Patnership educational programmes and sponsoring of students
Partnership educational programmes and professorships
Beside the role played by many professionals in teaching, some companies also get involved in educational funding. This translates into the financing of professorships on mostly transverse and prospective subjects, as well as of certain M Sc ParisTech programmes.Sponsoring of students
Companies frequently finance PhD students, notably those benefitting from CIFRE grants, which cover thesis subjects of common interest, which are jointly set up with the laboratory involved.Some companies also give subsistence grants to foreign M Sc students with particular merits, to help them afford the cost of living in Paris. These grants enable ParisTech to train more high-profile students than those who benefit from national grants. Students sponsored by companies may be recruited by them later on in order to contribute to their global development. Once trained in a ParisTech institute, these engineers with a binational culture become top-quality executives for international companies.