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Within the Institut Polytechnique de Paris, ENSTA brings together a large scientific community located on two complementary campuses, one in Paris-Saclay and the other in Brest on the coast.

ENSTA is a major player in defense ans security, transport and mobility, energy, enginnering for health, marine engineering, and digital science and enginnering. With a mission to train high-level engineers who will take on leadership roles in these fields, ENSTA infuses its teaching with the latest state-of-the-art knowledge thanks to the work of its leading teacher-researchers, in order to design innovative solutions for a safe and sustainable society.

Recognized for its multidisciplinary scientific excellence, ENSTA's two campuses offer unique features and enhanced synergies to a vast network of academic, government, and industrial partners.

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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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