A founding member of the
INNTO France network,
IFIS was set up in 1997 as an
institute of the Université Gustave Eiffel. Established in 2007
in Serris on the Val d'Europe site, home to Disneyland Paris and Villages Nature, it is located 5 minutes from France's first interconnection station (Marne-La-Vallée - Chessy), 200 m from the Val d'Europe RER A station and 40 minutes from the center of Paris. IFIS welcomes an average of
1,000 students each year, in initial, continuing or apprenticeship training. It offers training courses (Licence pro., Master) centered on the multi-disciplinary, cross-disciplinary concept of service engineering. It covers the sectors of Information-Communication, ICT, Corporate Real Estate, Quality, Health, Social Protection and, of course,
Tourism. The teaching teams include academics responsible for imparting knowledge and methods, and a large number of practicing professionals, responsible for passing on experience and helping students define their career plans. IFIS has developed a strong network of partnerships with companies, and encourages international student mobility (long internships, Erasmus).