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The event will take place from 4 to 6 November in Nantes.

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The event will take place on 17 and 18 November 2026 in Saint-Malo.

Future graduates, parents, families, alumni, teachers, institution and industry representatives will come together at in the new LAPS hall for the graduation ceremony on Friday 19 March 2027.

Experimental and numerical study of the hydrodynamic pump PoHyCA

Study of wave energy converter exploiting the orbital motion of an eccentric mass

Battery pack design methodology : systemic approach and decision support

From October 5 to 7, 2026, Centrale Nantes will host the Computing and Data Days: a scientific and technical conference on computing and data.

Centrale Nantes is positioned in the top 700 in the latest Times Higher Education World University Rankings out on 30 September. At the national level, the school is the 6th ranked engineering school.

Shipping decarbonisation : long term energy simulation of the global fleet for the development of transition pathways

Characterization and modelling of the mechanical behaviour of synthetic mooring lines for floating wind turbines

The 8th edition of the event dedicated to art, culture, and digital heritage in Nantes will take place on September 22, 2026, at the Nantes History Museum.

The Shanghai 2026 "Marine/Ocean Engineering" GRAS ranks Nantes Université, which includes Centrale Nantes, France's leader player in ocean engineering, in the top 50 worldwide. This makes it the first and only French institution in this ranking, which lists the world's 100 best universities per academic subject.

Researcher at Centrale Nantes in the Laboratory of Digital Sciences of Nantes (LS2N), Mira Rizkallah is a laureate of the JCJC (Jeunes Chercheuses et Jeunes Chercheurs - Young Researchers) call for project organized by the ANR for her SYNAPSE project.

We catch up with scientists from the LHEEA, accompanied by researchers from the MIO (Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography), with a small trimaran named Ocarina, for two research expeditions off the coast of Belle-Île-en-Mer.

Small cracks propagation in interaction with the microstructure

Each year, Centrale Nantes chooses a class patron for its incoming students. They welcome the students at the start of the academic year and support them throughout their studies, right up to graduation.

Centrale Nantes is inviting applications to appoint, to the governing boards of the school – which are due to be renewed from December 2026 – individuals from outside the institution who represent the business sector, scientific or cultural organisations, and major public services.

Five first-year students from Centrale Nantes spent several months working with the author Sophie Adriansen and La Mutinerie, an organisation specialising in cultural mediation and literature, on the writing of Nothing Dramatic (Rien de dramatique in French), a short novel designed to raise awareness of discrimination, stereotypes and normalised behaviours. To mark the start of the academic year, the book was presented and distributed to new students in the presence of the author.

Nantes University has published its second annual report, which reviews the projects and collective achievements carried out between 2024 and 2026.

Implicit Neural Representations for Lower-Limb Muscle Segmentation and Shape Analysis.

Kartikey, a Senior Scientist at the Institute of High Performance Computing A*STAR in Singapore is visiting the GeM laboratory from 15 to 17 July 2026.