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With nearly three centuries of history, ENSTA occupies a leading position in the French higher education and research landscape.

A multidisciplinary engineering institute offering excellent training programs, ENSTA (École Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées) is a founding member of the Institut Polytechnique de Paris, which brings together six leading educational and research institutions in France and internationally.

Under the supervision of the French Ministry of Armed Forces, ENSTA is a public institution with EPSCP-GE status. The Institute serves many sectors of activity corresponding to its areas of excellence, such as defense and security, engineering for health, marine engineering, digital engineering, and transport and mobility.

ENSTA has two campuses. The headquarters, located in Palaiseau on the Saclay plateau, is in close proximity to many renowned scientific establishments and institutions. The Brest campus is located near the sea and leading institutions in the field of marine science and technology.

Research is one of the Institute's main missions. It is structured around six training and research units and involves around ten laboratories.

 

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Rozali Badaoui honored at IEEE ETECOM 2025

Rozali Badaoui's early thesis work has just been recognized with the Best Paper Award in the “Engineering Education” category at the IEEE ETECOM 2025 conference on emerging trends in engineering and computing, held in Bahrain last October.

Rozali Badaoui honored at IEEE ETECOM 2025

Rozali Badaoui's early thesis work has just been recognized with the Best Paper Award in the “Engineering Education” category at the IEEE ETECOM 2025 conference on emerging trends in engineering and computing, held in Bahrain last October.

Training | Innovation | Research
Success for the first edition of the Seas and Ocean Forum

On Tuesday, January 13, ENSTA's Paris-Saclay campus hosted the first edition of the Institut Polytechnique de Paris's Seas and Ocean Forum, which is part of the activities of the Interdisciplinary Seas and Ocean Center (CIMO). This unifying event brought...

Success for the first edition of the Seas and Ocean Forum

On Tuesday, January 13, ENSTA's Paris-Saclay campus hosted the first edition of the Institut Polytechnique de Paris's Seas and Ocean Forum, which is part of the activities of the Interdisciplinary Seas and Ocean Center (CIMO). This unifying event brought...

Innovation | Research
Adnan Saood: a touch of feeling in robotics

Robots can already see, hear, and even smell, but their sense of touch remains very rudimentary and is more akin to obstacle detection than any kind of dexterity. How can this be improved? This is the focus of the thesis work of Adnan Saood, a doctoral...

Adnan Saood: a touch of feeling in robotics

Robots can already see, hear, and even smell, but their sense of touch remains very rudimentary and is more akin to obstacle detection than any kind of dexterity. How can this be improved? This is the focus of the thesis work of Adnan Saood, a doctoral...

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