Établissement public à caractère scientifique, culturel et professionnel
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In French law, Établissement public à caractère scientifique, culturel et professionnel (EPCSP) refers to a formal category including more than one hundred and thirty public higher education institutes in the field of sciences, culture and professional education. EPCSP have legal, administrative and financial autonomy in the French education system.
EPCSP category includes:
These higher education institutes with a university-equivalent status are managed by a board of directors, assisted by a scientific council and a board of studies and academic life. Chairman of the Board of Directors is elected from among persons outside of the institute. The director is appointed by the Minister of Higher Education for a period of 5 years.
The following institutions have this status
are institutions educating researchers and professors.
The ENS have a board of directors and a scientific council, and are headed by an appointed director.
These institutes are intended to provide an intellectual and material support to such researchers, including the presence of resource materials in French language. Some of these institutes can also provide accommodation for researchers.
The following institutions are included in this sub-group :
EPCSP category includes:
- public universities, per se
- four groups of other institutes with an operational status equivalent to a university.
Organisation
EPCSP have full scientific autonomy to organise their research area, their curricula and degrees, up to and including doctoral degrees. They operate on the basis of a 4-year objective roadmap that they define and agree with the national fund-granting authority and their achievements are assessed by a national evaluation agency for research and higher education. They also have the ability to create their own research foundations.Different types of EPSCP
The law establishes different groups of EPSCP, which are described below.Universities
The 81 universities and institutes of technology are EPCSP led by a president and administered by a board of directors. They deliver bachelor, master and doctoral degrees as well as continuous education. They also contribute to national research programmes.Autonoumous higher education institutes
The following institutions have this status
- Centrale Graduate SchoolCentrale Graduate SchoolThe Centrale Graduate School is an alliance consisting of the following graduate schools of engineering:* École centrale Paris established in 1829* École centrale de Lille established in 1854* École centrale de Lyon established in 1857...
- École centrale de LilleÉcole Centrale de LilleLocated in the campus of the University of Lille in France, École Centrale de Lille is a renowned Graduate Engineering school, with roots back to 1854 as the École des arts industriels et des mines de Lille, re-organised in 1872 as Institut industriel du Nord.It is one of the Centrale Graduate...
- École centrale de LyonÉcole Centrale de LyonThe École Centrale de Lyon, founded in 1857, is one of the oldest universities in France. It is considered as one of the most prestigious French Grandes écoles of engineering continuously ranking as one of the Top 6 French Engineering research institutions for the post Bachelor study...
- École centrale de MarseilleÉcole centrale de MarseilleThe École centrale de Marseille is a Grande école of engineering in Marseille, France, that was created in 2006 by the merging of different previous institutions established in the late 19th century in Marseille, and that implements a Centralien educational Programme for engineers, similar to the...
- École centrale de NantesÉcole Centrale de NantesÉcole Centrale de Nantes is one of the French Grandes écoles of engineering.-Location:The Ecole Centrale de Nantes is located in Nantes, France . Nantes is only at two hours by train from Paris...
- École centrale de Lille
- École nationale supérieure des arts et industries textilesENSAITThe École nationale supérieure des arts et industries textiles is a French Engineering grand établissement and a prominent member of UP-TEX research cluster ....
- Ecole nationale d'ingénieurs de Saint-EtienneENISEENISE : National Engineering School of Saint-ÉtienneENISE is a French public engineering school which offers five-year courses in engineering after the baccalauréat, in the fields of Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering and Sensory Engineering.The school delivers the Diplôme d'Ingénieur in...
- Institut national des sciences appliquées are institutes of technology
- INSA LyonInstitut National des Sciences Appliquées de LyonThe Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon or INSA de Lyon is a Grande École d'Ingénieurs. INSA was founded in 1957 to train highly qualified engineers, support continuing education, and conduct research and testing. The five-year curriculum aims at training engineers who possess humane...
- INSA ToulouseINSA ToulouseThe Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Toulouse or INSA Toulouse is a Grande École d'Ingénieurs, an engineering university, under the authority of the French Ministry of Education and Research and part of the INSA's network...
- INSA RennesINSA RennesThe Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Rennes or INSA de Rennes is a Grande École d'Ingénieurs, a School of Engineering, under the authority of the French Ministry of Education and Research and part of the INSA's network....
- INSA Strasbourg
- INSA Rouen
- INSA Lyon
- Universities of Technology
- The University of Technology of Belfort-Montbéliard (Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbéliard or UTBM)Université de technologie de Belfort-MontbéliardThe University of Technology of Belfort-Montbéliard is a university of engineering located in Belfort and Montbéliard, France. The University of technology of Belfort-Montbéliard is part of the network of the three universities of technology...
- The University of Technology of Compiègne (Université de Technologie de Compiègne or UTC)
- The University of Technology of Troyes (Université de Technologie de Troyes or UTT)University of Technology of TroyesThe University of Technology of Troyes is a French university, in the Academy of Reims.The UTT is part of the network of the three universities of technology, found by the University of Technology of Compiègne...
- The University of Technology of Belfort-Montbéliard (Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbéliard or UTBM)
- Institut supérieur de mécanique de ParisSupmecaSupméca is a French mechanical engineering school. The school is an active member of the Polyméca network and part of the ENSI school group...
Écoles Normales Supérieures
The four Écoles Normales SupérieuresÉcole Normale Supérieure
The École normale supérieure is one of the most prestigious French grandes écoles...
are institutions educating researchers and professors.
The ENS have a board of directors and a scientific council, and are headed by an appointed director.
French institutes abroad
There are five French institutes operating outside France, hosting world-class researchers.These institutes are intended to provide an intellectual and material support to such researchers, including the presence of resource materials in French language. Some of these institutes can also provide accommodation for researchers.
The following institutions are included in this sub-group :
- Casa de Velázquez in MadridMadridMadrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan...
- École française d'Athènes
- École française d'Extrême-OrientÉcole française d'Extrême-OrientThe École française d'Extrême-Orient is a French institute dedicated to the study of Asian societies. Translated into English, it approximately means the French School of the Far East. It was founded in 1900 with headquarters in Hanoi in what was then French Indochina. After independence, its...
- École française de Rome
- Institut Français d'Archéologie OrientaleInstitut Français d'Archéologie Orientale.The Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale , also known as the French Institute for Oriental Archaeology in Cairo is a French research institute based in Cairo, Egypt, dedicated to the study of the archaeology, history and languages of the various periods of Egypt's civilisation.The IFAO is...
in CairoCairoCairo , is the capital of Egypt and the largest city in the Arab world and Africa, and the 16th largest metropolitan area in the world. Nicknamed "The City of a Thousand Minarets" for its preponderance of Islamic architecture, Cairo has long been a centre of the region's political and cultural life...
Grands établissements
Twenty large institutions with diverse roles are included in this sub-group.External links
- French Decree No. 2000-250 15 March 2000 on the classification of EPSCP (Légifrance = JORFJournal Officiel de la République FrançaiseThe Journal Officiel de la République Française is the official gazette of the French Republic. It publishes the major legal official information from the national Government of France.-Publications:...
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