Research Research at EIGSI: from one continent to another!
At EIGSI, research is organised around three major themes that reflect the key questions of our time: energy storage, autonomous mobility and health technologies. Between our La Rochelle and Casablanca campuses, exchanges are rich and fruitful: more than 200 scientific articles have been published since 2020!
A mission in its own right, serving education
Research plays a special role in an engineering school: it maintains and renews the scientific expertise on which the programme is built, and underpins the recognition of graduates in the professional world.
Within the school’s research centre, lecturer-researchers and PhD students work on concrete projects, explore new avenues and turn ideas into results; research thus feeds directly into teaching.
Energy and mobility, two long-standing focus areas
EIGSI’s research is first rooted in ecological transition and sustainable development, around two focus areas closely tied to the school’s identity: energy storage (batteries, fuel cells) and the mobility of goods and people (including autonomous vehicles). These two fields are now a benchmark for the school and contribute to its scientific reputation.
These themes are developed in complementary ways on the La Rochelle and Casablanca campuses, with regular exchanges of PhD students and researchers between the two sites. All of them work together within the EIGSI research centre.
Health and digital technology, new fields of exploration
Research at EIGSI now extends beyond energy and mobility to health, wellbeing and new teaching approaches linked to digital uses, in connection with companies, institutions and local communities. This opening takes concrete form with the DBA MedTech, a doctorate dedicated to health technologies, artificial intelligence and intelligent systems. The programme draws on INNOVEDIA, a research laboratory created with the Nestor AI Doctoral School and Université Grenoble Alpes, where engineering, robotics and medical data come together to serve health.
The EIGSI research centre has published more than 200 scientific articles since 2020, in fields such as electrical engineering, energy, supply chain and digital transformation.