Paris-Saclay Key Figures

Paris-Saclay is the innovation hub of the Paris Region. It is an exceptional scientific, economic and urban project that contributes to the attractiveness of the territory :

• A scientific project, with a concentration of research and higher education institutions unique in its scope, multidisciplinarity and level of excellence, with the two major academic hub of Université Paris-Saclay and Institut Polytechnique de Paris ;
• An economic project that relies on the industrial strength of major French and international corporates, on a large concentration of innovative SMEs in six strategic industrial verticals across the Essonne and Yvelines departments ;
• An urban project, characterized by the development of existing urban centres, a structuring new transportation line (line 18 of the Grand Paris Express metro line) and the preservation of the natural, agricultural and forestry protection zone (ZPNAF) of Paris-Saclay.

Academic excellence, concentration of research activities and innovation, a unique living environment: Paris-Saclay has everthing it takes to tackle the challenges of a profoundly
changing global economy.