Research potential
Strong research potential supported by solid partnerships


With more than 86 laboratories and more than 3,000 research staff, the ParisTech Grandes Écoles have enormous research potential.
12 scientific fields
The research activity of the ParisTech Grandes Écoles regularly wins awards, and concerns basic scientific matters as well as more applied fields. This activity covers 12 key fields:
Chemistry, physical chemistry and chemical engineering
Computer and communication science and technology
Design and industrialisation
Economic, management and social sciences
Energy and processes
Environmental science and technology, sustainable development, geosciences
Life and health science and technology
Materials science, mechanics, and fluids
Mathematics and their applications
Physics and optics
Planning and transport
Science and bioengineering for agriculture, food, and the environment
Research studies in the Grandes Écoles are published each year by more than 10,000 scientific publications, available on HAL ParisTech.
Academic partnerships
These laboratories are in partnership with:
Research institutions:
CNRS : partner of choice with 60% of the network laboratories under joint supervision
Universities:
Partnerships with companies
The network Grandes Écoles are involved with companies, as much in co-operative research as in partnership research. A strong tie and an unfailing trust have developed between the Grandes Écoles and companies:
a strong commitment from the Grandes Écoles in the Instituts Carnot and also many competitiveness clusters
the development of more than 70 teaching and research chairs
More information here
Costantino Creton, Vice-President of Research, tells us about research at ESPCI Paris - PSL (2020)