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Discover OSE inGÉ and take part in this innovative support program for CPGE students

Publication Date

11 July 2025

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ISAE-SUPAERO Foundation

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Diversity program

Equal opportunities

ISAE-SUPAERO Foundation

OSE ISAE-SUPAERO

OSE inGÉ in a nutshell

OSE inGÉ aims to promote student diversity (social, cultural, territorial and gender) in access to the Grandes Ecoles and the world of engineering. The scheme is aimed at female students and/or those on grants throughout their CPGE course, to help them build their plans for the future and develop their ambitions. It helps to combat self-censorship, build self-confidence and encourage the development of all potential and talent.

The commitments of the scheme

Support students throughout their CPGE years, right up to the competitive entrance exams
Guide them in developing their career plans and aspirations
Help them prepare for the oral exams

Help them to gain a better understanding of the world of the grandes écoles, scientific careers and the world of engineering
Encourage them to discover and exploit their full potential
Help them with the logistics of taking the orals

Key figures

In 2022-2023: 42 first-year CPGE science students from 3 Toulouse high schools and 42 alumni mentors!

In 2023-2024: 30 second-year CPGE students and 49 first-year CPGE students from 6 high schools in Toulouse, 76 alumni mentors!

In 2024-2025: 44 second-year CPGE students and 70 students from the Toulouse and Montpellier academies, nearly 100 alumni mentors!

In 2025-2026: 60 second-year CPGE students and 70 students from the Toulouse and Montpellier academies, nearly 120 alumni mentors!

Our goal by 2026: to have supported 250 students from the time they start CPGE to the time they pass their competitive entrance exams!

The programme

Tailor-made mentoring

Students receive personalised, one-to-one support from an alumni mentor, depending on their availability and needs. They are supported right up to the competitive entrance exams by an alumnus of one of the schools involved who, thanks to his or her experience, support and listening skills, helps them to answer their questions and confirm their choices. The mentors receive training from experts to provide the best possible support for CPGE students under this scheme.

Immersion courses on campus

During their 2 years of CPGE, students are welcomed on campus four times. These placements are an opportunity to :

discover the campuses of higher education establishments,
talk to former CPGE students and professionals with inspiring backgrounds,
meet their mentors
consolidate their knowledge and
learn how to manage their CPGE years more effectively.

One-off initiatives

Once a year, an evening meeting with professionals is organised at each partner school.

7 partner high schools for 2024-2025

For this new academic year, we are continuing our commitment by opening 70 places in 2025 to first-year CPGE students from 7 schools in the Toulouse and Montpellier academies:

Lycées Déodat de Séverac, Pierre de Fermat and Bellevue in Toulouse,
Lycées Théophile Gautier and Jean Dupuy in Tarbes,
Lycée Joffre in Montpellier,
Lycée Alfonse Daudet in Nîmes

In addition to OSE inGÉ, today OSE l’ISAE-SUPAERO also means every year: 1,100 secondary school pupils benefiting, 36 schools in the Toulouse and Montpellier academies, more than 120 ISAE-SUPAERO students volunteering, more than 2,500 secondary school pupils met, and numerous projects.

It was Supaero that gave me my wings. Giving these young people a chance and giving them a little extra motivation is the best thing we can do.

Thomas Pesquet S2001 and sponsor of the ISAE-SUPAERO OSE programme

Programme de tutorat OSE l'ISAE-SUPAERO

Joint testimony from Samuel Falcou, general engineering student at ISAE-SUPAERO, and Tristan Ducéré, high school student at Toulouse-Lautrec

Publication Date

22 April 2025

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Diversity program

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Testimonial

Interview with Samuel Falcou and Tristan Ducéré

ISAE-SUPAERO OSE tutoring programme

Tristan, can you tell us about your tutoring?

T.D. I wanted to be tutored because I want to have every chance of succeeding in my studies thanks to the homework help offered by ISAE-SUPAERO students. I’m also really motivated by the team spirit generated by tutoring!

My plans are to work on my specialities (Science-Economics and Social Studies, but also History-Geography-Geopolitics and Science-Politics) with as many people as possible so that they can help me, support me and give me their knowledge of these subjects.

My tutoring was carried out with a great deal of understanding and professionalism on the part of the tutors, but also on the part of the teachers around us. The ease with which the tutors are able to put themselves at our level increases our self-confidence and our desire to persevere.

What did you learn from this experience?

T.D. I’ve learnt that there’s strength in numbers and that helping each other is a good way of achieving your goals. Knowing that most of the tutors are young people like us reassures us and encourages us to work and continue our studies.

What message would you like to give to young people like yourself who might be hesitant about taking the plunge?

T.D. I’d tell them not to hesitate and that it brings a lot more than it asks. Tutoring is a much less formal form of learning than classroom lessons, as the tutors and teachers are not there to assess us but to help us.

