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Train Your Staff in France

Last Updated On 10 September 2025

The constant evolution of the technology and methods to be deployed in an increasingly complex environment requires lifelong learning for managers in the industrial sector, particularly in aerospace.

To anticipate industry needs, ISAE-SUPAERO and its subsidiary EUROSAE have developed a diversified continuing education policy, offering French and international students long degree courses such as Advanced Masters, certification programmes lasting a few weeks, and short programmes lasting a few days.

Courses accredited by the Conférence des Grandes Écoles that aim to provide expertise in the fields of aeronautics, space, complex systems, or dual management skills. These innovative and internationally recognised courses are aimed at young engineers and managers looking for career development. They last one year.

Some of these Advanced Master® programmes are eligible for CPF or Transitions Pro-type funding (CPF de Transition, resignation scheme, etc.) to help you achieve your career goals.

Find out more about the Advanced Master® programmes.

Based on some of our Advanced Master® programmes, these courses consist of 6 months of tuition (in English, with some exceptions) and count for 45 ECTS credits, in the following areas:

Aeronautical & Space Structures (AES)
Aeronautical Maintenance & Support (AMS-E&M)
Aeronautical Engineering (TAS AERO with Aircraft Design and Flight Test Engineering majors)
Helicopter, Aicraft & Drone architecture (HADA)
System Engineering (SEN)
Space Applications & Services (SPAPS)
Space Systems Engineering (TAS ASTRO)

Courses lasting 3 to 5 weeks on average, which enable participants to enhance their skills in a specific field and to obtain a certificate issued by ISAE-SUPAERO.

Topics offered: aeronautical maintenance and customer support, UAV systems, helicopter engineering, human factors, preparation for PMI and INCOSE certifications, project management, ideation and innovation, Artificial Intelligence & Data processing, and more

Find out more about the Specialised Study Certificates.

Courses lasting about a week on average from the Advanced Master® programmes.

Find out more about ISAE-SUPAERO short modules.

Ranging from a few days to two weeks, these courses cover a wide range of techniques and tools used in the aerospace sector.

These courses are offered and organized by EUROSAE, a joint subsidiary of ISAE-SUPAERO and ENSTA ParisTech.

Find out more about short courses with EUROSAE.

This programme is offered by the European consortium ECATA, made up of universities and aerospace manufacturers.

The ten-week programme, divided into three sessions, is designed for professionals in the aerospace sector (aircraft manufacturers, systems integrators, equipment suppliers, airlines, agencies, research centres, etc.) who want to acquire the skills needed to manage multipartner and multicultural projects in an international aerospace environment.

Find out more about the ECATA programme.

We can work with you to design training programmes tailored to your needs and your business.

Accessibility for People with Disabilities

People with disabilities may have specific needs in order to follow our programmes.

If a learner has declared that he or she has a disability, the ISAE-SUPAERO Disability Advisor will consider the student's disability and his or her needs in terms of compensation (teaching resources, equipment, techniques, human resources, etc.). This person mobilizes the expertise, tools, and networks needed to provide access to premises (where applicable) and resources, as well as to facilitate preparation for certification (where applicable) and assessment tests.

Don't hesitate to contact our Disability Advisor, who offers individualized and confidential support to the students concerned and coordinates the adjustments needed, in coordination with the teaching teams, to ensure that the course runs smoothly.

Laurence Ballarin

Disability Officer

laurence.ballarin@isae-supaero.fr +33 5 61 33 89 88

Companies

Last Updated On 17 September 2025

Are You a Company?

At ISAE-SUPAERO, developing our relationships with companies is at the heart of our mission to train the best engineers and managers to meet the challenges of tomorrow’s industry!

Now's the Time to Work Together!

Partnerships and possible areas of collaboration between ISAE-SUPAERO and companies are discussed and decided between January and June, so that your projects can be put into practice from the start of the following academic year.

Contact us now to get the best possible start on our next collaboration!

Your Fields of Action

ISAE-SUPAERO has built up very strong and solid relationships with manufacturers in the aeronautics and space sector, as well as with other sectors such as the automotive, transport, energy, digital, consulting, and finance industries.

By becoming a partner of the Institute, you can benefit from a whole range of initiatives.

train your employees
recruit our students for work placements, work-study programmes, or internships
become a partner
create a sponsorship or research chair
channel your apprenticeship tax
set up tailor-made training courses

Why not become a partner?

Train Your BtoB Employees in France

The constant evolution of the technology and methods to be deployed in an increasingly complex environment requires lifelong learning for managers in the industrial sector, particularly in aerospace.

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Train Your BtoB Employees Internationally

Explore our international solutions for companies and organisations! ISAE-SUPAERO makes the most of its expertise in aeronautical and space engineering by supporting industrial, academic, and institutional players in the aeronautical and space sector, space agencies, and armed forces in training and human capital development.

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Become a Partner

Partnerships and possible areas of collaboration are discussed and decided between January and June, so that your projects can be put into practice from the start of the following academic year. Contact us now to get the best possible start on our next collaboration!

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Our Chairs

Supporting ISAE-SUPAERO through corporate sponsorship means supporting the development of new skills and resources, future talent, and innovative projects.

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Recrute Your FutureTalent

Throughout the academic year, the Career Centre (CCE) organises company meet-and-greets to give you the opportunity to meet ISAE-SUPAERO students and apprentices.

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Apprenticeship Tax

Are you a company, an organisation, or a structure subject to corporate taxes? By channelling all or part of your apprenticeship tax to ISAE-SUPAERO, you will be playing an essential role in our mission to offer a complete and unique range of high-level scientific education in the field of aerospace engineering and to participate in the transformation of aviation & its decarbonisation for a sustainable future!

