The école supérieure de physique et de chimie industrielles de la ville de Paris or ESPCI ParisTech (The City of Paris Industrial Physics and Chemistry Higher Educational Institution) is a chemistry and physics engineering college run by the city of Paris, France and a member of ParisTech (Paris Institute of Technology). It conducts high level research in those fields. The students enter the School after an competitive examination (concours Ecole Polytechnique-ESPCI) following at least two years of Classes Préparatoires. They are called Pécéen or PC1(boys) and Pécéenne or PCN(girls). The School itself is also known as Physique-Chimie or simply PC. The ESPCI ParisTech is one of the founding members of ParisTech and a member of the IDEA League and the UNITECH International Society. ESPCI develops its relations with industrial partners such as Schlumberger, Rhodia, Total, Thales, Arkema, Michelin, which sponsored each yeargroup of students and signed research contracts with ESPCI laboratories. ESPCI ParisTech has signed partnership agreements with L'Oréal and Saint-Gobain for the recruitment of their professionals.