Joint initiatives

With 20 years of Sino-French cooperation within the framework of the IFCIM (Franco-Chinese Institute of Engineering and Management) which they co-founded in 1998, L'Ecole nationale des ponts et chaussées and TONGJI University have chosen to launch a new step in their joint action for businesses: develop a co-innovation center on the theme of the sustainable city, which combines executive training, partnership research, and entrepreneurship program, serving French and Chinese companies in Shanghai.

On May 17, 2017, the ENPC / TONGJI co-innovation center was inaugurated on the occasion of the 110th anniversary of TONGJI University

In January 2018, the partner companies met during the Director's visit to express their training and research needs

On October 26, 2019, the 20th anniversary of IFCIM was celebrated, celebrated at TONGJI University, a milestone marking cumulative training. The ceremony was an opportunity to highlight that 276 TONGJI students have been trained in ParisTech schools in the 50i program, including 53 at the Ecole des Ponts, 276 in the Masters, and more than 1000 in the MBA des Ponts.

Partners since 1994, École nationale des ponts et chaussées and Tongji University in Shanghai signed a framework agreement on 6 April 2022, which succeeds the ten-year agreement linking the two institutions in the Franco-Chinese Institute of Engineering and Management signed in 1998.  This framework agreement takes up the existing cooperation agreements, and provides for new axes.

• Continue the cooperation started in 2008, building on the experience of the first double master in transport in 2002. The aim is to maintain and develop cooperation in the field of student exchanges and double degree programmes, which could be extended to other themes and other levels of training, bearing in mind that to date 53 students hold an engineering degree from the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées and a master's degree in engineering from Tongji University.
• Co-supervision of theses, to encourage cooperation on the doctorate, and to simplify the specific co-supervision agreements that will result. This agreement also provides for the exchange of professors and their financing, with a view to promoting the development of research cooperation.
• To cooperate in the organisation of student study trips, in particular within the framework of the Ingénieurs d'excellence programme, which has been active since 2015 in France and in French-speaking countries and regions, such as the African continent.
• Cooperate in the scientific organisation of the annual High Service Level Transport Forum, organised by Tongji University since 2008.
• Develop innovation services that meet the needs of French and Chinese companies in the fields of transport and sustainable cities,
• To develop Franco-Chinese continuing education for executives and engineers, managers of companies and private and public organisations.
• To develop more generally other projects in the field of continuing education and research and innovation in China, France and in third countries.

Tongji University, represented by its president, Chen Jie, and École nationale des ponts et chaussées, represented by its director, Sophie Mougard, signed this agreement on Wednesday 6 April for a period of five years. This event, organised as part of the celebration of Tongji University's 115th anniversary, was the occasion for the unveiling of the plaques of the École nationale des ponts et chaussées office in Shanghai and the Tongji University office in Paris by the Consul General of France in Shanghai.

On the occasion of the signing of the agreements, the Talent and Scientific Cooperation Forum took place, around 8 themes (civil engineering, environment, transport, mechanics, environment, design, industrial engineering, economy), with the participation of about fifty teachers and researchers, and led by Marie-Christine Bert, Director of International Relations and Corporate Partnerships and Yujun CUI, researcher at the Navier laboratory, correspondent for academic and scientific cooperation with China.  

The École nationale des ponts et chaussées and the Mohammed VI Polytechnic University have chosen to create in early 2018 a joint research center comprising thematic research activities, training programs through research and research, as well as the dissemination of knowledge . The purpose of this center is to create a future Joint Research University School (Graduate School) focused on the challenges of the African continent. It will deal in particular with the following themes: "Simulation and Optimization", "Energy transition", "Industry of the future", "Public action and Public-Private Partnership", "City and Urban Planning", "Logistics and Supply Chain";

The "Simulation Optimization" thematic is already giving rise to 5 ongoing research theses, with the CERMICS laboratory. The themes "Industry of the Future" which involves the Saint Venant Hydraulic Laboratory, and "Town and Urbanism" which involves the Hydrology Meteorology Complexity laboratory, started in 2020, provide solutions to the industrial challenges of the OCP Group.

The École nationale des ponts et chaussées / UM6P Joint Research Center was inaugurated in Paris in March 2018 by Mostafa Terrab, President of the OCP Group and of Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, and Sophie Mougard, Director of the Ecole nationale des ponts et chaussées