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Advanced Master in Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Management – IEM

Last Updated On 26 March 2026

FAQ

As capacity on campus is very limited, ISAE-SUPAERO prioritizes housing for international students. They can benefit from Toul’Box services if they wish to be assisted in their arrival in France at ISAE-SUPAERO.
All students receive information to help them find housing suited to their needs, near ISAE-SUPAERO and in the city center. For more information, please visit the TOUL’BOX website.
You can visit the Alteal website to find out about housing options on campus.

1. How the Letter of Recommendation Process Works
Your letters of recommendation (a minimum of two) must be submitted directly by your referees. Once you have validated your application — including payment of the application fee — your referees will receive a unique code allowing them to upload their letter securely to your application profile. They will also receive an automatic email with full instructions. If they experience any difficulty, please contact the admissions team at admission.masters@tsaae.fr.
It is advisable to validate your application a few days in advance so that your referees have enough time to upload their letters.
If your referee encounters a problem, they may exceptionally send their letter directly to lor-masters@tsaae.fr.

2. Follow‑up and Monitoring by the Admissions Team
The admissions team monitors applications regularly. They can resend the automatic email to your referees as a reminder and can confirm when your application is complete. Please note that response times may vary depending on the number of applications being processed.
In the days following the application deadline, you will be notified by email if any documents are missing. Depending on the nature of the missing document(s), a short extension may be granted in exceptional circumstances. For any further questions, please contact admission.masters@tsaae.fr.

3. Who Should Write Your Recommendation Letters
It is recommended to include at least one or two letters from university professors. If you have completed an internship or gained professional experience, a letter from your supervisor is also acceptable.
You may submit more than two letters if you wish.

4. Language and Format of the Letters
Letters of recommendation may be written in English or French. The format of the reference letter is flexible.

– Copy of the diploma validating the required level (except for students in their final year of studies – certificate of enrollment),
– Transcript of records for the last 3 years of study,
– CV in English,
– Cover letter in English,
– English language test results (TOEFL, TOEIC, IELTS, Linguaskill, CAE Cambridge, etc.),
– Application fee of €100 (non-refundable),
– 2 letters of recommendation, one academic advisor, and one professional advisor,
– Jobseekers: proof of employment (Pôle Emploi)
– Foreign applicants: residence permit, tax receipts if applicable

The Master’s degree is a university degree, a state diploma.
It is combined with a three-year degree and falls under the European LMD (License, Master’s, Doctorate) system.

The Advanced Master’s® does not prepare for a doctorate.

The Advanced Master® is generally combined with a five-year degree.
The Advanced Master® also has the distinction of being aimed at both recent graduates AND professionals with several years of experience.

Please note: “Advanced Master®” is a trademark. It is invariable; never an “s”!

Advanced Masters programs are not eligible for scholarships, including CROUS scholarships.

Except the Advanced Master IEM Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Management offering 3 scholarships (exempt from tuition fees) in partnership with SAFRAN.

Nota Bene: Safran scholarships will support students who have a professional project in the aeronautics, space, or defense sectors and who commit to following the track “Innovation in Aeronautics, Space and Defense.” Exceptionally, scholarships may also be awarded to students carrying other deeptech projects who commit to following the track “Consulting in Strategy, Innovation and Business Transformation.”

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Understanding the Issues via our Aviation and Climate Reference Framework

Last Updated On 03 September 2025

Can we characterise the impact of aviation on the climate? What are the aviation and climate issues? Can we compare CO2 and non-CO2 effects? What technological solutions are being studied to make aviation sustainable? Can we link the rate of growth in air traffic to the proportion of the carbon budget devoted to aviation? Can we assess the energy resources available?

A Reference Report

These questions have prompted ISAE-SUPAERO to write a reference report. The aim of our work is not to take sides or to answer the various questions raised, as the answers depend largely on societal choices and techno-economic developments that are impossible to predict with any certainty.

On the other hand, the aim of our report is to provide everyone, from our position as scientists, with the information they need to form informed opinions on these issues, as objectively as possible. As a knock-on effect, we also hope that this report will stimulate debate and help to shape a collective position on the crucial issues of aviation and climate.

The Key Messages of Our ‘Aviation and Climate’ Guidelines

Aviation and Climate Issues

The purpose of our ‘Aviation and Climate’ reference guide is to provide scientific elements that are useful for understanding aviation and climate issues. This work has been subjected to a specific review process, involving both ISAE-SUPAERO staff and external researchers from various institutes.

The 5 Key Messages From Our Report

The Climate Impact of Aviation: Estimates That Depend on the Scope of the Study

Aviation contributes to global warming through its CO2 emissions and a number of non-CO2 effects such as condensation trails. The assessment of the impact of the aviation sector can be limited to CO2 emissions alone, or it can consider all the effects together. In the first case, commercial aviation was responsible for 2.6% of global anthropogenic CO2 emissions in 2018. If we consider all the effects (CO2 and non-CO2), commercial aviation accounted for 5.1% of the climate impact over the period 2000-2018.

Non-CO2 Effects: Promising Strategies

Specific strategies to reduce non-CO2 effects represent a major lever for limiting the climate impact of aviation. Because of the short lifetime of non-CO2 effects, these strategies can be effective quickly. Even if more research is needed to reduce uncertainties, these strategies could be deployed in the short term. Nevertheless, these measures cannot replace efforts to reduce the sector's CO2 emissions.

CO2 Effects: Technological Opportunities Limited in the Short Term

By 2050, disruptive solutions will make it possible to envisage a low-carbon aircraft. In the shorter term, the only mature levers for reducing CO2 emissions within the timeframe set by the climate emergency are incremental improvements in aircraft efficiency and the use of biofuels. However, incremental improvements are on the verge of reaching their technological limits, while the constraints of energy availability, production capacity, and competition over uses are likely to limit the availability of biofuels.

