Stock Engineering division) called upon Centrale Nantes’s expertise to study the feasibility of producing certain components. The production of a pivot, an interconnecting part, by additive manufacturing is an achievement that opens up new avenues for the design of metallic components.

Applications were open from 15 October to 15 November 2020 in the first Institut Carnot MERS call for projects. The selection committee met on 25 January 2021 and selected 8 projects.

Want to know more about our Advanced Master's programmes? Take part in the online information session organised by Audencia.

"A contribution to the nonlinear control of floating wind turbines"

Applications are open for the four programmes on offer through the EIT-M Master School at a consortium of European universities, one of which is available at Centrale Nantes. Don't miss the 9 March deadline for applications!

Antoine Connan, who graduated from Centrale Nantes in 2018, is a member of Yannick Bestaven's team, the winner of the 2020 Vendée Globe. He tells us about his experience as performance and on-board systems engineer on board the IMOCA Maître Coq IV.

Take part in the Open Day to learn more about the new Bachelor in Business Administration (BBA) Big Data & Management. This four-year post-secondary programme, created by Centrale Nantes and Audencia, combines engineering and management in the field of data collection, analysis and management. The first intake is scheduled for September 2021.

As a mark of its commitment to CSR and its desire to promote diversity and prevent discrimination, Centrale Nantes will sign the Autre Cercle Charter of Commitment, on 5 February. Autre Cercle is a French association working for LGBT+ rights. On the programme: round table on diversity and signature of the charter.

Using historical data from the European Meteorological Centre, D-ICE provided Yannick Bestaven with statistical data and probabilities on the different types of scenario that could present themselves during the race. The rest is history!

4 February 2021 | 5.00 to 6.00 pm | Online

The UTBM Innovation Crunch Lab, Centrale Nantes, the LS2N and the GIS S.mart are organising a Crunch Meetup online on 3D scanning on Thursday 4 February 2021 from 2.00 to 5.00 pm.

Centrale Nantes, Ifremer and University Gustave Eiffel are bringing together their hydrodynamics and mechanical test facilities, to carry out research activities and collaborative projects with French and international companies.

Passionate about e-mobility? The first E-PiCo Winter School will take place virtually from 2 to 4 February 2021.

Centrale Nantes is among the new establishments to be certified "Génération 2024" by the Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation (MESRI) and the Ministry of Sports.

"Wood and hospital hygiene: Investigating the hygienic safety and antimicrobial properties of wood materials"

Calling all graduates from the classes of 2016 to 2020: we need to know how your careers are progressing. The 'Conférence des Grandes Ecoles' is conducting its annual survey on the integration of 'grande école' graduates into the workplace.

Floatgen, the 2 MW floating wind turbine, installed on the Centrale Nantes offshore test site, SEM-REV (off Le Croisic), produced 14% more power in 2020 than in 2019, reaching an annual total of 6.8 GWh.

Commande de liaisons à courant continu (HVDC) pour l'amortissement des oscillations inter-zones
(Control of direct current connections (HVDC) for the damping of inter-area oscillations)

Visit the online exhibition for the Arts and Science Competition until 4 March

Yaren is a smart citizen assistant based on Artificial Intelligence, which uses user preferences in combination with location, satellite imagery and environmental data and functions as an interface between city dwellers, the city and the urban environment. Spearheaded by two Centrale Nantes graduates, this project is taking part in a startup competition in Berlin and they need support to win, so vote now!

"Modélisation des phénomènes hydrodynamiques instationnaires sur un trimaran de course au large." (Modelling unsteady hydrodynamic phenomena on an ocean-racing trimaran)

"Simulation haute performance des suspensions de fibres courtes pour les procédés de fabrication de composite."
(High performance simulation of short fiber suspensions for composite manufacturing processes)

Inclusion of thin coatings in large-scale simulations/ application to threaded connections on the example of crossed cylinder wear test

Are you a PhD or post-doc student at Centrale Nantes? The call for applications for the 2021 edition of the L'Oréal-UNESCO Young Talents France For Women in Science program is now open.

Building on their historic alliance, Audencia and Centrale Nantes have developed a new joint programme: the Bachelor in Business Administration (BBA) in Big Data & Management. It is also the first hybrid Bachelor’s in France accredited by the Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation to be considered a “Licence” degree according to the standards for French business and engineering schools. This four-year post-secondary programme combines engineering and management in the field of data collection, analysis and management. The first intake is scheduled for September 2021.

Centrale Nantes was awarded the new Erasmus Charter for Higher Education for 2021-2027 with a score of 100%.

Interested in pursuing an Advanced Master (Mastère Spécialisé®) programme? Join the online session organised by Audenica to learn more and ask your questions.

Almost 3 years of R&D work within the Joint Laboratory of Marine Technology went into the development of the metal 3D printing process by which this propeller was produced.

"Modélisation du comportement poromécanique des sols sujets à érosion interne par suffusion."
(Modelling the poromechanical behaviour of soils subjected to internal erosion by suffusion)

Centrale Nantes' Executive Education Programmes have been awarded Qualiopi certification in accordance with the national quality reference framework for organisations providing skills development training (as per Article l. 6351-1 of the French Labour Code).