News at Centrale Nantes
Upcoming events
- Applications are open for our Master of Science (MSc) programmes!October 29, 2025 - December 15, 2025Our online applications platform is now open for the September 2026 intake! Submit your complete application by 15 December 2025 to be considered in the first round.
- Graduation Ceremony - Class of 2025December 12, 2025Future graduates, parents, families, alumni, teachers, institution and industry representatives will come together at the La Cité Nantes Congress Centre for the graduation ceremony on Friday 12 December 2025.
- Join the online open day for Mechanics of Sustainable Materials and Structures (MS²) on 16 DecemberDecember 16, 2025Register to attend the live session on 16 December at 2pm to find out all you need to know about the Mechanics of Sustainable Materials and Structures (MS²) programme which is taught jointly by TU Dortmund University (Germany), the University of Trento (Italy) and Centrale Nantes.
- Centrale Nantes Open Day: join us on campus on Saturday 31 January 2026January 31, 2026Centrale Nantes is opening its doors to future students to find out more about the school, its courses, admission opportunities, campus and projects.See you on Saturday 31 January 2026 from 1 to 5pm.Free admission.
Latest news
- PhD thesis defense - Dania KABALAN - ED SISDecember 5, 2025Physical-chemical and mechanical performances of cement-based materials and fiber reinforced polymers in composite structures exposed to environmental actions
- Conference - What is happening to the ocean (and what can we do about it)? with Marina LévyDecember 4, 2025The Ecological Transition Mornings are back for a new season. This year's theme: Water and climate change: from sharing to adaptation strategies.
- Model-Based Design Seminar on 4 December at Centrale NantesDecember 4, 2025Mathworks (publisher of Matlab software) and the Laboratory of Digital Sciences of Nantes (LS2N) are organising a seminar at Centrale Nantes on Thursday 4 December.
- PhD thesis defense - Devasmito DAS - ED SISDecember 4, 2025Coupled Network of Fractional Operators
- ‘Recent developments in laboratory testing of geomaterials with emphasis on imaging processes’: a seminar with Cino ViggianiDecember 2, 2025Cino Viggiani, Professor at the 3SR Laboratory, Grenoble Alpes University is visiting Centrale Nantes at the invitation of the Research Institute in Civil and Mechanical Engineering (GeM).
- PhD thesis defense - Mathilde THEUNISSEN - ED SISDecember 2, 2025Design of Robust Multi-robot Formations for Collaborative Localization and Navigation
- PhD thesis defense - Charlotte BEAUNE - ED SISDecember 1, 2025Collaborative Navigation of Autonomous Mobile Robots in Dynamic and Connected Environments
- E-PiCo+ Consortium at the 2025 Erasmus Mundus Annual ConferenceDecember 1, 2025The 2025 Erasmus Mundus Annual Conference took place on 20–21 November 2025 at the EGG Brussels. Prof. Madalin-Corneliu FRUNZETE attended this event on behalf of the E-PiCo+ Consortium.
- Centrale Nantes reaffirms its commitment to the inclusion of LGBTQIA+ students and re-signs L'Autre Cercle's LGBTQIA+ Charter of CommitmentNovember 28, 2025Reflecting the school's commitment to CSR and its desire to promote diversity and prevent discrimination, Centrale Nantes has re-signed L'Autre Cercle Charter of LGBTQIA+ Commitment for Higher Education, a French association promoting an inclusive workplace for LGBTQIA+ professionals and students.
- PhD thesis defense - Flore LEBRETON - ED SISNovember 27, 2025A study of end-of-life fibreboards: their characteristics and availability in Europe
- Nantes University (including Centrale Nantes), first and only French university ranked in ocean engineering in the Shanghai's Global Ranking of Academic SubjectsNovember 21, 2025The Shanghai 2025 "Marine/Ocean Engineering" GRAS ranks Nantes Université, which includes Centrale Nantes, France's leader player in ocean engineering, in the top 75 worldwide. This makes it the first and only French institution in this ranking, which lists the world's 100 best universities per academic subject.
- PhD thesis defense - Maria SARKIS - ED SISNovember 21, 2025Spatial-aware Graph-based Representations for EEG Signals Classification
- PhD thesis defense - Modan TAILLEUR - ED SISNovember 20, 2025Large-Scale Monitoring of Acoustic Sources Based on Data-Driven Approaches for Urban Soundscape Analysis, Visualization and Summarization
- Centrale Nantes is hosting a workshop on the Dynamic Fragmentation of SolidsNovember 19, 2025 - November 20, 2025The Research Institute in Civil and Mechanical Engineering (GeM) is organising a workshop on the dynamic fragmentation of solids - at Centrale Nantes on 19 and 20 November 2025.
- Chronicles of everyday sexism: an evening at Centrale Nantes with Marine PétrolineNovember 18, 2025One-woman show and debate evening at Centrale Nantes with Marine Petroline (event in French)
- PhD thesis defense - Nour HACHEM - ED SISNovember 18, 2025Analysis of data identification and generation methods for data-driven approaches in solid mechanics
- PhD thesis defense - Claire MONIN - ED SISNovember 17, 2025A time-domain Rankine panel method using multi-resolution meshes for the simulation of seakeeping with forward speed
- Join us for a webinar on our Bachelor of Science programmeNovember 14, 2025Are you a high school student looking for a world-class bachelor programme engineering in France? Join us online for a webinar for all you need to know about our BSc in Engineering.