A Necessary Trade-Off Between Traffic Levels and the Share of the Global Carbon Budget Allocated to the Aviation Sector

Apart from technological and operational levers, the level of traffic and the share of the global carbon budget allocated to aviation are the two parameters that determine the sustainability of a trajectory for the aviation sector. Their value must be set by political decisions. The limits on the aviation sector's ability to rapidly reduce its CO2 emissions imply that, if traffic grows at the rate envisaged by the aviation industry, it will consume a larger share of the carbon budget than its current share of emissions, thus requiring other sectors of activity to reduce their emissions faster than the average.

Uncertainties Over Energy Availability

The decarbonisation of aviation fuels could be limited by the availability of low-carbon energy resources. Their massive use could then lead to a displacement of environmental problems, particularly related to land use. Generally speaking, it is necessary to consider the transition of the aviation sector in a systemic way within the framework of planetary limits.

Consult Our "Aviation and Climate" Guidelines

Living a Low-carbon Campus

Last Updated On 03 September 2025

Why a Low-Carbon Strategy?

A Global Observation

The increase in the concentration of greenhouse gases (GHGs), particularly CO2, in the atmosphere has already led to global warming of more than 1.1°C compared with the pre-industrial era, and could reach +6 to +7°C by the end of the century—by way of comparison, the last ice age was only 4 to 5°C colder than the pre-industrial era.

The consequences of this sudden rise in temperature are threatening the development of our societies. To reduce global warming and its impact as much as possible, it is therefore imperative that we limit our greenhouse gas emissions as quickly as possible.

With this in mind, the French government has adopted a strategy (SNBC) and has committed to reducing its greenhouse gas emissions by 55% by 2030 compared to 1990 levels, with the aim of achieving carbon neutrality by 2050. At the international level, the Paris Agreement, signed by 195 countries in 2015, aims to keep global warming “well below 2°C compared to pre-industrial levels and to continue action to limit the rise in temperatures to 1.5°C.” These two agreements mean that we must reduce our GHG emissions by 5 to 10% per year (depending on the scenarios and assumptions) from now on.

A Regulatory Obligation

Public institutions are legally required to publish their GHG emissions report every three years. In other words, they must measure the GHG emissions generated by all their activities.

Our Response: An Annual Carbon Report

Aware of this global situation, we have not waited for the regulatory obligation of 2023 to carry out our GHG assessment, from 2019, in order to quantify all of our high-emission activities and identify the various levers for reducing them. At ISAE-SUPAERO, we have gone even further, as part of our “Horizons” plan, by calculating and publishing our GHG emissions balance every year.

Our carbon assessment was carried out over a wide area, including international mobility (students and staff). We have identified six priority areas:

purchasing,
mobility,
energy,
food,
digital,
fixed assets.

Since 2019, we have been carrying out an annual carbon footprint and calculating the quantities of greenhouse gases emitted by all our activities, according to 6 categories:

purchasing,
travel,
energy,
fixed assets,
refrigeration production,
waste.

This allows us to monitor our emissions as closely as possible and to direct our actions to limit them.

Our Results

Our work is bearing fruit and our actions are moving in the right direction, since thanks to numerous efforts, our institute's emissions have been falling since 2019. In 2023, ISAE-SUPAERO emitted 8,925 tCO2e. This is equivalent to driving around the world 1,160 times. This is the average annual carbon footprint of 990 French people. Our target for 2023 was to emit less than 9,200 tCO2e, so we've achieved our goal!

Marie-Hélène Baroux President of ISAE-SUPAERO

Our Purchases

4,910 tCO2e | 55%

The emissions linked to our purchases are mainly due to the extraction of raw materials, the energy spent on manufacturing and transportation.

This item includes all the data for which we do not have quantitative information and for which we therefore use monetary data. In other words, we translate euros spent directly into quantities of CO2e emitted. This method is not very reliable. This item also includes meals. In 2023, 175,000 meals were consumed, emitting 476 kgCO2e.

Our Commitments to Reduce This Item

Systematically ask suppliers to provide an assessment of the GHG emissions associated with their offers.
Rely as much as possible (and always more) on physical data rather than monetary data to obtain more reliable data.
Within each purchasing segment, identify purchases with a high GHG impact, propose actions to reduce this impact and implement them in our purchasing action plan.

Where We Travel

1,665 tCO2e | 19%

All our journeys count and have a major impact on the school’s overall carbon footprint: commuting, business travel, and student travel (home, work experience, etc.).

Our Commitments to Reduce This Impact

Encourage the use of alternative modes of transportation: cycling, carpooling, public transportation, train.
Encourage videoconferencing.
Organise an inter-departmental competition / CO2e emissions per person.
Restrict work placements to Europe.

Our Energy

930 tCO2e | 10%

Around 60% of our energy emissions are linked to heat consumption, around 38% to electricity consumption for servers, IT equipment, scientific equipment, lighting, etc., and 2% to gas consumption by the restaurant.

Between 2019 and 2023, our emissions from heating will fall from 1.6 tCO2e to 0.33 tCO2e. This is due to the fact that we are switching from gas boilers to the district heating network and to the use of waste heat. Since 2022, our school has been connected to the Plaine Campus heating network. This network takes advantage of the heat generated by waste incineration at the Mirail waste recovery plant and by the Espace Clément Ader supercomputer.

Our Commitments to Reduce This Impact

Renovation work: insulation, technical management of the building, relamping, introduction of a system to monitor consumption, heat recovery from the refrigeration units.
Setting up an energy-saving working group to consider and make proposals on:
- modernisation of the campus (generalisation of automated management of heating, lighting and IT equipment),
- the organisation of working hours and use of premises (distribution of days when the campus is closed, impact of teleworking, use of the most energy-intensive equipment (wind tunnels)),
- empowering teams that consume energy by decentralising the “fluids” budget.

