News at Centrale Nantes

The EU-funded Ocean DEMO project 4th call opens on 4 June 2021. Successful applicants will receive free access to test their ocean energy products and services in real sea environments at the project’s network of test centres.

The GeM (Research Institute in Civil and Mechanical Engineering) is organising the 7th Photomechanics IDICS Conference, which will be held from 3 to 5 November 2021 at the Cité des Congrès de Nantes.

The 2021 graduation ceremony will be held at the Cité Nantes Event Center on Friday 3 December from 2:00 pm - subject to health-related restrictions in place at the time.

Last June, as part of the SafeWAVE project, an offshore operation was conducted at SEM-REV with the project partner RTSYS, with the objective of collecting data near the WAVEGEM wave platform.

DNV, the independent energy expert and assurance provider, will lead the process safety study to identify the main environmental, safety and operational risks for the world's first offshore hydrogen production facilities.

Jean-Baptiste Avrillier, who was appointed Director of Centrale Nantes in July 2020, took over the position of President of the Centrale-Audencia-Ensa Nantes alliance on 12 July 2021. In accordance with the principle of rotating presidency, he succeeds Christophe Germain, Director of Audencia.

As part of the CPER Nemo project, two major upgrades are underway for the LHEEA's hydrodynamics and ocean engineering experimental facilities, located on the Centrale Nantes campus.

Centrale Nantes and Forssea Robotics are happy to announce their collaboration in the Offshore Wind Market survey field.

Following on from Prof. Alain Bernard's appointment to the Académie des technologies and Prof. Nicolas Moës's appointment to the Académie des sciences, Centrale Nantes wishes to reflect on the place of science and technology in the training of tomorrow's engineers.

" Étude d'un robot d'assistance pour la chirurgie endoscopique otologique et sinusienne"
(Study of robotic assistance for endoscopic otologic and sinus surgery)

"Numerical improvement and validation of a naval hydrodynamics CFD solver in view of performing fast and accurate simulation of complex ship-wave interaction"

"Vers une représentation sensible du vent à l'aide d'un environnement virtuel"
(Towards a sensitive representation of wind using a virtual environment).

" Gestion d'énergie optimisée pour véhicule hybride série " (Optimised energy management for standard hybrid vehicles)

On Friday 2 July, France 24 broadcast a feature on offshore wind energy in France. Meet Bertrand Alessandrini, a marine engineering researcher at Centrale Nantes, in the LHEEA Laboratory.

Startup FARWIND ENERGY has tested its wind-powered sailing ship prototype on Vioreau lake near Joué sur Erdre in Loire-Atlantique.

" Modélisation paramétrique de l'hyperémie fonctionnelle en IRMf ASL comme un mélange de sources " (Parametric modelling of functional hyperaemia in ASL fMRI as a mixture of sources)

Meet the people behind the research at Centrale Nantes in our new series of video interviews. In our third edition we meet Diana Mateus, professor in the Laboratory of Digital Sciences of Nantes (LS2N).

Jessy Simon, a PhD student in the Research Institute in Civil and Mechanical Engineering (GeM), received 2nd Prize for the best thesis at the 22nd Journées Nationales des Composites (JNC - National Composites Day), which took place online from 28 to 30 June 2021.

Congratulations to Centrale Nantes alumnus Erwan Jacquin who received the Henri Kummerman 2020 Ship Design and Operation Award from the French Marine Academy earlier this month.

"Approximation et réduction de modèle pour les équations aux dérivées partielles avec interprétation probabiliste "
(Model approximation and reduction for partial differential equations with probabilistic interpretation)

Congratulations to Antonella, Aurélien, Benjamin, Chloé, Etienne and Safae who impressed the SoliTudiant challenge jury during the final on 24 June! They received the "Coup de Coeur de la Transition Ecologique" prize for their P2E project "Feasibility study of an eco-solidarity activity" with a €5,000 prize for the ESAT de la Cholière.