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University Paris Nanterre

From its very creation in the 1960s, University Paris Nanterre has dedicated itself to being a new type of institution of higher education. An institution of learning and research whose defining characteristics are its vibrant campus life, educational innovation and scientific research with a social dimension. University Paris Nanterre is located to the west of the greater Paris area, just next to the largest business district in Europe and in a dynamic area full of major urban developments. The Nanterre campus reflects the University’s forward-looking policy with respect to sports and cultural activities, environmental commitment and solidarity actions. In addition to its main campus in Nanterre, the University also has satellite sites in nearby Saint-Cloud and La Défense.

Today University Paris Nanterre has 34,000 students in undergraduate, postgraduate and professional continuing education with more than 20% of the student body from a foreign country. There are over 1,000 research professors and researchers in all disciplines of social and human sciences (law, economics, management, arts, humanities and languages, philosophy, linguistics, information and communication sciences, psychology and education, history, archaeology, anthropology, sociology, geography) as well as in sports sciences and physical education, mathematics, computer science and engineering.

University Paris Nanterre is a member of an Association of Higher Education and Research Institutions known as Université Paris Lumières. The University of Paris 8 and the CNRS research institute also belong to this prestigious grouping of institutions of higher learning. The INS-HEA (special educational needs and disability studies) and ENS Louis Lumière (National Film, Photography & Sound Engineering School) as well as numerous cultural institutions of both French and international renown (Louvre Museum, National Library of France, Quai Branly Museum, Centre Georges Pompidou, National Archives, INA – National Audiovisual Institute, History and Immigration Museum, etc. ) are also part of this exceptional educational initiative. This association is one of the leading educational and research bodies in France in the field of social and human sciences.

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Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

At the heart of Paris Latin Quarter, the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne combines the glorious past of a college founded during the 13th century by Robert de Sorbon, with a pioneering multidisciplinary programme. Ever since 1970, its mission of education and research has been gravitating around three scientific domains: humanities and arts, law and political science, and economic and management sciences.

Established on 25 locations across Paris and Île-de-France, the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne guides over 43.000 students every year. The university is part of an international relations network all around the globe; it plays a major role in the education of researchers, professors, magistrates, lawyers, executives for the private sector or the public administration. Its moto: Omnibus sapientia, unicuique excellentia – Knowledge for all, excellence for every one.

With a 800 years history and 50 years of excellence, the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne is now the greatest university specialised in humanities and social sciences in France.

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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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Université Polytechnique des Hauts-de-France

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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Université de Rennes

The University of Rennes brings together training departments (UFR, faculties, schools, institutes), research centres and five Grandes Écoles who participate in the development and implementation of the strategy of the University of Rennes: École des Hautes Études en Santé Publique (EHESP), École Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Rennes (ENSCR), École Normale Supérieure de Rennes (ENS Rennes), Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Rennes (INSA Rennes), Sciences Po Rennes.

The University of Rennes also works in association with the Université Rennes 2, the École Nationale de Statistique et Analyse de l’Information de Rennes (ENSAI) and the Institut Agro Rennes-Angers to pursue and develop joint projects.

National research organisations – CNRS, INRAE, Inria, Inserm – and the university hospital, the CHU de Rennes, participate as partners in the development and implementation of the scientific strategy of the University of Rennes.

• A New Multidisciplinary Institution with a Public Service Mission of Higher Education and Research.
• Research: developing intensive research to serve society, encouraging open science and stimulating innovation and transfer.
• Training: advancing and transmitting knowledge by transcending disciplinary boundaries, and through pedagogical innovation and diversification of pathways.
• Student experience: creating the conditions for a quality student experience, promoting the success and fulfilling professional integration of students.
• CSR: contributing to the Sustainable Development Goals, and especially to the well-being of students, staff and stakeholders.
• International: cooperating internationally and participating in the development of the European Higher Education and Research Area.

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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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Université Sorbonne Nouvelle

Founded in 1970, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle stems from the former Litterature faculty of University of Paris.

At the heart of Latin Quarter, and through Paris 5th arrondissement, Sorbonne Nouvelle offers several multidisciplinary high level education in Languages, Litterature, Arts and Media, Humanities and Social Sciences.

These trainings offer a variety of job prospects: teaching, research, publishing, resource management, performing arts (comedy, cinema, audiovisual), communication, journalism, coordination of cultural projects, translation and interpretation, in Europe or worldwide. Education at Sorbonne Nouvelle also relies on reputed research in modern humanities.

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Sorbonne Paris Nord University

Paris University 13 is one of the thirteen universities that were created after the reorganization of the old Sorbonne after 1968.

