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• Floatgen Press kit
• Press Kit: Connected Home for Healthcare
• XSun, world's first autonomous drone

Press Releases - 2024

• MANN+HUMMEL and Centrale Nantes extend their research partnership on the energy efficiency of filtration systems

Press Releases - 2023

• Kick-off of the Velella R&D project which aims to reduce the environmental impact of floating wind turbines

Press Releases - 2022

• Stellantis, the world's 4th largest car manufacturer, acquires a stake in Stimcar, a Nantes-based start-up in the Centrale-Audencia-Ensa incubator, which specialises in used vehicle reconditioning
• 14 Eiffel Excellence Scholarship recipients to join Centrale Nantes at the start of the 2022 academic year
• ADDITIVE4RAIL: A new partnership to produce train maintenance parts on demand
• QS World University Rankings by Subject 2022: Centrale Nantes in the top 5 in France across several engineering fields
• Centrale Nantes ranked 151-200 for Mechanical Engineering and 301-400 for Management in the Shanghai Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2022
• Eolink has been awarded €14.9 million for the deployment of its 5MW floating wind turbine at the SEM-REV test site in France

Press Releases - 2021

 

• First intake of students join the BBA Big Data & Management at Centrale Nantes and Audencia
• Siemens Digital Industries Software acquires Nextflow Software, a Centrale Nantes spin-off
• Offshore green hydrogen production: the partnership between Lhyfe and Centrale Nantes on track for a world first
• Centrale Nantes and SNCF produce a train part by additive manufacturing. A real breakthrough.
• Yannick Bestaven - winner of the latest edition of the Vendée Globe - had technology on board from Nantes-based startup D-ICE Engineering
• Audencia and Centrale Nantes create the very first Bachelor’s Degree in Big Data & Management

Press Releases - 2020

• "Entretiens de l'Excellence" Nantes 2020
• A new degree apprenticeship programme to open at Centrale Nantes in September 2020!
• BHealthcare raises €1.5M to finalise its robotic blood sampling platform "Heiva™"
• Centrale Nantes and Naval Group renew their Joint Laboratory of Marine Technology
• Centrale Nantes formalises its commitment to sustainable development
• Centrale Nantes, RTE and Enedis officially launch the Sea-GRID Call for Expression of Interest
• Centrale Nantes: 4th global performer on student mobility (U-Multirank)
• EDYCEM and CENTRALE NANTES renew their research chair to develop sustainable concrete
• EOLINK's latest-generation floating wind turbine to be tested on Centrale Nantes’ SEM-REV offshore test site
• FARWIND receives an award at Start West 2020
• Flight record for the start-up XSun
• Fondation Agissons pour l'Emploi: a new partnership agreement with the PACA region
• i-Nov innovation competition - another win for AKRYVIA, start-up in the Centrale Nantes Audencia ensa incubator
• Marc Renner appointed Temporary Administrator of Centrale Nantes.
• NExT gets back on track
• Nextflow Software raises 3 million euros to finance its international growth
• Sea-GRID Call for Expression of Interest – Five innovative projects selected
• STREAM-0D project reaches its conclusion
• The Board of Governors shortlists six candidates for the position of director
• The Board of Governors takes a step towards a successful Nantes I-SITE and building a new experimental institution
• The Board of Governors votes to nominate a new Director
• The first session of the "Prepa Tremplin Numérique" course run by the Fondation Agissons Pour l'Emploi is coming to an end, in person.
• XSun receives European recognition of excellence and signs its first contracts
• XSun, Centrale-Audencia-ensa incubator start-up, secures €1.4M in funding
• Zero-Defect Manufacturing: simulation in real time at Centrale Nantes
• “MERS”, the first Carnot institute for ocean research

