Paris-Saclay: a Key Player in the Ecological Transition
Among the key strengths of the Paris-Saclay cluster, its academic multidisciplinarity, the concentration of major players, the strength of its expertise, and its substantial size represent particularly structuring forces for the plateau in the energy sector.
This multidisciplinarity first manifests horizontally, with a wide variety of disciplines studied and taught, strong synergies deployed between research fields and technologies, and a cross-disciplinary approach supported by innovative collaborative programs. It also manifests vertically, spanning from fundamental research to the innovation centers of leading energy groups, including the education of students and professionals and raising awareness among the younger generation about the challenges of the ecological transition.
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EDF Lab, the world's largest R&D center
Bringing together more than 1,200 researchers on a single site in the heart of the Paris-Saclay urban campus since 2016, EDF Lab Paris-Saclay is the world’s largest research and development center. Adjacent to the EDF Campus, the leading professional training center in the European energy sector, it comprises a test hall, experimental laboratories, a conference center, a showroom, and numerous creativity and innovation acceleration rooms within four exemplary buildings in terms of energy and environmental performance. On this large-scale site, EDF Lab Paris-Saclay brings together leading scientific expertise in the various fields of the energy sector: low-carbon electricity generation, power systems of the future and new energy services.
E4C - Interdisciplinary Center on Energy and Climate Change
The interdisciplinary Energy4Climate Center (E4C) launched in June 2019 by the Institut Polytechnique de Paris and École des Ponts ParisTech is involved in the energy transition through research, training and innovation. Nearly 30 laboratories are working within E4C on four cross-cutting themes to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, improve energy efficiency, deploy renewable energy and propose relevant energy policies. The center’s activities are developed by its researchers in conjunction with players in the socio-economic world. They combine social and economic sciences, materials sciences and engineering, applied mathematics, computer science and geophysics. The center develops instrumental platforms, models for energy forecasting and prediction, and a data center: the E4C DataHub.
Paris-Saclay also trains the future experts of the ecological transition.
Université Paris-Saclay, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, and academic partners continually evolve their programs to produce professionals with new skills. This is essential for companies in the health sector to continue innovating and to maintain equipment that incorporates new technologies