Diversity & Success Center

The Diversity & Sucess Center is the department of the School that organizes and coordinates programs in favor of equal opportunies.

It intervenes at various key stages of schooling, from 3rd grade to the scientific preparatory class.

Our target : the most vulnerable students, from areas that need it most: priority education, urban policy areas, overseas territories, isolated areas, etc.

Our mission : to enable them to dare, to enlighten them on other fields of possibility so that they can surpass themselves in the representation they have of ambition, work and success.

Thanks to the mobilization of its network, the center facilitates meetings and sharing between people from different backgrounds: Polytechnic students, middle school students, high school students, high school teachers, teachers and researchers from the École Centrale Paris, alumni networks...

Throughout the year, all of the actions are designed to inform, support, inspire and equip :

• Weekly tutoring of high school students
• Actions to promote scientific careers
• Organization of inspiring meetings
• Immersion in the world of a Grande École of engineering
• Support for scholarship students in scientific preparatory classes
• Visits to the École Polytechnique campus and the IP Paris schools
• Days dedicated to the representation of women in the scientific field
• Creation and provision of digital resources

• 25 000 middle school students, high school students and preparatory classes students
• 30 academies including overseas departement of France
• 800 students and professionals involved