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AgroParisTech is a French public institute with a rich history that spans over 200 years. A reference among the higher education establishments specialised in life sciences, AgroParisTechholds two key missions:

To offer high quality training to students and professionals in the different curricula delivered by AgroParisTech;
To advance scientific knowledge, in close association with public and private research centers, main relevant technical-vocational centers and industrial partners.

Its forward-looking approach is aimed at addressing the main global challenges of the 21st century:

Feeding the population in a sustainable way,
Protecting natural resources,
Fostering innovation,
Developing the bioeconom.

While doing so, it addresses the following fields: agricultural sciences and technologies, forestry, life sciences, food technology, biotechnologies, environment, nutrition, health, land and natural resources management, as well as related public policies.

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Aix-Marseille University

The largest multidisciplinary French-speaking university, Aix-Marseille University (AMU) welcomes 80,000 students and nearly 8,000 staff on 5 large campuses of international standards. Owning 90% of its assets, the university is present in 9 cities in 4 departments of the Southern Region.
Its A*Midex University Foundation, which carries the IDEX on a long-term basis, contributes to the development of a world-class interdisciplinary higher education and research centre. Known as an “intensive research university”, it is home to 122 research structures linked to major national research organisations.

Created on 1 January 2012, Aix-Marseille University (AMU) can legitimately consider, at the end of an initial period 2012-2017 largely devoted to the structuring of the single university, that it has taken up the major challenge it had set itself: to successfully merge the three universities in the area and give birth to a large world-class university.

AMU is thus an intensive research university, which has forged partnerships all over the world, which has affirmed its territorial anchorage and integration and which ranks among the very first French universities in the Shanghai ranking. AMU is a multidisciplinary university structured around five disciplinary sectors divided into 18 components (faculties, schools, institutes) and one multidisciplinary sector (including ESPE and IUT) :

Arts, Letters, Languages and Human Sciences
Law and Political Science
Economics and Management
Health
Science and Technology

It is present in four departments and nine cities. It has a real estate portfolio spread over 58 sites representing more than 830,000 m². AMU was a winner of the Campus Operation, which, in conjunction with the CPER (State-Regional Plan Contract), enables it to rehabilitate and modernise its campuses in order to aim for the best international standards. AMU is now a recognised and identified partner, which has been able to impose its identity and assert itself as a key player in its region, in whose development and influence it plays an active role.

From 2012, AMU has developed and structured a streamlined and clear training offer. From 2012, AMU has developed and structured a streamlined and clear training offer. This work has been deepened within the framework of the master plan for the training offer that it developed in 2016 and 2017, the result of internal consultation but also of exchanges with socio-economic partners and communities. In terms of research and innovation, AMU has developed a strategy co-constructed at the site level in conjunction with the main research organisations (CNRS, Inserm, IRD, CEA, etc.) and structured around its numerous research units and federations and its five intersectoral and interdisciplinary research centres (PR2I):

Energy
Environment
Humanities
Health & Life Sciences
Advanced Science & Technology

The excellence of the site’s research has been recognised in particular by its success in several national (labex, equipex, Instituts convergences, RHU, EUR…) or European calls for projects of the H2020 type (AMU is thus the third French institution raising funds under this programme). The labeling of the A*Midex project, carried by Aix-Marseille University and its partners (AMU, CNRS, Inserm, IRD, CEA, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Marseille, Institut d’Etudes Politiques d’Aix-en-Provence and Ecole Central de Marseille), has also had a tremendous structuring and stimulating effect on the institution. It has created a real dynamic around the five priority themes and the strategic objectives identified from 2012:

Excellence in training and research
Partnerships with the socio-economic world
Internationalization of the site’s areas of excellence
Ambitious human resources policy
Attractiveness of the site

A*Midex thus functions as an accelerator, through calls for projects or proactive actions, so that Aix-Marseille University and its partners can quickly achieve their ambitions. The perpetuation of A*Midex in 2016 reflects both the recognition of the work accomplished by AMU and the opportunity to have a formidable tool to support the university’s strategy.

At the end of a period that has seen the energies of our entire university community mobilised to build a new institution, it is on the strength of this collective dynamic that AMU is now projecting itself into its future by carrying out a project that is both ambitious and unifying for the period 2018-2022. Thus, while the first five-year contract for 2012-2017 was naturally aimed at installing and structuring the merged university. The 2018-2022 contract will be placed under the triple seal of innovation for all of the university’s fields of activity, strengthening the link between training and research and the quality approach as the guiding threads to always aim for excellence, notably with the support of A*Midex.