Press Releases - 2019

• A new director to head up the Centrale-Audencia-Ensa Nantes business incubator
• A waste collection race as part of the Alliance Days 2019
• AIRBUS, AIRBUS Développement & Centrale Nantes step up their cooperation on innovation and entrepreneurship
• Arnaud Poitou elected President of the 'Conférence des Directeurs des Grandes Ecoles des Pays de la Loire'
• Centrale Nantes & Fondation Agissons pour l’Emploi selected in the second wave of the “100% Inclusion” call for projects launched by the French Ministry of Labour
• Centrale Nantes celebrates the arrival of a high-speed, high-resolution camera at the Research Institute in Civil and Mechanical Engineering
• Centrale Nantes enters the new Times Higher Education University Impact Rankings 2019
• Centrale Nantes in the world’s top 25 for international orientation
• Centrale Nantes is hosting the "Entretiens de l’Excellence"
• Centrale Nantes moves up one place in France in the Times Higher Education 2020 rankings
• EDYCEM and Centrale Nantes renew their research chair on sustainable concrete
• First 'Web in Pulse' web developer training programme kicks off
• Kick-off for FLOAWER: the European Project coordinated by Centrale Nantes
• Naval Group and Centrale Nantes print the world’s first hollow propeller blade
• Prof. Alain Bernard of Centrale Nantes at the National Academy of Technologies of France
• The Board of Governors wishes to pursue its deliberations and continue work to collaborate more closely with the University of Nantes
• The future of manufacturing in Europe starts now!
• Two new Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degrees coordinated by Centrale Nantes - E-PiCo and JEMARO –, a true guarantee of academic excellence

Press Releases - 2018

• A successful edition of the 'Entretiens de l’Excellence' on Saturday 24 March: over 600 people present on the Centrale Nantes campus
• Capgemini and Centrale Nantes sign a partnership agreement to help Centrale students acquire advanced digital skills
• Centrale Nantes and Pôle Emploi launch the 4th edition of the "Web Developer" training programme
• Centrale Nantes and STELIA Aerospace strengthen their collaboration over recruitment in the aeronautics industry
• Centrale Nantes and WIZTIVI took up the challenge of training nine Embedded Interface Developers in 12 weeks
• Centrale Nantes appoints it first ‘Adjunct Professor’ - Professor Suresh G. Advani, University of Delaware, USA
• Centrale Nantes hosting JAMACS - Journées de l'Automatique on November 15 and 16, 2018
• Centrale Nantes hosting the Syntec Numérique Tour
• CENTRALE NANTES HOSTS THE THIRD FORESEA TEST ON ITS OFFSHORE TEST SITE
• Centrale Nantes is hosting the EMARO Days from 9th to 13th July 2018 European Master Advanced Robotics
• Centrale Nantes Mauritius Campus: two students awarded MCB scholarships
• Centrale Nantes welcomes 'Acoustics of the SEA' - the first project selected by the FORESEA programme - to its offshore test site.
• Centrale Nantes working with STELIA Aerospace on a world first: 3D printing of self-reinforced metallic fuselage panels
• Centrale Nantes, Ecole navale and ENSM launch a 'Mastère Spécialisé' - Life Cycle Assessment of Ship: MS LICAS
• Centrale Nantes, Ideol and Bouygues Construction: Winners of the “Etoiles de l’Europe” 2018 trophy
• CRIEC 2018: Inter-Ecoles Centrale Research Symposium
• David Le Touzé, Centrale Nantes professor, receives the Joe Monaghan prize
• Ecole Centrale's Nantes campus hosts its first intake of international "Bachelor of Science in Engineering" students
• FORESEA call 4 – progress update
• FORESEA Project Marks Project Successes at ICOE Drinks Reception
• France's first offshore wind turbine produces electricity
• Groupe PSA and Centrale Nantes team up to accelerate the roll-out of digital simulation for powertrain design
• I-MC - a Centrale Nantes and CEA startup - one of the winning projects in the i-Lab 2018 Competition
• I-MC - Centrale Nantes and CEA startup - award recipient at the International Start up Seminar
• Leading French and Australian defence research institutes join forces on marine technology
• LOC Group enhances its wind farm design offering through the acquisition of INNOSEA, a Centrale Nantes spin-off
• Naval Group and Centrale Nantes printing tomorrow’s propellers
• New partnership between Centrale Nantes and Sia Partners
• NExT, the Nantes I-site, will finance 8 structuring and ambitious projects in the fields of health and industry of the future
• Positive results for the first Centrale Nantes and Pôle Emploi (Employment Centre) training programme for PhD holders
• SEM-REV: The offshore test site of Centrale Nantes ready to supply its first kWhs to the French electrical grid
• START COMPUTE 2018: launch of the Start Up HPC Challenge
• Summer School - C Week UP 2018 "Create differently" on 3 & 4 July 2018
• The Colas Group and Centrale Nantes strengthen their partnership around public works careers
• Third edition of the “Citylab Alliance” Hackathon - “Health and well-being: are cities healthy places?”
• Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2019 - Centrale Nantes confirms its position as an international player in engineering and computer science
• Trophées de la construction 2018: An award for the applied research of the Centrale Nantes – EDYCEM Chair
• Two Centrale Nantes students selected for the Airbus Airnovation Summer Academy

