IMT Nord Europe announces the launch of COMPOLIS, a new R&I hub dedicated to connected materials and structures

As industries undergo ecological, industrial, and digital transitions, COMPOLIS emerges as an innovative and multidisciplinary response. This initiative aims to bring together industrial partners around key challenges such as decarbonization through lightweight structures, composite functionalization via embedded sensors, infrastructure monitoring and material recycling.

An integrated approach at the crossroads of materials, structures and data

COMPOLIS is built on a unique expertise, combining several essential disciplines:

• Advanced Materials: Polymeric, composite, metallic and hybrid materials, with a focus on material functionalization, circular economy, and end-of-life valorization.
• Optimized and Connected Structures: Design, sizing, multi-scale and multi-physics numerical modeling, manufacturing – sensor integration and validation testing up to full scale.
• Non-Destructive Testing and Structural Health Monitoring (SHM): Embedded sensors, printed electronics, internet of things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), predictive maintenance, and digital twins.

By combining multi-scale and multi-physics modeling, COMPOLIS ensures a seamless transition from research to industrial applications..

An innovative programme to discover at JEC World 2025

At JEC World 2025, the leading international composites show, COMPOLIS will be officially launched and presented to industrial partners. This event will be an opportunity to meet IMT Nord Europe’s experts leading the initiative and to discover:

• The objectives and services offered by COMPOLIS, to the benefit of industrial partners (technology survey, training, engineering, R&D, prototyping, etc.).

• Ongoing projects and developments, including instrumentation and monitoring of additive manufacturing, and of hydrogen storage and transport pressure vessels, etc.

An industrial network open to industrial collaborations

COMPOLIS aims to build a network of engaged stakeholders to shape the industry of the future together. IMT Nord Europe and its partners are inviting companies, research and technical centers, and interested institutions to join this initiative and co-develop solutions tailored to industrial challenges.

Visit the IMT Nord Europe stand for further information:

Hall 6 D114-04 | JEC World 2025 – Paris Nord Villepinte | March 4-6, 2025

About IMT Nord Europe
IMT Nord Europe is one of the largest engineering schools north of Paris, with more than 2,200 students, including a quarter of apprentices, over 600 graduates per year and a network of 16,000 alumni. With its 3 Research Centers (Digital systems, Energy & Environment, Materials & Processes) and 5 Campuses (Douai, Lille, Valenciennes, Dunkerque, Alençon), IMT Nord Europe is part of the Institut Mines-Télécom (IMT), the number-one group of engineering and management graduate schools in France. It is also a partner of the University of Lille. Ideally located at the crossroads of Europe, between Paris, London, Brussels and Amsterdam, IMT Nord Europe has the mission to shape today’s talents and tomorrow’s knowledges in order to foster the environmental, digital and industrial transitions.