Academic and research chairs
Besides contributing substantial value to course content, a large number of business firms contribute to financing it. In most cases, doing so involves sponsoring chairs in various cross-disciplinary and future-looking fields and a few ParisTech Masters courses.
Some chairs are in one school and others stretch across more than one ParisTech school and field, to harness a more multidisciplinary approach – and for convenience.
The list of ParisTech school chairs
Technology transfer: a fast track to knowledge and instant advantages
Business firms play an active role in ParisTech’s knowledge production process. And then they tap into the modelling quantum leaps we achieve as a result. The questions we ask and the answers we find in labs nurture innovative momentum in business firms and feed directly into their development policy.
Top-level expertise
A chair trains highly qualified professionals who can tackle the specific challenges that industries are facing today. Teamwork by engineers, scientists and lecturing researchers from a variety of backgrounds fine-tunes an understanding of the research and business worlds.
These exerts have experience confronting their viewpoints with real life in the business world, and reconciling them with its agendas. And thrive harnessing their skills and knowledge around corporate goals.
A sharper competitive edge
Combining research and lecturing spells a substantial competitive advantage for business firms. It drives innovation, productivity gains and licences, and a company’s competitive edge, cementing its reputation as the leading player at the top of its game.
Corporate social responsibility
Partner companies de facto set the pace by taking action on a socially relevant issue. They earn respect by contributing to public debate – and credentials to lead it.
Exchanges with ParisTech students and partner organisations
Being part of school life makes a company come across as involved and pioneering, and as a first-choice prospective employer for ParisTech students and alumni.
Exposure
The media and business partners
We constantly highlight partner organisations’ initiatives in our publications, communications and messages targeting the media and scientific community. This boosts companies’ images.
International benchmarks
Chairs also entail international cooperation and promotion so these partnerships gear up partner companies’ opportunities to establish its image in the international arena, emerging as a world-class trailblazer in its field of expertise.
A ParisTech multi-school chair:
- Unleashes synergies between ParisTech schools on cross-disciplinary issues
- Aims high, targets international breadth and delivers results
- Combines research and lecturing, making it a win-win deal for businesses and schools
- Includes a steering committee for solid governance and transparent responsibility management
- Spurs interaction between schools
- Promotes the partner business firm(s)
ParisTech’s role
- Contributes to groundwork (preparing the documents, conferring with partner organisations, coordinating and raising funding)
- Contributes to rollout (governance and communication)
The ParisTech Foundation administrates and allocates the funds
