AFTES Student Contest
Take part in the 2nd edition of the AFTES Student Contest 2025!
Building on the success of its first edition, the AFTES Student Contest, awarded by the AFTES Student Prize, is back in 2025!
This prize aims to encourage excellence, innovation, and the quality of work carried out in the fields of tunnels, underground structures, or the underground space and is intended for recently graduated students to reward their end-of-studies projects in these fields.
The content is open to students at the Bac+5 level (Master’s degree) or Bac+3 level (Bachelor’s degree, Professional Bachelor’s degrees, etc.), enrolled during the 2023-2024 academic year in a French engineering/architecture school or university, and working on a final-year project or an apprenticeship activity in the field of underground space.
Rules and registration
Application deadline: October 17, 2025 at 12:00 AM
2024 Content results
The results were announced during the association’s General Assembly, held on December 12 in Paris.
The winner of the content, Candice Lièvre, was awarded for her work on green hydrogen storage.
There were also two finalists, Alice Dubois and Marianna Feuillas, who presented innovative projects—one on tunnel boring machine assembly and the other on modeling vibratory impacts in urban environments
Winner 2024
Candice Lièvre
Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussée (ParisTech)
Finalist 2024
Alice Dubois
INSA Lyon
Finalist 2024
Marianna Feuillas
Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussée (ParisTech)
Watch the presentations of the 2024 AFTES Student Contest