From the United States to Romania, the Henri Fayol Institute and the SMS Center have recently shone internationally. A look back at the ambitious projects that make Mines Saint-Etienne a school resolutely focused on the world.
Christophe Desrayaud at the Wyoming Research Center
At the Materials Science and Mechanical Engineering Center, Christophe Desrayaud participated in an IMT mission to the United States in early September. Director of the SMS Center, he also leads the “Responsible Industry of the Future” theme for IMT. In this capacity, he was invited to visit the Wyoming Research Center in Laramie, an institution recognized for its work on advanced energy systems and road materials technologies.
Guillaume Kermouche and His MAD Project
International collaboration is at the heart of the SMS Center’s values, as Guillaume Kermouche’s project “MAD: Advanced Micro-mechanics for the Development of Sustainable Materials” (Deputy Director of the Georges Friedel Laboratory) received €38,000 in funding from the Auvergne Rhône-Alpes region under the Pack Ambition Internationale programme, which supports international research collaborations in the fields of healthcare industry, microelectronics, and sustainable materials. The MAD project is an international collaboration between three complementary European laboratories:
• the SMS Center
• the Laboratory of Tribology and System Dynamics at Centrale Lyon
• the Institute of Mechanics at the Catholic University of Louvain
Magdalena Potz at EGOS 2025 in Athens
The Henri Fayol Institute is equally active. In July, two events enabled Mines Saint-Etienne to shine on the global research stage. 2,300 researchers from around the world gathered on the campus of the American College of Athens for the European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS 2025).
Magdalena Potz, a lecturer-researcher in the Responsible Management and Innovation Department at the Henri Fayol Institute, presented her work on the need for sustainable organizational change in public organizations: “Temporary or transformative? Building the microfoundations of dynamic capabilities through public innovation projects.”
Olivier Boissier and Victor Charpenay in Bucharest
This fall, Mines Saint-Etienne was represented on September 10 and 11 at the 4th General Assembly of the Horizon Europe ENFIELD project.
This event brought together more than 40 European partners committed to developing trustworthy, human-centered artificial intelligence for a sustainable future. Meeting in Bucharest at the POLITEHNICA University, Olivier Boissier, Director of the Henri Fayol Institute, and Victor Charpenay (Associate Professor) shared their research on eco-responsible AI, one of the three key areas of IMT’s work within ENFIELD.
