ANR JCJC IChar

Image-based Characterisation of extreme dynamic solid-state flows This research project, funded by the French National Research Agency (ANR), is a Young Researcher project (JCJC) led by Rian Seghir, CNRS Research Scientist, in collaboration with Professors Thomas Heuzé (ENIB, Brest) and Guillaume Racineux, and research engineer Xiadong Liu at GeM, Centrale…

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Additive4Rail Project

Redesign and additive manufacturing of a TGV bogie side frame demonstrator As part of the Additive4Rail project, funded under Bpifrance’s CORIFER call for expressions of interest (AMI) and bringing together SNCF, Centrale Nantes, VLM Robotics and 4Dpioneers, the team from the RAPMAN platform at the GeM laboratory (Centrale Nantes) has…

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Forvia Faurecia – Centrale Nantes Chair

Industrial composites for automotive applications Forvia Faurecia, École Centrale de Nantes and the Centrale Nantes Foundation have signed an agreement establishing an international research chair on “Industrial Composites for Automotive Applications”. Signed for a five-year term, the agreement provides support for four PhD students and eight Master’s students. Forvia Faurecia…

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CPER PRIIC – MER

Integrated Regional Platform for Marine Construction Engineering The Integrated Regional Platform for Marine Construction Engineering, commonly known as PRIIC‐MER, is part of the 2015–2020 State-Region Planning Contract (CPER). This integrated platform project aims to strengthen, through dedicated equipment, areas of excellence relating to the degradation, behaviour and instrumentation of offshore…

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CPER MAPE

Distributed Materials–Processes–Energy development platform for the industry of the future     MAPE is an equipment project funded under the State-Region Planning Contract (CPER), a funding programme for regional development. The CPER comprises four thematic strands; MAPE falls within the one focused on supporting the transitions needed to make our…

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ERC Advanced Grant 2025

ERC  “MASSTICK” Cracks: when inertia changes everything Backed by an ERC Advanced Grant, Julien Réthoré is launching the MASSTICK project. His goal: to rethink our understanding of material failure by exploring an avenue that remains largely overlooked, namely the role of inertia in crack propagation. Funding reserved for the boldest…

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EDYCEM – Centrale Nantes Chair

For sustainable construction. Presentation of the chair’s focus areas by Olivier Collin (CEO, EDYCEM), Daniel Robin (HERIGE), Jean-Baptiste Avrillier (Director, Centrale Nantes), Ahmed Loukili (Professor at GeM, Centrale Nantes, and chairholder), Walid Chebbi (Technical & Innovation Director, EDYCEM), Emmanuel Rozière (Professor, GeM-Centrale Nantes), Sonia Boudache (Research Engineer, GeM-Centrale Nantes), and…

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ANR PRCI CLIP

Cohesive LIPschitz – On the modeling of space debris formed by dynamic satellite fragmentation This research project, funded by the French National Research Agency (ANR), is part of an International Collaborative Research Project (PRCI) between the team of Professor Jean-François Molinari from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and…

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