Nearly a century and a half after its creation, the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (EPHE) remains faithful to its original mission of training research scholars and scientists through the practice of research in its laboratories and research units. EPHE's teaching and research programmes range from the humanities to the sciences and include disciplines such as history, philology, archaeology, linguistics and history of art, on the one hand, and, on the other hand, life and earth sciences (biology of integrated systems; studies of organisms, environments and evolution; health and aging; neurosciences). EPHE is also an internationally renowned center for interdisciplinary (secular) studies of world religions.
EPHE is comprised of three sections (Life and Earth Sciences; History and Philology; Religious Sciences) and three institutes : the European Institute of Religious Sciences (IESR), the Interdisciplinary Institute for Research on Aging (ITEV) and the Institute for Pacific Coral Reefs (IRCP).