Groupe des Ecoles Centrale
The Écoles Centrale — Centrale Lille, Centrale Lyon, Centrale Méditerranée, Centrale Nantes and Centrale Supélec — share the same values and the same generalist training project, as well as the same vocation for academic excellence and research.
Against this backdrop, Centrale Lille is fully involved in the drive to strengthen and develop, collectively led by the members of the Groupe des Écoles Centrale (GEC), who wish to consolidate their alliance, and to this end embark on a new stage of strengthening their joint activities.
Groupe des Écoles Centrale (GEC) is the guarantor of our identity and of the durability of our brand, contributing added value at our respective sites, and enhancing our operational potential, especially for international development.
Centrale Beijing
Centrale Beijing has welcomed around one hundred Chinese engineering students per cohort since 2005. Each year, after 1 year of intensive French language studies, students follow 5 years of training, 2 years of preparatory classes and 3 years of engineering training to obtain a dual Chinese and French degree.
Mahindra Ecole Centrale
Founded in September 2013, and inaugurated in August 2014, MEC is a collaboration between the Indian company Mahindra, Centrale Paris, and JNTU Hyderabad University. The school is based on the project and model of the Groupe des Écoles Centrale in France.
Centrale Casablanca
Ecole Centrale Casablanca is a Moroccan school of excellence created in 2013 by the Kingdom of Morocco and France. Opened in 2015, the 3-year course trains multi-skilled general engineers to become future managers in the kingdom and on the African continent.
The Gay-Lussac Federation
The Fédération Gay-Lussac (FGL), of which ENSCL is a member, brings together the 20 French chemistry and chemical engineering schools. Nationally, the FGL offers an integrated preparatory cycle which allows students with a baccalaureate to enter the federation’s schools on the basis of continuous assessment after two years of integrated preparatory classes in one of five centres: Clermont-Ferrand, Lille, Pau, Rennes or Strasbourg.
Internationally, the FGL is involved in two Franco-Chinese Institutes, the first, Chimie-Pékin, with the BUCT (Beijing University of Chemical Technology) and the second, Chimie Shanghai, with the ECUST (East China University of Sciences and Technology). The FGL plays a key role in the development and international visibility of French chemical engineering schools. Membership of the FGL strengthens the international visibility and attractiveness of our institution.
The Lille site
Centrale Lille’s research is firmly rooted in the Lille area, particularly within the framework of the Excellence Initiative supported by the University of Lille, in which all the natural partners in higher education — universities and research bodies — work closely together.