Who are we?

The INSA Centre Val de Loire was established on 1 January 2014 following the merger of the Val de Loire ENI (National Engineering School) and Bourges ENSI (Graduate Engineering School).

4 engineering degrees and 1 state landscape architecture degree

Having absorbed these two schools, the Institute now awards four engineering degrees: Energy, Risk and the Environment together with the Cher Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI) École Curien (Apprentice Training Centre) in Bourges, Industrial Systems Engineering, Industrial Risk Control and Information Technology and Cybersecurity.The Institute was extended on 1 January 2015 when it absorbed the National Graduate School for Nature and Landscape, which has now become the "School for Nature and Landscape" department. This will award the State Landscape Architect Degree after a five-year higher education course leading to a Master's.

What's more, just like all of the INSA schools, the INSA Centre Val de Loire is authorised to award PhDs.With 200 members of staff – teachers, research professors, administrative and technical staff – the Institute now trains 1,700 students on its two campuses in Blois and Bourges. As the youngest member of the INSA Group, the INSA Centre Val de Loire is part of a development drive. With this in mind, an ambitious real estate plan entailing the extension of teaching and research premises as well as sports facilities and accommodation is still ongoing to cater to this growth over the next years.

Sustainable development

Fully aware of the need to reconcile environmental protection and social responsibility, INSA Center Val de Loire is committed to a sustainable development approach in accordance with the Grenelle I law for the environment and has implemented the Plan Green in 2020 so that the approach is generalized to all of its actions on its two campuses in Bourges and Blois. INSA Center Val de Loire has thus set up the sustainable development and social responsibility commission which is made up exclusively of volunteer staff and students interested in these issues. Its missions:

The missions of the commission:

  • be a force for proposals around the issues of sustainable development and social responsibility of the Institute
  • propose and support all or part of the strategic and operational actions within the establishment
  • n opinion from the DDRS commission will be requested during the various stages necessary for the contractualization of a public contract which could have an impact on the greenhouse gas emissions of INSA Center Val de Loire (drafting of the offer and selection of answers)
  • centralize potential initiatives to coordinate them, then put them into perspective with the actions already carried out by the services and laboratories or make them operational.


The composition of the committee, the minutes of the committee's meetings and the various opinions issued are available internally on the Celene plateform. All proposals and requests on subjects that could be related to the commission's fields of action are welcome to support the Institute towards a more integrated sustainable development and social responsibility approach. To do this, you can contact the members of the commission by email: commission-ddrs@insa-cvl.fr

Key partnerships with companies

The INSA Centre Val de Loire is a regional and national economic stakeholder that forges research and innovation partnerships with companies. The courses taught set great store by their students gaining international and practical work experience, which results in over 90% of them finding work six months after graduating. Last but by no means least, a thriving and enriching student life rounds these benefits off.