On February 19, the President of the Institut Polytechnique de Paris visited ENSTA Bretagne in Brest. The visit was part of the planned merger of ENSTA Paris and ENSTA Bretagne, which is to take place in 2025. This transformation, which will see ENSTA expand its training offer across the two campuses, involves the addition of new disciplines at IP Paris, in particular marine engineering, as well as a number of other scientific activities that respond to a wide range of industrial challenges.
Thierry Coulhon visited the ENSTA Bretagne campus in Brest, accompanied by Laurent Giovachini, President of ENSTA Paris and newly appointed Interim President of ENSTA Bretagne, Elisabeth Crépon, Managing Director of ENSTA Paris, Laurent El Kaim, Deputy Director of Training and Research at ENSTA Paris, and Jean-François Semblat, Head of the Mechanics and Energetics Department at IP Paris. They were welcomed by Bruno Gruselle, Managing Director of ENSTA Bretagne, and his teams. François Houllier, Chairman and CEO of Ifremer, also joined them for the afternoon’s discussions.
The President of IP Paris visited the school and its research center, including the Mechanical Sciences Laboratory (IRDL) and the Information Sciences and Technologies Laboratory (Lab-STICC). He praised the originality of the Brest campus, with its strong focus on marine engineering, major defense and security systems, and high-tech industries in mobility, energy, aerospace, and embedded digital technologies.
This visit comes at a time when the two ENSTA schools, which have the status of EPSCP-GE (major public scientific, cultural and professional institution) under the supervision of the French Ministry of the Armed Forces, are preparing for their merger, the first stage of which will be the administrative merger on January 1, 2025, followed by the first start of the joint engineering program in September 2026.
The new ENSTA will combine the strengths and expertise of the two ENSTA campuses in Brest and Palaiseau within IP Paris to meet the major industrial and societal challenges of today’s sovereignty sectors: defense and security, energy, transport and mobility, healthcare, maritime and digital.
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