Here you will find everything you need to know in order to live and study at the ENS.
The information found here concerns everyone at the ENS. For information about ENS lodgings or dormitories specifically, please consult the section entitled 'Living in the dormitories'
Updated on 14 September 2022
Contact the security reception from any landline phone on ENS premises by dialling 44 44.
The security lodge, from your cellphone :
If you need to contact students representative, some cellphone numbers of COF/BDS/DG (events association/sports association/us) are available on the yearbook.
For any problem in your room (or common spaces such as kitchens) and needing a technical intervention, you can report it to travaux@ens.fr, who will take care of it, usually quite quickly. If they do not come quickly, do not hesitate to send them another email.
In the email object, explicit already clearly the problem, and in the text do not forget your room number. Send copy to dg@ens.fr
As for immediate intervention requests (sudden lack of electricity, serious water leak, lack of heating...), there is a document on the Intranet, where the relevant phone numbers can be found.
For any problem without technical intervention, notably pests, and for furniture (bed, chair, etc.), you can report it to logistique@ens.fr .
It should be noticed that Logistique will not remove the bed from your room if you want to put a new one in and do not loan extra mattress.
In the email object, explicit already clearly the problem, and in the text do not forget your room number. Send copy to dg@ens.fr
Updated on 6 September 2022
In the K-Fêt, you can find sanitary towels and condoms for free. Do not hesitate to ask for it to K-Fêt wo.men ! The Pôle Santé also gives for free sanitory towels, menstrual cups, and condoms.
In addition to the other health centers proposed on the intranet webpage, you can got to a family planning in the 5th arrondissement, or to a university health center.
PSL University also offers care and psychological assistance, even at night in case of psychological emergency. More information on this page: PSL health
Updated on 6 September 2022
On Ulm campus, the trunk room is located since 2018 at the 2nd level underground, in the "Annexe" building, 44 rue d'Ulm.
At Jourdan, there are two trunk rooms in Hypnos 1 (JH1-S24 and JH1-S15), and one trunk room in Hypnos 2 (JH1S-06).
On Montrouge, there are 5 trunk rooms, at the place of some thurnes : MA1713, MB303, MB503, MC303, MC503.
Fill out the form on degette.
Your name will be given to the concerned lodge and you can then exchange your ENS card for the key. Allow one or two working days for your application to be processed, as it is produced manually by us, dégé·e·s (then be careful in July-August). Finally, to avoid the use of the trunk rooms as an external cupboard by some, access to the trunk room is only valid for 2 weeks maximum.
The trunk rooms are not accessible in August.
Everything you want, provided it is in a metallic trunk (and allowed by the French law : sorry, radioactive experiments would have to be stored elsewhere).
Trunks MUST BE LABELLED, on several faces, with readable writing, if possible also inside the trunk. Should be written :
Label templates are available here.
It is in your interest to put reliable contact mail and number, which you will conserve. For trunks forgotten after years, cellphone number is then somtimes quite useful.
DG can loan you one metallic trunk.
Deposit of packaged mattresses, furniture (in one unit), ovens, fridges..., is allowed during the summer holidays. An intership starting in February with a return in September can be tolerated, but in any case ask us first.
Belongings stored in trunk room can be there for one year maximum, but renewable. You can then extend the withdrawal date on degette AND on your trunk.
WARNING : only the withdrawal date on the trunk worths, and if one year after the withdrawal date you trunk and belongings are still there, DG can legally take it.
So far we did not have to reject someone because they had too many trunks. Nonetheless, trunk rooms can not host an entire castle.
If you need to borrow trunk to DG, the rule is : only one per person.
Updated on 6 September 2022
In Ulm, the Info room, located between the COF's Burô and the DG-Room is open at any time and provides several computers, a scanner and a printer. Alternatively you can print in IT rooms Info 3 & 4 at 2nd level underground in NIR building.
In Montrouge campus, computer room is on the C7 floor.
In Jourdan, there is a computer room at first floor of the Hypnos 1 building
In any case you will have to bring your own paper, even if some draft paper is often available.
The clipper identifier allow access to a clipper account on the SPI's eleves server. It gives access to a mail account, and connection to all students websites, including the degette interface on www.dg.ens.fr.
