Entrepreneurial support programs

At CentraleSupelec, the training, the accompaniment et l'inspiration contribute to converting more and more researchers, students, and alumni to entrepreneurship. Our mission is to support them in the development of innovative companies with a strong societal, environmental, and technological impact.

Training programs

CentraleSupélec offers different ways to train in entrepreneurship depending on the course.

During general engineering course, engineering students have the opportunity to follow:

• The Entrepreneurship course : an ambitious course, spread over the 3 years of the general engineering course, aimed at all engineering students interested in starting a business.
• The CentraleSupélec Entrepreneur program : in the final year of the general engineering cycle, students learn to create and develop a business over time, to cultivate their ability to innovate, to create value and to act in complex and uncertain contexts.

Le Master of Science CentraleSupélec - ESSEC Entrepreneurs : this training allows you to develop a global and transdisciplinary vision of entrepreneurship, to create, build and manage projects or your own business.
 

21st by CentraleSupélec support programs

21st by CentraleSupélec offers 3 support programs, depending on your level of maturity:

Maturation dedicated to researchers/doctoral students who are developing a technology. (20 projects/year), via a pre-creation awareness program or a continuing education course (Deeptech+). The objective for researchers is to create startups from our laboratories, but also to promote scientific collaborations with the startups we support. 

Incubator dedicated to all our students, for pre-creation & early-stage projects. (25 projects / year). Entrepreneurship must be accessible to all. The idea is to offer a first level of support and coaching to all our project leaders, to prototype our FabLab with La Fabrique and to support them financially via seed grants supported by the CentraleSupélec Foundation. 

Accelerator Dedicated to more mature entrepreneurs (alumni or not) who are preparing to raise funds. (35 startups / year, 70% of which are deeptech.) 90% of the startups accelerated since 2021 have raised funds. The accelerator is made up of: 

• Strategic support and access to over 100 mentors or sector experts to accelerate your Go To Market.
• Access to more than 50 events per year, a community of 300 entrepreneurs and 50K CentraleSupélec alumni working in all fields.
• Access to financing, with the possibility of benefiting from an honorary loan (up to €75K) and an equity stake with CentraleSupélec Venture.
• From access to our 18 science laboratories CentraleSupélec, and to the laboratories of our partner AgroParisTech, a FabLab for prototyping and an AI cluster with computing capabilities.
  All this, with or without accommodation at STATION F, the world's largest startup campus.