L'@ctu de l'ESIGELEC
September 2016 - n°13
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ESIGELEC has been awarded the EESPIG label (the title of "Higher Education Institution of Public Interest")

The French Education and Research Ministry (MENESR) has just awarded the Higher Education Institution of Public Interest label (EESPIG) to ESIGELEC for a period of 5 years (2017-21), via a decree dated 9 September 2016 and officially published on 29 September 2016.



This award, which was initiated by the higher education and research law dated 22 July 2013, is a label for private non-profit-making higher educational establishments that are under state contract. The goal is to highlight schools with a public-service mission and to share certain values. ESIGELEC has obtained this qualification because it fulfils the following conditions:

  • the ranged of courses on offer (Master's degree, apprenticeships, scientific and technological research, etc.),
  • operational criteria (non-profit-making association, administrative independence)
  • social commitment (social promotion, professional integration and helping to spread humanist culture, pro-diversity actions, international cooperation, etc.)
As Etienne Craye, ESIGELEC Managing Director, points out : « We are delighted that the ESIGELEC has obtained this qualification. The French Education and Research Ministry particularly appreciated the place given to apprenticeships, the good level of professional integration, the strong activity in contractual research, as well as the intensity of collaborative work with the different establishments, Grandes Ecoles or universities. »

ESIGELEC is now one of the first 47 schools (including 26 engineering schools) that have been given this label by the state.