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École Polytechnique bagged two silver medals at the SWERC (Southwestern Europe Regional Contest) programming competition, its teams ranking respectively 4th and 6th. SWERC is a 5-hour programming contest for teams of three students, focused on algorithmic problem solving and practical coding. It is…

The founders of two start-ups incubated at École Polytechnique’s incubator, X-Up, took part in the European Venture Program organized once a year as part of the EuroTech Universities Alliance, which includes École Polytechnique. This year’s edition of this entrepreneurship boot camp took place from…

The final international competition, EuroTeQaThon, took place at the Technical University of Munich from November 23 to 25, 2022. The event brought together the best teams from EuroTeQ Engineering University's member institutions, including two teams from École Polytechnique, who presented their in…

Nicolas Cruaud (X2016), co-founder of Néolithe, won the Ivy 2023 prize, and David Henri (X2013), co-founder of Extrotrail, was one of the finalists. Two distinctions that underline Ecole Polytechnique's dynamism in entrepreneurship and innovation.

Accenta develops smart storage of building energiesLaunched in 2016 by Pierre Trémolières and boosted by the X-Tech Centre, Accenta has developed a smart low-carbon boiler that allows inter-seasonal energy storage. By exploiting, for example, solar heat or heat recovered from air conditioning syste…

The European Innovation Council (EIC) has selected 68 innovative European companies for combined grant and equity funding. Inspek and Omini, two start-ups from École polytechnique's entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystem, are among them.

The research papers of two École Polytechnique students in the field of responsible investment has been distinguished by the Forum for Responsible Investment - Principles for Responsible Investment Awards, which recognize outstanding academic research in the field of finance and sustainable develop…

David Henri and Paul Lascombes, two of the four founders of Exotrail, are among the 300 under 30 selected by the European edition of Forbes magazine for their innovative projects that are transforming various sectors of the economy and innovating in areas of rapid technological change.

Optimisation of the shape of a 3-d hydraulic system for maximising heat transfer.Defended in 2019, the theses of Florian Feppon, a young researcher at the Centre for Applied Mathematics at École polytechnique (CMAP*) and Tomáš Jagelka, who completed his thesis at the Centre for Research in Economic…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yp6egT_v5lwÉcole Polytechnique is a founding member of the U7+ Alliance, which has been launched under the patronage of France’s President Emmanuel Macron at Sciences Po during the run-up to the G7 summit in 2019. A unique international alliance of university p…

According to a 2023 study, published yesterday in Communications Earth & Environment , global aviation carbon dioxide emissions increased by 1% in 2023 because planes had to fly longer routes to avoid Russian airspace.After Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, western airlines were banned f…

According to a 2023 study, published yesterday in Communications Earth & Environment, global aviation carbon dioxide emissions increased by 1% in 2023 because planes had to fly longer routes to avoid Russian airspace.After Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, western airlines were banned fr…

Xenon plasma, gas mixture consisting of electrons, ions and atoms, is of real interest for space propulsion. By ejecting gas at a speed ten times higher than a conventional chemical thruster, plasma thrusters require ten times less fuel. Nevertheless, although plasma thrusters are already operation…

Their dimensions and distances make most astrophysical phenomena inaccessible to experimentation. To better understand them, researchers use laboratory astrophysics, that is to say, they reproduce on a small scale the conditions in which different phenomena are formed or evolve. This month, the pre…

École Polytechnique signs a new mobility agreement with the prestigious University of Chicago, enabling undergraduate students of both institutions to enroll in an exchange semester at the respective partner university.