The Impact of Transportation on Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Transportation currently accounts for almost 30% of France’s greenhouse gas emissions. According to INSEE and SDES, journeys between home and work alone account for almost 17.4 million tonnes of carbon equivalent emitted each year, or around 13% of transportation-related emissions (excluding international air and sea transportation). Of these emissions, 98% are caused by cars.

Our Mobility Diagnostic

At ISAE-SUPAERO in 2023, our home-to-work journeys accounted for almost 5.5% of the establishment’s emissions. It is the 4^th largest source of emissions. This is why it has been essential to act on this lever and reduce the individual use of cars.

At ISAE-SUPAERO, we have commissioned a mobility diagnostic to be carried out in 2022, in order to understand the commuting habits of our students and staff.

Our Figures

Our Institute’s staff is fairly active, with 38% of home-to-work journeys being made by bicycle (along with 37% by car, 12% by public transportation, and 2% by carpooling). These figures reinforce our determination to take action and promote soft mobility on our campus.

Our Soft Alternatives

The first alternative to the individual use of the internal combustion engine car that we can encourage is cycling. As our Institute is located close to the Canal du Midi, it is very easy to get to by bike, scooter, or rollerblade. To encourage the use of bicycles, our school offers a number of facilities (over 500 bicycle parking spaces, repair points, showers, etc.), training in the use of bicycles and road safety by bicycle, etc.

As cycling and transportation are not always the best options for some staff members, in January 2022 our Institute installed 8 charging points for electric cars, each with 2 charging points, enabling 16 electric vehicles to be charged.

Encouraging Sustainable Travel on Our Campus

Our ISAE-SUPAERO campus, located close to the Canal du Midi, offers our staff and students the opportunity to cycle to work or class.

Today, our school has a fairly active cycling population, representing around 20% of staff and students. This figure can be explained by the layout of the campus, which includes a large bicycle parkade as well as numerous direct access points to the Canal du Midi, supporting cycling as a primary mode of transportation for campus-goers.

Allons-Y A Vélo

Our school takes part in the "AYAV" (Allons-Y A vélo) campaign, which offers companies the opportunity to challenge themselves for a week by encouraging as many of their employees as possible to cycle to work.

ISAE-SUPAERO was awarded 1^st Place in 2018.

The AYAV campaign was initiated in 2005 by the Association Vélo Toulouse, and is now organised twice a year, in winter and spring, by Deux Pieds Deux Roues and the Maison du Vélo. The campaign is run via a network of motivated representatives in companies, government departments, schools, and colleges in the Toulouse region.

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Together with our catering service provider, Elior, we have introduced a number of measures aimed at achieving sustainable catering on our campus:

waste sorting,
regular measurement of food waste,
a vegetarian menu offered every day.

Towards More Carbon-Free Menus

Vegetarian dishes for people who prefer to eat without meat or fish are served daily and are chosen by almost 35% of visitors of the campus catering service. Offering vegetarian options has a significant impact on greenhouse gas emissions, given that a vegetarian meal emits almost 14 times less than a meal with red meat.

In 2024, ISAE-SUPAERO and Elior have experimented with an even more assertive approach to decarbonisation with the 'Good & Green' project!

The Ecological Transition at ISAE-SUPAERO

The ecological transition is an important and growing issue on our campus, with the publication of the “Horizons” roadmap, which puts environmental issues at the heart of our school’s commitment. Against this backdrop of growing environmental awareness, our BDE’s environment department has been organising the annual ‘Green Campus Week’ since 2022.

A Week to Raise Awareness

During this week, our students and staff are invited to take part in workshops, conferences, and challenges. The aim of the week is to make participants aware of the ecological emergency and to show that it is possible to have a low-carbon lifestyle without falling into deprivation and frustration.

In 2024

Campus Green Week took place from January 8^th to 12^th. Lectures were held every evening. In particular, lectures by Arthur Keller, a specialist in systemic risks, and Julien Marcinkowski, an alumnus of ISAE-SUPAERO, attracted many participants. The challenges were also very popular with both students and faculty.

In 2025

Campus Green Week took place from January 20^th to 26^th.

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Last Updated On 29 August 2025

Our campus in Toulouse

European capital of aeronautics and space

ISAE-SUPAERO is located at the heart of the Rangueil scientific complex and offers programmes in aeronautical, space and high-tech engineering in a variety of fields (environment, transport, consultancy and strategy, etc.)!

ISAE-SUPAERO is located 20 minutes from Toulouse city centre, a cultural, festive and sporting city with a population of over 800,000 and over 140,000 students (4th largest city in France and 2nd largest university city in France outside Paris), making it a very attractive place to study!

Discover our 19-hectare campus, our student life (accommodation, catering, sports facilities and medical and social services), our community life, our library services and our Aérothèque Marie Marvingt!

Living on the ISAE-SUPAERO campus

The ISAE-SUPAERO campus is located in Toulouse, Europe's aeronautics and space capital. As well as joining our prestigious engineering School, you can take advantage of its 19-hectare campus located in the heart of the Rangueil-Montaudran scientific complex, which is undergoing rapid development!

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Community life at ISAE-SUPAERO

Student life is a central part of the ISAE-SUPAERO experience. Thanks to a rich and diverse ecosystem of associations, students have the opportunity to develop valuable skills, forge strong links with their peers and reach their full potential both personally and collectively.

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The ISAE-SUPAERO library

The ISAE-SUPAERO library offers a wide range of services and does everything it can to meet your needs: located in the centre of the ISAE-SUPAERO campus, the Aérothèque Marie-Marvingt is a space dedicated to knowledge, a library, and a place for cultural exchange. It is open to students and the public alike.

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Exploring, Sharing, Transforming

Last Updated On 03 September 2025

An Overview of Our International Transition Initiatives

On February 7^th and 8^th, ISAE-SUPAERO hosted the 'MEA - More Electric Aircraft' international conference, in collaboration with the 3AF (Association Aéronautique et Astronautique de France) and the SEE (Société de l'électricité, de l'électronique et des technologies de l'information et de la communication).

