Paris-East University

École des Ponts ParisTech is a founder member of the Paris-East University research and higher education cluster (PRES).As well as providing a local network with strong roots in East Île-de-France, Paris-East Universityis a focal point for the following activities:

• Raising the profile of the members of Paris-East University and promoting their strengths in Europe and around the world, in particular through the joint signature of scientific publications by its research scientists;

•  Improving and publicising the quality of the PhD school programmes.The Doctoral Studies Departmenthelps the PhD schools:
•  to formalise their operation, through the existence of a board, a director and an identified administrative manager in each one, which are responsible for managing its scientific policy, budget and the funding allocated to it;
• to unify and consolidate procedures, in recruitment (international offers, focus on the funding of PhD students able to concentrate full-time on their thesis or part-time with a compatible professional activity), in monitoring (duration of theses and integration), in allocating funds,…;
• to ensure that PhD students are integrated into their research team, to organise induction days, themed courses and scientific days for PhD students.
• It organises crosscutting courses for the different schools and initiatives to foster integration into the professional world:languages, training in documentary research and IT, business knowledge, project management,…; it establishes “Company Mentoring”schemes for PhD researchers as well as doctorates based on the Accreditation of Work Experience; it carries out international activities in collaboration with the different university departments; it tracks the three years on career progress of PhDs through the Observatory (OFIPE).

• to operate a reliable progress tracking system, and indicators defined with the relevant institutions regarding PhD students, research units and their human, material and financial resources, and an information system that facilitates reliable communication between all stakeholders in the Research and Higher Education Cluster;
• to increase the resources and develop the support services provided by SIDI (international development engineering department) by helping the research teams and course programmes, through active monitoring and project engineering, to respond to international tender invitations, by helping the doctoral programmes to recruit international PhD students, to develop joint programmes, to promote international mobility amongst incoming and outgoing PhD students, and to coordinate the activity of the different institutions on each of the Marne and Créteil sites, in consultation with BiCi Paris-East(international bureau of guest researchers).                     

Paris-East University

Cité Descartes - Champs-sur-Marne -

77454 Marne-la-Vallée, Cedex 2 France

Tel:+33 (0)1 60 95 79 00 - Fax: +33 (0)1 60 95 79 19

ParisTech

ParisTech is a PRES (research and higher education cluster) that brings together 12 of France’s most prestigious grandes écoles, each recognised as the best in France in its field.

As an institute of science, technology and management, ParisTech covers the whole spectrum of these disciplines.This gives ParisTech a truly international dimension as a centre of learning.

The complementarity between the spheres of excellence of the schools that constitute ParisTech gives researchers, students and all our institutional or corporate partners, access to an exceptional and unique concentration of cross-disciplinary competences.

12 prestigious schools, 3 exceptional sites

Concentrated on 3 large campuses, ParisTech Sud at Saclay, ParisTech East at Marne-la-Vallée and ParisTech Centre in the heart of the Latin Quarter, the ParisTechschools enjoy an exceptional location, which offers them the combined benefits of campus life and of the city.

Developing international projects is the field on which the ParisTech member schools particularly concentrate their efforts.

ParisTech


12 rue Edouard Manet
 75013 Paris - France
Visitor's entrance via 151 boulevard de l’Hôpital

Conférence des Grandes Écoles(CGE)

CGE links together more than 200 French grandes écoles which award national postgraduate degrees. Its members also include companies, alumni associations and institutions.

The Conférence des grandes écoles, a non-profit organisation under the French law of 1901, was created in 1973. Its membership comprises:

• 215 Grandes écoles, including 13 foreign schools
• 16 Companies
• 49 Institutions

Its role is to:

• Develop internal information, mutual help and solidarity between its members;
• To promote the Schools both in France and abroad;
• To develop training programmes and research;
• To lobby government on matters of mutual interest.

In order to be admitted as members of the Conférence, schools must first fulfil a certain number of membership criteria (Membership Rules).The membership procedure is strict.For ethical reasons, the Conférence des Grandes Écoles maintains a principle of not providing information that might be used for the purpose of comparing or ranking member schools.

Most of the work of the Conférence is done in flexibly structured committees and working groups comprising School directors or their representatives, teachers and members of the other professional branches.

On June 9, 2009, the general assembly officially approved the CGE’s new structure and appointed the Board of Directors.The latter appointed as chairman Pierre Tapie, CEO of the ESSEC Group.

The chairman is assisted by a bureau,comprising 14 members elected by the Board of Directorsand by a Central Administrationthat coordinates all activities.

Conférence des Directeurs des Écoles Françaises d’Ingénieurs (CDEFI)

CDEFI (conference of French engineering school directors) is a registered non-profit association which represents all the directors of public and private institutions, or parts of institutions, authorised by the Commission des Titres d’ingénieur (CTI) to award a recognised engineering qualification.

In this capacity and on behalf of the engineering schools, it formulates objectives, construct projects and provides reasoned opinions on questions relating to higher education and research.Its primary purpose is to promote engineering in France, Europe and around the world. 

Working with and alongside engineering schools on a daily basis, CDEFI supports them in the performance of their functions.In this role it provides all member directors withthe information they need to develop and form strategies for their schools:training seminars, an annual conference called “DEFI 21” and topic-based colloquiums (in particular on societal issues), all of which provide specific opportunities for French engineering schools to share with their partners their ideas regarding the big challenges facing French engineers in the 21st century.

EIVP (City of Paris Engineering Schools)

École des Ponts ParisTech and École des ingénieurs de la Ville de Paris (EIVP) have just completed a historic merger.

This partnership between two institutions with complementary cultures will develop high quality research and teaching in the sphere of urban engineering, including the highly strategic topic of metropolitan development.

Pooling expertise will lead to fruitful cooperation in the recruitment of students, including foreign students, within the framework of degree level or postgraduate education of a quality unrivalled in Europe.IT-based communication tools will underpin this process by constituting a “virtual university”, and will also contribute to the establishment of sponsorship campaigns to fund shared project.

This partnership, further reinforced by EIVP’s entry into the Paris-East University PRES (research and higher education cluster), consolidates the position of East Île-de-France as one of the world’s major hubs for urban engineering, spatial planning and sustainable development.

MEDDTL Training Schools

Institutional relations between universities

These are dual-degree and exchange agreements in which École des Ponts ParisTech is involved. Find out more...