Our research strategy

ENSTA's research, focused on applications in synergy with industrial needs, is structured around priority themes that correspond to the historical expertise of its Paris-Saclay and Brest campuses, as well as crucial challenges for the future: maritime, security and defense, sustainable energy, transport, and health. Digital technology accompanies and supports each of these areas.

The research conducted at ENSTA aims to produce scientific and technological knowledge at the highest international level, from fundamental sciences to their applications. It feeds into the first-rate training of its engineering students.

This research is carried out within six Training and Research Units, three of which are spread across the two campuses. These are the UFRs for Computer Science & System Engineering (S2I), Mechanical Science and Engineering, and Humanities, Economics, and Social Sciences (SHES), which are complemented by single-site UFRs: Physics, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, and Applied Mathematics.

These UFRs carry out ENSTA's research strategy while bringing together the historic research units of the two campuses, most of which are linked by multi-year agreements with major French research organizations, higher education institutions, and industrial partners.

ENSTA's research benefits from extensive and original experimental resources that enable the scientific results obtained in all disciplines to be validated. It is also part of the Institut Polytechnique de Paris, which promotes the pooling of expertise and research infrastructure in order to break new ground in knowledge.

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DyNNamo, AI for the benefit of people with disabilities

While artificial intelligence is gradually being deployed in all areas of mobility, the field of disability presents particular challenges in terms of robustness, reliability, and adaptation to a wide variety of situations.

DyNNamo, AI for the benefit of people with disabilities

While artificial intelligence is gradually being deployed in all areas of mobility, the field of disability presents particular challenges in terms of robustness, reliability, and adaptation to a wide variety of situations.

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Two ENSTA teams take part in the FWC international challenge dedicated to floating wind turbines

In July, two teams of ENSTA students (from the Paris-Saclay and Brest campuses) will be in Zeebrugge, Belgium, to test their floating wind turbine prototypes. The two projects were selected as finalists in the international Floating Wind Challenge...

Two ENSTA teams take part in the FWC international challenge dedicated to floating wind turbines

In July, two teams of ENSTA students (from the Paris-Saclay and Brest campuses) will be in Zeebrugge, Belgium, to test their floating wind turbine prototypes. The two projects were selected as finalists in the international Floating Wind Challenge...

Research
Ensuring the reliability of electronic chips at the heart of many strategic digital systems

As the brains of electronic devices, semiconductors or microchips are essential components in every computer, smartphone, car, airplane, MRI machine, and more. At the heart of our daily lives, their reliability is essential to ensuring that systems...

Ensuring the reliability of electronic chips at the heart of many strategic digital systems

As the brains of electronic devices, semiconductors or microchips are essential components in every computer, smartphone, car, airplane, MRI machine, and more. At the heart of our daily lives, their reliability is essential to ensuring that systems...

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