With a bud­get of 300 mil­lion euros, no few­er than 15 PEPRs (Pri­or­i­ty Research Equip­ment Pro­grammes) — struc­tur­al ini­tia­tives for the future, most of which are led by the CNRS—have been launched as part of the France 2030 pro­gramme, includ­ing the PEPR “Robot­ics” Pro­gramme. These pro­grammes are con­sid­ered strate­gic and aim to ensure the country’s sov­er­eign­ty by strength­en­ing France’s sci­en­tif­ic and tech­no­log­i­cal capa­bil­i­ties in key fields of the 21st Cen­tu­ry. UTC-Com­pieg­ne, through its Heudi­asyc and Rober­val Lab­o­ra­to­ries, is a con­trib­u­tor to two of the four projects select­ed under the “Robot­ics” PEPR—namely PERSEO and MINIRO—a PEPR with a allot­ted bud­get of 30 mil­lion euros; fur­ther­more, UTC is also a recip­i­ent, through the BMBI, of the PREDIT4FACE project under the “Dig­i­tal Health” PEPR, which will be the sub­ject of an arti­cle in the next issue. Oth­er research projects are under­way, such as the study of oxide-oxide ceram­ics at MC2Lab, a joint UTC-CEA lab­o­ra­to­ry, or those launched under the RE USE Junior Pro­fes­sor Chair aimed at lean rein­dus­tri­al­iza­tion in tech­nolo­gies to address the chal­lenges of the envi­ron­men­tal tran­si­tion. Final­ly, a the­sis on rain­wa­ter man­age­ment at the source has won mul­ti­ple awards. All of this demon­strates the vital­i­ty of research and inno­va­tion at UTC.