- Coordinating institution of the Pangea Consortium
- Laureate 2017 of I-SITE label
- Univ-Lille website
A FEW FIGURES
72 000 students
9502 International students
6700 employees
66 laboratories
24 Degrees taught in English
40 Double degrees
1400 (incoming) & 1800 (outgoing) exchange students
222 Co-supervised PhD students
154 Nationalities represented
1575 Internships abroad
13 International laboratories
23 Languages taught
UNIVERSITY OF LILLE
The University of Lille (ULille) is a multi-disciplinary university of Excellence based in the north of Europe. The University can count on an exceptional cultural and scientific patrimony inscribed in the Hauts de France region. With an important choice of disciplines, the University of Lille is one of the main actor in the region in terms of training, research and innovation.
Over the past years, the University of Lille has increasingly placed its international outlook at the heart of its administration, academic programmes and research. As the laureate in 2017 of a vast national program to fund academic excellence (I-SITE), the University of Lille is committed to organizing its international programmes around selected research strands, international student recruitment methods and high-quality international partnerships.
A STRUCTURED, HIGH LEVEL RESEARCH
The University of Lille houses 66 laboratories and research units covering all fields of study. The quality of its research has been widely recognized on the national level through the awarding of prestigious labels and funding: an I-SITE project, seven research facilities of excellence (EQUIPEX) and five laboratories of excellence (LABEX).
The university many research groups, networks and facilities contribute to effective multidisciplinary research, as well as to its valorisation via socioeconomic partnerships. These projects include an integrated cancer research site (SiricOncolille), an institute for energy transition (ITE) and a technology transfer group (SATT). The university belongs to a network including five technology parks and seven competitiveness clusters, which allows businesses and laboratories to collaborate on innovation in cutting-edge sectors.
The University of Lille has high-level research facilities covering a wide range of fields, information and technology sciences and health sciences (molecular and cellular imaging, biotherapy, genomics, proteomics and bioinformatics, promotion of clinical knowledge development, medical imaging and visual sciences and cultures).
Members of the Earth Sciences Department, from which the PANGEA Master programme comes from, are involved in the research of two multi-institute research units hosting facilities and staff from the CNRS and the University of Lille (National Center for Scientific Research):
- The Laboratory of Oceanology and Geosciences (UMR 8187 LOG),
- The Evolution-Ecology-Paleontology Unit (UMR 8198 EEP)
Along with a university research unit in Civil engineering and Geo-Environment (LGCgE ).
PARTNERS AND NETWORKS
The university international ambition is put into practice through institutional networks and agreements, particularly within the European Universities Association (EUA), Agenceuniversitaire de la Francophonie (AUF), Institut des Amériques, the French-Dutch Network and Campus France, an organisation established by the French government to promote French higher education abroad. It is also a member of several international student exchange programmes: the International Student Exchange Programs (around 60 different countries), the France-Quebec Interuniversity Cooperation Office, the Erasmus + programme. It also collaborates with institutions in other countries through numerous bilateral agreements. It has also established structured partnerships with several consortia of universities.
RESEARCH AND ENVIRONMENT
ULille has 1,400 PhD students yearly working with the 44 research laboratories on campus, two-thirds of which are supported by the State CNRS. Areas of excellence include Electronics; Engineering and Computer Science, Materials, Bio production, Optics and Earth Sciences. Research at ULille is supported by Regional and National Committees (French Ministry of research and the CNRS) and by European Research Development projects. Some laboratories develop a European strategy by creating “joint European laboratories”.