Press Releases - 2017

• AKRYVIA - Centrale Nantes startup - winner of I-lab 2017
• Centrale Nantes and Pôle Emploi are testing an employment programme for PhD holders for the first time in France.
• Centrale Nantes completes the installation of the Floatgen floating wind turbine anchoring system
• Centrale Nantes embraces a new visual identity in line with its vision and ambition
• Centrale Nantes, ENSTA ParisTech, Centrale Supelec & Ecole Polytechnique sign a partnership with Flinders University, Australia and Naval Group (formerly DCNS)
• Centrale Nantes, ENSTA ParisTech, Centrale Supélec and Ecole polytechnique continue to develop their co-operation with Australian universities
• Creation of the "HERITAGE NETWORK": first network between India and Europe for education and research cooperation in engineering sciences
• Digital economy: Pôle emploi and Centrale Nantes join forces on youth employability
• European Research Council - Transforming an academic concept into industrial applications: double award for Centrale Nantes researchers
• Executive Education: the first four ‘MRE Technical Advisors’ receive their certificates from Centrale Nantes and the University of Nantes
• Floatgen - award-recipient at the "Trophées de la Transition énergétique 2017"
• Floatgen produces its first KWs
• The Centrale Digital Lab programme, implemented by the Ecole Centrale Group, awarded funding in the Disrupt’Campus call for projects
• The Floatgen floating platform was successfully launched
• The Nantes-based NExT project was selected to become an I-SITE

Press Releases - 2016

• 10-VINS - Nantes-based start-up - receives an award at CES 2016 in Las Vegas
• Centrale Nantes and Bureau Veritas establish an international research chair on ships of the future
• Centrale Nantes and Pôle Emploi launch a digital opportunities programme
• Centrale Nantes is hosting the 6th ARFITEC FORUM
• Ecole Centrale Nantes and Renault to develop the electric and hybrid engines of the future
• First year review and perspectives - EDYCEM Chair
• Guillaume Moreau succeeds Patrice Cartraud as Dean of Studies
• Joint Laboratory of Marine Technology: DCNS, Centrale Nantes and the University of Nantes join forces
• Marine Renewable Energies – FORESEA European Programme: Two new technologies to be tested on SEM-REV in 2017
• NExT - the Nantes I-SITE project passes the first selection phase
• POLE EMPLOI (Employment Centre) and Centrale Nantes working together on employability
• SEM-REV to host two new technologies in 2017
• The construction of France’s first offshore wind turbine is officially underway
• The Ecoles Centrale Group reaffirms its support for site restructuring
• The Pôle Atlantique Executive Education joins forces with Centrale Nantes to meet new challenges in planning and construction