News & events

The Engineering for Health (E4H) interdisciplinary center is organising the third edition of its annual forum on November 6, 2024 at the EDF Lab Paris Saclay. The aim of this event is to highlight current research projects in the field of life sciences and to bring together researchers, medical doctors, engineers, startups and industry to encourage new interactions.

Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris) was awarded both the QS Employability Champions Recognition Award and the QS Award for Excellence in Global Engagement at the recent QS Higher Ed Summit Europe held in Barcelona from July 10th to 12th. The Institute also ranked 23rd in the latest QS World University Rankings: Europe 2025 among 685 Higher Education institutions (9th in Western Europe) and maintains its 2nd spot in France.

Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris) is pleased to announce the launch of the sixth edition of its "Prématuration IP Paris" call for projects, an initiative aimed at identifying and supporting innovative projects. This call for projects has two main objectives: to specify the relevant application and to achieve an initial proof of concept.

On June 19, Institut Polytechnique de Paris joined the Udice alliance, which promotes French higher education and research establishments in all their missions at national, European, and international levels. Its participation strengthens the association, which now has 13 members.

Institut Polytechnique de Paris, alongside its partners in The EuroTech Universities Alliance, are joining forces for the fourth time to host the EuroTech Partner Days.

The Interdisciplinary Center CIEDS had the pleasure of hosting and interviewing Pascal Broquard, a former Special Forces member and consultant in human factors, leadership, and crisis management, for a shared perspective on innovation within the special forces.

The Executive MSc in Cybersecurity, a training program of excellence at Institut Polytechnique de Paris, welcomed its third class in November. This degree program enables high-level operational managers to develop their cybersecurity skills, and offers them new career prospects.

On Wednesday June 5, the national final of the Ma Thèse en 180 secondes scientific mediation competition took place in Nice. Elie Kadoche, an IP Paris doctoral student has been awarded th 3rd jury's prize.

IP Paris holds the 46th position in the QS World University Rankings (WUR) 2025 listing the best universities in the world. IP Paris maintains the 10th spot globally in terms of the reputation of its graduates among employers and climbs to 31st place for employment outcomes.

The Centre Interdisciplinaire d’Études pour la Défense et la Sécurité Interdisciplinary Centre for Defence and Security) at IP Paris will be holding its CIEDS Operation Day on July 4, bringing together researchers, students, companies and personnel from the French Ministry of the Armed Forces. This event provides an opportunity to review the Center's main missions and highlight the crucial role that industrial partners play in technology transfer.

The environment, mobility, energy, computing and communications all have one thing in common...materials. There are a multitude of them, with known or unsuspected properties, and their study is a science in its own right. At the Institut Polytechnique de Paris, this science is carried out by the M4S (Materials for Society) center. At the crossroads of fields as varied as physics, chemistry, biology, mechanics and applied mathematics, it is a catalyst for collaboration around this transdisciplinary theme.

Physics to transcribe athletes' sensations. This is the credo of Phyling, the company founded in 2018 by École polytechnique alumni Romain Labbé and Jean-Philippe Boucher. On their former campus, in the Drahi X-Novation Center, the two comparses and their eight employees are now developing customized power sensors (speed and force) for top-level sport. The aim is to improve athletes' performance...and a little more.