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BRGM

BRGM, the French geological survey, is France’s leading public institution for Earth Science applications for the management of surface and sub-surface resources with a view to sustainable development.
Under partnerships with numerous public and private stakeholders, it focuses on scientific research, providing scientifically-validated information to support public policy development and international cooperation.

BRGM is a public organisation, which celebrated its 60th anniversary in 2019. It draws on its geological expertise to respond to 21st-century challenges concerning the use and management of the subsurface, such as renewable heat, energy and waste storage, developing the circular economy in terms of land and mineral use, traceability, groundwater resources, reclaiming industrial wasteland, and the management of natural risks.

Its activity meets 4 objectives:

understanding geological phenomena and related risks,
developing new techniques and methodologies,
producing and distributing data for surface, subsurface and resource management,
providing the tools required to manage the surface, subsurface and resources, prevent risks and pollution, and manage policies in response to climate change.

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CEA – French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission

The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) is a public organisation dedicated to research of scientific, technical and industrial nature.

The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) is a key player in research, development and innovation in four main areas:

defence and security,
low carbon energies (nuclear and renewable energies),
technological research for industry,
fundamental research in the physical sciences and life sciences.

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École des Ponts ParisTech

École des Ponts ParisTech, created in 1747 under the name École Royale des Ponts et Chaussées, is a higher education establishment that trains engineers to a high level of scientific, technical and general competency. Apart from civil engineering and spatial planning, historically the source of its prestige, the School develops high-quality programs and research associated with the energy transition.

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ENS de Lyon

The École Normale Supérieure de Lyon is an elite French public institution that trains professors, researchers, senior civil servants as well as business and political leaders. Students choose their courses and split their time between training and research in sciences and humanities. Built on the tradition of the ENS de Fontenay-Saint-Cloud, founded in 1880, the ENS de Lyon also focuses on educational research. It is a symbol of French Republican meritocracy and it remains committed today to disseminating knowledge to the widest audience and to promoting equal opportunity.

The ENS de Lyon is part of the Université de Lyon and supports quality research that has earned it a Fields medal (Cedric Villani, 2010) and many CNRS medals. It encourages interdisciplinary studies to foster a better understanding of complex contemporary issues.

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Institut Pasteur

Opened in 1888, following a public appeal for funds, and named after Louis Pasteur, its founder and first director, the Institut Pasteur is an international research and education institute based in France. It is a non-profit foundation with recognized charitable status entrusted with four core missions of general interest: research, education, the health of populations and people, and innovation development and technology transfer.

The Institut Pasteur is an internationally renowned center for biomedical research that stands out in many disciplines. By deciphering the fundamental mechanisms of living organisms, its researchers contribute to the advancement of knowledge that leads to cutting-edge medical applications, ultimately improving public health.
It is home to several national (CNR) and international (CCOMS) centers of expertise that monitor infectious diseases. The Institut Pasteur Medical Center is a health center specialized in infectious and tropical diseases, travel medicine and allergic diseases.
The Education Center welcomes every year over 600 students (Master’s and PhD students, post-doctoral fellows, experienced researchers and health professionals). Some 250 PhD students are present in campus laboratories in any one year, making the Institut Pasteur a major stakeholder when it comes to training of young scientists through research.

The Institut Pasteur is part of the international Pasteur Network including 33 institutions located on five continents, several of which were set up by Louis Pasteur’s direct collaborators or students.

The Institut Pasteur has been acting in favor of Open Science by adopting two founding texts in May 2021: a Charter for open access to publications and a Policy for the management and sharing of research data and software code. Both policies are in line with the Institut Pasteur strategic plan for 2019-2023.

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Sciences Po

Sciences Po was created because its founder, Emile Boutmy, wanted to build from scratch an institution of higher education that the elites of the time lacked. One hundred and fifty years later, Sciences Po has become an international research university with 14,000 students. But the foundation of our education remains driven by the same vocation: to better understand the world in order to change it for the better.
Sciences Po stands out for combining approaches and confronting different worldviews. This tradition of diversity and multidisciplinary approach makes Sciences Po an active participant in public debate, a forum where thought meets action.

