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12.06.24
EuroTeQaThon 2024: L’X welcomed the participants from nine European partner institutions
École Polytechnique hosted the international competition EuroTeQathon, which brought together more than 130 students, teachers, and experts on June 8-10, 2024. Aligned with this year’s theme, “Enhance Connections for a Sustainable Future,” the participants developed projects proposing innovative solutions to specific environmental and social challenges and pitched them to a jury of experts in entrepreneurship and innovation.
Chairs, Research
Moyen
29.05.24
Econophysics, a new approach to economics
In November 2023, the “Econophysics & Complex Systems” Chair was celebrating its 5th anniversary, a good time for the EconophysiX research team led by Michael Benzaquen to take stock. Find out more about this discipline, which approaches economics using methods derived from the natural sciences.
Corporate relations
28.05.24
Five École Polytechnique’s start-ups join the Next 40 2024
A quarter of the start-ups in the Next 40 2024 and 7 of the 30 French unicorns were created by X alumni or supported by X-UP, the School's incubator.
Research
Moyen
28.05.24
MERGE: biology through A+B
How does a bacterial line behave in the face of a cocktail of antibiotics, cancer cells in the face of chemotherapy, or the Guyanese forest in the face of climate change? At the Center for Applied Mathematics (CMAP), the MERGE team works at the interface between biology and mathematics. It contributes to the emergence of new questions and tools in the latter field, while shedding light on the problems faced by biologists.
Corporate relations
24.05.24
Thirteen X start-ups at VivaTech 2024
The thirteen X start-ups are among the 28 high-impact start-ups from the Institut Polytechnique de Paris' innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem presented on the IP Paris stand at Vivatech 2024.
Institution
22.05.24
AI: €70 million for the “Hi! PARIS Cluster 2030” project led by IP Paris and HEC Paris
A consortium led by the Institut Polytechnique de Paris, of which X is a founding member, and HEC Paris has won a €70 million call for IA Cluster projects. This collective success will have numerous spin-offs for the X laboratories involved in the Hi! PARIS Interdisciplinary Center for Artificial Intelligence and Data Analysis.
International
22.05.24
Fourteen X students among the winners of the Excellence Eiffel Scholarship 2024
Awarded by the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs, the Eiffel scholarships benefit international students who have distinguished themselves through academic excellence. Fourteen international students of École Polytechnique are among the recipients of the Eiffel Excellence Scholarships 2024, illustrating the global reputation of l’X.
Research
10.05.24
SInfoNiA: modeling information, modeling the intangible
Financial crises, currency attacks, social stability... our world's economic activity is particularly sensitive to information and the way it circulates. Led by Olivier Gossner, Research Director at the Center for Research in Economics and Statistics (CREST) and winner of an ERC Advanced Grant from the European Union in 2024, the SInfoNiA project analyzes how the dissemination of information impacts collective choices.
Education
02.05.24
An École Polytechnique's team ranked in the 46th ICPC world finals
A team from École Polytechnique is among the finalists of the world's most prestigious student programming contest, the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC). The X finalists had already distinguished themselves at the ICPC's Southwestern Europe Regional Constest (SWERC) 2021-2022.
International
24.04.24
L’X and the Polytechnic University of Milan strengthen their partnership
Convinced of the substantial value their double degree in mathematics and physics has provided for students at both institutions since its launch in 2011, École Polytechnique and the Polytechnic of Milan renewed the agreement for another five years. What’s more, in response to the request from the students, the double-degree program has been extended to the Faculty of Architecture at the Polytechnic University of Milan, enabling students to also specialize in this field, which accounts considerably for the Italian institution’s excellent reputation.
International
23.04.24
University Presidents of the U7+ Alliance campaign for Inclusive Education
The Presidential Summit of the international alliance U7+, in which École Polytechnique is a founding member, took place at Bocconi University in Italy from April 11 to 12, 2024. Laura Chaubard, Director General and Acting President of École Polytechnique, attended the conference, which brought together the presidents and executives of over 80 universities worldwide to focus on this year’s theme "Inclusive Education for Inclusive Societies". The summit concluded with a formal statement on Global Access to Higher Education, also calling on the G7 to collaborate in four key areas.
Education
23.04.24
École Polytechnique in the world's Top 20 for higher education in digital – THE
École Polytechnique ranks 18th worldwide in the “Digital Leaders in Higher Education” ranking compiled by Emerging for Times Higher Education (THE). It ranks 14th worldwide in the “Computer Science” category, 23rd in the “Management of Digital Transformation” category and 24th in the “Digital Entrepreneurship” category.