After 2 years of preparatory studies in Lyon, Samuel Falcou, now a 2nd year student, explains why he got involved in tutoring high school students.

Why did you decide to get involved in a project like this?

S.F. Tutoring is an extremely rewarding activity for us.

In engineering school, you get a lot, but sometimes it’s good to be able to give something back, and that’s extremely enriching for us. We learn a lot from interacting with high school students whose backgrounds are very different from those we’ve come into contact with in our lives.

Because of the group atmosphere that develops as the tutoring progresses, the sessions always become a good time, and at no time are they perceived as drudgery.

What projects did you work on with Tristan? How did the tutoring go?

S.F. Tristan is a high school student who is very clear about what interests him, particularly in terms of his career. So I’ve had the opportunity to talk to him at length about this.

Last year, for the French oral at the baccalauréat, we took the time to work on it, and I’m sure we’ll do the same this year for the big oral.

The tutoring has always gone very well because the students are willing and we don’t need to push them to make an effort.

What support did OSE provide in this area?

S.F. OSE is essential to this tutoring project. It is already OSE that brings the tutors together and frames the tutoring arrangements. For example, they provide the tutors with bus tickets so that they can travel to the high schools free of charge.

Numerous unifying activities are also organised throughout the year, at no cost to the tutors or the pupils: a weekend in the mountains for the first-years, dedicated to the French oral, a weekend at the seaside for the final-years’ oral, and so on.

OSE provides an extremely beneficial presence, and everything that’s needed to make tutoring a great time for both students and tutors.

What have you gained from this experience?

S.F. First of all, at first glance, it’s about teaching. In fact, that’s the core job of a tutor when you’re helping with homework. But beyond that, a bond is created, thanks to our similar ages. As a result, I got to know several high school students as friends and I was able to talk with them, which helped me to question many things about subjects such as the French school system, equal opportunities and the place of studies in our society.

Disability, Diversity, Harassment, Discrimination, Sexist, or Sexual Violence

Our Commitment to Inclusion and Diversity

Publication Date

01 April 2025

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Commitments

Diversity program

Equal opportunities

Inclusion and Diversity

ISAE-SUPAERO is commited to ensuring a professional environment based on the values of inclusion, solidarity, and respect between people regardless of their origin, sexual or gender identity, culture, or disability status. We train engineers, experts, and innovative entrepreneurs who are committed, supportive, and respectful. In a globalised sector, it is vital that our community has a global vision of the issues.

Our Support for People with Disabilities

ISAE-SUPAERO has an identified service, guaranteeing a personalised and permanent welcome.

Our service is aimed at both students and staff with disabilities.

Our Commitments

ISAE-SUPAERO is committed to improving the inclusion and professional integration of people with disabilities within the Institute by signing two charters:

Atouts pour tous Partnership Framework Agreement – Toulouse

Our aim is to help people with disabilities gain higher qualifications and levels of education, and to ensure close collaboration between secondary education, higher education, and companies, so that programmes promote social and professional integration.

Atypie Friendly Charter Signed on March 28^th, 2023

Our aim is to improve the inclusion of people with neurodevelopmental disorders, particularly autistic people, in higher education.

Our Welcome and Support System

Learners with Disabilities or Disabling Health Conditions

In accordance with the Law of 11 February 2005 on equal rights and opportunities, participation and citizenship for people with disabilities, article L123-4-1 of the French Education Code and Decree no. 2021-1480 of 12 November 2021 on the organisation of preparatory classes for the grandes écoles and the continuity of arrangements for examinations or competitions in higher education for candidates with disabilities, ISAE-SUPAERO has set up a specific support system for learners with disabilities or disabling health conditions.

In French:

Employees with Disabilities or Disabling Illnesses

We are implementing our disability policy through an action plan drawn up as part of a framework agreement with the FIPHFP (renewed in 2025) and broken down into 7 areas:

Recruiting disabled workers.
Redeployment and retraining of people declared unfit for work.
Maintaining employment.
Training for employees and tutors working with disabled workers.

Communication, information, and awareness-raising on disability issues for all employees.
Digital accessibility.
LSF training for staff as part of the annual training plan.

Your Contact

Laurence Ballarin

Disability Officer

diversite@isae-supaero.fr +33 5 61 33 80 80

Our Support for Diversity

Our Actions to Promote Gender Equality

Our Three-Year Action Plans

Our three-year plans are built around 4 pillars:

Assessing, preventing, and addressing pay differentials between women and men.
Guaranteeing equal access for women and men to civil service bodies, frameworks of employment, and grades.
Promoting the reconciliation of work and personal and family life.
Preventing and addressing discrimination, acts of violence, moral or sexual harassment, and sexist behaviour.

Appointment of Our Gender Equality Officers

Two gender equality officers have been appointed to raise awareness and inform staff about the challenges of gender equality within the Ministry of Armed Forces and the measures in place to promote equality in the workplace.