Sciences Po’s overarching mission is to educate future leaders in the public and private sectors. Curious and open-minded, Sciences Po graduates, regardless of their focus and trajectory, all share the ability to “learn how to learn”, which is one of the priorities of our education. However, our ambition extends even further: to educate open-minded and enlightened citizens capable of changing the world and transforming society.
At Sciences Po, the finest researchers in the social sciences engage in continual dialogue with the greatest practitioners. With an academic community of more than 4,000 academics including 2,400 practitioners, the knowledge we transmit to students is nurtured by innovative research and rooted in reality.

Sciences Po is a research university in the social sciences, internationally recognised for the quality of its scientific output. Developed with a strong focus on society, research conducted at Sciences Po enriches public debate.

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Sorbonne University

Sorbonne University is a multidisciplinary, research-intensive, world-class university. Located in the heart of Paris, with a regional presence, it is committed to the success of its students and to meeting the scientific challenges of the 21st century. Thanks to its 55,300 students, 6,400 academic researchers and partner researchers, and 3,600 administrative and technical staff who make it a daily reality, Sorbonne University promotes diversity, creativity, innovation and openness to the world.

As a multidisciplinary research university in the heart of Paris, Sorbonne University is resolutely global. In cooperation with its partners, it creatively and innovatively fulfils its missions of teaching, research, innovation, mediation and technology transfer for the benefit of the common good.

Sorbonne University is a pioneer in the pathways of knowledge and tackles major contemporary challenges such as climate change and sustainability, digital transformation and the data revolution, personalised medicine, open science, and more. On the strength of its shared values—quality and integrity, freedom, transparency and collegiality, diversity, the exchange of ideas—it ambitiously pursues its public service mission and dedicates itself to the creation and development of knowledge, at the heart and at the intersection of disciplines.

Sorbonne University promotes equal access to knowledge, from bachelor’s degrees to doctorates and in life-long learning. At the end of high school, when returning to school or throughout a career, it provides demanding teaching based on the spirit and methods of research, and allows students to develop their own multidisciplinary career path. On its campuses, in Paris and in its marine stations in the regions, it boasts state-of-the-art equipment conducive to successful work.

Because there can be no success without the chance to flourish, Sorbonne University helps to improve the living conditions of students who are in need, offers a wide range of sports and cultural activities and encourages student initiatives.

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University of Burgundy

University of Burgundy fulfils a dual mission of education and research in all scientific fields.

Located in Burgundy between Paris and Lyon, the city of Dijon is home to uB’s main campus, with several others spread across the region.

It offers 400 different degrees across all levels (Bachelor, Master, and PhD), employs 3,000 staff members, and enrols 34,000 students, among whom more than 2,900 are international.

There are 27 Research Units divided into 6 main research fields :

Food and Environment
Health and Molecular Engineering
Photonics and Advanced Materials
Learning and Care
Heritage and Territories
Vine and Wine

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Université Grenoble Alpes

Anchored on its territory, multidisciplinary and open to the international, Université Grenoble Alpes brings together the main public higher education institutions of Grenoble and Valence. In association with the national research organizations and the international research facilities present on its territory, it builds its innovation policy on a global scale. As a driving force for progress and a laboratory for initiatives, it collaborates with its many partners to accompany the evolution of society.

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Jean Monnet University

It stands out as an institution of higher education and essential research in the Lyon Saint- Étienne metropolitan area thanks to its emphasis on partnerships with the higher education institutions of Saint-Étienne and Lyon, the City and the Metropolitan Area, and also with businesses.

A multidisciplinary university offering health courses, UJM is present throughout the city of Saint-Étienne: with its 20,000 students, Jean Monnet University supplies young talent and excellence to its 5 campuses and the local area.

UJM also shines internationally. Its attractiveness lies in a course offering in line with its economic, cultural and social ecosystem and open to the world, with quality classes taught in English, and distance learning courses abroad using digital technology.

Its multidisciplinary education offering allows students to access a diploma in 5 major areas of education: Arts, Letters, Languages/Humanities and Social Sciences/Law, Economics, Management/Science, Technology/Health.

With over 400 international cooperation agreements, UJM promotes openness and knowledge-sharing with a network of partners throughout the world. Moreover, it contributes to developing the Transform4Europe (T4EU) initiative in order to offer inward and outward intra-European mobility to students and its teaching and administrative staff.

