The Best Young Economist Award, created in 2000 by the French newspaper Le Monde and the Cercle des économistes, singles out the work of a French economist, or an economist working in France, under the age of 41. It acknowledges the academic excellence of the candidates, but also aims to highlight their ability to address the present economic and social realities, and to provide solutions to the most pressing issues.
École Polytechnique organized a five-day boot camp for the 35 postdoctoral researchers enrolled in the EuroTech Postdoc2 fellowship program. From April 17-21, 2023, the participants joined the campus from across Europe to meet their peers and take part in several workshops designed to support them in their future careers.
In recognition of the high quality of École Polytechnique's French as a foreign language courses, the interministerial commission has renewed the attribution of the label Qualité FLE (Français Langue Étrangère) for the School's 'French as Foreign Language' department, grading top marks for all criteria.
Among the finalists for the McCall MacBain scholarship, Elsa Tanré, who studies in the Ingénieur Polytechnicien program (X20), represented École Polytechnique with distinction and has been awarded a scholarship of 20,000 Canadian dollars.
Christine Lagarde, president of the European Central Bank (ECB), discussed with students of École Polytechnique and of the Institut Polytechnique de Paris. She underlined three key challenges for the coming years : the ongoing transformation of globalization, the consequences, including for monetary policy, of digital technologies and global warming.
Thirteen of the Eiffel excellence scholarships 2023 are granted to international students of École Polytechnique. Five additional students are on the complementary list for this prestigious scholarship awarded by the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs and may add to the excellent result. Beyond the excellence of the students, the distinction also illustrates the global renown of the School, attracting the best international students to its degree programs.
The French Minister for Industry, Roland Lescure, brought together the heads of the 50 industrial sites with the highest greenhouse gas emissions. They detailer their strategy for reducing their emissions by nearly 50% by 2030.
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Presiding the EuroTech Universities Alliance in 2022-2023, École Polytechnique organized the "EuroTech Universities: An alliance working for global sustainability" symposium on March 28, 2023. The event brought together researchers, professors, and the leadership from the EuroTech Alliance's six European partner universities.
The French Chemists Tournament 2023, organized at École Polytechnique, brought together nine teams from nine different French higher education institutions. Derived from the format of the International Physicists' Tournament, TFChim is opened to higher education students in chemistry.
Sixteen École Polytechnique’s alumni and students appear in the 2023 edition of the French think tank Institut Choiseul ranking of business leaders under 40. Seven of them are in the Top 100.
The founding partner institutions of Alliance, including École Polytechnique, celebrated the 20th anniversary of their international collaboration on March 13, 2023, in Paris. On the occasion, a conference on climate change brought together internationally renowned researchers from the four partner universities who discussed the real impact and limitations of different economic tools aimed at direct decisions towards more sustainable solutions.
One year after the publication of École Polytechnique’s Climate Plan and its commitment to put sustainable development at the heart of its fundamental missions of education, research and innovation, the realization of its ten objectives is well under way.
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