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The Institut Polytechnique de Paris’s back-to-term press conference took place on Tuesday 29 September. In particular, it provided an opportunity to highlight ENSTA’s specific contributions and new developments in education that benefit the Institute.

One afternoon in September, in the lecture theatres at ENSTA, groups of around ten students are discussing ideas whilst gathered around large sheets of white paper. Together, with the help of a facilitator, they are placing cards relating to climate...

It has already been several years since, following a highly successful career in engineering, Catherine Delcroix could have retired to the Mont Blanc massif to enjoy a well-deserved retirement. But as one of the first women to graduate from ENSTA, she is...

An engineer and the son of a farmer, Corentin Le Méhauté founded MEKA Solutions to provide practical solutions to the challenges facing the agricultural sector. His startup, incubated at ENSTARTUPS, offers a robot designed to assist with vegetable...

Marking the completion of the merger that officially began on January 1, 2025, ENSTA’s 2026 academic year was the first to take place simultaneously and via a dual-campus format between the Paris-Saclay and Brest campuses. August 31 was a doubly historic...

ENSTA graduates have recently been featured in the national media. They hold positions of responsibility and are pursuing exciting careers at major corporations, small and medium-sized businesses, startups, and government agencies. Discover a selection of...

About 40 IETA military students marched on July 14, 2026, on the Champs-Élysées on behalf of ENSTA and the DGA. For the past three weeks, they had been preparing together for this major event for the French armed forces, whose theme was “Europe’s...

Having always been passionate about sailing and the maritime world, Gaspard Carfantan has built his professional and personal life around this passion. At 23, he divides his time between competitive sailing and his engineering studies at ENSTA.

On June 24, 2026, ENSTA inaugurated a new air-sea experimental basin on its Brest campus: an exceptional facility for ocean research that combines a test basin with a drone flight enclosure. Its vast dimensions and permeability to satellite waves make it...

Édouard Berthelon, a sophomore at the ENSTA Paris-Saclay campus, received the special prize for scientific fiction at the 17th annual Nouvelles Avancées contest on May 20, 2026, during a ceremony at the Panthéon.

On June 9, the ENSTA Paris-Saclay campus will host the fourth edition of Opération CIEDS, the defense and security conference organized by the Interdisciplinary Center for Defense and Security Studies (CIEDS) at the Institut Polytechnique de Paris. This...

Organized by the ENSTA Foundation, with support from its sponsors—including SAE* for the 2026 edition—“Make Us Dream” aims to provide financial support for innovative student projects with a technological focus. In 2026, the call for projects selected...