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Université des Antilles
Université des Antilles is a public institution with a scientific, cultural and professional vocation, having evolved from the Université des Antilles et de la Guyane (created on March 1st, 1982) following the Loi du 25 juin 2015. It is located on two different areas, Guadeloupe and Martinique. 12.000 students attend this university.
Université des Antilles consists of:
- 17 training structures
- 25 research structures
- 2 postgraduate schools
- 3 disciplines
- 320 PhD students, including 41 foreigners
- 12.000 students
- 484 university lecturers and researchers
- 414 university library employees, engineers, administrative staff, technicians, health and social staff
Artois University
Artois University is spread over several medium-sized towns of the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region and is composed of 8 Faculties, 2 University Institutes of Technology (IUT), a Further Education Department and 15 Research Centres.
Since its beginnings in 1992, Artois University has established itself as a major contributor to social mobility and has fostered a welcoming and stimulating environment favorable to both study and culture.
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Bordeaux Montaigne University
Bordeaux Montaigne University brings together more than 14 000 students and 1 300 teaching and administrative staff, for study and research in the arts, languages, literatures and human and social sciences.
As a laboratory for ideas, and an intellectual hotbed, Bordeaux Montaigne University contributes meaningfully to the scientific debates of its day and works tirelessly to cultivate and nurture its fundamental values: independence, and freedom of thought. The university considers equality of opportunities to be one of its priority missions, and works permanently to perfect the courses it offers, and to support and guide its students towards success.
Now so more than ever before, Bordeaux Montaigne University seeks to follow in the path of Michel de Montaigne, continuing to offer a university model that is distinctly human in its scope and appearance. In accordance with the values that have characterised it since its very establishment, the university seeks to be: humanist, exploratory, polyglot, civic-minded, creative and digitally connected.
Read moreUniversity 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 de Bretagne Occidentale
A public institution founded in 1971, UBO is a medium-sized university (around 23,000 students) offering a wide range of programmes in all fields. It is a member of the Université Bretagne Loire (UBL), a regional coordination structure for higher education.
French research is essentially academic in nature, encompassing the work of university laboratories and their partner organisations. UBO is home to 34 laboratories, some of which are supported by prestigious French research bodies, such as CNRS, INSERM, and IRD.
There are four principal areas of research at UBO :
- Marine Sciences
- Health, Agrifood and Materials
- Maths-ICT
- Humanities and Social Sciences
Université Bretagne Sud
Université Bretagne Sud is a public institution of a scientific, cultural and professional nature. Since 2020, it has been led by the president, Virginie Dupont.
UBS is a multidisciplinary institution that offers undergraduate, graduate and PhD courses in many fields: literature and languages, social sciences, engineering, computer sciences, mathematics, law, economics, business.
Read moreUniversité catholique de l’Ouest
Established in 1875, Université catholique de l’Ouest is one of the oldest universities in Western France, and a major actor in today’s higher education and research ecosystem.
This multidisciplinary university hosts 12.100 students in its campuses, in Western France and overseas; it offers over 100 training programs.
University Claude Bernard Lyon 1
A university at the cutting edge of innovation, Lyon 1 delivers highquality education and research excellence within an attractive environment. Its international reach extends through the fields of science, technology, health and sport. Lyon 1 is also a university that is committed to support, creation and sharing with respect to everyone within its community.
Read moreUniversity of Clermont
The University of Clermont Auvergne was created on 1 January 2017. This decision was the result of a process of reflection since 2012 on how best to structure the site to make the most of the new framework introduced by the 2013 Act on higher education and research. The stakes are high. While deliberately participating in national and international networks for the production and spread of knowledge, the University also contributes to the ecosystem in Auvergne alongside regional socio-economic players and local authorities; the aim of this new University is to be a driving force for the development of higher education and research in Auvergne, for the benefit of users and all players in the region, and to further enhance its quality, influence and attractiveness. By doing so, it also contributes to the national territorial restructuring and to the construction of a major, European-scale Auvergne Rhône Alpes region.
In effect, this creation forms a fundamental part of a new ambition for the University to fulfil more effectively its role to provide a public service, to increase its presence and influence at regional, national and international level and to harness all the resources, capabilities and skills available in the two institutions to this end, for the benefit of both students and society as a whole.
This new ambition is rendered achievable through optimal use of the teaching, scientific, administrative and technical skills available. The aim is to create a new, dynamic, attractive and responsible university, open to its social, economic and cultural environment and to the wider world and fully equipped to meet the five major challenges facing our university community.
The University of Clermont Auvergne intends to apply an innovative policy in terms of higher and further education programmes, research and the professional insertion of its students, across all disciplines, while playing a major role in the heart of the city and on the international scene.
Read moreUniversity of Corsica Pasquale Paoli
Founded in 1765 and reopened in 1981, the University of Corsica Pasquale Paoli is one of the 71 French universities. As an academic and research structure firmly anchored in its territory, it is in direct contact with major local and international issues.
The University of Corsica Pasquale Paoli is a multidisciplinary institution which counts 8 faculties, institutes and schools. It offers 100 diplomas, ranging from two-year undergraduate studies to doctoral studies. Permanently concerned with the occupational integration of our 5000 students, we propose a highly professionalizing academic offer linked to the main development issues of our territory.
Definitely engaged in an international dynamic, the University of Corsica encourages its students to develop a real culture of mobility. A large and varied cultural and sports offer is also available. Personal or associative initiatives are encouraged and valorised.
