Identity card
Identity card
- Name: Institut supérieur de l’aéronautique et de l’espace (ISAE)
- Date of creation: founded in 2007 - as the result of the merging of SUPAERO (founded in 1909) and ENSICA (founded in 1945)
- Directorate: Olivier Fourure (ISAE President)
- Legal Status: a large public institution of scientific, cultural and professional missions
- Trustees: Direction générale de l'armement (DGA) [General Delegation for Arms] - Ministry of Defense
- Mission: to provide higher Programs in order to train engineers highly qualified in the aerospace sectors and related fields; dispensing specialized teaching, improvement and updating of knowledge; conducting scientific research and technological development work within the framework of a scientific and technical information policy; providing doctoral programs
- Endorsements and awards: CTI authorisation of the two Graduate Programs, Conference of ‘Grandes Ecoles’
- Staff: 420 permanent staff 55% of which are dedicated to teaching and research
Membership of networks
- Conférence des Grandes Écoles (CGE – administrator),
- CREDIGE (Conférence régionale des directeurs des Grandes Écoles Midi-Pyrénées),
- ECATA (European Consortium for Advanced Training in Aerospace),
- GEA (Groupe des Écoles Aéronautiques et spatiales),
- PEGASUS (Partnership for a European Group of Aeronautic and Space Universities),
- Competitiveness Centre “Aerospace Valley” (DAS for the training-research group),
- Founder member of the Pôle de Recherche et d’Enseignement Supérieur "Université de Toulouse",
- RUTMP (Réseau Universitaire Toulouse Midi Pyrénées, administrator),
- TIME (Top Industrial Managers in Europe).