Our 'Féminisons les métiers de l'aéronautique' label

Since 2023, we have been contributing to the initiative launched in 2009 by the AIREMPLOI association, aimed at increasing gender diversity in the aerospace, air transportation, and airport sectors. In addition to having an active internal policy promoting equality between men and women, membership involves contributing to an observatory of equality between men and women in the aeronautics sector, sharing best practices between members and contributing to actions bearing the Féminisons label initiated by AIREMPLOI. The Féminisons label is supported by the professional federations of the aviation and aeronautics sectors, FNAM and GIFAS.

Our Fight Against the Menstrual Inequity of Our Learners

Since 2020, we have been working to combat the menstrual inequity of our learners by distributing washable menstrual protection kits twice a year and providing a number of free sanitary protection dispensers on campus.

Our OSE INGé Scheme

The OSE INGé scheme provides personalised support for girls and scholarship-holders throughout their CPGE course to help them build their future plans and develop their ambitions.

Our International Initiatives

We Welcome International Students

We offer around fifteen programmes taught entirely in English and welcome many international students who constitute over 40% of the student body.

Our Labels

Our 'Bienvenue en France' Label

We have been awarded the 'Bienvenue en France' 3-star label. This label distinguishes French higher education establishments that develop and promote welcome services for international students.

Our FLE Quality Label

In 2024, we renewed our French as a Foreign Language quality label with three stars (the highest rating) for a renewable four-year period.

Our Actions to Promote Social Diversity

Our Social Outreach Programme

Our equal opportunities programme OSE L'ISAE-SUPAERO, created in 2006 and awarded the Cordées de la Réussite label in 2009, aims to promote access to higher education for all by encouraging success through hard work.

Our programme is aimed at high school students from disadvantaged neighbourhoods and isolated rural areas who have distinguished themselves by their motivation. It helps them to build and succeed in an ambitious academic and professional project.

A Socially Responsible Purchasing Policy

At ISAE-SUPAERO, we have set ourselves the target of including 30% of social clauses in our public procurement contracts, in order to promote the integration of people who are far from employment and companies employing people with disabilities.
A partnership with Toulouse Métropole Emploi enables us to target contracts where social clauses are relevant.

Our Fight Against Harassment, Discrimination and Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (HDVS)

Since 2019, we have been rolling out a plan to combat harassment, discrimination, and sexist and sexual violence (HDVS), which includes in particular prevention initiatives aimed at staff and students.

Our plan also provides active reception and listening for victims and witnesses of situations relating to acts of HDVS, as well as a reporting system.

Our Reporting System

A reporting system is dedicated to victims and witnesses of sexual harassment, discrimination of all kinds, and sexual or gender-based violence within the Institute. People can report such incidents either via a reporting platform or to one of the HDVS units (comprised of students or staff).

Our Reporting Platform

www.isae-supaero.signalement.net is the reporting platform for the Institute's students and staff.

For victims or witnesses of a prejudicial situation, this alert platform allows information to be passed on at any time to the referents appointed by ISAE-SUPAERO, who are members of dedicated reporting units.

Further information

Our platform makes it possible to secure the reporting process within ISAE-SUPAERO. Its features include:

Accessibility from any web browser (computer, telephone, tablet, etc.);
Security and confidentiality within the platform;
Availability 24 hours a day, 7 days a week;
Availability in French, English, and Spanish; and
A complaints unit dedicated to students and a unit dedicated to staff.

Contact for the Warning Processing Unit

Our Charter of Commitment Against Sexual Harassment, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence and Discrimination of All Kinds

Our Values

Our values of excellence, exemplarity, and respect are reflected in the right of every member of our community to work and learn in a peaceful environment.

Our Commitments

Our Institute is firmly committed to combatting sexual harassment, sexual and gender-based violence, and discrimination of all kinds (also known as SGBV), and condemns any behaviour or comments that are contrary to the law.

Our Focus

Informing, listening, and taking action are the cornerstones of our Institute's strategy to enable everyone—students, doctoral candidates, faculty, and staff—to work and study at ISAE-SUPAERO in a climate of trust.

Our Charter

Attached to the ISAE-SUPAERO internal regulations, our charter is the result of collaborative work between students, professors, and staff. Its purpose is to set out the values and commitments of ISAE-SUPAERO and our expectations of our community in terms of combating acts of HDVS.

Our Dedicated Service

At ISAE-SUPAERO, we have an identified service that guarantees a personalised and permanent welcome. Our service is aimed at both students and staff with disabilities.

Download our HDVS charter (in French)

Campus au féminin: raising girls’ awareness of scientific careers

Publication Date

25 March 2025

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ISAE-SUPAERO Foundation

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Career

Diversity program

Equal opportunities

Exchange

Science

Female students and scientists involved in the day

Female engineers, researchers and students from ISAE-SUPAERO were on hand to inform young students about engineering careers, encourage them to pursue their dreams, and address some of the obstacles they may encounter when making their career choices.

