News at Centrale Nantes

The KIVO incubator has opened applications for its two support programmes starting in January 2027. Submit your application by 15 November 2026.

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

On 4 November 2026, from 7 pm to 10 pm, Centrale Nantes and the student association Egal'IT are hosting an evening event dedicated to gender diversity in science.

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

Join us on 17 December 2026 for the first conference in the 2026/2027 series of the Ecological Transition Mornings.

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

Compositional networks for nonlinear dimensionality reduction and operator learning : application to parameter-dependant PDEs

Generative digital tools applied to architecture: workflows put to the test by the emergence of Artificial Intelligence

Every year, Centrale Nantes welcomes students from all over the world. In 2026, the school expanded its ‘Buddy Programme’, which is run by students and designed to encourage interaction between French and international students.

The KIVO incubator has opened applications for its two support programmes starting in January 2027. Submit your application by 15 November 2026.

Experimental and numerical modelling of short-crested breaking waves

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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.