Start of the school year
Welcome of international students and new registrants (2nd / 3rd / 4th year): Monday 1 September 2025
Reception of 2nd cycle students and apprentices: Wednesday 3 September 2025
1st year ans 3rd-cycle students welcome: Thursday 4 September 2025
Reception of 2nd and 3rd year students and preparatory classes: Friday 5 September 2025
Events and exhibitions
BioQuantum Record exhibition by Anna Steward, artist-in-residence: as part of France Design Week – 19 September to 17 October 2025 – ESAD Orléans Gallery
The Party 2 : as part of France Design Week, an evening event featuring a presentation of the September Workshops / opening of the BioQuantum Record exhibition / artistic performances – Thursday 18 September 2025 from 5pm – Dupanloup and Abreuvoir sites at ESAD Orléans
Round table – Guest speakers: as part of France Design Week, ESAD Orléans welcomes Sylvia Fredriksson / A Short Handbook of Energy Democracy and Victor Guégan / After Typography, Industrial Printing and Artistic Avant-gardes. The round table will be moderated by Dominiq Jenvrey – Tuesday 23 September 2025 – ESAD Orléans Auditorium
Héritage.zip – Self-organised exhibition by the Class of 2025 – 13 November to 10 December 2025 – ESAD Orléans Gallery
+ Exploring printable materials – Exhibition as part of Emmanuel Hugnot’s DSRD defence – 15 January to 13 February 2026 – ESAD Orléans Gallery
Matricule Bis 3D Festival on the world of video games – Abreuvoir site – 23 and 24 January 2026
Open Day: Saturday 31 January 2026 at ESAD Orléans – Dupanloup and Abreuvoir sites
A quoi ça sert ? – 2025 Graduates’ Exhibition at Le Cube, an interdisciplinary cultural innovation hub in Garges-lès-Gonesse – 14 March to 16 May 2026
A minima exhibition – 30 April to 1 July 2026 – ESAD Orléans Gallery
Togetherness – 2025 Graduates’ Exhibition at the Fondation du Doute, Museum of Modern Art in Blois – 6 May to 28 June 2026
Final assessment
Bachelor Degree Product and Spatial Design : 9 to 12 June 2026 (provisional dates)
Bachelor Degree Visual and Graphic Design : 2 to 5 June 2026 (provisional dates)
Master degree Design Commons : 23 to 26 June 2026 (provisional dates)
Master degree Media Design : 16 to 19 June 2026 (provisional dates)
Holidays
Autumn : from 18 October to 2 November 2025; for students in preparatory classes, only from 25 October to 2 November
Christmas : from 20 December 2025 to 4 January 2026
Winter : from 21 February to 1 March 2026
Spring : 11–26 April for Years 1 and 2; 18–26 April for Years 3, 4 and 5
Ascension: 14–17 May 2026
School closed for the summer holidays: 18 July–16 August 2026