L’École normale supérieure (ENS) is a high education etablishment for undergraduate and graduate studies (graduate school), and a prestigious place for research. It welcomes fourteen teaching and research departments, covering most of the literary and scientific fields.

Chimie ParisTech (officially École nationale supérieure de chimie de Paris - Chimie ParisTech, also named ENSCP or Chimie Paris) is a chemists and generalist engineer school, founded in 1896 and based in the 5th district of Paris, on the « montagne Sainte-Geneviève ».

ESPCI Paris Tech is both an original Great Engineers School, a research Center internationally renowned and a fruitful generator of innovation for the Industry world. Founded in 1882 under the auspices of Paris City Hall, the school has attracted for more than a century the greatest innovative scientific minds: Pierre and Marie Curie, Paul Langevin, Frédéric Joliot-Curie, Pierre-Gilles de Gennes and Georges Charpak are such distinguished names who contribute to the ESPCI Paris Tech reputation, notably abroad.

Recognized as a Not-for-profit Foundation, The Curie Institute associates one of the biggest research european centers in cancerology and two advanced hospitals.
Founded in 1909 under a model designed by Marie Curie and still ahead of its time, « from fundamental research to innovative care» The Curie Institute gathers 3 000 researchers, doctors, caregivers, technicians and administrative staff.

​Située au cœur de Paris, l’Université PSL offre l’environnement idéal à une culture académique d’excellence, de création et d’innovation : 4500 enseignants chercheurs, 181 laboratoires, 17 000 étudiants, et une dizaine d’incubateurs, fablabs et espaces de co-working pour les étudiants entrepreneurs.

Arts, sciences, ingénierie, sciences humaines et sociales sont au cœur de son ambition intellectuelle et scientifique. Université d’envergure internationale, ancrée dans l’interdisciplinarité, sélective, engagée dans la promotion des talents et l’égalité des chances, PSL crée le monde de demain.

The National Research Agency is a financial structure in the service of Research.
It follows the projects selected under the “Investissements d’avenir” program until 2020, and provides helps to the coordinators (scientific and financial).

The National Center for Scientific research of a public organism for research, (etablishment with scientific and technologic characterization, placed under the responsability of the High Education and Research Ministry).

Created in 1964, the National Institute for health and medical research is a public etablishment with scientific and technologic characterization, placed under the double control of the Health Ministry, and Research Ministry.

The Paris City Hall administration, composed of local elected people is based at the Hôtel de Ville. This public organism is a logistic support and financial partner to the research development and scientific innovation.

Pierre and Marie Curie University (UPMC), or Paris VI University (6), is a science and medicine university located on the Jussieu Campus, in the « quartier latin » of Paris. It welcomes approximatively 32 000 students (21 000 in sciences and 11 000 in medical studies), of which 6 400 foreigners students. 10 500 staff work there, of which 4 500 teachers-researchers and researchers. In its wall, the UPMC hosts 125 research laboratories.

Paris Diderot University & Paris Descartes University located in the heart of Paris, close to the Odeon, have been merged to form the University of Paris. With its 63,000 students, 6,900 researchers and teacher-researchers, 4,500 administrative and technical staff and 149 research structures and units, the University of Paris plays an important role in scientific research and its dissemination in France and worldwide.