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HEC Paris
One of the world’s best business schools, HEC Paris is a leader in research and education in management sciences. It offers a unique portfolio of programs designed for a carefully selected student body.
Read moreICP (Catholic University of Paris)
Founded in 1875, the Catholic University of Paris (Institut Catholique de Paris – ICP) is the inheritor of the Medieval Liberal Arts Colleges and lies in the tradition of the Sorbonne, the oldest academic institution in France. ICP is renowned for its excellence in core academic fields such as Theology, Philosophy and Canon Law that serve as a basis for the development of Humanities and Social sciences, where Education, Ethics and Anthropology are well represented. As a non-for-profit Association pursuant to French Law of 1901, recognised as Promoting the Public interest, its unique Research Unit “Religion, Culture and Society” is fully recognised by the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research.
Inspired by a long Christian and Humanistic tradition, ICP values open-mindedness and dialogue across borders, as suggested by the University Motto: “An Open Mind to the World”. ICP welcomes all students and academics, whatever their nationality, culture, language and religion and puts an emphasison individual pedagogical guidance. Centrally located in the 6th district of Paris, between the Latin Quarter and Saint-Germain-des-Prés, ICP is built on the site of an old Carmelite convent from the 17th century. ICP is a place of serenity and history, a unique and positive environment conducive to study, research and campus life.
ICP belongs to the European Higher Education Area and delivers ECTS (European Credits Transfer System). ICP is also a major actor of the, global Catholic network of higher education. ICP prepares for obtaining State Degrees recognized at National and European level (Bachelor, Master and Doctorate Degrees), Canonical Diplomas as well as its own Diplomas. Part of ICP, the ILCF (Institute of French Language and Culture) offers recognised certifications. Faculties of ICP deliver Bachelor (3 years), Master (5 years) and Doctorate Degrees in three main complementary teaching and research areas :
- Humanities : Philosophy, French and International Literature, Past and Present Languages, European languages, Ancient Oriental Languages, History, History of Art, French as a Foreign Language, French Culture, Politics…
- Law, Social sciences and economics : Law, Economics, Sociology, Human Resources, Mediation and Negotiation…
- Theology, Religious Sciences & Canon Law : Canon Law, Moral Theology, Pastoral Catechesis, Theology of Arts, Liturgy, Ecumenical and Interreligious Studies, Exegesis, Christian Anthropology…
IFP Energies nouvelles
IFP Energies nouvelles (IFPEN) is a major research and training player in the fields of energy, transport and the environment. From research to industry, technological innovation is central to all its activities.
Its areas of expertise include:
- climate, environment and circular economy,
- renewable energies,
- sustainable mobility,
- responsible oil and gas.
As part of the public-interest mission with which it has been tasked by the public authorities, IFPEN focuses on:
- providing solutions to take up the challenges facing society in terms of energy and the climate, promoting the transition towards sustainable mobility and the emergence of a more diversified energy mix;
- creating wealth and jobs by supporting French and European economic activity, and the competitiveness of related industrial sectors.
An integral part of IFPEN, its graduate engineering school – IFP School – prepares future generations to take up these challenges.
IFPEN has proven expertise across the entire value chain, from fundamental research to innovation. It is funded both by a state budget and by resources provided by industrial partners. The latter account for over 50% of IFPEN’s total budget, a configuration that is unique in France.
The aim of IFPEN’s R&I programs is to overcome existing scientific and technological challenges in order to develop innovations that can be used by industry.
IFPEN’s fundamental research program aims to create a library of knowledge essential for the development of innovations.
The scientific expertise of IFPEN’s researchers is internationally recognized and they are regularly consulted by the public authorities to provide their insight in their specific fields to inform the decision-making process.
Read moreIMT (Institut Mines-Télécom)
The number one group of engineering and management graduate schools in France, IMT (Institut Mines-Télécom) is a public institution dedicated to higher education, research and innovation in engineering and digital technology. It provides the economy with 12.300 freshly-trained engineers, managers and doctors.
8 engineering and management graduate schools
IMT has also formed close ties with 12 partner institutions, known as affiliated schools.
4,100 degrees are awarded each year and 90 % of graduates go straight into permanent work contracts (figures excluding the affiliated schools).
IMT schools form a powerful group, complementing each other and working cohesively together. Their strength is founded on a shared vision to:
- train graduates for businesses,
- develop the economy and France’s territories,
- contribute to innovation and entrepreneurship.
These activities are rolled out in areas linked to the major digital, energy, industrial and educational transitions underway.
Partner-orientated research
The quality of IMT’s partner-orientated research is recognized by 2 Carnot Institute labels, (M.I.N.E.S and Carnot Télécom & société numérique) awarded in 2006 and renewed in 2011.
The research concerns projects that involve IMT research teams and its socioeconomic partners (businesses, associations, local authorities, etc.). This is a major focus of IMT’s Research and Innovation strategy.