Ines Belgacem, patron of OSE at ISAE-SUPAERO and a scientist at the European Space Agency, recalls the primary objective of this event: ” The idea is not to push young women into science, whether they like it or not, but to provide them with all the information they need. Because we know that young girls are not as keen on science as boys, and that they don’t necessarily have access to information in the same way. For me, information is the key to everything “. She encourages them: ” Get as much information as you can, take advantage of all the opportunities, like Campus au féminin, so that whatever decision you make, it’s one you want to make and not one you have to make.

Angélique, a 2019 graduate of ISAE-SUPAERO and an engineer at Dassault Aviation, who also came along for the occasion, stresses the importance of raising awareness among young girls as early as possible: ” the fact that there aren’t many women in science courses starts very early, and it’s not so much at the recruitment stage that we can do something, or in higher education, but much earlier at secondary school when they choose science courses, where the gap is already widening at that point“.

The Occitanie region, Toulouse Métropole and the Toulouse education authority present for the event

Nicole Escassut - Regional Director for Women's Rights and Equality
Julie Escudier - Vice-President of Social Cohesion and Inclusion at Toulouse Métropole - Deputy Mayor for Gender Equality
Eléonore Tempier - Academic coordinator for "cordées de la réussite" - Toulouse Academy
Valérie Arlaud - Academic Coordinator for Equality between Girls and Boys - Toulouse Education Authority

Students at the heart of the organisation

Campus au féminin is also, and above all, the remarkable involvement of the Institute’s students, coordinated by the OSE programme team, in particular through the ISAElles student association, which encourages young women to take up science and deconstructs gender stereotypes.

Sascha Eydieu, a student and member of the ISAElles board, tells us about her role in organising the day: “I’m in charge of communicating with students, organising the various events and recruiting volunteers. In practical terms, this involves managing the planning and preparation for the day and organising meetings with the volunteers. I also take part in meetings with the ISAE-SUPAERO OSE team, to ensure that the various stages of the project are properly monitored.

A flagship event in ISAE-SUPAERO and its Foundation's commitment to equal opportunities

Launched in 2016, these days are the result of a collaboration between OSE the ISAE-SUPAERO and the ISAelles club. They reflect the commitment of the Institute, its equal opportunities programme and the Foundation to stepping up initiatives to encourage young girls to go into higher education and science courses.

This event is also part of a wider initiative: the “Campus au féminin” (“Campus for Women”) project, which involves a pair of female engineers and an ISAE-SUPAERO student mentoring groups of 10 secondary school girls. The main objective is to create a special link between secondary school pupils, students and women engineers.

OSE

Our Equal Opportunities Programme – OSE l’ISAE-SUPAERO

Publication Date

24 February 2025

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Commitments

Diversity program

Equal opportunities

Inclusion and Diversity

Our equal opportunities programme

Created in 2006, the “OSE l’ISAE-SUPAERO” equal opportunities programme, awarded the Cordées de la Réussite label in 2009, aims to promote and encourage access to higher education (engineering, master’s, Advanced Master®, doctorate) for all by encouraging success through hard work.

The programme is aimed at secondary school students from priority neighbourhoods and isolated rural areas who have demonstrated outstanding motivation. It helps them to build and succeed in an ambitious academic and professional project.

The actions are carried out on a voluntary basis by students and alumni who initiate a wide range of educational activities based on their knowledge and skills.

This multi-faceted educational scheme helps to create synergies between secondary education, higher education and the professional world.

schools in the Toulouse Academy

1 300

high school pupils benefiting

150

ISAE-SUPAERO students involved as volunteers

A commitment in 5 areas

Supporting young people from priority neighbourhoods and isolated rural areas in their training and career choices;
Promote scientific and technical careers and engineering among young girls;
Encourage the integration and success of disabled students in higher education courses;
Support girls and scholarship holders during their CPGE years up to the competitive entrance exams;
Promote and encourage the civic and community involvement of ISAE-SUPAERO students and alumni.

Dedicated godmothers and godfathers

We are proud of the benevolent commitment of the programme's sponsors:

Sophie ADENOT, ESA Astronaut;
Thomas PESQUET, ESA Astronaut (European Space Agency);
Matthieu PONIN-BALLOM, Fighter pilot;
Ines BELGACEM, Planetologist at ESA;

and GIFAS (Groupement des Industriels Français de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace) to promote equal opportunities in access to education for all.

A team of 6 dedicated people

Programme manager:
- Cécile Latournerie

Project managers:
- Emilie Teyssedre
- Charlotte Soulié
- Julie Devaux
- Isabelle Pillant

Consultant:
- Joël Daste

Actions throughout the year

All the activities are carried out throughout the school year by volunteer students from ISAE-SUPAERO, who each year initiate a wide range of educational activities using their knowledge and expertise!

