Plateau de Saclay Campus

 

 

What is the Plateau de Saclay Campus plan?

Click on the image to download the presentation (in french)

 

The Institut Télécom is one of the 23 partners in the Plateau de Saclay Campus project.

These partners are committed to fulfilling the ambition to establish a major technology and science campus on the Plateau de Saclay, with a global vision as part of a cluster with huge potential for economic development.

The State fulfilled its commitment to turning the project into a reality with the issue of the validated Plateau de Saclay Campus file on 24th February 2009, within the framework of the Opération Campus project launched in 2008 by the Ministry of Higher Education and Research.    


Consequently, on 29th April 2009 during a speech on the Grand Paris project, French President Nicolas Sarkozy declared the investment of €850 million of financial support in the Plateau de Saclay Campus project within the framework of the Opération Campus project.  

 


Subsequently, on 14th December 2009, he announced the allocation of €1 billion to the Plateau de Saclay Campus within the framework of the Grand Emprunt national loan operation.  
Lastly, during his visit to the Plateau de Saclay on 24th September 2010, the President publicly confirmed the decision to establish several major higher education and research institutions at the site, including the Institut Telecom (the transfer of the activities of Telecom ParisTech and Telecom SudParis).
>> View the Paris-Saclay Campus press kit (in french)


The Institut Télécom and the Plateau de Saclay Campus


The Institut Télécom is taking part in the Plateau de Saclay Campus project as part of its growth strategy.
The Institut Télécom therefore plans to base part of the research, teaching and innovation activities of its Télécom ParisTech and Télécom SudParis schools on the campus, providing ideal conditions for students and staff alike.
The Institut Télécom will thus be able to contribute to setting up this ambitious cluster and:

  • promote the diversity and wealth of training paths
  • boost research and innovation
  • produce output of international standard
  • fit in with the scientific priorities of the Institut Télécom
The planned site will be in one of the key parts of the Campus, the “CST District”, in close liaison with partners such as the Ecole Polytechnique, INRIA, ENSTA, Digiteo or NanoInnov, thereby facilitating cooperation and consolidating partnerships. More generally, the Institut Télécom will benefit from interactions with all the stakeholders present on the Plateau de Saclay.

The "ICST district" is located in the Palaiseau zone, to the west of the Ecole Polytechnique.

 

The 6 areas of Plateau de Saclay

From 2012, the Institut Telecom will be present at the Plateau de Saclay with the establishment of teams at Nano-INNOV, a new centre for the integration of nanotechnologies created in the framework of the Nanotechs scheme, aiming to implement an innovative strategy in the field of nanotechnologies.  

 

>> View the Nano-INNOV file on the Ministry of Higher Education and Research web site (in french)

>> View the press kit issued for the occasion of the 24/09/10 presidential visit (in french)

 
    

Last mews

31 May 2011: The CAPS authority (Community of the Saclay Plateau Urban Area) announced that as of May 31 bus route 91.06, serving the Paris-Saclay campus, would be improved: articulated bendy buses to increase capacity, more frequent services and a new weekend timetable.
>> Read the press release [in french]
>> Read the explanatory booklet [in french]

26 May 2011: The monitoring council of the Société du Grand Paris transport company issued a decree formally adopting the new transport network map for Grand Paris (Greater Paris).
>> See the text of the deliberation by the monitoring council, approving the decree [in french]
>> Read the decree [in french]
>> See the Greater Paris transport network map

18 november 2010
During the Public consultation on the Greater Paris public transport network, held between September 30 2010 and January 31 2011, the Institut Telecom took a close interest in order to represent the interests of our staff and students.
[Find out more]

24th September 2010: The French President visited the Plateau de Saclay on 24th September to see the development of the Paris-Saclay Campus.
After visiting the Nano-INNOV site and attending a meeting with the Fondation de Coopération Scientifique, Digiteo-Triangle de la physique, he concluded his visit with a speech during which he announced the decision to establish several leading institutions on the campus, including the established groups of Mines ParisTech and the Institut Telecom.   
>> View the site of the Elysée (in french)

More information


> Plateau de Saclay Campus website

> Website of the preliminary public consultation for the creation of the Ecole Polytechnique Designated Development Zone

> Website of the Ministry for Higher Education and Research