Visiting Information
- Look for accommodation a lot in advance, it may be difficult otherwise: Housing tips
- Telecom SudParis is located in two campuses: in Evry and Palaiseau
- Understand where it is convenient to find accommodation in order to reach one of them easily.
- French Language: send an email to international@telecom-sudparis.eu, CC-ing me, as soon as possible, before you arrive saying that you want to attend French courses and specifying (i) your situation (internship, Erasmus, visiting PhD) (ii) your period of stay (iii) whether your based in Évry or Palaiseau
- Check the information for international students in the website of IP-Paris and Télécom SudParis
- You may be asked a legal liability insurance. One option is to subscribe to assistance-etudiant. One other option is to subscribe to Matmut insurance (it should be below 25 EUR for 6 months; if it is more expensive, do not do it and contact me)
- Request the CAF. You may get up to 100 EUR/month from French government.
- Public Transport:
- Plan your trips with two smartphone apps: CityMapper or RATP
- If you buy a pass for one month or more, like Navigo or ImagineR, Telecom SudParis will refund you half (or maybe more). Ask what is the procedure to the administrative persons (the same that helped you doing the contract).
- Social and cultural life:
- If you are under 26, museums are all for free!
- Ask the other students if there are mailing lists you should subscribe to know the activities of the campus
- A nice website to participate to activities with other people is Meetup.
- Check-out the following websites (and follow them on social nets) to see what's going on: timout, sortiraparis, quefaire