Some 260 professionals from industry, research, and agencies came together for an exciting event to share ideas, research results, and solutions linked to technological and future developments associated with more/all-electric aircraft. The transition to more electric aircraft, driven by the ambitious goal of reducing carbon emissions from civil aviation to zero by 2050, is a growing challenge for industry and society.

For 2 days, the community came together on campus through conferences, two poster sessions, and an exhibition to promote innovations and new technologies for electric aircraft.

Some key figures:

260 visitors.
15 countries represented.
80 companies and universities.
more than 160 manufacturers.

Student Delegation to the Ministry of Ecological Transition

One of the objectives of our Institute is to strengthen the link between the public sphere and its students to help them learn about the institutions and mechanisms of political decision-making.

To this end, a delegation of students attended the roundtable organised by Clément Beaune, Minister Delegate for Transport, at the Ministry of Ecological Transition and Territorial Cohesion on the fringes of the opening of the Paris Air Show.

The debate on the future of air transportation brought together: Bertrand Piccard for the Solar Impulse Foundation, Augustin de Romanet for the ADP Group, Diane Strauss for Transport et Environnement, and a student from the ISAE Group. Our students were able to express their vision of the future of the sector at the opening of the debates and to exchange views with the Minister following the event.

Morning Debate at ISAE-SUPAERO Initiated by Members of Parliament

In September, as part of the study days on decarbonising aviation, ISAE-SUPAERO opened its campus to the French National Assembly's Aeronautics and Space group for a morning debate.

'Decarbonising Aviation: Who's Got the Energy?' brought together local elected representatives, members of parliament, industrialists, associations, journalists, and students for a series of roundtables at which Marwan Lahoud, Chairman of the ISAE-SUPAERO Board of Directors, and Laurent Joly, Director of the Institute for Sustainable Aviation (ISA), spoke alongside various public and private players.

The event was opened by the group's two co-presidents, Christine Arrighi and Cécile Rilhac, Olivier Lesbre, Director General of ISAE-SUPAERO, and Joseph Risson, a 3rd-year engineering student and winner of the 2023 Lopez-Loreta Foundation prize for his start-up Viraj H₂.

On November 22^nd, 2023, as part of the 40^th anniversary of the Académie de l'Air et de l'Espace, the AAE and ISAE-SUPAERO organised a meeting on the theme of the future of aviation: motorisation and decarbonisation.

Innovation Rendezvous

On September 22^nd, 2022, ISAE-SUPAERO and ENAC organised 'Les Rendez-vous de l'Innovation.' Against a backdrop of urgent climate change, where the issue of air transportation is omnipresent, the two higher education establishments decided to bring together innovation players to discuss a forward-looking theme: 'Thinking and Building the future of Air Transportation Together.'

The public was invited to attend a number of roundtables, conferences, and demonstrations to find out about the changes underway in the air transportation sector and to talk to the major players in the field about how research and innovation are working to support this transformation.

Continuing Education: the First Cap H2 Class Certified

In June 2022, ISAE-SUPAERO, Capgemini Engineering, and EUROSAE launched Cap H2, the first continuing education course in France to lead to certification in hydrogen technologies applicable to aviation.

The Cap H2 course was developed in partnership with Capgemini and EUROSAE, under the teaching responsibility of Yves Gourinat for ISAE-SUPAERO.

Our Institute's objective is to enhance the skills of professionals in the field of aircraft cryotechnical systems. By the end of the course, students learned how to specify an architecture, open up certification avenues, and identify the main technological obstacles. The first class consisted of 72 Capgemini Engineering employees, who received their certificates on June 29^th, 2023.

Given the success of this experiment and the very positive feedback from the first class, ISAE-SUPAERO, Capgemini Engineering, and EUROSAE have decided to open up Cap H2 to all manufacturers in the aeronautics sector for the start of the 2023 academic year.

This is a successful collaboration between three leading players in aeronautics training, who have combined their strengths to create a unique programme.

The Shift Project* and the Supaero Décarbo collective, made up of some twenty engineering graduates from the classes of 2000 and 2001, have published their report on the decarbonisation of the aviation sector called 'Being Able to Fly in 2050: What Kind of Aviation in a Constrained World?'

Based on a scenario-based analysis of aviation emissions trajectories between now and 2050, the study attempts to shed light on the following questions: (1) how can we act today to continue flying tomorrow, in a constrained world? and (2) how can we steer the aviation sector towards trajectories that are compatible with climate issues and less dependent on fossil fuel supplies?

October 2^th, 2020

By being invited to the virtual seminar organised by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) named 'CO2 Emissions Reductions in the Aviation Sector' and to the third edition of the Space Forum La Tribune, our Institute, through the intermediary of Marie-Hélène Baroux (then Deputy Director and Head of Sustainable Development) was able to debate and present its research and training in energy transition and Earth observation for climate to decision-makers in the aeronautical and space sectors. An ICAO international seminar aimed at finding solutions for the use of sustainable fuel, at which manufacturers, institutions, and research bodies specialising in the environment took part, allowed attendees to discuss and present their work on the implementation of innovative solutions.

In 2019, our former President, Olivier Lesbre, signed the manifesto issued by The Shift Project. Recent work on teaching climate and energy issues in higher education has revealed a strong desire on the part of the higher education community and students for an organised educational response to climate issues.

More than 80 heads of higher education institutions and 1,000 professors, leading a list of some 7,500 signatories, have launched an appeal to the French government to 'initiate a transition strategy for higher education that positions climate change as the number one emergency.'

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Development of a Method for Quantifying the Impact of Research Projects on the Environment

In 2024, our DRRP teams at ISAE-SUPAERO developed a method for quantifying the impact of research projects on the environment.

