In 2019, IFSTTAR gradually changed the focus of its activities in view of the forthcoming creation of Université Gustave Eiffel on January 1, 2020. While research activities continued normally within a stable setting in the Institute’s departments, the conditions necessary for the creation of the university were put in place during 2019.

With the creation of this establishment, IFSTTAR’s scientific mandates will be continued, in particular fundamental and applied research that interacts with expert appraisals and public policy support and which is international in scope and open to society. The virtuous continuum formed by training, research and expertise, which already existed at IFSTTAR, should be further consolidated and fostered. The development of the creation in 2019 of the vice-presidencies for Research, International affairs and Public policy support is in line with this vision of scientific roles that are both strengthened and reinvented.

The principal mandates of IFSTTAR and Université Gustave Eiffel

In particular the Institute has the following tasks:

• To carry out fundamental and applied research, perform methodological studies and develop tests and prototypes;
• To conduct expert appraisals and advisory work of all types in the fields mentioned in the first paragraph of this article;
• To implement a scientific and technical information policy and disseminate the knowledge gained, in particular through publications, technical regulations and standards;
• To pursue a policy to exploit the results of its scientific and technological research, in particular by means of technical support, technology transfer and certification tests;
• To play a role in training by and for research and both vocational and in-service training;
• To help to export its expertise and the techniques it develops and gain better international exposure for them.

Source: Decree of 30 December 2010 concerning the creation of IFSTTAR.

The main tasks of Université Gustave Eiffel:

• Initial and in-service education, with a strong focus on apprenticeship education.
• Careers guidance, social advancement and professional integration that also encourages entrepreneurship.
• Research (fundamental and applied) and innovation.
• Expert appraisals, public policy support and standardisation.
• Openness to society and international cooperation.
• Working with its partners to embody a dynamic outlook

• Dissemination of humanist culture, in particular through the development of the human and social sciences and scientific, technical and industrial knowledge;

• Openness to society and international cooperation.

Source: Decree of 13 December 2019 concerning the creation of Université Gustave Eiffel.