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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.

ENSTA is one of the partners in the SEARENITY project, which was selected under the ‘CORIMER Low-Carbon Ships’ call for proposals (funded by Ademe, France 2030). The project aims to develop an autonomous robot capable of continuously cleaning ship hulls...

Following the twin earthquakes on 24 June, the French Association for Earthquake Engineering dispatched a post-earthquake mission to Venezuela from 29 August to 6 September 2026. Jean-François Semblat, a professor at ENSTA and deputy director of the...

Additive manufacturing, another name for industrial 3D printing, refers to all processes used to manufacture a part by successively adding material based on a digital model. Thanks to the specific properties of the parts produced in this way and the great...

Awarded by the Jacques Hadamard Mathematical Foundation, this prize recognises female students each year for their first piece of research in mathematics. For the third consecutive year, two ENSTA students were honoured at the 2026 ceremony.

Having emerged in the mid-2000s as a genuine revolution in access to space, ‘New Space’ and its key players have matured. How have traditional players in the space sector coped with this external shock? This is the question examined in a recent research...

During the double earthquake that struck Venezuela on June 24, 2026, damage extended as far as Caracas, the capital, more than 150 km from the epicenter. How can such extensive damage be explained at such a great distance? Jean-François Semblat, a...

Whether used for urgent deliveries or autonomous flying taxi services, drones could help solve many of the problems plaguing our congested city centers—provided, that is, that their main nuisance is reduced: that annoying, giant-mosquito-like buzz caused...

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...

The Lindau Meetings are an international scientific forum that brings together dozens of Nobel laureates and some of the world’s most promising young researchers each year. Founded in 1951, these meetings aim to foster dialogue across generations...

A recent recipient of the Irène Joliot-Curie Prize, Maïmouna Bocoum began her distinguished academic career at ENSTA. While she has come a long way since then, she still occasionally consults her class notes when she needs to familiarize herself with a...

From June 17 to 20, Paris Expo Porte de Versailles will host the 2026 edition of Viva Technology, Europe’s largest innovation and technology trade show. ENSTA will be represented there by four startups from its ecosystem, with the head of the ENSTARTUPS...