Study & contest
Concours Conception Inventive
Every year since 2015, a company sets a real problem to INSA Strasbourg students: EDF, Chanel, Arburg, Sartorius, Essity, Faurecia, Plastic Omnium and more.
Concours Conception Inventive
Every year, a company sets a real problem to INSA Strasbourg engineering students. Over about four months they apply the TRIZ-based inventive design method, today with the Chair’s Finder tool, at the INSA FabLab; the company’s jury awards the prizes. The contest was created and is led by Denis Cavallucci.
2026
Essity
In progress: kick-off on 25 February 2026
2025
EDF
Rainwater collection and solar energy
2024
Centre hospitalier de Haguenau
A tool to explain cardiac amyloidosis to patients
2023
Chanel
Packaging: topic set by the company
2022
Arburg
Topic set by the company
2021
Sartorius
Topic set by the company
2020
Sartorius
Topic set by the company
2019
Faurecia Interior Systems
Driver and passenger interactions in the car interior of the future
2018
Essity
Impregnated wipes (confidential topic)
2017
Plastic Omnium
Vehicle bumpers
2016
Gaggenau Industrie
Cooker hoods of the future
2015
Alstom Transport · Soprema
Bikes on trains; the worksite tool of the 21st century
ECIU challenges
A separate series: European challenges of the ECIU university alliance, in which learners from several countries work on a problem set by a company, with our inventive design and AI methods.
November 2026 – January 2027 · CAF Mobility
Inventive Design and AI-Driven Innovation ↗October – December 2025 · ArcelorMittal
Inventive Design and AI-Driven Innovation ↗February – July 2025 · ArcelorMittal
TRIZ and AI-Driven Innovation ↗