Tutoring, local support

In the current climate, many young people need support with their schooling. The ISAE SUPAERO OSE programme offers weekly face-to-face tutoring sessions in 4 high schools in Toulouse.

From November to June, the students share their methodological tools and their scientific knowledge with around a hundred secondary school students from the second to the final year of high school, in the context of three-hour weekly sessions.

Long-distance tutoring is also offered to overcome the isolation of students from rural areas and those with reduced mobility.

Read more on this subject: Samuel Falcou, a 20-year-old student in his 2nd year (class of 2024) of the Ingénieur ISAE-SUPAERO programme, and Tristan Ducéré, a 17-year-old student in his final year at Lycée Toulouse-Lautrec.

Loris Lanjou, final-year student at ISAE-SUPAERO

Meeting young people, talking to them about the different paths they can take in their studies, deconstructing stereotypes about higher education, coaching them for important exams, answering their questions about their choice of course and simply sharing great moments with them have been my main activities with OSE l'ISAE-SUPAERO during my years at the Institute!

Victoria Da Poian Alumni of ISAE-SUPAERO, working at NASA

Major events in the programme

In partnership with the higher education establishments that are members of the Midi-Pyrénées Social Opening Group (Groupe d’Ouverture Sociale Midi-Pyrénées) – INSA, IMT Mines Albi, INP Toulouse and ISAE-SUPAERO – there are two highlights during the school year.

It's a day of sharing and exchange, with the programme's sponsors, organised around raising awareness of disability!

Watch the video!

Meetings about training and careers with high-level professionals from different sectors who are themselves from diverse backgrounds.

Two Campus au féminin days are being organised in partnership with the ISAElles student club at ISAE-SUPAERO:

Meeting women engineers;
Discover scientific and technical courses.

Visits to ISAE-SUPAERO's research departments and campus;
Meetings with the Institute's students and staff;
Immersion courses in ISAE-SUPAERO's research departments and in partner companies;
Information and guidance sessions on higher education in schools;
Visits (Cité de l'espace, Aéroscopia Museum).

OSE INGÉ, our scheme for preparatory classes for the Grandes Écoles (CPGE) students

OSE InGÉ is ISAE-SUPAERO’s new Student Social Opening programme for students in the scientific CPGE.

The scheme provides personalised support for girls and scholarship-holders throughout their CPGE course to help them build their future plans and develop their ambitions.

The scheme has been running since 2022 thanks to:

the collaboration of the teaching teams at the partner lycées in the Académie de Toulouse: Lycée Bellevue, Lycée Déodat de Séverac and Lycée Pierre de Fermat in Toulouse, Lycée Jean Dupuy and Lycée Théophile Gautier in Tarbes, and Lycée Ferdinand Foch in Rodez;
the mobilisation of graduates and students from ISAE-SUPAERO and ENAC;
the support of our partners: the Occitanie Regional Council, the Occitanie Academy, the Dassault Systèmes Foundation, Airbus, Elior, the Occitanie Commissariat à la lutte contre la pauvreté, and the Toulouse CREPS.

All about OSE INGÉ

Tailor-made mentoring

Students receive personalised, one-to-one support from an alumni mentor, depending on their availability and needs. They are supported right up to the competitive entrance exams by an alumnus of ISAE-SUPAERO or ENAC who, thanks to his or her experience, support and listening skills, helps them answer their questions and reinforce their choices.

Mentors receive training to help them provide the best possible support to CPGE students.

Immersion courses at ISAE-SUPAERO and ENAC

These internships are an opportunity to discover the campus of a Grande École, talk to former CPGE students and professionals with inspiring backgrounds, meet your mentor, consolidate your knowledge and learn how to manage your CPGE years more effectively.

Two immersion courses in 1ʳᵉ year:

One immersion during the autumn holidays devoted to:

Group cohesion;
Getting to know your mentor;
Meeting other students;
Reflecting on academic and professional projects;
Personal development workshops;
Exchanges with second-year CPGE students.

An immersion course during the spring holidays dedicated to:

Determining TIPE subjects;
Consolidating skills in non-scientific subjects;
Work on oral skills.

Two immersion courses in 2ᵉ year:

One immersion during the autumn holidays allows:

More in-depth preparation for competitive exam orals;
Finalisation of TIPE work;
A presentation by the CROUS on the assistance available;
Discussions with students about the competitive examinations;
Information from the CROUS on available grants.

A final immersion course in February to:

Enjoy a privileged working environment on the ISAE-SUPAERO and ENAC campuses.

Special events at partner high schools

Career guidance evenings;
Testimonials from inspiring professionals.

Target audience: girls and/or students with CPGE scholarships

6 partner schools in 2023-2024: Pierre de Fermat, Déodat de Séverac and Bellevue in Toulouse, Jean Dupuy and Théophile Gautier in Tarbes, Ferdinand Foch in Rodez.

