[3] They have to deal with the educational disciplines linked to cities: building, urbanism, transportation and environment.
Foreign students are welcomed to train for a one or two year curriculum (via ERASMUS or n+i[4]), or for internships.
Laureates acquire a status of trainee civil servant, and receive a salary while they are students at the school.
[citation needed] A new campus opened during fall 2012 at 80 rue Rebeval, in the 19th arrondissement of Paris, in the former building of the Ecole d'Architecture Paris-Belleville, which was also a former factory of Meccano model construction system.
[citation needed] EIVP students participate each year in ATHENS Programme.