Strate School of Design (formerly known as Strate College) is a French private institution for technical education founded in 1993. Its main campus is in Sèvres south-west of Paris. It is dedicated to the teaching of industrial design,3D modeling and design thinking. The school is recognized by the French state and its design degree is certified by the French Ministry of Higher Education.
In the past 22 years, Strate grew from 18 students to 620 and set up 5 programs. In 2010, the School established a new a brand new campus of 3000 m2 in Sèvres designed for her simple and great ambitions: to contribute to the training of professionals passionate by the human mind, attentive to the needs, the desires and the dreams of their contemporaries and their descendants
1993
Jean-René Talopp, former designer and director of the "ESDI" design school, founds the « Strate Collège ».
2010
The school moves to a new campus in Sèvres.
2013
Dominique Sciamma becomes the director of Strate.
2014
The school changes its name to « Strate School of Design », its logo and adopts a new motto: «Making the world +simple, +fair, +beautiful».
2015
The Strate Executive Education programme is launched to train professionals and managerial staff to Design Thinking and innovation by design.
Strate is recognized by the French state in the publication of the "Bulletin Officiel de l'Enseignement Supérieur et de la Recherche" on 7 December 2015. This has entitled the school to welcome government scholars for the design and modeling courses since 2017.
2017
The Ministry’s of Higher Education "Bulletin Officiel de l'Enseignement Supérieur et de la Recherche" lists the school as one of the few design schools in France to deliver a diploma recognized by the Minister in charge of higher education.
