- Research,
Researchers' Night 2025: come and meet researchers from UT Capitole
on the October 3, 2025
6 p.m. to midnight
Halles de la Cartoucherie and adjoining La Cabane Theatre
Open to all – free admission
Food available on site
Site accessible to persons with reduced mobility
Open to all – free admission
Food available on site
Site accessible to persons with reduced mobility
Calling all night owls with a curiosity for science! Join us on 3 October for Researchers' Night 2025, the event that will mark the launch of the Science Festival in Occitanie. It's an opportunity to meet researchers from UT Capitole through a series of original and offbeat activities.
During this convivial and festive evening, themed ‘Intelligence(s)’, 200 scientists from all disciplines will be present in Toulouse, Albi and Tarbes to share their discoveries, engage in dialogue and exchange ideas.
Organised by the Communauté d’universités et établissements de Toulouse, in close collaboration with its institutions and partners, and supported by the Occitanie Region, Researchers' Night is a unique opportunity for the public, young and old alike, to meet and talk with researchers from all disciplines, discover their work and share their passion for research..
Organised by the Communauté d’universités et établissements de Toulouse, in close collaboration with its institutions and partners, and supported by the Occitanie Region, Researchers' Night is a unique opportunity for the public, young and old alike, to meet and talk with researchers from all disciplines, discover their work and share their passion for research..
Co-produced with the CNRS and Les Halles de la Cartoucherie, the event in Toulouse will take place for the first time at Les Halles de la Cartoucherie and in the adjoining theatre, La Cabane..
On the programme: experiments, speed searching, word-of-mouth games, podcast meetings (in the dark!), Les Echappées inattendues du CNRS (Unexpected Escapes from the CNRS), literary meetings, escape games, the SonIA show (dance, theatre, video, sound, robotics), Liquid Light Show on the facades of Les Halles de la Cartoucherie... A fun and joyful discovery of science in all its diversity!
On the programme: experiments, speed searching, word-of-mouth games, podcast meetings (in the dark!), Les Echappées inattendues du CNRS (Unexpected Escapes from the CNRS), literary meetings, escape games, the SonIA show (dance, theatre, video, sound, robotics), Liquid Light Show on the facades of Les Halles de la Cartoucherie... A fun and joyful discovery of science in all its diversity!
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Meet the researchers at UT Capitole
As usual, researchers from our university were there!
Le Grand Labo, stand ‘Collective intelligence: the strength of generations’:
- Maxime Derex, researcher at Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) and CNRS, member of IAST,
- Adrien Blanchet, researcher and lecturer in applied mathematics at TSE, member of IAST.
- Adrien Blanchet, researcher and lecturer in applied mathematics at TSE, member of IAST,
- Mathurin Passard, PhD student at TSE.
- Noémie Dubruel, PhD student at the Toulouse Law School, Maurice Hauriou Institute (IMH).
An evening themed around ‘Intelligence(s)’
Every day, the news highlights both the achievements and the dangers of the spectacular development of artificial intelligence (AI). Having become more ‘intelligent’ than humanity, could machines one day surpass us? But what kind of intelligence are we talking about? The latest scientific advances show that intelligence exists in forms that are as varied as they are nuanced.
Researchers' Night invites the public to explore various forms of intelligence and to rethink what it means to be intelligent, beyond human boundaries. From the behaviour of cells to the astonishing abilities of plants, from the cognitive prowess of animals to the emergence of AI, the notion of intelligence manifests itself in many ways and challenges our thinking.
Updated on October 1, 2025