The University of Corsica has the necessary human and material means to ensure the students the best possible conditions of education, professional integration and self-fulfilment.
The scientific identity of the University of Corsica is designated by the CNRS (National center for scientific research), and evolves around 8 fundamental, multidisciplinary projects. Strongly oriented toward regional development, each of these projects associates fundamental as well as practical research resulting in actual realizations of high added value.
The University of Corsica has a strong interest in several scientific domains concerning sustainable development and environmental issues (Laboratoire CNRS-Université de Corse Sciences pour l’Environnement, Laboratoire CNRS-Université de Corse Lieux, Identités, eSpaces et Activités). The University of Corsica is also endowed with research structures dedicated to the legal aspects of scientific research (The Patrimonial and Business Hosting Group) as well as public health (The Corsican and Mediterranean Bioscope Hosting Group). The University of Corsica strives to develop and transfer its research activity to society as a whole through four platforms: two dedicated to Technical Sciences: MYRTE/PAGLIA ORBA and STELLA MARE (UMS CNRS) and 2 in the Humanities and Social Sciences: M3C and LOCUS.
Read moreUniversité Côte d’Azur
Université Côte d’Azur has been an experimental university since 1 January 2020 replacing both the Université Nice Sophia Antipolis created in 1965 and the Communauté d’Universités et d’Etablissements Université Côte d’Azur created in 2015.
Université Côte d’Azur now includes 17 major academic establishments around the historic university core to create one of France’s top 10 research-intensive universities.
Since 1 January 2020, Université Côte d’Azur has been officially recognized as an experimental university. This new academic status helps develop a bold and independent strategy based on:
- breaking down the barriers between education, research and innovation,
- developing agility and responsiveness through the increased autonomy of the units,
- the ability to harness the amazing potential for diversity represented by its 17 members.
It is based in particular on setting up University Research Schools and giving them this essential role of redesigning university architecture. It also accelerates the implementation of a “Bac-3/Bac+3” principle aimed at effectively combating failure at schools and universities. Finally, it opens up the field of possibilities on the density and diversity of public-private partnerships and on the university’s overall funding model.
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Université Évry Val d’Essonne
Université d’Évry is one of 4 new universities created during the 1990’s in Île-de-France.
It strives to rise to challenges through research, and to share new knowledge in order to prepare the youth for upcoming challenges.
Université d’Évry offers education in most fields, except for health studies, from bachelor to doctorate degrees. It also proposes professional education related to the socio-economic environment: the university ends up with the highest number of higher education apprentices in France.
Université d’Évry is a part of Université Paris-Saclay, as an associated member. This group of universities also comprises UVSQ (Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines), 4 Grandes Écoles, the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, and 6 national research organisations. It aims to construct a world-class intensive research university, with 15% of French research, and to give access to higher education to the masses. Most diplomas delivered by Université d’Évry are now labelled “Université Paris-Saclay”.
Read moreUniversity of Franche-Comté
If we count the trainees, the University of Franche-Comté has nearly 30,000 learners, of which 21.07% are international (130 nationalities are represented). The actual students are 24,670.
More than half (57%) of these students are female students and almost a third are higher education scholarship holders.
The University of Franche-Comté also has 1,289 teachers, including 775 teacher-researchers and university hospital teachers, 272 secondary school teachers and 242 contractors, 1,095 BIATSS staff and 2,300 external contributors.
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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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Université Gustave Eiffel
Université Gustave Eiffel is a multidisciplinary university of national importance. It also has the distinction of being the first institution to bring together a research institute, a university, a school of architecture and three engineering schools. By pooling its many strengths in the areas of education and research, Université Gustave Eiffel aims to develop by pursuing a strategy based on complementarity between its founding institutions. By creating better synergies in this way, the university can offer the groups it serves a wider range of expertise. Educating young people, employees or citizens at all levels, providing the whole of society with scientific insights ̶ the ultimate aim of Université Gustave Eiffel is to help raise everyone’s level of qualification.
Université Gustave Eiffel is active in many areas of research. In particular, it accounts for a quarter of French research on the cities of tomorrow and brings together multidisciplinary capabilities to conduct quality research for the benefit of society, offer education tailored to the social and economic world and support public policies.The institution’s main remits are:
- Initial and in-service education, with a strong focus on apprenticeship education.
- Research (fundamental and applied) and innovation.
- Expert appraisals, public policy support and standardisation.
- Openness to society and international cooperation.
Université de Guyane
Formerly known as the Pôle Universitaire de Guyane, Université de Guyane took its full functions on January 1st, 2015. This major institutional evolution results from a decision by the French Ministry for Higher Education and Research to give the Pôle Universitaire de Guyane a full autonomy on its development project.
The training offer matches the socio-economic stakes in Guyane: tropical health, biodiversity, natural resources management, cross-cultural topics, multilinguism, social integration…
Read moreThe Université de Haute-Alsace
The University of Haute-Alsace has 5 campuses in Mulhouse and Colmar. More than 11,000 students follow almost 200 courses. There are also about fifteen research laboratories and research units on the different campuses.
These laboratories are divided into 3 research areas:
- Chemistry, Functional Materials and Environment,
- Humanities, Societies and Sustainable Economies,
- Intelligent Systems, Digital Technologies, Processes and Advanced Textiles.
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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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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