IMT has joined an alliance that already includes around fifteen academic partners, Mistral AI and Edtech France. With this partnership, IMT is committing its ten technological universities to a collective initiative that aims to experiment with responsible, sovereign and secure uses of generative artificial intelligence in higher education.
This initiative, which was introduced at the International AI Action Summit, meets the needs expressed by higher education establishments: to have reliable, sovereign technological solutions aligned with the values of higher education and research, to benefit from a common framework for experimentation, and to be able to assess EdTech solutions in a controlled environment, while reaching industrial scale.
This partnership with Mistral AI, led by EdTech France, is organized around five themed working groups with active participation from IMT schools, working alongside other higher education and research establishments. These working groups cover:
- Policies, strategies and economic models
- The student experience and teaching
- Inclusion and accessibility
- Markets, safety and the legal framework
- IT systems, HR and schooling
As a joint effort along with Mistral AI and the EdTechs involved, the first tests will be carried out on pilot campuses from May 2025, and a first solution will be available to partner institutions at the start of the new academic year. The goal is to lay the foundations for the first “AI Campuses”.
A strategic response to tomorrow’s challenges
These commitments are part of the momentum generated by the DemoES call for expressions of interest (Digital Demonstrators in Higher Education), which revealed the need for a sustainable transformation of education systems. They are also in line with IMT’s overall strategy for 2023–2027, which includes a sovereign, sufficient and inclusive digital approach as one of its four main focus areas.
With this partnership, IMT affirms its goal to support the major transitions in higher education. Generative artificial intelligence, if designed within an ethical, inclusive and sovereign framework, can become a powerful driver of transformation for our campuses. This collective project gives our schools the opportunity to work together on testing practical solutions, for the benefit of students, teachers and the entire academic community.
Cécile Dubarry, Executive President of IMT
