Université Lille Nord de France
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The University of Lille -Nord de France (Université Lille - Nord de France), located in Lille
, France
, is a center for higher education, academic research and doctoral studies located over multiple campuses in the Academie de Lille.
It includes a doctoral college
that federates university institutes, engineering schools and research centres.
With more than one hundred thousand students, the Université Lille Nord de France is one of the five largest university federations in France.
in 1562, the state university in Northern France was renamed Université impériale de Douai-Lille in 1808, then as Université de Lille with faculty expansion in the Lille region from mid-19th century onwards..
The university expanded into several campus in Lille region end 20th century and has built itself as the Université Lille Nord de France.
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Altogether, the university research labs own an active portfolio of more than 170 invention patent families. (Approximately 411 results found for Univ Lille in the EPO worldwide patent database in mid-2008)
Lille
Lille is a city in northern France . It is the principal city of the Lille Métropole, the fourth-largest metropolitan area in the country behind those of Paris, Lyon and Marseille. Lille is situated on the Deûle River, near France's border with Belgium...
, France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
, is a center for higher education, academic research and doctoral studies located over multiple campuses in the Academie de Lille.
It includes a doctoral college
European Doctoral College Lille Nord-Pas de Calais
- From doctoral research to innovation applications :The European Doctoral College Université Lille Nord de France is a hub for doctoral researchers and contributes to the Lisbon strategy to make Europe 'the most competitive and knowledge-based economy in the world and a reference for high quality...
that federates university institutes, engineering schools and research centres.
With more than one hundred thousand students, the Université Lille Nord de France is one of the five largest university federations in France.
History
Founded as University of DouaiUniversity of Douai
The University of Douai is a former university in Douai, France. With a Middle Ages heritage of scholar activities in Douai, the university was established in 1559 and lectures started in 1562. It closed from 1795 to 1808...
in 1562, the state university in Northern France was renamed Université impériale de Douai-Lille in 1808, then as Université de Lille with faculty expansion in the Lille region from mid-19th century onwards..
- The roots of the faculties in law and humanities date back from the 16th century;
- The school of medicine and university hospital expanded rapidly from end-18th century;
- Research and education in mechanical engineering and chemistry expanded from the early 19th century;
- The faculty of sciences was set up in 1854 by bringing together different university-grade schools in Lille city centre;
- Research and education in control sciences and information technologies were set up in 1957;
- Research in fundamental physics, micro-electronics, molecular engineering and bio-technologies started in the 1980s.
The university expanded into several campus in Lille region end 20th century and has built itself as the Université Lille Nord de France.
Multiple site campus
University of Lille -Nord de France is organised over several campus sites:- Campus Lille I: Lille University of Science and Technology and Ecole centrale de LilleÉcole Centrale de LilleLocated in the campus of the University of Lille in France, École Centrale de Lille is a renowned Graduate Engineering school, with roots back to 1854 as the École des arts industriels et des mines de Lille, re-organised in 1872 as Institut industriel du Nord.It is one of the Centrale Graduate...
- Campus Lille II: Lille 2 University of Health and Law and CHRU Lille university hospital
- Campus Lille III: Lille University Charles de Gaulle for humanities, social sciences, literature and artsCharles de Gaulle University - Lille IIIThe Charles de Gaulle University - Lille III is a French university. Since 1974, the main campus of University of Lille III is located in Villeneuve d'Ascq in southern Lille, at Pont de Bois metro station, and includes 21,000 students.University of Lille III inherits from the humanities taught for...
- Campus Artois: Multidisciplinary Artois UniversityArtois UniversityArtois University is a French university, based in Arras. It is under the umbrella of the Academy of Lille and is a member of the .-See also:* List of public universities in France by academy...
and École des Mines de DouaiÉcole des Mines de DouaiThe École des Mines de Douai also called "École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Douai" is a French National Graduate School of Engineering located in the city of Douai, close to Lille, North of France.... - Campus Littoral: Multidisciplinary University of the Littoral Opal CoastUniversity of the Littoral Opal CoastUniversity of the Littoral Opal Coast is a French university, based in Dunkerque. It reports to the Academy of Lille and is a member of the ....
- Campus Valenciennes: Multidisciplinary University of Valenciennes and Hainaut-CambresisUniversity of Valenciennes and Hainaut-CambresisThe University of Valenciennes and Hainaut-Cambresis is a French public university, based in Valenciennes. It is under the Academy of Lille and is a member of the .-See also:...
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Doctoral school and research laboratories
139 research labs and institutes are associated to the European Doctoral College Lille Nord-Pas de CalaisEuropean Doctoral College Lille Nord-Pas de Calais
- From doctoral research to innovation applications :The European Doctoral College Université Lille Nord de France is a hub for doctoral researchers and contributes to the Lisbon strategy to make Europe 'the most competitive and knowledge-based economy in the world and a reference for high quality...
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Altogether, the university research labs own an active portfolio of more than 170 invention patent families. (Approximately 411 results found for Univ Lille in the EPO worldwide patent database in mid-2008)
Notable alumni and faculty
- Mathematics, engineering & information theory : Émile BorelÉmile BorelFélix Édouard Justin Émile Borel was a French mathematician and politician.Borel was born in Saint-Affrique, Aveyron. Along with René-Louis Baire and Henri Lebesgue, he was among the pioneers of measure theory and its application to probability theory. The concept of a Borel set is named in his...
, Joseph Boussinesq, Henri CartanHenri CartanHenri Paul Cartan was a French mathematician with substantial contributions in algebraic topology. He was the son of the French mathematician Élie Cartan.-Life:...
