News & events

Elie Kadoche, one of the two candidates from IP Paris participating in the national semi-final of "Ma Thèse en 180 secondes" competition, has qualified for the final on Friday, March 29, 2024. Join us in Nice on June 5, 2024!

The International Center for French Language and Culture will award the prizes for the "Nouvelles Avancées 2024" contest on Thursday, April 25th, at the Pantheon in Paris. While awaiting to find out the fortunate winners, discover the list of finalists.

Michèle Wigger, professor at Télécom Paris, has been awarded an ERC Consolidator grant for her project on the fundamental limits of sensing systems (FLoSS). The calculation of these theoretical limits is at the heart of Michèle Wigger's work at the Information Processing and Communications Laboratory (LTCI*). The purpose of her research is to help to understand and improve systems designed in practice, in particular for the Internet of Things or autonomous vehicles or robots.

Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris) is proud to announce the second edition of its entrepreneurship night, INNOV'NIGHT. A night dedicated to entrepreneurship and innovation, which will take place from Thursday, April 25 to Friday, April 26, from 6:30 PM until 9:00 AM, on the campus of Institut Polytechnique de Paris, at Télécom Paris.

Dear BME Community, The graduate biomedical engineering students are eager to celebrate with you the launch of the BME Student Club at IP Paris, which we are opening in close collaboration with the E4H Center. We are happy to invite you to our cocktail...

The culture of success and self-improvement is everywhere in our society. From political discourse to fiction and the world of work, it's impossible to escape it. Researcher at the Institut Interdisciplinaire de l'Innovation (I3-CRG* - Institut Polytechnique de Paris), Olivier Fournout has been investigating this field for 10 years. In particular, he has highlighted the links between Hollywood cinema and management manuals**. Today, Nicolas Girard-Michelotti's play Kenneth Apocalypse has emerged from this field of research. It highlights the place of artistic creation in science.

In his keynote speech on March 1, 2024 at the Paris-Saclay Summit - Choose Science, Thierry Coulhon, acting president of Institut Polytechnique de Paris, praised the success of the Plateau's science and technology cluster, before outlining the challenges and opportunities for excellence in France on an international scale.

As part of the French Language and Francophonie (French-speaking Communities) World Week, IP Paris' International Center for French Language and Culture is organizing an International Francophonie Day on March 19, 2024, from 1pm to 6pm at École Polytechnique. With a special guest, French-Algerian writer Kamel Daoud.

Fausto Sirotti, CNRS Research Director at the Condensed Matter Physics Laboratory at École Polytechnique, was elected Chairman of the Academic Council of the Institut Polytechnique de Paris on February 28. He replaces Chantal Schültz, whose term of office had come to an end.

How will technology shape democracy in 2024? This is the theme chosen by EuroTech, a strategic partnership of six leading European science and technology universities, for its annual conference. The event will take place in Brussels on Wednesday, March 6, three months before the European elections. Among the speakers will be Thierry Coulhon, Acting Chairman of the Board of IP Paris, of which the Institute is a member.

Supported by the French Ministry of the Armed Forces and the Defense Innovation Agency, the Centre Interdisciplinaire d'Études pour la Défense et la Sécurité - CIEDS (Interdisciplinary Center for Defense and Security Studies) at the Institut Polytechnique de Paris announces the launch of the "Distributed Intelligence" challenge, Edition 2023, as well as its presentation session. This challenge is a simulation-based drone swarm programming competition, on topics with real impact!

Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris) is an academic partner of the first Paris-Saclay Summit - Choose Science, organized on February 29 and March 1 under the patronage of the weekly magazine Le Point, the Île-de-France Region and the Communauté d'agglomération Paris-Saclay. The aim of this international event is to place science at the heart of our society and demonstrate its crucial role in the environmental, economic and societal challenges we face.