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ESPCI Paris - PSL
ESPCI Paris - PSL is a major institution of higher education (a French "Grande École d’ingénieurs"), an internationally renowned research center, and a fertile ground of innovation for industry. Founded by the City of Paris in 1882, for over a century the School has attracted leading scientific innovators like Nobel Prize laureates Pierre and Marie Curie, Paul Langevin, Frédéric Joliot-Curie, Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, and Georges Charpak, who continue to contribute to the institution’s international reputation. The School’s culture of excellence remains as vibrant as ever. Fully 60% of (...)
Educational programs
Welcome to PSL University! By joining ESPCI paris- PSL, you also join PSL university and its 17 000 students. You get access to an exceptionnel education in sciences, arts, litterature and culture. From Bachelor to PhD, academic programs cover all the fields from sciences, human and social sciences, engineering and arts. PSL targets high-potential students, from every horizon, an accompagnies them towards excellence. Your education will be operated by ESPCI paris - PSL, and your degree delivered by PSL University. Discover the education programs of PSL University Ingénieur ESPCI Paris - (...)
Research
ESPCI Paris - PSL is home to 10 research laboratories (all of them being endorsed and jointly sponsored by CNRS) operating at the frontiers of scientific knowledge and experimental know-how, extending from fundamental research to innovation, and covering areas ranging from polymers to telecommunications, from nanobiophysics to organic synthesis, from environmental science to biomedical imaging, from neurobiology to microfluidics, from soft matter to quantum physics, and from colloids to prototyping for industry. ESPCI researchers publish around 500 scientific articles in leading (...)
Innovation
- Entrepreneurship and business start-ups
- Inventions
ESPCI: generating innovation and jobs ESPCI is also known for its capacity to encourage major innovations. Did you know that as well as radium, polonium, actinium and lutecium, many other objects from our everyday lives were first discovered or created at ESPCI, like the neon tube, the black box, the quartz watch, sonar, wireless technology, self-healing rubber or even ultrafast ultrasound imaging? An entrepreneurial culture More and more graduates create their own companies after graduation or after their PhD. This capacity to innovation is highly valued today. ESPCI courses (...)
International
- An international experience
- How to come to ESPCI Paris
The International Relations of ESPCI Paris - PSL aim to support the School’s policy and propose key strategies in response to the specificities of the school. In line with its identity, ESPCI Paris attaches great importance to collaborating with international institutions that capitalize on interdisciplinary research, innovation, basic and applied sciences. This central thread stimulates both didactic and scientific partnerships. ESPCI is a component school of PSL University. The objective of the international relations is to enable ESPCI Paris to develop the mobility of (...)
Support Us
ESPCI Paris is at the center of a large network of partnering agreements. These are three-way institutional partnerships - notably with the City of Paris, and ParisTech -, as well as academic, scientific and industrial partnerships enriched by the School’s energy, expertise and creativity. The commitment to transdisciplinarity extends beyond the School’s Paris campus. Today’s complex scientific and technological issues often demand a broader view and collaboration, with the deployment of complementary, hybrid approaches and the sharing of best practices in order to pool resources and (...)

Science outreach

As a champion for scientific excellence, ESPCI Paris is actively working to take science and the love of science beyond the labs and lecture halls. Inspiring an appetite for knowledge by fostering curiosity and interest in science and experimentation is increasingly vital today, in light of an obvious lack of interest in the western world for scientific studies and careers. A renewed interest in science today will contribute to tomorrow’s knowledge-based economy.

The Espace Pierre-Gilles de Gennes is a meeting place open to the community and dedicated to the connection between science and the Citizen. This is where the School takes initiatives to raise awareness about science, with démonstrations of experiments for young people from elementary school to university level. For instance, the School was the first to develop pioneering programs like ASTEP (supporting teachers through the participation of scientists in primary education) and the Hands-On program for which a number of students volunteer each year. The Espace Pierre-Gilles de Gennes also hosts temporary exhibitions (e.g., the Langevin exhibition in 2006) and permanent exhibitions for the general public.

The seven ESPCI Paris auditoriums are the venue for a variety of lectures, ranging from the most advanced scientific investigations to topics of interest to the layman. These include the Experimental Lectures series, which is unique in the world of science, combining lectures with lab-bench demonstrations; The "Litterasciences" series promote general scientific culture. The "Les Chantiers du Savoir" lecture series, organized by faculty members with assistance from the Student Union, tackles more challenging topics, through the involvement of major scientists of our time.

Finally, the School campus hosts popular events for the general public all year round, including the Sciences on the Seine Festival, Fête de la Science, Researchers’ Night, and Science Académie.
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