EBI School of Industrial Biology

Since its foundation in 1992, EBI has placed life at the heart of its engineering training to face the challenge of improving health, well-being, safety, adaptability/versatility and functionality through innovation. The understanding of the biological mechanisms is represented by our graduates in every engineering profession, from research to production and innovation to market launch; this is true for each of the four industry sectors: pharmacy, cosmetic, agribusiness and environment.

With its new eco-responsible one-hectare campus in the city centre open 16 hours a day, EBI fully expresses its mission as a talent incubator and an open innovation melting pot. At the heart of a Technoparc that includes the Cergy sports ground and the ParisSeine University, EBI researchers, students and postgraduates give life sciences a creative industrial dimension.

With its 1000m2 technical platform integrated into the Cosmetomics® network, researchers and students can work side by side on professional equipment. Thanks to the EBI’s lecturers, tutors and qualified coaches, students learn to gain confidence in their skills and be responsible for several innovative projects that they will present to a jury of professionals, while spending on average one year in various work placement positions.

The results speak for themselves: 100% of the 2nd year engineering students are supported by the business incubators in their entrepreneurship projects. Every year, 4 national prizes are awarded on average and over 2% of our alumni have set up their own company, which is twice the national average.

But there is so much more to EBI. The school also offers a resourceful educational background that combines industrial skills with personal, intercultural and emotional dimensions. General knowledge is developed through the Agora cultural program and linguistic skills can be improved thanks to our Babel Language Centre. Each student spends at least one semester abroad and studies exclusively in English during their third year (first engineering cycle year). Here we encourage artistic activities with twenty associations (dance, theatre, music, cinema…) that, with the help of professional graduates, allow students to express themselves and learn how to become performers before they graduate. EBI was the first French Grande Ecole to ban any form of ranking in order to boost team work, inspire students to use their talent to take on any challenge, and live the EBI motto: Combining passion and career.

Recruiters sometimes tell us our students are geniuses… Experience has simply shown us that creative genius skills and logistic ingenuity allow them to invent new ways of living for each of us, around the world.

Florence Dufour, Managing director and Founder of the EBI. A minimum of 3 projects per year, no ranking, working groups selected randomly and specific methodological tools implemented for the teams.

Today 12% of our alumni work in the environment field. Over 21,000 companies are active in the water, air, soil and noise fields as well as in waste treatment, energy and renewables, measuring instruments and land development, among others. Energy, waste and water treatment represent 80% of the 140,000 green positions. R&D engineering is the first employment sector. The main employers are engineering companies and consulting firms who accompany their clients in their environmental projects.

Set at the heart of the Horloge business park home to nearly 200 companies, EBI’s campus benefits from a professional and functional environment with ever-changing infrastructures. It is easily accessible (public transport, gentle links, multimodality, car-sharing) and allows students to practice different types of activity (sport, culture…).

An exceptional campus: set at the heart of the Horloge business park home to nearly 200 companies, EBI’s campus benefits from a professional and functional environment with ever-changing infrastructures. It is easily accessible (public transport, gentle links, multimodality, car-sharing) and allows students to practice different types of activity (sport, culture…). Inaugurated in 2016, the campus was designed to professionalise our future engineers. It has workspaces and creative areas that are adapted.

As of the 2nd semester of the 4th year, the students can choose from 5 majors depending on their professional project. EBI, unlike other schools, does not apply any quotas to the majors, so students are completely free to choose their own career path. The lectures of the major are compulsory, whereas those of the minor are elective. Indeed, students also choose 4 to 10 minors to customise their career path.

Aimed at training engineers who will work in the biomedical sector, on vaccines, biotechnologies, enzyme kits, cellular models… Possible positions following this major: team manager in a laboratory. This major is suitable for PhD studies.

Students can acquire the skills to formulate consumer goods in laboratories: mixing reagents, molecules, assessing the aspect, perfume, colour, texture and taste. The aim is to create a perfectly packaged product that is both useful and pleasant for the consumer.

The engineers are trained to implement the best-adapted manufacturing processes. Their aim is to manufacture in bulk what was formulated in small quantities in a laboratory. The engineers who operate on production lines within the industry must also take into account the financial constraints and ensure environmental compliance.