Founded in 2003 and named Centrale Marseille in 2006, École Centrale Marseille became Centrale Méditerranée in 2022 with the opening of its second campus in Nice. It is the latest addition to the Écoles Centrales Group, along with Paris, Lille, Lyon and Nantes. It is the result of the merger of ENSPM, ENSSPICAM, ESM2 and ESIM some twenty years ago. It is one of 210 French engineering schools authorized to award an engineering degree. It is located in Marseille, in the heart of the Château-Gombert technology park.
7 UMR (joint research unit) carry out research at the highest national and international level with Centrale Méditerranée (ECM) under joint supervision with CNRS and AMU.
Research is at the heart of the school’s development strategy, and these laboratories play a key role in the training of our engineering students: they host them for projects, internships or thesis work.
The school benefits from shared accreditation to deliver research Masters degrees with Aix Marseille University, and many doctoral students are supervised by ECM teacher-researchers, around twenty of whom work at the Institut Fresnel.
In addition to the 3rd year, the school’s students also take part in a Research Master’s program, for which organizational agreements have been signed (Master Europhotonics…)