A total of 91 pupils have been included in the scheme since September 2022:

42 students supported, including 36 girls, all with grants, all in the first year of CPGE for 2022-2023;
A total of 79 students in 2023-2024: 30 in the second year from 2022 and 49 in the first year.

Support these students throughout their CPGE years and up to the competitive entrance exams.
Support students in developing their career plans and aspirations.
Help students gain a better understanding of the world of the Grandes Écoles, scientific careers and the world of engineering.
Helping students to develop and exploit their full potential.
Support from mentors for oral examinations.

Democratisation of education linked to profound rather than structural changes.
Greater social openness in the Grandes Écoles and the engineering field.
Creation of an innovative scheme for an Occitanie region.

Our challenge is to provide an opening to the grandes écoles and the professional world to offer motivating prospects through mentoring by working engineers who are alumni of ISAE-SUPAERO and ENAC.

Cécile Latournerie Programme manager

Our partners and sponsors

Our partners

Our sponsors

The ISAE-SUPAERO OSE programme is sponsored by former ISAE-SUPAERO engineering students!

Thomas Pesquet, ESA astronaut

Thomas joined ISAE-SUPAERO after an MPSI preparatory class in Rouen.

After working for several years at CNES, he became an airline pilot. In 2009, he was selected by ESA to train as an astronaut.

His first mission to the International Space Station took place in November 2016.

“For me, getting involved with OSE l’ISAE SUPAERO is first and foremost about showing solidarity. I feel I’ve received a lot in life, because my parents and teachers gave me the greatest gift of all: education, and now it’s my turn to share it.

It’s important that everyone should have the same opportunities: girls and boys, from all backgrounds and origins, with disabilities or with difficulties at school. Everyone can make a contribution.

My role as a sponsor is first and foremost to tell the children that anything is possible, that you can achieve your dreams, and that even if you don’t achieve them, simply doing your best to try will inevitably get you somewhere.

I want to pass on to them my conviction that we shouldn’t be afraid of the future and that life in a country like ours is full of opportunities; the worst thing that could happen would be not to try, to seize them for lack of confidence or information.”

The Earth is the cradle of humanity, but you don’t spend your whole life in a cradle. –Tsiolkovski

Photo ®Nicole Fischer

Ines Belgacem, Doctor of Planetology

Inès joined ISAE SUPAERO in 2012 after two years of preparatory classes in Physics and Chemistry.

She is currently a planetologist at ESA.

“Schemes like OSE are a particular opportunity for all the students they supervise to come into contact with a world to which they would not necessarily have access otherwise. OSE and, in particular, the dialogue with the students enable them to discover new things and to be supported in their projects in a spirit of openness, sharing and solidarity.

I therefore see my role as sponsor as a privileged relationship with the students supervised by OSE to encourage them to pursue their projects, whatever they may be, and to show them that the greatest barriers we face are often those we impose on ourselves, that we can all go beyond them and that the game is definitely worth the candle!”

People build too many walls and not enough bridges. – Newton

Sophie Adenot, astronaut at ESA

Sophie graduated from ISAE-SUPAERO in 2004.

She is a helicopter test pilot and now an ESA astronaut.

“My motivation for this commitment is to give a little boost of motivation: to all the young people who are still hesitating to embark on the adventure of aeronautics, to those who put barriers in their way before they have even tried, to those who have tried and who need a little more support, to those who, because they are disabled, think that the aeronautical community cannot offer them a small place.

My role as godmother is to talk to the young people and their teachers/mentors, to answer their questions, and to help them launch a career in science and aeronautics”.

It’s not because things are difficult that we don’t dare, it’s because we don’t dare that they are difficult. – Seneca

Photo ®ESA

Matthieu Ponin-Ballom, fighter pilot

Matthieu first joined the Ecole de l’Air in Salon de Provence, where he became a pilot.

In 2014, he graduated from ISAE SUPAERO. He is now studying at the war school in Lourdes.

“Every year, the OSE association sponsors hundreds of young people and encourages them not to set themselves limits that would be due to their origin, social condition or disability. This essential action to promote equal opportunities for young people is underpinned by the values of cohesion, sharing and surpassing oneself, which are also very dear to the Air Force and the basis of our commitment. The honour of becoming a sponsor of the programme is a very strong link through which I hope to continue, with all the team involved in the adventure, to promote these values that unite us”.

The future is only ever the present to be put in order, you don’t have to foresee it, but to allow it. – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

At ISAE-SUPAERO, thanks to the support of our institutional, industrial and association partners, we are committed to ensuring educational equity and better professional integration for everyone!

Emilie Tota Deputy President of ISAE-SUPAERO

They support us

The ISAE-SUPAERO Foundation

The ISAE-SUPAERO Foundation was created in 2008 with the mission of supporting the development of ISAE-SUPAERO by contributing to the financing of projects for students, teachers-researchers and professors.

