École navale

Career officer engineer course (admission)

French students enter in year 1 from scientific classes préparatoires aux grandes écoles (competitive entrance exam), in year 2 through the bi-diploma route with a partner school, or in year 3 as students of the École Polytechnique. The course lasts three years, leads to the engineer title and carries a commitment to serve as a career officer for at least 27 years. Recruitment information is available through lamarinerecrute.fr, the CIRFA recruiting offices and the Bureau Recrutement Officiers ([email protected]).

Foreign cadets

Foreign cadets enter year 1 by competitive examination organised within partner countries and follow the three-year École navale master-level curriculum, with an exchange semester in years 1 and 2. Franco-German cadets can follow the cross-training EFENA scheme: two years of military and maritime training in Germany, four years of science at a Bundeswehr university, then the application year at the École navale (contact: [email protected]). General international enquiries: [email protected].

Contract officers

Contract officers (one year at the school, first contract of eight years) are recruited internally (officiers mariniers, OSC COSER, volontaires officiers aspirants) or externally with a diploma at bac+3 minimum via marinerecrute.fr. Students who have validated two years in a partner school may join the last two years of the engineer course and obtain a double diploma. Other officer corps (OSM-SC, OSM, OSC COSER, VOA, reserve officers) and the naval aviation pilot course (EOPAN, ages 17 to 25) follow shorter courses of four weeks to four months.

Master 2 Mécanique et énergie en environnement naval (MEEN)

A one-year master 2 attached to the Energy mention of the ENSAM master. Admission at bac+4; pre-selection file on the ENSAM website before June. Semester 1 is taught at the École navale; semester 2 is an R&D placement in a laboratory or company.

Master AMASONE (Atlantic Master in Ship Operations and Naval Engineering)

A two-year international master taught in English with Centrale Nantes (M1 at Centrale Nantes, M2 at the École navale), aimed mainly at foreign students. Admission at bac+3 (BSc or BTech in mechanical, electrical, ocean or naval engineering); selection by file and interview.

Management de projets maritimes et maintenance des navires

One-year diploma accredited by the Conférence des grandes écoles and awarded with ENSTA. Admission with a master 2 (bac+5), a master 1 with at least three years of professional experience, or a licence with at least ten years; selection by file and interview.

Doctorate

Three-year doctorates are supervised through IRENav. Candidates hold a bac+5 level; selection is by hearing before an internal commission, and positions are advertised on the school's website. Contact: [email protected].

Erasmus+

Master students, doctoral and post-doctoral researchers can apply for Erasmus+ mobility grants for study or placements, as can officer cadets abroad for their synthesis project; priority destinations are the European Union and several associated countries ([email protected]).

Lanvéoc-Poulmic (Crozon peninsula, Finistère) is the single campus of more than 100 hectares, within a military enclosure on the shore of the Brest roads, about 45 minutes by car or 30 minutes by boat from Brest. All teaching and research take place here.

• Teaching: classrooms and practical rooms with interactive screens and virtual-reality headsets, amphitheatres, a navigation simulator, a media library (médiathèque) and a Fablab with 3D printers.
• Research: the IRENav laboratory with a hydrodynamic tunnel, the G3E embedded energy platform and an open-water test area.
• Sport and sailing: marina with J80 keelboats, a cruiser, rigid inflatables, sailing boats, kayaks and paddleboards; swimming pool; gymnasium; weights and cardio room; stadium with a 400 m track and a rugby pitch; tennis courts; obstacle course.
• Living: rooms of about 110 m2 with a balcony and sea view, a work area, a rest corner, a bathroom and a dormitory for up to eight; the private cadet bar and lounge Le Borda; the dining hall (salle Étourdi).
• Heritage: a 350 m2 museum of the school's history, refurbished in 2005, with a crypt dedicated to naval officers who died in service.