ParisTech, the network of French graduate engineering schools
ParisTech brings together seven prestigious French engineering schools (AgroParisTech, Arts et Métiers, Chimie ParisTech – PSL, École des Ponts ParisTech, ESPCI Paris – PSL, Institut d’Optique and Mines Paris – PSL) that work together to enrich and promote the excellent French engineering education worldwide and to train students in engineering for the environmental, digital and energy transition.
The ParisTech network includes 12,500 students, 1,700 PhD candidates, 90,000 alumni, 75 nationalities and more than 50 partner universities around the world.
The network is developing various programs based on five common values – excellence, international openness, social openness, innovation and solidarity: exchange of best practices, recruitment of international students, outgoing mobility, short cross-mobility in Europe (ATHENS), pedagogical training of the academic staff (RACINE), support for social diversity (Cordées de la réussite), etc.
The fact that the schools’ curriculum and research are complementary to each other allows for a unique transdisciplinarity and the design and implementation of projects between its members. This led to Chimie ParisTech signing a dual-degree agreement with AgroParisTech and ESPCI.
Two chair positions have been created:
- The “Urban Mines” teaching and research chair with Ecosystèmes, which includes Chimie ParisTech, Mines ParisTech and Arts et Métiers ParisTech.
- The “Nuclear Engineering” academic chair supported by ORANO and FRAMATOME, in which Chimie ParisTech and ENSTA ParisTech are involved. These two are also involved in the Master Nuclear Energy, with Chimie ParisTech coordinating the “fuel cycle” specialty.
Internationally, ParisTech is the privileged interlocutor of many major universities through partnership agreements and targeted joint actions. Chimie ParisTech has several dual-degree agreements and takes part in several recruitment activities with this context in mind.