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University of Lille
The University of Lille occupies a strategic position at the heart of Northern Europe. It boasts an outstanding cultural and scientific heritage that is etched into the Hauts-de-France Region’s history, and has established itself as a key player in the region for training, research and innovation, and commitment to social issues.
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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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Read moreUniversité Paris-Est Créteil
UPEC is one of the major multidisciplinary and vocational universities within the Paris area.
With 19 sites and its main campus only 20 minutes from the heart of the French capital by subway, its serves a population of over 38,000 students.
A public university, UPEC enjoys governmental and European support. Its diverse partnerships with business organizations enhance its local presence while favoring career opportunities for its students.
In direct contact with its socioeconomic environment, UPEC successfully combines academic and scientific excellence in a spirit of openness.
A major player in the dissemination of academic, scientific and technological culture, UPEC offers over 350 training programs in all disciplines, from technical degrees to doctorates (PhD), including a series of degree programs entirely taught in English. The university is home to 7 faculties, 8 schools and institutes, 33 research centers and an Observatory of Sciences of the Universe.
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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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Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3 University
Located in woodland to the north of the city, Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3 University, Faculty of Letters, Arts, Languages, Human and Social Sciences, is named after Paul Valéry, the great writer from Sète. With a registered, labelled “20th century heritage site” campus, just 20 minutes from the city centre by tram, the University enjoys a vibrant setting where Mediterranean vegetation, abundant parkland and numerous works of art combine for the pleasure of students and campus users alike.
Montpellier University was France’s third university, established after Paris and Toulouse. Founded on 26th October 1289 by papal bull under Pope Nicholas IV, it included Faculties of Medicine, Arts and Law. In 1970, these former faculties became three separate Universities, including Paul-Valéry, Montpellier 3.
The university campus is evolving, expanding and transforming. Several projects are currently planned or underway, including a General Resources Building, a new Staff House, or the future “Learning Centre” or Atrium, with its bold architecture, a striking statement at the entrance to the campus.
Opened in 2017, the Saint-Charles site, looking out onto the city, is the University’s research showcase. The site hosts 19 interdisciplinary research teams, a Labex (Laboratory of Excellence), an ERC (European Research Council) programme, an IDEFI (Initiatives of excellence in innovative training) project, as well as Montpellier’s Maison des Sciences de l’Homme Sud.
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University of Perpignan
In 1350, the King of Aragon founded the University of Perpignan. Characterized by a multidisciplinary approach since its inception, this approach continues to define the University today, some 670 years later.
The University of Perpignan Via Domitia (UPVD) is modestly sized, local and multidisciplinary, and is open to Occitania, Southern Catalonia and to the International world. It is located in an ideal setting, at the centre of three metropolises: Montpellier, Toulouse and Barcelona.
The UPVD has converged its strengths and skills to create a collective dynamic adapted to the challenges of global change. As these changes bring about problems that can only be dealt with in a multidisciplinary manner, the UPVD benefits from undeniable assets and a particularly favourable regional, national and international context.
The academics and research at the University of Perpignan focus on Man within his environment, over a long time period (for 560,000 years, Tautavel) in order to adapt to new constraints, to support expected transitions and to propose future solutions. This work addresses the adaptation of plants to climate change as well as the effects induced in parasitology, the need to develop techniques for restoring fish stocks or the treatment of plastics at sea. Further, we are invested in the invention of the energies of tomorrow, the creation of future regulations to encourage greater sustainability and in the conceptualisation of an evolved concept of Man within his environment.
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University of Poitiers
The University of Poitiers is symbiotically rooted in its region, getting as close as possible to institutional, economic, cultural and academic actors.
The University of Poitiers is located mainly in Greater Poitiers, on the campuses of central Poitiers, Poitiers-East and Futuroscope. It has also developed campuses in Niort and Angoulême, where it offers undergraduate (including the 2-year DUT diplomas) and postgraduate studies. It also has sites in Châtellerault and Segonzac.
With five main fields of training, the University of Poitiers offers, within the same institution, courses in all disciplines and at all levels, from 2-year diplomas to PhDs. There are no other higher education structures, besides universities, that offer such a wide range.
Some professions are only accessible through specialized schools, but we provide training that can be one of the gateways to such specific schools.
The major fields of training at the University of Poitiers:
- Legal, economic and management sciences
- Life, sports and health sciences
- Science and technology
- Humanities, Literature, Languages and Arts
- Teaching and Education Sciences
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Université de la Polynésie française
Université de la Polynésie française has several missions:
Formal and lifelong education through a diverse range of national or university diplomas.
Scientific and technical research, as well as the promotion of its results:
- 5 laboratories, including a mixt research unit
- Contribution to scientific and technical development along with research organisation, French state and French Polynesia
- Study and use of polynesian landmarks
Integration into the world of work for students:
- Centre for orientation, internships and occupational integration
- Professionalisation of the training
- Higher education orientation days
- Job fair
- Les Doctoriales, Ma thèse en 180 secondes
Promotion of scientific culture and scientific and technical information:
- Organisation of international symposiums
- Publications by university lecturers and researchers
- Series of lectures Savoirs pour tous
- University library, Fonds polynésien
International cooperation:
- Hosting of foreign students, inter-universities staff exchange
- Erasmus (mobility in the European Union)
- Agreements with universities in the Pacific area
- Assistance for French people abroad
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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.
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Read moreRennes 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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Read moreUniversity Toulouse – Jean Jaurès
Founded in 1229, the University earned a great reputation in the 16th century hosting prestigious humanist thinkers such as Rabelais, Michel Servet, Etienne Dolet, Michel de l’Hospital and Montaigne.
In 1808, the institution became an imperial University and consisted of the Faculties of Catholic and Protestant Theology, the Faculty of Humanities, the Faculty of Law, of Sciences, and a School of Medicine.
Reaching its full development in the 20th century, the Faculty of Humanities is transferred in 1968 from the centre of Toulouse to its current location, the newly-built Mirail district which gave its name to the campus.
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University of Tours
Multidisciplinary (Arts & Humanities, Law, Economics & Social Sciences, Literature & Languages, Medicine, Sciences & Technology, 2 Institutes of Technology (IUT), 1 Centre for Advanced Renaissance Studies, 1 Graduate School of Engineering), the University is located in the heart of Tours but also in Blois.
With over 36 research laboratories, it is the leading public research institution in the Centre Val de Loire region.
It is distinguished by the richness of its culture, with a theatre with nearly 600 seats and a student cultural passport giving access to more than 65 regional cultural activities and events at special rates!
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