Polytechnique Montréal

The 2024-2028 Strategic Plan for Polytechnique Montréal guides the institution's development, ensuring it maintains excellence and responds to societal expectations. The plan's values were updated and approved on April 25, 2024. The Director General is responsible for its collaborative development, effective implementation, and periodic review to adapt to evolving internal and external environments.

This Action Plan for Sustainable Development outlines the strategic direction for Polytechnique Montréal from 2025 to 2029. It is structured around five key pillars: training a new generation of engineers to address contemporary challenges, establishing the institution as a leader in sustainable progress through research, fostering an organizational culture characterized by benevolence, collaboration, and openness, enhancing the visibility of sustainability initiatives and innovation capabilities, and assuming responsibility for the environmental footprint while progressing towards carbon neutrality.

This document outlines the policy for continuing education at École Polytechnique de Montréal, integrating it as a core part of its mission. It defines the primary clientele as graduate engineers and, secondarily, technical professionals, setting new priorities for their professional development. The policy establishes principles for new program developments, emphasizing departmental responsibility, quality, transparency, collaboration, and coordination through the Centre de formation continue. It also details appropriate content and pedagogical approaches to ensure the institution effectively contributes to the ongoing skill development of a qualified workforce.

This policy aims to guide actions to foster internal sustainability, establish a decision-making framework, and increase Polytechnique's influence on society as a whole. It outlines four guiding principles—Rethink, Influence, Collaborate, and Embody—to be applied in all decisions. The policy defines institutional orientations focused on Governance, Community, Outreach, Education, Operations, and Research, with key objectives including greening the campus by 2035 and achieving carbon neutrality by 2050.

The strategic plan outlines Polytechnique Montréal's roadmap to become an internationally recognized engineering university by 2023, known for its leadership, audacity, and entrepreneurial spirit. It is structured around three major orientations and twelve development axes, focusing on evolving and expanding educational offerings to anticipate societal needs, fostering multidisciplinary and international learning, and placing skill development at the center of the educational journey. Key priorities include promoting innovation ecosystems and research partnerships, ensuring equal opportunities and increasing female representation, fostering an entrepreneurial culture, and enhancing its local, national, and international visibility and influence. Additionally, the plan emphasizes supporting personnel development, modernizing administrative processes, ensuring community well-being, and strengthening a sense of belonging.