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Strategy and missions

Committed to promoting ecological, digital and industrial transitions

"IMT Nord Europe conducts multidisciplinary and innovative research in keeping with the Institut Mines-Télécom strategy in partnership with industrial and academic stakeholders to respond to socio-economic and climate challenges. It does so by developing new technologies and supporting the necessary systemic transitions, while promoting its work through publications and scientific mediation events"
Yann-Busnel-Carre-MD
Yann BUSNEL
Director of Research and Innovation

IMT Nord Europe, Institut Mines-Télécom School and Research Centres

IMT is a public institution for higher education and research for innovation. IMT ensures that the skills of its schools respond to 21st century transformation in major digital, industrial, energy and ecological fields by reflecting on their impacts on industry of the future, the city, health and personal autonomy.

IMT’s mission statement is “all together to imagine and build a sustainable future and to train its key stakeholders”. Building on results in its key foundational areas (“Responsible industry of the future” and “Digital sovereignty and sobriety”), IMT Nord Europe is focusing its research on people and sustainable development, thus establishing its commitment bring together two of IMT’s other strategic focus areas, namely “Energy, circular economy and society” and “Engineering, health and well-being”.

Digital technology, energy, environment and industry

Institut Mines-Télécom is committed to supporting companies and society in general in the major digital, energy, environmental and industrial transitions of the 21st century.
In response to the technological challenges resulting from these transitions, IMT Nord Europe is developing research in its three major areas of expertise supported by three Centres for Education, Research and Innovation (CERI): Energy and Environment, Digital Systems, and Materials and Processes. A human and social sciences department also analyses the transformations of organisations in relation to the digitalisation and internationalisation of companies.

A multidisciplinary approach

Each CERI addresses the three key missions of IMT Nord Europe at its own level and in its own area of expertise. As a result, the fundamentally multidisciplinary research is quickly incorporated into the courses taught and also stimulates innovation. One of IMT Nord Europe’s objectives is to provide education through research by awarding doctorate degrees.

The multidisciplinary approach is not limited to CERI centres, since responding to complex technological challenges requires the perspectives of several disciplines. The research strategy therefore encourages multidisciplinary cooperation between CERI centres and with laboratories of other Institut Mines-Télécom schools.

The dissemination of knowledge is a major objective: research results are promoted through publications in renowned scientific journals and through scientific mediation events such as the Science Fair and Open days.

An ambitious strategy to support transition

Research at IMT Nord Europe results in advanced education programs and technological innovations that meet socio-economic needs, supported by an ambitious strategy for 2023-2027, including training in scientific integrity, open access publishing, international projects, and a strong commitment to ecological and societal transitions.