Eurecom is a graduate school in the domain of information and communication technology and a research center in communication systems. It was created in 1991 in Sophia-Antipolis by the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications (TELECOM ParisTech) and the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), joined since by other European Universities such as the Polytechnic University of Turin

Polytechnic University of Turin

The Polytechnic University of Turin is an engineering university based in Turin, northern Italy. Established in 1859, Politecnico di Torino is Italy’s oldest Technical University. In 2011 it was ranked as the best engineering university in Italy in the Academic Ranking of World Universities.It is...

, Helsinki University of Technology

Helsinki University of Technology

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, and Munich University of Technology Norwegian University of sciences and technology.

It has strong industry ties. The current partners are Swisscom

Swisscom

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, Thales

Thales

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, SFR

SFR

SFR is a French mobile phone company. It has over 20 million customers, and provides over 4.6 million households with high-speed internet access...

, Orange, Cisco

Cisco

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 and BMW

BMW

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 Group Research & Technology, ST Ericsson, Symantec, SAP, Monaco Telecom.

EURECOM has an international orientation in the recruitment of professors and students from many different countries, with its European program and lectures held in English. EURECOM recruits about one hundred students for the Masters

Master's degree

A master's is an academic degree granted to individuals who have undergone study demonstrating a mastery or high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of professional practice...

 level per year and around seventy students for the PhD

PHD

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 program.

The research activity of EURECOM is organized around three principal themes: mobile communication, multimedia communication, and networking and security. Two TELECOM ParisTech laboratories are associated with EURECOM, System on Chip and ICT Usage.

EURECOM is a major participant in European and national research programs and was granted "Institut Carnot" jointly with the institut telecom.