For its first edition, the "One Ocean Summit" global event will be held in Brest on February 9-11, 2022.
As the European capital of marine sciences, Brest is home to an outstanding maritime community, which includes ENSTA Bretagne.
As the European capital of marine sciences, Brest is home to an outstanding maritime community, which includes ENSTA Bretagne.
Announced by the President of the Republic last fall (Brest to host the "One Ocean Summit", article in French), this international gathering will bring scientists, economic and regional stakeholders together alongside the United Nations for 3 days.
Preservation of the oceans and the framework for protecting the high seas will be at the top of the agenda.
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Brest, European capital of marine sciences
Brest has been selected to host this event, organized in conjunction with the United Nations and the World Bank, in the context of France’s presidency of the Council of the European Union.
1,770 people work in the maritime research sector in Brest. This maritime community involves such public and private stakeholders as Ifremer, Cedre, the French Polar Institute, universities and grandes écoles – ENSTA Bretagne among them. They all form part of the Campus mondial de la mer, France’s foremost marine science and technology community, aimed at making Brest and Brittany a leading global hub for the study and promotion of the seas and oceans, and the platform of a strong and sustainable maritime economy.
ENSTA Bretagne: French State Graduate, Post-Graduate Engineering School and Research Institute for mobility, defense and maritime innovation helping to shape the companies of tomorrow
Steeped in two centuries’ worth of history, ENSTA Bretagne trains civil and military engineers in Brest and conducts multidisciplinary research activities. The school nurtures close ties with the marine engineering sector, which employs 50% of its young graduates and represents more than half of its research programs, in the mechanical sciences or information technologies.
Long-standing education for engineers and experts of the maritime sector
Every year, some 300 engineers and experts (with Master’s and Specialized Advanced Master’s degrees as well as PhDs) graduate from the school and are immediately snapped up to occupy a variety of roles. With half of these roles in the maritime sector, our graduates thus help the latter to thrive now and in the future.
There is a common purpose uniting their profiles: to contribute to innovation projects, in design, R&D, measurements & tests or program management.
In addition to engineering degrees, Master’s degrees and Specialized Advanced Masters, the school organizes courses dedicated to professionals as part of continuing professional development.
The school holds strong appeal. For 20 years, it has been attracting a growing number of students and doctoral students from all over France and abroad. In the space of two decades, the number of graduates per year has increased threefold.
1,000 students are enrolled at ENSTA Bretagne and there are over 300 graduates every year (from the engineering and Master’s courses as well as with PhDs) in sea-related fields of excellence: naval architecture, marine renewable energies, systems on observation and knowledge of the marine environment, autonomous maritime drones, etc.
An academic summit on the sidelines of One Ocean Summit
An academic summit is also being organized, which will include a contribution by an ENSTA Bretagne PhD student and engineer. She is delighted to have been selected for this event!
At the request of Olivier Poivre d'Arvor, Ambassador for the Poles and Special Envoy of the President of the Republic for the organization of One Ocean Summit, this academic summit must encourage contributions from young maritime science researchers.
Perrine Bauchot*, 2021 graduate having majored in Hydrography-Oceanography and a PhD student at ENSTA Bretagne, has been selected as one of the eight spokespeople of One Ocean Summit University. She will attend in person at Les Ateliers des Capucins where the summit is being held.
*Perrine’s academic career: Interested in the Earth Sciences and Physics, she specialized in Hydrography and Physical Oceanography on joining ENSTA Bretagne after taking a two-year undergraduate Preparatory Class in Physics & Chemistry. Her final internships gave her an insight into the world of research through the fields of Oceanography, Remote Sensing and Machine Learning. Earning a double degree in September 2021 as an ENSTA Bretagne engineer with a Research Master’s in Physical Oceanography - Data Sciences with the European Institute for Marine Sciences (IUEM) in Brest, she decided to embark on a PhD combining artificial intelligence and oceanography. On the ENSTA Bretagne campus, she has also been involved in the Board of European Students of Technology (BEST) club, an international association of engineering students.
ENSTA Bretagne: Training and research in Marine sciences, formation et recherche en sciences marines
Acclaimed, cutting-edge areas of expertise
Hydrography-oceanography, observation systems and Artificial Intelligence, mobile and autonomous robotics, embedded systems, naval architecture, marine renewable energies, maritime project management: these are all examples of ENSTA Bretagne’s areas of expertise that have gained renown across France and at global level. They support the development and innovation of the maritime sector and the Brittany region.
Fully involved in the blue economy, ENSTA Bretagne contributes to scores of projects aimed at enhancing environmental knowledge, developing marine renewable energies and improving the durability and eco-design of vessels and naval platforms.
ENSTA Bretagne also plays a role in Europe’s strategic autonomy by supporting France’s defense sectors, both by training executives in the sector and through its research activities for the benefit of defense stakeholders.
Advanced research on civil and military applications
ENSTA Bretagne’s research teams are part of jointly supervised academic laboratories (IRDL, Lab-STICC, FoAP) and research facilities shared with industry. Their studies focus on broad applications, military and civil alike, including a significant proportion in the maritime technologies.
The research center boasts unprecedented experimental facilities for characterizing phenomena and validating scientific findings, in the mechanical sciences (behavior of materials and assemblies in the marine environment) and information technologies (cyber center, anechoic chamber, robotics pool, hydrographic vehicles, drone systems and more).
A great many partners are involved in the regional, national and international research programs, which are funded by the State, particularly the Ministry for the Armed Forces (ENSTA Bretagne’s supervisory authority is the French Government Defense Procurement and Technology Agency (DGA)), Europe, local authorities (Region of Brittany, Département of Finistère, Brest metropole, etc.) as well as the many partner companies.
An "ENSTARTUPS" incubator providing innovation support and guidance
ENSTARTUPS, ENSTA Bretagne’s incubator, hosts a dozen or so entrepreneurs with plans to start up a business, often inspired by sustainable maritime development and protection of the marine environment (upcycling marine sediments and used fishing nets, eco-design of a ship, development of the hydrogen sector, diving instruments). They are given guidance and advice at every stage of their development. New start-ups flourish every year.
A vast network of partners
ENSTA Bretagne benefits from a vast network thanks to the countless partnerships it has forged with large corporations, SMEs and start-ups as well as public research organizations, institutions, graduate schools and universities both in France and worldwide. It leads initiatives to federate stakeholders based in Brittany and make an active contribution to the growth of the defense and civil maritime sectors within France and beyond its borders.
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