Partner-orientated research takes many forms:
- Contractual research
- Collaborative research
- Technology transfer
L’Institut Agro
L’Institut Agro is a higher education and research institution specialised in agronomy, food sciences, environmental sciences and landscape studies. It carries out its activities in close association with research organisations, universities, other grandes écoles and both private and public socio-economic actors, in Fance and worldwide.
Read moreInalco
lnalco began teaching languages and culture studies in 1795. Ever since, the Institute has cultivated its role in understanding a living heritage outside of any Western references. Inalco promotes the discovery of the world as it is, in all its wealth and diversity, with a desire to become immersed in another way of thinking. Through the quality of our courses and research, Inalco strives to disseminate the knowledge and skills essential for people to understand and engage meaningfully with each other, culturally and socially as well as professionally. Inalco’s humanist values are evident in all its teaching choices, research policy, and cultural programming.
Over the centuries, Inalco has become a unique world institution, teaching languages from Central Europe to Africa and from Asia to America via Oceania. There is no other institution in the world that offers such a diversity of courses or wealth of opportunities and knowledge in one place.
Research at Inalco combines area studies and academic disciplines, the junction of which is particularly innovative and fruitful in scientific terms. Our researchers study languages and cultures that are increasingly in the spotlight—Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and as far as the Arctic—and are central to the major issues of the 21st century.
Read moreInrap (French National Institute for Preventive Archaelogical Research)
Inrap was created in 2002 in application of the law on preventive archaeology. The Institute ensures the detection and study of archaeological remains concerned by construction projects in France and its overseas territories. It exploits and diffuses the results of its research to the scientific community and participates in teaching, cultural diffusion and public outreach.
Largely self-funded, Inrap is a research establishment in the public sector under the tutelage of the Ministries of Culture and Communication, National Education, Higher Education and Research. In addition to its State representatives, its Board of Directors is composed of representatives of research organisms and local governments, as well as developers and qualified persons in the field of archaeology.
Its research activity is conducted under the aegis of a scientific committee composed of the associated ministries and members of the archaeological community: CNRS, universities and the archaeology services of local government bodies.
During the different phases of archaeological research, Inrap shares the results of its work with the public. It develops diverse resources that are widely diffused via the organization of site visits, colloquia and exhibitions, publications, audiovisual documentaries, radio programs and digital tools. Each year since 2009, under the aegis of the Ministry of Culture and Communication, Inrap organizes the French National Archaeology Days.
Read moreINSEP
France’s National Institute of Sport, Expertise, and Performance (INSEP) is a public institution under the administration of the Ministry for Sports. Established in 1945, it is both a benchmark elite Olympic and Paralympic training centre as well as a powerful voice in elite sport policy in France.
Through its unique, modern infrastructure located within an exceptional 28-hectare campus in the heart of the Bois de Vincennes in Paris, INSEP supports outstanding sporting performance in all its forms for elite athletes competing in all sports. The institute offers innovative support and individually tailored training programmes, medical care, research, psychological support as well as training and professional reorientation. Every day, athletes’ programmes are studied, remodelled and improved through the commitment, motivation and availability of all those working at INSEP. Each year, the institute reiterates its goal of optimising all areas to maximise the achievement of French athletes, enabling them to reach the top of the podium.
Read moreInserm
Since 2006, a partnership between the CCSD and Inserm offers to transfer fulltext HAL deposits to the PubMed Central archive.
Founded in 1964, Inserm is a public scientific and technological institute which operates under the joint authority of the French Ministries of Health and Research. The institute is dedicated to biomedical research and human health, and is involved in the entire range of activities from the laboratory to the patient’s bedside. It also partners with the most prestigious research institutions in the world that are committed to scientific challenges and progress in these fields.
Read moreINSEI (ex INSHEA)
Public institution of higher education, the INSHEA is active in the area of professional, social, and inclusive education.
INSHEA has a unique objective based on three fields focus: research, training, and resources.
- Develop interdisciplinary research
The research unit of the INSHEA analyses, on the national and international level, the policies and school practices of education and training for people with special educational needs. Its mission is to link teaching, research and production of resources to enable operators in the educational field to respond to the diversity of backgrounds and educational needs as well as to facilitate learning and social and professional integration of students. - Offer training to all stakeholders in the field of inclusive education
The INSHEA offers initial and continuing education to answer the issues of accessibility and supervision.
Its campus allows the accommodation of trainees and students from all over France and abroad. - Develop a resource center of reference
The INSHEA aims to collect, produce and make available technical, scientific and educational resources for all the actors in the field of inclusive education, dealing with people with special educational needs.
This activity is fully in line with the approaches of the project for digital university that has been a central focus of the draft contract of the site of the university Paris Lumières.