The Foundation works to develop the influence and global leadership of ISAE-SUPAERO by proposing and accelerating innovative projects that contribute to a sustainable world.

Find out more about the Foundation.

GIFAS (French aerospace industry association)

A word from Philippe Dujaric, Director of Social Affairs and Training

“Promoting the engineering professions to a wide audience of secondary school students in all regions is a core concern for GIFAS and has been a permanent and important focus of our partnership with the ISAE-SUPAERO Group and the ISAE-SUPAERO Foundation since its inception. The awareness-raising and discovery initiatives developed with perseverance and professionalism throughout the Occitanie region by ISAE-SUPAERO teachers and students on a voluntary basis are exemplary in this respect. They also reflect GIFAS’s concern to maintain real social diversity in aeronautical schools, and therefore in the future generations of engineers who will join our industry. I would like to thank all those involved in the OSE programme, ISAE-SUPAERO and the ISAE-SUPAERO Foundation, for fulfilling this mission with enthusiasm and efficiency throughout the year.”

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Our Commitments

Publication Date

19 February 2025

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Diversity program

Equal opportunities

Inclusion and Diversity

Because excellence must be accessible to everyone, we work every day to make our campus more inclusive, supportive, and open to a diversity of talent.

Marie-Hélène Baroux President of ISAE-SUPAERO

ISAE-SUPAERO Foundation

Publication Date

13 January 2025

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Aerospace

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ISAE-SUPAERO Foundation

The ISAE-SUPAERO Foundation works to develop the influence and global leadership of our Institute, by proposing and accelerating innovative projects that contribute to a sustainable world.

Consolidating ISAE-SUPAERO’s World Leadership

3 Axes and 6 Areas of Intervention

The Foundation is working to consolidate ISAE-SUPAERO’s world leadership in the higher education of engineers and decision-makers in the aeronautics, space, defence, and security sectors, by integrating 4 major challenges:

the decarbonisation of the air transportation ecosystem and the development of alternative fuels;
the development of sustainable space activities;
increasing the use of digitalisation and AI in products and processes; and
developing safer, more sustainable systems.

In pursuit of this objective, the Foundation supports ISAE-SUPAERO, its students, professors and researchers, as well as society at large, by drawing on or stimulating the creation of initiatives in 3 areas with 6 fields of intervention.

Excellence

Developing an attractive campus and an excellent academic programme
Developing an international outlook

Innovation

Increasing and accelerating research on major issues
Supporting the emergence of start-ups and launching them into orbit

Social Commitment

Attracting and training more women engineers
Promoting solidarity and equal opportunities

Our aim is to ensure the long-term future of the ISAE-SUPAERO Foundation by making our actions permanent, building a legacy for future generations. The ISAE-SUPAERO Foundation is also an essential tool for guaranteeing the autonomy and financial stability of our Institute over the long term.

Agnès Trincal Director of the ISAE-SUPAERO Foundation

The ISAE-SUPAERO Foundation in Figures

1,675

individual donors

104

corporate and institutional sponsors

research/teaching chairs financed by sponsorship

800

students, researchers, and doctoral students supported through prizes or grants

139

student and extracurricular projects supported

entrepreneurial projects supported

The Fundraising Campaign for ISAE-SUPAERO

For our first fundraising campaign launched in 2011, ISAE-SUPAERO has reached the ambitious target of raising €20 million in 2018 to lead the Institute to the highest rank in the world in the field of aeronautics and space.

1,037 individual donors, 49 corporate and institutional sponsors, 10 research/teaching chairs funded by sponsorship; and
442 students, researchers, and PhDs supported through prizes or scholarships, 55 student or extracurricular projects supported, 18 entrepreneurial projects supported.

Find the results of the 2011 – 2018 campaign

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In 2025, the Foundation is preparing to write an ambitious new chapter to support the Institute's future projects.

The ISAE-SUPAERO Foundation

Noémie Martin, E2018 engineer, receives €1 million prize from the Jean-Jacques and Félicia Lopez-Loreta Foundation for her FASTE project

Publication Date

13 December 2024

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Research

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Diversity program

Prize

Science

The Jean-Jacques and Félicia Lopez-Loreta Foundation encourages the best young graduates from four Swiss and French schools of excellence by awarding an annual prize of one million euros to support innovative and highly promising academic or entrepreneurial research projects.

This year, Noémie Martin, an engineer from ISAE-SUPAERO (ENSICA) and currently a post-doctoral fellow at ETH Zurich, has been awarded the Lopez-Loreta prize for her FASTE project: Additive Manufacturing of High-Performance Multi-Material Structures for Use in Severe Environments!

