At 10 rue Vauquelin Paris 5è, within the ESPCI Paris PSL, TRACES has been in charge of managing the Espace des Sciences Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (ESPGG) since 2011. Between being a space presenting animation for the general public and an innovation lab for the mediation and communication of sciences, the ESPGG navigates at the interface between science, culture and society.
It is an open place to promote exchanges, meetings and common reflections between researchers, teachers, journalists, artists, narrators, everyone curious about sciences and cultures.
The action of the ESPGG, which wishes to be a meeting point between Parisians and the scientific world, has six components :

• Temporary arts-sciences exhibitions

• Permanent exhibition of scientific instruments (including original instruments of Pierre and Marie Curie) ;

• Scientific animations ;

• Seminars, conferences and experimental conferences ;

• Support for science teaching ;

• Scientific events.