Accommodation for researchers

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Updated on 29/09/2025

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Finding accommodation is essential if you are to carry out your university research with peace of mind. All the practical information you need on accommodation in Paris.

Cité internationale universitaire de Paris

Are you a foreign researcher or a French researcher returning from abroad? Are you coming alone or with your family to the Paris Region to conduct research? ACC&SS offers a range of services designed to facilitate the stay of researchers and their families in the Paris Region, well before your arrival in France.
Maison principale de la Cité internationale universitaire, 17 boulevard Jourdan 75014 Paris
Opening hours: Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm and Thursday 2pm to 5pm
Click here to submit your housing application.
The Accueil accompagnement et services Supports (ACC&SS) service has been set up to help researchers with administrative formalities, to facilitate their installation and integration, as well as that of their families where applicable, and to offer cultural activities.

Its missions

  • prepare for the researcher's arrival in Paris by providing all the necessary information on visas and residence permits
  • welcome them on their arrival in France
  • integrate it into social life
  • follow the researcher after he or she has left the capital, providing information on the state of French research and, in particular, research in Paris.
Support from the City of Paris
The City has contributed to the renovation or construction of several buildings at the Cité internationale universitaire: the Victor Lyon pavilion, for researchers and their families, around 850 subsidized housing units (social housing) integrated into the Arts et Métiers student-engineer center, the Julie-Victoire Daubié residence and the Simone Weil residence.

Paris Institute for Advanced Studies (IEA Paris)

The Institut d'études avancées de Paris (IEA) is a research center in the humanities, social sciences and related disciplines, offering world-renowned academics and scientists the opportunity to spend five to nine months in Paris.
17 quai d'Anjou, 75004 Paris

Housing for researchers

Living at Villa Louis Pasteur

Named " Villa Pasteur ", this residence is dedicated to accommodating foreign researchers, invited by the ENS and other Parisian research and higher education organizations. It comprises 32 apartments.
Adjacent to the Villa Pasteur, an area known as the "Maison Pasteur" houses 500m² of administrative premises occupied by the University Paris VI Pierre et Marie Curie, the ENS Foundation and the Agoranov incubator.

For information and reservations, please contact "Le Richemont":

99 rue du Chevaleret 75013 Paris

Telephone: 01 53 60 93 00 and fax: 01 53 60 93 19

E-mail: npphrvy@yrevpurzbag.se[accueil puis lerichemont.fr après le signe @]

Information: Le Richemont website

Irène Joliot Curie residence

A partnership has been signed between the Paris Region PRES and Espacil Habitat, for the "researchers" section of this residence. The aim of this partnership is to create the conditions for optimal, shared management of housing allocations, in order to facilitate the arrival of young, mobile researchers.
This residence welcomes researchers under the age of 30 for a renewable period of one year, at rents ranging from €475 to €555 (T1bis). Priority will be given to junior researchers and post-docs, but the door is not closed to PhD students.
Interested young researchers should register online on the Espacil Habitat website.

Residence at the Couvent des Récollets

The Couvent des Récollets (a 17th-century building owned by the Ministry of Public Works) was renovated by the Régie Immobilière de la Ville de Paris (RIVP) in July 2003.
Les Récollets" has a capacity of 80 apartments. The accommodation is reserved exclusively for foreign researchers and artists selected by sponsoring organizations. The 80 apartments are shared by 35 tenants, who use them according to their programming.
The studios are designed to host artists, researchers, intellectuals, academics, etc. for periods ranging from one month to two years, in partnership with "sponsoring" institutions.
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Simone Veil residence

Simone Veil student residence
Simone Veil student residence
Crédit photo : © Mairie de Paris/Victor Dixmier
Open since June 2018, the residence offers 189 units dedicated to students and researchers, giving them easier access to their first home.

Building the residence

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Each unit is fully equipped and furnished, with internet access and shared work and relaxation areas. The project also complies with the Paris Climate Plan, in particular thanks to the installation of solar panels on one of the roofs to produce domestic hot water, the creation of a rain garden and a green roof terrace on part of the building.
Occupancy figures:
  • 51% of residents are researchers.
  • 49% of residents are students.
  • 36% of the young people were in a precarious or transitional situation, either staying with a private individual, renting free accommodation or subletting.
  • 49% of the young people had begun their residential career in a collective structure: social residence, student residence or another Espacil Habitat residence.
  • 14% of residents rented accommodation in the private sector.
  • 85% of the residents already lived in a department of the Île-de-France region.

Practicalities

Simone Veil residence
162-168 avenue Paul Vaillant Couturier
75014 Paris