In 2014, The INSHEA has become an associate member of the University Paris Lumières.
Institut d’Optique
Founded in 1917, the Institut d’Optique Graduate School is a world leader in higher education, research and innovation in optics and photonics.
The Institut trains physics engineers, master’s students and some of the most innovative PhDs in business and academia.
At the heart of networks of excellence, its international influence is based both on the quality of the training it provides and on its research and technology transfer.
The Institut is a major engineering school member of University Paris-Saclay and is established on the campuses of excellence of Paris-Saclay and Bordeaux, as well as Saint-Etienne.
The scientific contributions of its research center are major : the researchers publish on average one article per week and are quoted 30 times daily.
Read moreInstitut Pasteur
It is home to several national (CNR) and international (CCOMS) centers of expertise that monitor infectious diseases. The Institut Pasteur Medical Center is a health center specialized in infectious and tropical diseases, travel medicine and allergic diseases.
The Education Center welcomes every year over 600 students (Master’s and PhD students, post-doctoral fellows, experienced researchers and health professionals). Some 250 PhD students are present in campus laboratories in any one year, making the Institut Pasteur a major stakeholder when it comes to training of young scientists through research.
HAL portal of the Institut Pasteur
HAL portal of the Pasteur Network
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Institut Polytechnique de Paris
The Institut Polytechnique de Paris is a public higher education and research institution comprising five prestigious French engineering Schools: École Polytechnique, ENSTA Paris, ENSAE Paris, Télécom Paris and Télécom SudParis. Under the aegis of the Institute, they bring together two centuries of expertise to pursue two major goals: to develop world-class training programs and cutting edge research. Building on the strength of its five founding institutions, the Institut Polytechnique de Paris has established itself as a leading education and research institution in France and internationally. École Polytechnique, ENSTA Paris, ENSAE Paris, Télécom Paris and Télécom SudParis have contributed to major industrial and technological breakthroughs over the last two centuries. Their alumni include Nobel prize-winners and prominent figures in the worlds of politics, business and research.
The Institut Polytechnique de Paris develops multidisciplinary education and research programs drawing on a community of 1,000 faculty members in ten disciplinary departments. This multidisciplinary approach creates new synergies between different fields, for example by promoting the application of new technologies to traditional engineering fields such as physics or transportation. Knowledge transfer to the economy and society is at the heart of the Institut Polytechnique de Paris’ mission and its network of incubators and dynamic ecosystem helps drive cutting-edge innovation and cultivate students’ inventiveness.
Read moreIRSN
IRSN, a public expert with industrial and commercial activities, was set up in 2001. The Institute is placed under the joint authority of the Ministries of Defense, the Environment, Industry, Research, and Health. It is the nation’s public service expert in nuclear and radiation risks, and its activities cover all the related scientific and technical issues.
The decree n°2016-283 of 10 March 2016 entrusts IRSN with missions of expertise and research in the following areas:
- nuclear safety
- safety of transport of radioactive and fissile materials
- protection of man and the environment against ionizing radiation
- protection and control of nuclear materials
- protection of nuclear facilities and transport of radioactive and fissile materials against malicious acts.
IRSN interacts with all parties concerned by these risks (public authorities, local authorities, companies, research organizations, stakeholders’ associations, etc.) to contribute to public policy issues relating to nuclear safety, human and environmental protection against ionizing radiation, and the protection of nuclear materials, facilities, and transport against the risk of malicious acts.
Read moreMétéo-France
Météo-France is the French national meteorological and climatological service. Its prime mission is to ensure meteorological safety for people and goods. It translates into a weather monitoring map that signals dangerous phenomena, their consequences, and the precautions to protect oneself. Sea forecast and avalanche monitoring complete these measures in Continental France, and a hurricane watch alert system for the Overseas territories.
Météo-France’s main missions consist of:
- the development and maintenance of surveillance network,
- the collection and processing of climatological data,
- the weather forecast,
- the elaboration of climatic projection,
- the research in the fields of meteorology and climatology.
Météo-France is at the service of 3 categories of clients:
- State services (people and goods safety) and Defence,
- the aeronautic sector,
- professionals in a variety of economic sectors (energy, local authorities, construction industry…)
Among Météo-France strong points is the ability to cover every aspect, from operational to research, at any scale of time and space. The interaction between engineers and researchers is an important asset.
A reference on a global scale, Météo-France holds an important place among the main organisms of meteorological cooperation: the World Weather Organisation (WWO), the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (Eumetsat), and Eumetnet.
Météo-France is currently under the jurisdiction of the French Ministry of Ecological Transition.
Read moreMINES ParisTech
MINES ParisTech, the École des Mines de Paris, is one of the oldest French higher education institutions in engineering. While its inspirational model has not changed, its teaching methods and its research have been anticipating and accompanying its times ever since 1783.
Mines ParisTech is a “Grande ecole” centred on its research activities. it encompasses all fields of scientific knowledge thanks to 15 innovative research centers exploring five major fields. With 260 research academics, 400 doctoral students and 60 post-doctoral students, Mines ParisTech ranks top among the Grandes ecoles for the volume of contractual research.
The institute’s laboratories are partly associated with CnRs, the ecole Polytechnique, inseRM, inRiA, institut Pasteur, etc. Their research, at the intersection of many fields, has led to
the emergence of new disciplines (geostatistics, mathematical morphology and automatic control systems) which are now studied by the scientific community and disseminated throughout industry and the services.
Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle (French National Natural History Museum)
Environmental awareness and protecting the planet lie at the heart of contemporary debates. The Muséum is fully committed to these issues and occupies a position of reference thanks to its varied missions, which include basic and applied research, conservation and the expansion of its collections, education, expertise and the dissemination of knowledge.
The Muséum is a research centre and draws on laboratory work and worldwide expeditions, a wide range of disciplines, outstanding collections and recognised expertise. Its mission is also to share knowledge, which it does through education and dissemination activities. With a clear objective – to make knowledge about the natural world accessible to everyone and to make as many people as possible aware of the importance of protecting our planet.
One of the Muséum’s distinctive features is that its activity is spread over 13 sites throughout France. Its historic heart is situated in Paris, at the Jardin des Plantes, where laboratories, exhibition galleries, a zoo and educational institutions can all be found. Two other key Parisian sites must also be mentioned – the Parc Zoologique de Paris and the Musée de l’Homme (re-opened in October 2015). The remaining sites to be discovered in all four corners of France include two marine stations, an arboretum, a zoo, botanical gardens, a prehistoric excavation site and laboratories.
This historic institution was created in 1635. Originally a royal garden for medicinal purposes and an educational institution, it became the Natural History Muséum in 1793. For four centuries, it has been the source of major scientific discoveries in natural sciences. It has developed over the years thanks to some great minds. Buffon in the 18th century and Daubenton, Lamarck, Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire and Cuvier in the 19th century all provided excellent teaching, extended and studied the collections and were deeply committed to sharing their knowledge with the public.
Today, many different professions exist side by side at the Muséum. Teacher-researchers hunting down knowledge to make scientific progress, taxidermists devoted to giving back power, movement and expression to specimens in the collections, gardeners rising to the challenge of growing plants from different climates in the alpine garden, electricians, carpenters, reception assistants, vets, museologists… all working with the same passion and with one single aim – to further explore and promote nature in order to protect it better.
Read moreObservatoire de Paris
The Observatoire de Paris (Paris Observatory) is an institution (“Grand Établissement”) that falls within the jurisdiction of the French Ministry for Higher Education, Research and Innovation.
Founded in 1667, it is the largest national research center for astronomy, as it makes for a third of the French research community in astronomy.
The Paris Observatory is made up of five departments, an institute, two scientific services, and joint services. Spread on three campuses – Paris, Meudon and Nançay – its scientific entities are all working in collaboration with CNRS (French National centre for scientific research) and other prestigious French universities. The Observatory also coordinates two external laboratories.
Read moreFrench Biodiversity Agency
The French Biodiversity Agency (Office Français de la Biodiversité or OFB) is a public institution dedicated to the protection and restoration of biodiversity in Metropolitan France and its Overseas Territories, under the supervision of the ministries responsible for Ecology and Agriculture & Food.
The OFB coordinates national information systems on biodiversity, the marine environment, water and the aquatic environment. As such, it collects, structures and makes available to everyone information from numerous public partners and associations. It contributes to the development of knowledge by carrying out or supporting scientific and technical work in partnership with research institutions. In this way, it produces expertise based on the latest scientific findings and the knowledge of its field teams and partners.
Read moreONERA
ONERA’s mission:
- Developing and guiding research activities in the aerospace field
- Designing, developing and deploying the resources required to conduct this research
- Disseminating, in collaboration with the authorities or organisations responsible for scientific and technical research, the results of said research at national and international levels; promoting their use by the aerospace industry and, where appropriate, facilitating their application outside the aerospace field.
In these different capacities, it is notably tasked with:
- Conducting itself or asking a third party to conduct, on its own initiative or upon request, all the studies and research required by the aerospace industry
- Developing test and calculation facilities for the benefit of aerospace research and industry
- Liaising with French, foreign and international organisations whose activities may contribute to the advancement of aerospace research
- Disseminating and promoting the results obtained, in particular through publications, patents and operating licenses
- Promoting the launching or development of initiatives in favour of aerospace research or industry
- Assisting official organisations and authorities as an expert and upon request
- Contributing, in its field of competence, to the training policy on research and through research
In liaison with the National Centre for Space Studies, it contributes, through its own actions or through agreements, to research and experimental achievements in the space field.
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