New specialisation: Scientific Challenge 2024

With the upcoming 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris and the relationship forged between Centrale Nantes, CREPS des Pays de la Loire and the French Rowing Federation through various research projects linked to performance support over the past twenty years, there is a willingness to expand the links between scientific research and the sports community.

That's how the new specialisation (Scientific Challenge 2024) came about. Its objective: train engineers capable of undertaking large-scale projects, providing relevant solutions to issues in the field, within efficiently organized project teams. The specialisation was designed to develop and validate a digital simulator of the complete boat-boat-rowing system in order to:
 

• Make digital simulation an operational tool for rowing for the 2024 Olympic Games
• Participate in improving of knowledge of how the complete boat-rowing-boat-rowing system works
• Conduct parametric studies of the determinants of sports performance in rowing from simulations
• Make the research results accessible for sports experts
• Use the simulation results to propose training tools for coaches

The opportunity was therefore offered to students to take part in these scientific challenges in order to develop tools capable of providing concrete answers in the field, and to acquire scientific skills and knowledge through an ambitious engineering and research project.