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Jean Moulin Lyon 3 University

Located in the centre of Lyon – a UNESCO World Heritage Site and the second largest university town in France – and in Bourg-en-Bresse (Ain), Jean Moulin Lyon 3 University offers a learning and research space focused on the humanities and social sciences with programmes ranging from two-year foundation degrees to PhDs (Bac +2 to Bac +8). With seven doctoral schools and 19 research units, the University develops interdisciplinary research linked to major social issues.

A member of the University of Lyon – Community of Universities and Institutions (COMUE) – it welcomes more than 29,000 students and offers a wide range of career-oriented programmes within a high-quality learning framework conducive to intellectual and personal development.

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Université de Lorraine

Founded in 2012, the Université de Lorraine is a multidisciplinary establishment. Its 60.000 students and 7.000 staff members spread all over the area of Lorraine. Its research revolve around 10 scientific hubs, consisting of 60 research units with 28 being mixed research units. At the heart of Europe, the Université de Lorraine relies on a network of partner universities in the Region and all around the world. Its international standing rests upon the mobility of researchers, university lecturers and researchers, and students, as well as the internationalisation of its training offer.

The Université de Lorraine has been fully committed to Open Science since 2016, when it opened a HAL portal and organised its first seminar on this topic. Ever since, this committment grows year after year, thanks to annual symposiums, institutional support to open edition initiatives, the adoption of HAL as the university official bibliography in 2018, and the set up of a research data repository in 2021. A steering committee, put in place in 2019 and assisted by two operational committees, works hard to offer a safe environment to researchers so that they are well prepared to the current evolutions in the research environment.

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Open Science at the Université de Lorraine

Université Lumière Lyon 2

Since its creation in 1973, the Université Lumière Lyon 2 has been committed to a strong and demanding vision of Higher Education and Research, driven by a spirit and values that are also its trademark: human and humanistic, committed and supportive, democratic and civic-minded.
A founding member of the aggregation of universities and higher education institutions known as the COMUE Université de Lyon, the Université Lumière Lyon 2 welcomes nearly 30,000 students on two campuses to its bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees.

With a varied range of training courses, the Université Lumière Lyon 2 combines openness and success in order to empower its students to actively develop their critical thinking skills in a multidisciplinary context in order to be able to address the societal challenges of the future.
Its thirteen faculties and institutes offer a wide range of courses in four areas of education and research: Arts, Literature, Languages / Law, Economics, Management / Humanities and Social Sciences / Sciences, Technology, Health.

Covering a very broad spectrum of disciplines in the Human and Social Sciences, the Université Lumière Lyon 2 is developing cutting-edge research in each of its fields. Sensitive to the concerns and issues of society such as gender, education, work, the city, disability, it participates fully in social progress through its research programs and numerous actions to disseminate knowledge.
With thirty-two laboratories and eight research federations, covering the fields of Letters – Languages – Human and Social Sciences, the Université Lumière Lyon 2 is committed to innovation, interdisciplinarity, partnership and international openness. Through the projects developed and carried out by its 936 professors and researchers, it promotes dialogue between the human and social sciences and the hard sciences, and places research at the heart of contemporary scientific and societal issues.

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University of Nantes

In the last 50 years, Université de Nantes has taken training and research to the highest level and, in 2015 took a spot in the Times Higher Education World University Ranking. Université de Nantes is ranked among the top 25 French universities.

Within its campuses, different disciplines meet to enrich one another. Université de Nantes is one of the rare French universities to promote interdisciplinarity. 38,000 students mix within the 20 faculties and schools there. 295 specialities are represented, 44 laboratories work in all fields of knowledge.

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Université Paris Cité

At the heart of a global network of knowledge and innovation, Université Paris Cité is France’s leading multidisciplinary university. It covers a wide range of disciplines, with one of the most comprehensive and ambitious educational offerings available in the world. Université Paris Cité is part of the incarnation of a world city, aware of its place and missions, open to youth and knowledge.

Born in 2019 from the merger of the universities of Paris Diderot, Paris Descartes and Institut de physique du globe de Paris, the ambition of Université Paris Cité is to lead and develop an exceptional potential to meet the challenges of tomorrow’s society.

