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F rance's plans to build a science super­ campus — Paris­Saclay — a 30­kilo metre drive southwest of the capital are shifting into high gear. President Nicolas Sarkozy offi­ cially launched the scheme on 24 September in a speech at the Optical Institute Graduate School at Saclay. His ambition is to make Paris­ Saclay one of the world's top universities and science parks by 2020 — a Massachusetts Insti­ tute of Technology à la française. Sarkozy announced that several Grandes Ecoles — France's elite higher­education insti­ tutes — would be moved from Paris to the Saclay plateau, as would parts of the nearby Orsay campus of France's largest university, University Paris­Sud 11. The 23 partners in Paris­Saclay, which include research agencies, universities and Grandes Ecoles, will each vote later this month on the final governance struc­ ture of the project. This body will take the lead in implementing the campus's science strategy, which is being finalized around 12 research themes, including nanotechnology and low­ carbon energy. By concentrating funding, and large numbers of scientists from different research agencies, the government hopes to achieve a critical mass of effort in key sectors. It also hopes that the presence of top academic and corporate labs at Paris­Saclay will help innovation to flourish. The Saclay plateau already has one of the densest concentrations of research in Europe, including the labs of major French research agencies, the prestigious Ecole Polytech­ nique and big­science infrastructures such as the SOLEIL synchrotron. It rivals the Mass­ achusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge and Stanford University in Califor­ nia for staff and publications (see 'Saclay sized up'), and boasts the research labs of major com­ panies such as Thalès, Danone and Areva. But the government believes that Saclay's research, spread across the plateau, is not real­ izing its full potential. In his speech, Sarkozy described the campus as a " mosaic of insti­ tutions, each highly prestigious, but badly coordinated among themselves, and separated by artificial institutional barriers ". Such barri­ ers were " totally obsolete in an era of global scientific competition " , he said, arguing the case for an overarching­campus strategy. Although the heads of research centres involved in the Saclay project are enthusiastic, some rank­and­file scientists worry that they have given little input. They generally agree, however, that concentrating and restructur­ ing research there is in principle a good idea. And Marion Guillou, …

Paris plans science in the suburbs