After obtaining her engineering degree, Noémie Martin went on to do a PhD at the Institut Clément Ader, which she obtained in 2022 after submitting an excellent CIFRE thesis on the hybridisation of additive manufacturing processes (funded by Segula Technologie), co-directed by Anis Hor, associate professor in the Mechanics, Structures and Materials Department (DMSM) at ISAE-SUPAERO and Philippe Lours, professor at the Institut Clément Ader.

Her work has been published in A-ranked journals (3 articles) and presented at several conferences. Passionate about research and additive manufacturing, she decided to pursue the adventure abroad with a post-doctorate she is currently carrying out at ETH Zurich to develop a new process: ‘High Speed Laser Cladding’.

The FASTE project: revolutionising manufacturing, dimensioning and characterisation methods for multi-material and multi-function parts
Today’s environmental and economic challenges require optimisation of the product life cycle to reduce carbon emissions and limit energy consumption. High-performance metal alloys are both a cause and a solution. They are used in a wide range of sectors, including energy production, transport and construction, and their use helps to optimise the performance of these sectors (durability and efficiency of engines, for example). However, their extraction and production are costly and polluting.

"The use of several materials for a single mechanical part improves the performance of that part during use. This concept is particularly interesting when the part or structure is subjected to multiple stresses (mechanical, thermal, chemical, electromagnetic, etc.), as it enables the performance of each material used to be exploited to the full. This will lead to multi-function mechanical systems that are less complex and more environmentally friendly (lighter structures, no need for cooling circuits, longer service life, repairability). However, the manufacture of multi-material structures using conventional processes is often costly, if not impossible. What's more, the dimensions of such parts are not standardised".

Noémie Martin

The ETH Zurich laboratory, where Noémie Martin is working, will contribute its expertise in micro-structure control in additive manufacturing. ISAE-SUPAERO will also be contributing its skills and technological equipment in the field of materials characterisation.

Overcoming all the scientific and technological hurdles

Thanks to this prize, and the combined expertise and human and material resources available in the laboratories of the two institutes, Noémie Martin’s research project aims to overcome all the scientific hurdles associated with the manufacture of multi-material parts, the dimensioning of these heterogeneous structures and the implementation of experimental and numerical methods for the multi-scale characterisation of such structures.

“Ultimately, the results of this project will be transferable to the energy and aerospace industries, offering additional solutions to designers of structures operating in harsh environments, while meeting new economic and environmental requirements”.

ISAE-SUPAERO’s OSE 2024 restitution programme

Publication Date

15 October 2024

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Diversity program

Equal opportunities

Bertrand Joab-Cornu, co-founder of Wingly: “I already had the idea for a flight-sharing platform at ISAE-SUPAERO.”

Publication Date

14 June 2024

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Research

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Aeronautics

Alumni

Diversity program

Equal opportunities

Startup

Meeting with Bertrand Joab-Cornu

You co-founded the start-up Wingly while you were still a student at ISAE-SUPAERO. Tell us about this entrepreneurial adventure...

I studied engineering at ISAE-SUPAERO, graduating in 2016. Passionate about aeronautics and entrepreneurship, I took a double-diploma with École Polytechnique in Innovation Technology and Entrepreneurship. At the time, the collaborative economy was exploding with start-ups like BlaBlaCar and Airbnb. On the benches of ISAE-SUPAERO, I already had the idea of a co-piloting platform based on the same principle. At X I met my future partner, Emeric de Waziers, who had also had the idea on his own, and we launched Wingly in 2015. There was a niche to be filled and it worked really, really well!

Wingly is 10 years old and this year marks an important stage in its development. Can you tell us more about it?

We have been able to cope with the crises of recent years and the company is doing well. There are currently 25,000 private pilots registered on the platform, with more than 120,000 passengers in flight. We have also just passed the €40 million mark in sales volume. This year, we opened up to low-carbon aviation through partnerships with seven flying clubs that own an electric aircraft. We also closed a €3.5m fund-raising round with the aim of achieving profitability by 2025 and embarking on new projects. We also opened up our capital through a crowdfunding campaign on the Crowdcube platform, to get our community involved.

Wingly, the BlaBlaCar of the skies.
Europe’s leading flight-sharing platform, Wingly offers shared-cost flights between a private pilot and one or more passengers. 450,000 members are registered on this digital platform. The Paris-based company employs 20 people and offers its services in several European countries, including Germany, the UK, Switzerland, Austria and France.

What is the medium-term outlook?

Currently, use of the platform is focused on leisure flights: 90% of our passengers take local trips and the remaining 10% take day trips. But Wingly has a real role to play in regional mobility, where there is no alternative to the car, especially as companies developing low-carbon aviation are positioning themselves in this niche. We also hope to launch in other countries, notably the United States, if regulations change.

What advice would you give to ISAE-SUPAERO students who would like to become entrepreneurs during their studies as you did?

The first piece of advice I would give is to trust yourself and your idea! And then go out and test it, without wasting too much time working out the perfect business plan or a finished prototype.