Polytechnic Institute of Bordeaux

The Bordeaux Polytechnic Institute (trade name: Bordeaux INP) is a higher education institution, under the supervision of the ministry responsible for higher education and research, and set up in a large institution. Created in 2009, it brings together several engineer courses in Bordeaux; Its headquarters is located on the university estate of Talence Pessac Gradignan. At its creation, the Polytechnic Institute of Bordeaux brought together the engineering schools of the PRES "University of Bordeaux" constituted in 2007. The institution was engaged in a process of constitution Of a single institution "University of Bordeaux3", of which he retired in December 2012. When the universities merge, the PRES becomes the Community of universities and establishments in Aquitaine. The name of the institution recalls the national polytechnic institutes which are public institutions of a scientific, cultural and professional nature (EPCSCP) "assimilated to universities" 4. The national polytechnic institutes were created in 1969, following the Faure law and the change of status of the national higher engineering schools5. In 2014, the "INP Group" is made up of the INPs of Bordeaux, Grenoble, Lorraine and Toulouse, which have different statuses (only the INP of Toulouse remains an INP in the legal sense of the term). This network proposes, in particular, preparatory classes enabling one of the schools to be integrated without a competition6. In September 2014, the Bordeaux Polytechnic adopted the brand name "Bordeaux INP" and changed its logo to assert its membership in this network7.