With a recognized international standing, as well as a strategic portfolio of privileged academic partners throughout the world, it offers its students state-of-the-art, innovative courses in the following fields:

Arts, Humanities and Languages,
Human, Economic and Social Sciences,
Science and Technology,
Medicine , Dentistry, Pharmacy and Nursing

Université Paris Cité is fully engaged in an experience that brings together thought leadership, pedagogical innovation in education, and excellence in research at the graduate level.

Located on some twenty campuses and research sites, Université Paris Cité has an exceptional heritage mainly located in Paris and its inner suburbs. Between history, prestige and modernity, Université Paris Cité is fully integrated into its urban environment.

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Université Paris-Saclay

Université Paris-Saclay offers a comprehensive and varied range of Undergraduate, Master’s and PhD degrees, renowned internationally thanks to the University’s reputation for research excellence and the commitment of its academic staff. The University’s constituent faculties, institutes and component institutions all contribute to the curricula with cutting-edge specialised courses in Science and Engineering, Life Sciences and Health, and Social Sciences and Humanities.

The University shares 275 laboratories with the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), the Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques (IHES), the French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE), the National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology (INRIA), the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM) and the French Aerospace Lab (ONERA). Université Paris-Saclay currently represents 13% of France’s research potential.

Located in the south of Paris on vast sites that stretch across Paris, Orsay, Évry and Versailles, Université Paris-Saclay benefits from a strategic geographical and socio-economic position that is strengthened by its international visibility.

Université Paris-Saclay is nested in a protected natural area close to Paris, at the very heart of a dynamic economic hub.

With 48,000 students, 9,000 researchers and lecturers, and 11,000 technical and administrative staff members, Université Paris-Saclay is a driving force for the development of its local area and one of France’s leading institutions.

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URCA

This multidisciplinary university (URCA) develops innovative, fundamental and applied research. It provides more than 25 000 students with a wide initial undergraduate studies program which corresponds to society’s needs in all domains of the knowledge. The university also accompanies independent or company backed students in continuing professional development training.

Fulfilling students’ needs is a top priority and URCA developed the student citizenship through the evaluation of its formations and is equipped with a student-services desk uniquely devoted to providing new students with information, a help desk to help students get employment placement and a follow-up evaluation.

URCA is situated in five different cities: Reims (main site), Troyes, Charleville-Mézières, Châlons en Champagne and Chaumont. The university largely contributes to the development of Champagne-Ardenne through its partnerships with local and national companies and the regional authorities. With 1557 teachers and teachers-researchers among whom 126 are hospital practitioners as well as a technical and administrative staff of 1038, URCA is one of the biggest employers of the region.

URCA aims to appeal to international students and has consequently introduced the construction of an interregional and international cluster (PRES) which will include the main institutions of higher education of Champagne-Ardenne and Picardie, and Walloon universities.

Situated in the heart of the Ile-de-France, the Rhineland, Northern Europe and Italy, URCA occupies a geostrategic position which is favorable to European and international exchanges. The fact that the TGV is accessible in the Roissy airport facilitates transportation to the university which is only ten minutes away.

By choosing the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne as an institution of higher education one opts for quality education and innovative fundamental and applied research. In addition, the size of the university contributes to the success of the students by offering a working environment convenient to achieving success and which encourages international mobility.

HAL portal: https://hal.univ-reims.fr/

Rennes 2 University

Rennes 2 University is the largest centre for research and higher education in the fields of human and social sciences in western France.

As one of the major public universities in France almost exclusively devoted to arts, humanities and social sciences, Rennes 2 strives to provide excellence through education and innovation within a dynamic learning environment. Our university welcomes more than 24,000 students to its 5 different faculties:

Arts, Literature, and Communication
Modern Languages
Human Sciences
Social Sciences
Sports Sciences

Rennes 2 main campus is located in the heart of the city Rennes, the capital of picturesque Brittany. The university helps contribute to regional and national dynamism through the variety of our educational offer, research and cultural vitality. Rennes itself is the 8th largest student city in France, with more than 60,000 students.

While fostering local cooperation has always been a part of Rennes 2’s DNA, it also has an increasingly global perspective. With over 3,000 international students and 265 partners worldwide, the students and staff are now, more than ever, creating strong relationships with university and research institutions around the globe.

Rennes 2 students also benefit from an exceptional and diversified linguistic offer of 19 foreign languages. Rennes 2 is also home to the premier French-language learning center – the CIREFE.

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