To assess the ambition of our research projects in the transition to a sustainable society, a working group designed a metric that revealed that more than a third (35%) of the research projects conducted at our Institute have a significant impact on the environment.

Our methodology measures all current projects and provides a concrete basis for work, even if it is not yet applicable to all areas of research.

Our tool is available to other interested research laboratories and establishments and takes the form of a questionnaire divided into three themes:

the direct environmental impact of the project,
the environmental issues addressed,
any strategies and solutions implemented to reduce environmental impact.

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Environmental issues, now essential, are addressed at ISAE-SUPAERO with scientific method and rigor. Our research aims to provide solutions that benefit industry, with an associated metric.

Henry de Plinval Dean of Research and Educational Resources

The Mermoz Challenge: a Pilotless, Zero-Emission Aircraft to Cross the South Atlantic

In January 2023, the first hydrogen gas-powered demonstrator, developed by ISAE-SUPAERO in partnership with H3 DYNAMICS, successfully completed its first radio-controlled flight on the runway of the Muret aeromodelling club.

This marks a major milestone in the development of this future lightweight electric drone, which is fully autonomous and emits no CO2 in flight.

The project was initiated in 2018 by our team of ISAE-SUPAERO researchers led by Professor Jean-Marc Moschetta.

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The aim of this exploit is to demonstrate the feasibility and reliability of this aircraft, powered electrically by an energy package combining a fuel cell and a photovoltaic panel, capable of flying very long distances and light enough to enter the French certification category for out-of-sight (BVLOS) flights. The next key stage of the project is to develop a version of the drone powered by liquid hydrogen.

Jean-Marc Moschetta Professor

AeroMAPS, a Decision-Making Tool for Air Transportation Transition

What impact should each air transportation transition strategy have?

This is the question our AeroMAPS project sets out to answer. AeroMAPS aims to develop open source tools to explore and assess the sustainability of transition scenarios for air transportation. In particular, the goal is to build an integrated sectoral assessment model that includes technological, environmental, economic, and societal considerations. More concretely, it would make it possible, for example, to assess the impact of transition strategies (hydrogen aircraft, flight quotas, etc.) on CO2 emissions, ticket prices, and usage. Our project is part of the Institute for Sustainable Aviation (ISA) because of its multidisciplinary nature.

Our project currently comprises of two tools:

A Tool to Facilitate Decision-Making and Contribute to Public Debate

In addition to our research and training activities, this project seeks to facilitate decision-making for institutional, industrial, and association decision-makers in the aeronautics ecosystem. More broadly, AeroMAPS is a way for us at ISAE-SUPAERO to contribute to the public debate on the place of aviation in our society.

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ISA – Institute for Sustainable Aviation

Created in 2021 on the initiative of internationally renowned academic institutions with longstanding academic expertise in the field of aeronautics and air transportation, the ISA is an institute dedicated to the challenges of aviation’s transition to sustainability.

More Than 20 Research Projects

ISA is conducting some 20 research projects on fleet renewal, changes in passenger demand, the adoption of new technologies and pricing, the elasticity of demand, the economic trajectory and life-cycle analysis of sustainable aviation fuel production processes, and the impact of the Air Passenger Transport Tax.

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Our High-Impact Projects

On January 20^th, 2020, the IMOTHEP project (Investigation and Maturation of Technologies for Hybrid Electric Propulsion), funded by the European Commission as part of Horizon 2020, was officially launched in Brussels. ISAE-SUPAERO is one of 33 industrial and academic partners in the IMOTHEP consortium led by ONERA, whose aim is to assess the potential of hybrid electric propulsion to reduce emissions from commercial aviation and to build the European technological roadmap for its development. Our researchers from the Aerodynamics, Energy and Propulsion Department (DAEP) will be taking part in this project and will be contributing to the work on aeropropulsion integration, in particular the modelling of thrusters and the design of air inlets for breakthrough configurations.

ISAE-SUPAERO is taking part in HERA (Hybrid Electric Regional Aircraft), one of the European research projects on decarbonising aviation. HERA aims to identify hybrid-electric regional aircraft concepts flying over typical distances of less than 500 kilometres that can meet climate challenges.

The aim is to evaluate the key technologies and architectures in order to offer a range of regional-interurban transport by the 2030s.

ISAE-SUPAERO is involved in studies on the overall optimised design of the aircraft with a particular focus on the integration of high aspect ratio wings and thermal management solutions. This activity will enable the extension of projects already carried out by the aircraft design and flight dynamics team of the Aerospace Vehicle Design and Control Department (DCAS), such as the Clean Sky U-HARWARD project.

Air Conditioning Systems For Future Carbon-Free Aircraft: ISAE-SUPAERO and Liebherr-Aerospace Toulouse Join Forces

Adapting transportation to carbon-free energies requires major changes in systems architecture. On aircraft, many sub-systems, such as propulsion units or air conditioning packs, are affected. The turbomachinery that makes up these systems must be adapted: in the electrification process, the operating range required for turbines and compressors must be increased beyond the current state of the art while offering high efficiency. This is the aim of the CASTOR Chair. It is a joint research programme between Liebherr-Aerospace and ISAE-SUPAERO, supported by the ANR. A team of twelve people will lead the scientific programme over a four-year period, divided between the DAEP laboratory and the company.

The primary objective is to help meet the electrification requirements of aircraft air conditioning systems. However, the research carried out will also contribute to the development of more efficient fuel cells or heat recovery cycles. In the long term, it is aimed at the emergence of new turbomachinery system architectures, which could be beneficial in other industrial sectors.

Impact of Climate Change on Aviation (ICCA)

Project Leader: Nicolas Gourdain (DAEP)

Antenne Plasma du DEOS - Bâtiment 7 - ISAE-SUPAERO - Toulouse - 10/02/2022

The objective of the ClimateFly project is to translate the uncertainties over the atmospheric variables impacted by climate change and over the aircraft's engine and aerodynamic characteristics into a quantified estimate of the reduction in the aircraft's maximum authorised load to satisfy the take-off phase.