It is different from CRI identifiers, used for any other services in the administration (GPS, intranet, wifiens)
By definition, a clipper account corresponds to an ENS student, which means inscription to DENS (clipper account is still active in gapyear/CST). It then worths for "normalien élèves" and "normaliens étudiants", International Selection students, and more recently the Master students ("mastérien·ne·s").
Corollar : any DG procedure through degette request a clipper, notably access to trunk room. If you have a problem with your clipper, the DG can do all the things you want to do for you on Degette. Do not hesitate to contact us!
WARNING : a clipper account becomes inactive 1 year after the end of your last scolarity year. Beware then if you take a gapyear after your scolarity leaving something in trunk rooms that you want to recover.
The welcome page of the eleves server (quite oldschool) lists all students websites, notably :
Although quite old, tuteurs website also explain lots of things about computer ressources.
To connect to wifiens, the password is "firstname surname" of the inventor of rabies vaccin, famous but hated former ENS director, in lowercase with space. You will then have to open the connexion page if it does not open automatically, and fill in your CRI login and password (GPS, not the clipper ones)
To connect to eduroam, just follow instructions on tuteurs website.
Updated on 6 September 2022
On the welcome page of the eleves server, there is a link to the classroom booking website salles.ens.fr, on which there are the timetable occupancy for any classroom at ENS.
To book a room you only have to contact its owner (indicated at the beginning in "Liste des salles et gestionniares"), which can be the school administration or a department, and justify why you need it (club, association, wokrshop, etc.). Some departments allow only their own students to book their rooms, notably DMA and Biology.
Available spaces is an issue at 45 rue d'Ulm, and this section lists working spaces that may be available without reservation. In any case, look on the reservation website first to check if there are no course at this time. It should be noted that, except for the Yellow corridor, it is theoretically forbidden to work in these areas outside of school hours. But very theoretically...
Updated on 6 September 2022
To occasionally access to 46 rue d'Ulm carpark, you only need to contact the DG to have an access card against a security deposit (20€ in cheque or cash, or identity card). It is granted for 8 days non-renewable. The badge is to be passed at the top or bottom of the ramp (depending on whether you want to enter or exit).
For longer periods, or to access regularly to Ulm carpark, you need to fill an online form on degette, print it and send it back with requested pieces, notably insurance certificate. Your ENS card will be granted carpark access in the following working days.
In any case read appendix about carpark rules.
As for Montrouge, good old times when you would open the gate with a simple credit card, and when you could directly get an access card are unfortunately over.
Nowadays, you have to send an e-mail to securite.montrouge@ens.psl.eu 24h to 48h before the wanted acess (24h to 48h before the week-end), with name, phone number, motive, and car registration number. Once you have the authorization, you can exchange the access card against an ID card at the security office.
For tower L carpark and gate, ask the security office (works only if you are indeed lodged in tower L).
To move out for example, it is possible to get your car into 45 rue d'Ulm notifying Security service at least one working day in advance per email at securite.ulm@ens.fr with name, phone number, motive, and car registration number.
You can stay for one hour maximum.
Jourdan carpark is reserved to people working there, nonetheless to move in or out it is possible to briefly get in through the firemen access at 46 boulevard Jourdan.
Notify Jourdan security service at least one working day in advance per email at securite.jourdan@ens.fr with name, phone number of the driver, motive, car registration number, and date and hour.
Updated on 6 September 2022
Merle is a message app hosted on the eleves server. It is a Mattermost instance allowing you to create teams then specific channels to discuss projects and that any person with a clipper can join.
There are also possibilities of private messages, private channels, external account, and personnalisation. Moreover everything is hosted in the school, you are not giving your data to Web giants !
On Facebook, various pages enable you to follow the campus life :
DG 21-22, no longer belonging to the Facebook generation, has started a communication shift. We will gradually abandon the various accounts we manage (which continue to be managed for the time being, but at a slow pace). From now on, our communication will be mainly through the homepage of this site and through emails to all.
You are theorically not allowed to display anywhere in the school (directly on the walls for example), but in practice everybody does it, notably for seminar announces. But then don't be surprised if your poster is removed.
Same in the dormitories, theorically even on your room door a poster can be removed.