It now has 24,000 students, spread across five campuses pursuing degrees or continuing education.
Truly multi-disciplinary in nature, Paris University 13 is a major center of teaching and research in the north of Paris.

The fundamental mission of Paris University 13 is to improve the scientific, cultural and professional knowledge of all through initial and continuing education and the development of research, which is its essential foundation.

In accordance with this mission, Paris University 13 pursues the following objectives :

• To welcome, inform and guide the choices of its students and provide them with initial and/or continuing education, particularly so that they obtain degrees.
• To develop research in science and technology as well as spread and extract value from findings
• To support students in their choice of courses and their entry into working life
• To support all desirable form of relations within the regional environment
• To enrich the culture and the scientific and technical knowledge of the academic community and the regional population
• To promote cooperation with other universities both nationally and internationally, particularly by participating in the European Higher Education Area

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University Toulouse – Jean Jaurès

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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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Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines

University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ) is a leading multidisciplinary higher education and research institution. The quality of UVSQ’s undergraduate and graduate programs (master’s programs, doctorates, post-doctoral fellowships) is backed by the compelling research programs conducted in UVSQ research centers and laboratories.
UVSQ is a medium size university (20 000 students) located in the Southwestern suburb of Paris, where internationally known businesses are established (such as Renault, PSA, Dassault…) as well as renowned French research institutes (CNRS, INRA, CEA…).

Spread over 5 campuses with 19,000 students, UVSQ offers more than 200 disciplinary programs which allow it to welcome international students interested in studying in France for a semester, an academic year, or the full duration of a degree program. UVSQ faculties offer academic and professionally-focused undergraduate and graduate programs in many fields of study such as:

• Law,
• Political science,
• History,
• Geography,
• Economics,
• Management,
• Media and cultural studies,
• French Language,
• Medicine and Health,
• Biology,
• Chemistry,
• Physics,
• Mathematics, etc.

About 12% of UVSQ students are in apprenticeship training degrees which creates a solid bond with the economic environment and maintains the strength of the industrial sector partnership of the University. UVSQ also develops strong international cooperations with 120 universities throughout the world.

Ranked 12th in the French university of the 2019 World University ranking THE and 2nd in the 2018 Shanghai ranking in Atmospheric Sciences, the UVSQ places pedagogical innovation, professionalization and internationalization of its programs at the heart of its strategy.

The excellence of UVSQ as a research university is assured by its 39 laboratories and research institutions and is locally, nationally and internationally recognized as a source of expertise and resources. Heritage, materials, climate, environment, space science, public health, epidemiology, and disability are all fields in which UVSQ has become a major player, both within research networks and beyond.
These laboratories foster innovative, cross-disciplinary research that anticipates societal concerns, informs citizens and advice decision-makers.
UVSQ’s research laboratories are grouped into doctoral schools for the teaching and research supervision of PhD students.
UVSQ has strong links with the Department of Justice and university hospital centers (CHU), prestigious French research organizations such as CNRS, CEA, INSERM, INRA, INRIA, ONERA and with other French universities through its Joint Research Units (UMR in French).

UVSQ bases its research policy on 8 major lines of research:

• Climate, environment and sustainable development
• Culture and heritage
• Inflammation, infection, cancer and environment
• Public health: epidemiology, aging and cohort studies
• Disability
• Institutions, organizations and public policy
• Innovative materials: from concepts to applications
• Modeling and simulation of complex systems

The university participates in twenty state-funded “Investment for the Future” programs of the French government. With a dozen technology platforms, five industrial research chairs and participation in six competitiveness clusters, UVSQ actively cultivates projects with high potential for knowledge and technology transfer with industry partners in strategic sectors of the French economy.

USVQ campuses are located in exceptional natural, historical and cultural settings close to Paris.
The science campus is located in the city of Versailles, near the Palace of Versailles and many historical sites. Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines that houses the humanities, law and health campuses, stands out for its parks and vibrant cultural life. Each campus has its own library, dining center and plenty of student accommodations nearby.

Choosing to study at UVSQ means choosing a university on a human scale. Joining UVSQ, you will have the opportunity to enjoy a campus life full of energy.
UVSQ also values all talents by offering programs outside the student curriculum (free EU). In addition to the main academic disciplines, students have the opportunity to participate in an artistic, sporting, social or associative EU valued by ECTS in order to develop new skills or simply to perfect their general knowledge.
UVSQ is a founding member of the world-class academic research cluster Université Paris-Saclay, which is a consortium of outstanding higher education and research institutions, constituting the largest research hub in France.
The institutions of the consortium Université Paris-Saclay share more and more of their educational and research activities: since 2015/2016, the entire doctoral training offer and most courses in master studies are pooled with other partners of the consortium, which increases the conditions for internationalization of these Programs.

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