The ensemble propagation of uncertainties will make it possible to quantify, for example, a number of days of weight restrictions in different regions of the world and for different levels of global warming: 1.5°C and 2°C (target set in the Paris agreements), or 3°C or 4°C for more pessimistic scenarios which must nevertheless be considered in a risk estimation approach.

The advantage of this approach is that it presents a summary result for the different emission scenarios and over the decades up to 2100. This so-called direct strategy will be supplemented by an inverse strategy, which consists of identifying the values and uncertainties of the input variables in order to comply with a constraint on the output variables.

ECoDesigning Tomorrow's Optimal Aerostructures

Project Leader: Joseph Morlier (DMSM)

This cross-disciplinary and collaborative work covers the field of optimal design of materials/structures, but also of processes via lifecycle analysis and the CO2 impact assessment of the process (including type of transportation, place of manufacture, recyclability, etc.) as well as reasoned/optimised high-performance computing.

Construction Of Novel CERTification methOds and means of compliance for disruptive technologies

Project Leader: Joël Jézégou (DCAS)

The CONCERTO project aims to develop draft certification regulations for innovative clean aviation architectures such as SMR, HER, or H2 aircraft, and to experiment with solutions for digitalising the certification process.

ISAE-SUPAERO is heavily involved in steering the risk analysis work package for existing certification regulations and investigating gaps. In addition, the Institute is making a significant contribution to the work packages defining generic concepts for hydrogen-powered aircraft and drafting certification regulations.

Environmentally Responsible Recycling of Ti6Al4V chips From the Aerospace Industry

Project Leader: Kamel Moussaoui (DMSM)

The objectives of the RECoTIA project are to improve the recycling stages for Ti6AI4V chips, to obtain decontaminated aerospace-grade chips, and then to recover the chips for additive manufacturing.

The role of ISAE-SUPAERO:
- additive manufacturing processes,
- mechanical and metallurgical characterisation.

Our Innovative Chairs Focusing on Environmental Issues

For several years now, we have been working closely with the major players in the aeronautics industry to find appropriate responses to current issues in terms of the ecological transition. With the help of the ISAE-SUPAERO Foundation, several training and research Chairs have been created to work on new air transportation concepts and propose innovative solutions to reduce ecological impact.

The CEDAR Chair (Chair for Eco-Design of Aircraft)

The CEDAR Chair, launched with AIRBUS in 2013 and renewed in 2019 and 2024, aims to provide a response to the environmental issues facing the aeronautical sector.

The aim of our Chair is to define disruptive concepts for air transportation by introducing innovative technologies right from the aircraft design stage. The main pillar of our Chair incorporates a more global approach to environmental engineering, and are primarily aimed at raising awareness and educating our future aeronautical engineers in sustainable development in the air transportation sector.

The AEGIS Chair (Aero EnGine Innovative Studies)

The AEGIS Chair, developed with SAFRAN since 2016, is based around a research programme on innovative propulsion architecture concepts that will equip the next generations of aircraft.

The aim of this Chair is to reduce the environmental footprint of aircraft propulsion by cutting pollutant and noise emissions.

The ISAAR Chair (Innovation Solutions for CS-23 Aircraft Architecture and Regulation)

The ISAAR Chair, created with DAHER in 2019, aims to conduct research into the design and certification of light aircraft with hybrid-electric propulsion.

Our Chair’s research focuses on three areas:

Reducing the environmental impact of aviation, especially by hybridising on-board energy sources and exploring innovative aircraft architectures and operating modes,
Understanding society’s needs in terms of mobility and formalising and modelling these needs to enable us to design the type of operations and aircraft that can meet them,
Certification of these new architectures, incorporating the new regulatory approach introduced by the aviation safety authorities for CS-23 category aircraft. In particular, this approach will encourage the introduction of innovations in aircraft while guaranteeing the high level of safety required in aviation.

Viraj H2

Co-founded in 2023 by two students, an engineering student from ISAE-SUPAERO and a graduate of Polytech Lille, Viraj H2 is a start-up housed in our ISAE-SUPAEO incubator, InnovSpace.

The company is developing a hybrid powertrain combining a fuel cell and a turbo-prop with heat and steam recovery.

In 2023, Viraj H2 was awarded the Lopez-Loreta Foundation prize of €1 million. This gave us the means to move from a low-power prototype to a structured research and development phase within three partner laboratories.

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Training for the Future

Last Updated On 10 September 2025

1,363

ECTS awarded on subjects related to sustainable development subjects in 2021 within the "Diplôme d'ingénieur ISAE-SUPAERO"

3,000

ECTS projected to be awarded on subjects related to sustainable development in 2026 within the "Diplôme d'ingénieur ISAE-SUPAERO"

Details of Elected Representatives

Our Sustainable Development Courses

Our "Diplôme d'ingénieur ISAE-SUPAERO"

1st year

Core Curriculum

Back to School with a Climate Theme (Climate Fresk): a fun and creative workshop on climate change. The aim is to challenge, raise awareness, and get students to interact in a situation of collective intelligence.

'Transition, Environment and Society' Block (TES): helps students to identify current and future environmental and social challenges, and understand the links between the sciences and the need for a systemic approach to the world. It's an opportunity to develop the critical thinking needed to tackle these issues.

The TES Project: a project that puts students in the shoes of consultants tasked with thinking about technology and its uses in a societal context for technologies in sectors such as AI, energy, the environment, transportation, space, etc.

Current Elective Modules

Aviation and Climate,
Ecodesign,
Energy Transition: The Engineer's Role
Physics of Orders of Magnitude for a World in Transition,
Wind Propulsion.

