Environnement

IMT Atlantique is taking part in a vast project developed to optimize agricultural practices and adapt them to the new climate circumstances. Among other things, the institution is conducting research aimed to design efficient rainwater reserves to improve irrigation conditions.

Reducing the carbon footprint of the transport sector by developing a new certified biofuel for aviation from microalgae is the ambitious aim of the European COCPIT project led by the Energy Systems and Environment Department (DSEE) at IMT Atlantique (UMR CNRS 6144 GEPEA), which was officially launched in Nantes

With IMT Atlantique's new doctoral program, supported by the European Union and ten leading industrial and academic partners, 40 doctoral students will benefit from cutting-edge PhD training over the next five years. The innovation-driven program takes an interdisciplinary, cross-sectoral and international approach to better support major transformations.

Christophe Lerouge, president of IMT Atlantique, visited the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) at the end of August to congratulate the students of the first graduating class of the ME3+ (Erasmus Mundus in Management and Engineering of Environment and Energy) European Master's programme, who will receive their diplomas from IMT Atlantique on December 9th.

How can we monitor underground water tables? How can they be protected from various sources of pollution? What warning systems should be put in place? These questions are the subject of a major European research project: NINFA.

From December 8-11, six IMT Atlantique students participated in the GreenHack IT in Munich, a challenge gathering 60 future engineers from the Institut Mines-Télécom and the Technische Universität München (TUM). Two students from IMT Atlantique and their team were among the winners.

The PREVER platform offers innovative solutions and means to produce energy from residues of all kinds. It works in close collaboration with industrialists and carries out pilot projects for them.

Following on from their successful collaboration on the REMORA* project, IMT Atlantique and the global engineering group SEGULA Technologies have just confirmed the creation of LabCIS, a joint IMT Atlantique - SEGULA Laboratory.

This program of excellence, led by IMT Atlantique in partnership with four European universities, aims to train tomorrow's leaders in the fields of integrative renewable energies, the environment, the circular economy, smart cities and industry 4.0.