FACILITIES AND SCIENTIFIC ENVIRONMENT

The premises of the ENSG alone cover an area of 20 000 m2 (half of them brand new) in Vandoeuvre (Brabois and Pôle de L'Eau sites). Besides multi purpose classrooms and amphitheatres, it is endowed with specially equipped rooms for the teaching of microscopy, mapping, study of rocks, data processing, languages, and hosts one of the largest libraries in the country in the field of geosciences.
Courses are taught over a period of six semesters by lecturers and researchers from the ENSG and also by researchers from the CNRS (50 people), external lecturers from industries and universities (over 100 people). One of the singularities of our school is the emphasis on on-site practical work (6 weeks altogether) studying geological mapping, structural geology, sedimentology, magmatism and metamorphim.
The lecturers-researchers of the ENSG and the CNRS, the Ph.D students (about 400 people) carry out their research in the laboratories of the ENSG or severalmixed units INPL-CNRS or Henri Poincare University - CNRS and laboratories belonging to the CNRS federated in the Lorraine Institutes of Geosciences (ILG) and Mechanical Engineering (ILGM).

The students of the ENSG profit by their research potential through training periods and practical works in the laboratories. So they have access to :
- the computers and 3D modeling original softwares of the GOCAD team (ENSG),
- the apparatus of physical and mechanical measurements in the laboratory of environmental and geotechnical studies (LAEGO-ENSG),
- the pilot plant of mineral and industrial waste treatment of the laboratory for environment and mineral processing (LEM-ENSG),
- the electron microprobes of the common center for microanalysis based at Nancy 1 University Henri Poincaré.
In addition, the ENSG students can too have access to other laboratories and research institutes : Centre de Recherches Pétrographiques et Géochimiques (CRPG), Centre de Recherches sur la Géologie des Matières Premières Minérales et Énergétiques (G2R), Centre de Recherches en Automatique de Nancy (CRAN), Laboratoire Structures et Transferts en Milieu Sédimentaire (LSTS), Centre de Pédologie Biologique (CPB).

The symbiosis of learning and research which is the cornerstone of teaching at the ENSG makes Nancy one of the European spearheads in the field of Geosciences. The resulting network of international exchanges match the pedagogical challenges of the 21st century that our school is preparing to face.