2nd year

Core Curriculum

Introduction to Environmental Issues: the aim of this course is to help educate engineers who are aware of their role in the ecological transformation of our society to put society on a sustainable path. To achieve this, the course aims to:

provide the factual elements needed to understand the current environmental situation and the mechanisms that have led to it; and
encourage students to take up these issues.

'Transition, Environment, and Society' Block: Following the 1^st year core curriculum, students will be trained in environmental engineering tools and levers for transition in order to be able to identify the relevant tools and levers to become a player in the transition as an engineer.

Current Elective Modules

Circular Economy,
Climate Impact of Aviation: Current Situation and Outlook,
Sustainable Development Goals.

3rd year

Areas of Application

Energy, Transportation, and the Environment

Over the next thirty years, energy demand associated with transportation is set to grow the most. Against this backdrop, there are huge challenges to be met if energy production, consumption, and transportation development are to be brought in line with the urgent need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Hybrid and non-conventional technologies are emerging as effective solutions to these challenges, but they have to fit into a sometimes complex economic, regulatory, and social environment. This area of application includes courses on energy, climate, economics, and ecology.

Aircraft Design and Operation

In the Air Transportation System Transition pathway, students focus on assessing the environmental impact of aircraft and the air transportation system. For example, students may estimate the environmental effects of technological solutions (energy carriers, new aircraft and operations, etc.) and non-technological solutions (economic, carbon offsetting, sobriety, etc.) by simulating transition scenarios for air transportation. This makes it possible to estimate the viability of these solutions and quantify their impact on the aviation sector, various stakeholders, and society at large.

Generally Speaking...

Other modules are available to choose from in 1^st and 2^nd year, such as:

Nature, man, ecology,
Life, the living, and living in a time of biological crises,
Environmental ethics.

This course is on the design and analysis of transition scenarios for the air transportation sector.

This course is an introduction to ecodesign: choosing materials with the environment in mind. Faced with current and future ecological and economic issues, directives, and the demands of society, it is necessary to minimize the impact on the environment from the design phase of products, whether it be goods or services.
The aim of this course is, on one hand, to present the issues, the different approaches, and the tools for ecodesign. On the other hand, the course seeks to study sources of energy and identify those that are renewable with their exploitation or transformation.

The aim of this module is to extend our students' know-how to an area of fluid mechanics that is a source of innovation: wind propulsion. This field is currently the focus of developments aimed at performance and/or sustainability. For example, competition sailboats made of a rigid wing and foils fly at the water/air interface. This extremely high-performance mode of travel gives rise to problems of dynamic stability, which are a natural extension of the aeronautical field. These new developments are also being applied to merchant ships with hybrid propulsion to meet the challenge of the increasing scarcity of fossil fuels through wind propulsion.

Since the industrial revolution and the massive exploitation of fossil fuels, the economy has neglected the physical limits of the earth. The depletion of resources and climate change are forcing us to reintegrate these limits to enable the emergence of a sustainable society according to the 17 UN objectives. Engineers have a key role to play in raising awareness of this issue and contributing to the developments needed to change society's trajectory. This course provides the practical tools needed to design the transition to a sustainable world: estimation techniques, physics of orders of magnitude, and critical thinking (reasoning, prototyping, modelling, integrating the limits of models).

This course enables students to acquire a holistic vision of the solutions for reducing the environmental impact of the 3 areas of a circular economy and discover the methods and tools for reducing the impact of the 7 pillars.

Today, we know that industry and engineers in particular have a vital role to play in the energy and environmental transition!

Laurent Michel Head of "Ingénieur ISAE-SUPAERO" programme (MSc)

Our "Diplôme d'ingénieur de spécialité" Industrial Engineering for Aeronautics and Space - by Apprenticeship Programme

1st year

Core curriculum
- Sustainable Development and CSR

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is the way in which companies take into account environmental, social and ethical issues in their activities.

2nd year

The Fabric of the Future: Challenges and Issues

The aim of this course is to make students aware of the importance of the challenges facing industrial systems in the context of the fourth industrial revolution. These include the digitisation of the factory, factory flexibility and production configurability, and new logistics and simulation tools. The goal is to design a factory that saves energy and raw materials.

3rd year

Avionics and Embedded Systems option
Energy Systems and Materials option

More generally, the issues of eco-responsibility and energy efficiency in the aerospace sector are addressed in various technical courses throughout the programme via the concepts of eco-design, optimisation, lifecycle analysis, recycling and recyclability of materials, etc.

The Climate Fresk and Collective Intelligence

The tone is set every autumn: our 1^st year students are invited to take part in a fun and creative workshop on the environment. The aim is to find and explain the links between cause and effect in order to build a real 'fresk' of climate change.

Created by Cédric Ringenbach, a passionate engineer who teaches energy-climate issues in higher education, the Climate Fresk is an educational tool that articulates the IPCC's conclusions to provide a better understanding of the components of climate disruption and its systemic dimension.

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Our Equal Opportunities Programme – OSE l’ISAE-SUPAERO

Last Updated On 09 September 2025

OSE is our equal opportunities programme supported by the Groupement des Industriels Français de l'Aéronautique et du Spatial (GIFAS), which is committed to educational equity and better professional integration for all.

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.”

Our institutional partners

Our private and community partners

How Can You Support Us?

Individuals

OSE ISAE-SUPAERO is asking companies to get involved!

From now on, you can support solidarity initiatives in favour of access to education for all.

Host conferences, share your experience and expertise or take part in events: discover the different types of cooperation possible with ISAE-SUPAERO and make your choice!

Discover the cooperations with OSE

For a company

OSE l'ISAE-SUPAERO invites companies to get involved. Join the network of partners!

From now on, you can support solidarity initiatives in favour of access to education for all.

Open the doors of your company, host conferences, share your experience and expertise or take part in events: discover the different types of cooperation possible with ISAE-SUPAERO and make your choice!

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