The École des Mines de Nantes (French pronunciation: [ekɔl de min də nɑ̃t]), or École nationale supérieure des mines de Nantes (pronounced [ekɔl nɑsjɔnal sypeʁjœʁ de min də nɑ̃t]), Mines Nantes, EMN, was a French engineering school (grande école), part of the Institut Mines-Télécom.
Although it offers a fairly typical education for an engineering school, the EMN strives to give its graduate a practical, pragmatic approach to the technical and business skills it teaches.
Manifestations of this philosophy include programs such as the "Apprentissage par l'action" ("Learning through action"), a case-based approach to sciences that places students in front of industry-inspired puzzles and develops students' analytic skills and intellectual curiosity.
The EMN is also a partner of "La main à la pâte" ("Hands in the dough"), an innovative initiative to teach sciences in primary courses supported by Georges Charpak, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1992.
EMN offers four Master of Science programs fully taught in English: