Chimie ParisTech’s influence is based on an extremely dynamic research cluster that conducts a multidisciplinary research activity at the best academic level on a national and international level.
The school’s research structure offers innovative and integrated research that is comprehensive and ranges from fundamentals to applications, covering the major areas of current chemistry (energy, resources, health, etc.). This research is done with a strong interaction with the industrial world, which allows it to register its research work in a partnership model of valorization in the long term. The goal of these partnerships is also to initiate technology transfers. This is therefore a strong foundation for the development of the school’s innovation policy. As a member of the PSL University Innovation Hub, the school offers a comprehensive support system and provides a full range of collaborative research opportunities.
Collaborate with our research teams
Partnership-based research refers to collaboration between a public research laboratory and a private company, nonprofit organization, or institution, regardless of its size. The goal is to foster innovation and achieve a dual impact: economic and scientific.
There are many different forms of collaboration in partnership-based research:
- Internship funded by a company and supervised in our laboratories
- CIFRE Thesis
- A one-time short- or medium-term research project on a specific topic
- Joint Laboratory
- Industrial Research Chair
Three criteria must be met:
- It must involve research and development;
- The partners must share the full cost (not necessarily equally);
- Partners must share intellectual property (not necessarily equally).
What are the benefits of collaborative research at Chimie ParisTech-PSL?
Collaborative research is a key competitive advantage that allows you to:
- To strengthen its teams with additional scientific expertise and gain access to state-of-the-art equipment
- Reducing risk in a sector, accelerating innovation
- To accelerate product development
- To explore new markets
- To qualify for the research tax credit (CIR) or the collaborative research tax credit (CICo)
- To have part of the project co-financed by a public institution or an organization
Teaching and/or research chairs
These partnerships, which are directly linked to significant socio-economic issues, are generally based on co-funding models shared by companies and public institutions.
These models rely on partnership tools such as teaching and/or research chairs, which enable the establishment of sustainable cooperation.
The goal of these instruments is to advance scientific research and the engineering profession in response to new societal challenges. The idea is to share complementary approaches around innovative research themes.
Chimie ParisTech - PSL is a partner in two chairs:
The Nuclear Engineering ParisTech Chair
The Urban Mines Chair - ParisTech and ESR
Labcoms
Chimie ParisTech offers other partnership tools, such as the Joint Research Labs (Labcom). By having research teams collaborate with companies, they can reinforce a specific expertise by relying on the complementarity of their approaches.
They present several advantages. On the one hand, academic teams have the opportunity to put their research work into a long-term valuation model; on the other hand, companies can rely on additional resources, especially concerning upstream research for the development of their innovation policy.
These labcoms lead to a number of technology transfers to the development of innovative products in key markets.
CIFRE Thesis
The CIFRE program (“Conventions industrielles de formation par la recherche” for Industrial Research Training Agreements) subsidizes any French company that hires a PhD student and involves them in a research collaboration with a public laboratory. Their work culminates in the defense of a thesis in three years.
CIFRE agreements are financed by the Ministry of Higher Education for Research and Innovation, which entrusted their implementation to the ANRT. The ANRT pays the company an annual subsidy for 3 years when they hire PhD students doing their thesis under a 36-month open-ended or fixed-term employment contract. The remaining costs borne by the company for their salary may be eligible for the Research Tax Credit (“CIR” in France).
Nearly 25% of the about one hundred theses in progress at Chimie ParisTech are financed by companies and manufacturers.
To learn more about PhD studies
To learn more about the CIFRE program
Patent applications
Teacher researchers regularly file patents as part of their research via the CNRS, PSL or joint research laboratories or research chairs.
Here are some examples:
- For the Biotech Dental labcom: F. Prima and S. Delannoy; “Ternary Ti-Zr-O alloys, methods for producing same and associated utilizations thereof”; Patent EP 17202971 (2017).
- For the Urban Mines chair: F. Rousseau, O. Lesage, J. Cramer, F. Prima, D. Morvan; “Extraction and selective recovery method of elements contained in natural or urban ores by multi-phase electrochemistry at high temperature assisted by power plasma”; Patent PCT/FR2016/372412 (2016)