, Albert ChâteletAlbert ChâteletAlbert Châtelet was a French politician and scientist. Châtelet received his teaching degree from the École Normale Supérieure in 1908. After earning a doctorate in 1913, Châtelet became a lecturer at École centrale de Lille and a professor at Université de Lille, rising to the rank of ...
, Paul DubreilPaul DubreilPaul Dubreil was a French mathematician.He was born in Le Mans, Maine, France and died in Soisy-sur-École, France. Dubreil was married to Marie-Louise Jacotin.-External links:...
, Joseph Kampé de FérietJoseph Kampé de FérietMarie-Joseph Kampé de Fériet was professor at Université Lille Nord de France from 1919 to 1969...
, Szolem Mandelbrojt, Benoît MandelbrotBenoît MandelbrotBenoît B. Mandelbrot was a French American mathematician. Born in Poland, he moved to France with his family when he was a child...
, Mohammad Ali MojtahediMohammad Ali MojtahediDr. Mohammad Ali Modjtahedi was an Iranian University professor and lifetime principal of the highly prestigious Alborz High School in Tehran, Iran....
, Henri PadéHenri PadéHenri Eugène Padé was a French mathematician, who is now remembered mainly for his development of approximation techniques for functions using rational functions.He was educated at École Normale Supérieure in Paris...
, Paul PainlevéPaul PainlevéPaul Painlevé was a French mathematician and politician. He served twice as Prime Minister of the Third Republic: 12 September – 13 November 1917 and 17 April – 22 November 1925.-Early life:Painlevé was born in Paris....
, Faustin-Archange TouadéraFaustin-Archange TouadéraFaustin-Archange Touadéra has been Prime Minister of the Central African Republic since January 2008.-Background and academic career:Touadéra was born in Bangui; his family was originally from Damara, to the north of Bangui...
, Ernest VessiotErnest VessiotErnest Vessiot was a French mathematician. He was born in Marseille, France and died in La Bauche, Savoie, France... - Biology, chemistry, geology and medicine : Charles BarroisCharles BarroisCharles Barrois was a French geologist and palaeontologist.Barrois was born at Lille and educated at the college in that town, where he studied geology under Professor Jules Gosselet...
, Albert CalmetteAlbert CalmetteLéon Charles Albert Calmette ForMemRS was a French physician, bacteriologist and immunologist, and an important officer of the Pasteur Institute. He discovered the Bacillus Calmette-Guérin, an attenuated form of Mycobacterium used in the BCG vaccine against tuberculosis...
, Jean Théodore DelacourJean Théodore DelacourJean Théodore Delacour was an American ornithologist of French origin. He was renowned for not only discovering but also rearing some of the rarest birds in the world...
, Alfred Mathieu GiardAlfred Mathieu GiardAlfred Mathieu Giard was a French zoologist born in Valenciennes on August 8, 1846. He was a professor at the Sorbonne, at École centrale de Lille and served as director of the marine laboratory in Wimereux ....
, Camille GuérinCamille GuérinJean-Marie Camille Guérin was a French veterinarian, bacteriologist and immunologist who, together with Albert Calmette, developed the Bacillus Calmette-Guérin , a vaccine for immunization against tuberculosis....
, Claude Auguste Lamy, Louis PasteurLouis PasteurLouis Pasteur was a French chemist and microbiologist born in Dole. He is remembered for his remarkable breakthroughs in the causes and preventions of diseases. His discoveries reduced mortality from puerperal fever, and he created the first vaccine for rabies and anthrax. His experiments... - Law : René CassinRené CassinRené Samuel Cassin was a French jurist, law professor and judge. A soldier in World War I, he later went on to form the Union Fédérale, a leftist, pacifist Veterans organisation...
(Nobel PrizeNobel PrizeThe Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...
) - Literature and human sciences : Pierre BourdieuPierre BourdieuPierre Bourdieu was a French sociologist, anthropologist, and philosopher.Starting from the role of economic capital for social positioning, Bourdieu pioneered investigative frameworks and terminologies such as cultural, social, and symbolic capital, and the concepts of habitus, field or location,...
, Henri GouhierHenri GouhierHenri Gouhier was a French philosopher, a historian of philosophy, and a literary critic.Born in Auxerre, Yonne, his educational studies led to a doctorate in 1926...
, Étienne GilsonÉtienne GilsonÉtienne Gilson was a French Thomistic philosopher and historian of philosophy...
, Victor HenryVictor HenryVictor Henry was a French philologist, born at Colmar in Alsace.Having held appointments at Douai and Lille, he was appointed professor of Sanskrit and comparative grammar in the university of Paris...
, Pierre MachereyPierre MachereyPierre Macherey is a French Marxist literary critic at Université Lille Nord de France. A former student of Louis Althusser and collaborator on the influential volume Reading "Capital", Macherey is a central figure in the development of French post-structuralism and Marxism...
, Vladimir JankélévitchVladimir JankélévitchVladimir Jankélévitch was a French philosopher and musicologist.- Biography :Jankélévitch was the son of Russian Jewish parents, who had emigrated to France....
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Student and researcher mobility
University institutes and research labs promote student and researchers mobility and cooperate in several university networks :- ESDPEuropean Spatial Development PlanningThe European Spatial Development Planning or ESDP-Network seeks to promote education, research and professional training in spatial planning across European countries, in collaboration with many partners in other regions of the world...
- Utrecht NetworkUtrecht NetworkThe Utrecht Network is a network of European universities. The network promotes the internationalisation of tertiary education through summer schools, student and staff exchanges and joint degrees.- Utrecht Network member universities :...
- IMCC
- Compostela Group of UniversitiesCompostela Group of UniversitiesThe Compostela Group of Universities is a non-profit association that brings together more than 70 universities all over the world. Its main goal is to promote and execute collaboration projects between institutions of higher education.- History :...
- Mobility centre