ENSG

The National School of Geographic Sciences (ENSG) was originally founded in 1941 to train technical personnel for the Institut Géographique National (IGN, a public administration currently within the Ministry of Ecology, Energy, Sustainable Development and the Sea) and other national mapping agencies around the world. Since 1997, the ENSG has been located just east of Paris in Marne-la-Vallée on the cité Descartes campus, in a specially built postmodern facility, shared with the National School of Highways and Bridges (ENPC). Over 5 000 engineers, technicians and managers from more than 80 countries have already been trained at the school. In the past 10 years, the ENSG has widened its focus to encompass a vast range of professional training needs in the field of Geomatics, which has made it the most important center for technical Geomatics training in France.