The school's uniqueness stems from
its long history with the city of Paris
which wanted to create a unique place providing great freedom for its researchers.
ONE DAY AT ESPCI PARIS
ESPCI is, first and foremost, an Engineering school which trains
about a hundred Engineers every year over four years
and our ambition is to really train Engineers
to be able to adapt to the 21st century.
ESPCI is one of the two best
French Engineering schools in the Shanghai ranking.
It is the school of Nobel Prize winners.
The ESPCI has received six Nobel Prizes
with five winners as Marie Curie won two
and more recently Georges Charpak and Pierre-Gilles de Gennes also won Nobel Prizes.
What makes ESPCI such an extraordinary place
is that here, we don't question whether
what we do is fundamental or applied research.
The laboratory's trademark is to try to conduct fundamental
and very high quality research and to extend it to application.
Research is based on creativity.
It is based on dreams;
and here, we can make those dreams come true.
One of the school's characteristics is the great freedom offered to Researchers.
Our goal is to recruit the best Researchers.
We encourage them on to ensure that their projects
are innovative enough
to be really groundbreaking.
I work at ESPCI with my team.
We develop medical imagery equipment
as well as treatment equipment.
We transfer physics concepts to medicine.
We feel that we have strong innovation potential
that could have rapid impact on society.
There are a number of start-ups
developing on our premises
which are applying technology
that was fully discovered here and,
more often than not, was developed by the school's students
doing a PhD or Post-Doc research.
This is also one of ESPCI's major strengths:
always being at the cutting edge of innovation
and knowing how to transfer its innovations to day-to-day life.
The first couple of years at ESPCI
is very multi-disciplinary and
students study physics,
chemistry, and biology.
And we are constantly trying to bring down the boundaries between disciplines.
I wasn't disappointed at all in what I gained from the ESPCI
because I really wanted to experience multi-disciplinarity
and be confronted with issues
I really enjoyed this intellectual research experience
ESPCI teachers are all
also Researchers.
Project work is especially important
during the first two years of study
with 50% of teaching spent on it.
The students learn how to work in a team,
how to analyse a complex problem
to which nobody has the solution,
and also to question things.
70% of students go on to do a PhD
and 80% of them enter into Industry.
I would like to bring those two figures closer together.
We have broad career options:
graduates can work in Public or Private Research. Anything is possible. Everything is possible.
The ESPCI spirit is Research for more innovation.
The laboratories and certain scientists have an excellent scientific reputation
And, of course, that is really boosts
our international reputation.
For Paris, ESPCI is a treasure, it's a real gem.
We are investing heavily
in the real estate project
we are developing.
A completely new building, will be officially ready in 2022.
Scientists are impassioned
by the subject of their research.
We need to tell people that
we love science passionately.
Our ambition is to convey this spirit of invention
to our students
to question things
and create a new world.
ESPCI Paris - INVENTORS OF THE FUTURE