University of Picardy Jules Verne
Université de Picardie Jules Verne | ||
President Mohammed Benlahsen | | |
Academic staff | 1,200 professors and researchers[1] | |
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| Students | 32,000[2] | |
| Location | , , | |
| Campus | Urban | |
| Affiliations | AUF, COMUE Lille Nord de France, EUA | |
| Website | U-picardie.fr | |
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The University of Picardy Jules Verne (French: Université de Picardie Jules Verne; UPJV) is a public university located in the former Picardy region of France (now part of Hauts-de-France).
It consists of several campuses located in the towns of Amiens, Beauvais, Cuffies, Saint-Quentin, Creil, and Laon.
The university was part of the University of Lille Nord de France group.
History
The University of Picardy Jules Verne was established in 1970 as a successor to the former University of Amiens. It was initially simply called the University of Picardy during its first two decades, until 1991 when writer Jules Verne's named was added.[3] Verne spent much of his life in Amiens. What started as a small university now has over 30,000 students across all campuses. The university celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2019-2020.
Organisation
The university is organised into five main faculties or groupings each with a number of schools or institutes:
Arts, Literature, Languages
- UFR Arts
- UFR Languages and foreign cultures
- UFR Literature
Law, Economics, Management
- UFR Law and Political Science
- UFR Economics and Management
- Institut d'Administration des Entreprises (IAE)
- Institut de Préparation à l'Administration Générale (IPAG)
ESPE, Antenne et IUT
- Antenne Universitaire de Beauvais (AUB)
- École Supérieure du Professorat et de l'Éducation (ESPE)
- Institut Universitaire de Technologie d'Amiens
- Institut Universitaire de Technologie de l'Aisne
- Institut Universitaire de Technologie de l'Oise
Sciences Humaines et Sociales
- UFR d'Histoire et de Géographie
- UFR Sciences Humaines, Sociales et Philosophie
Sciences, Technologie, Santé
- UFR de Médecine
- Institut d'Ingénierie de la Santé - 2IS
- UFR de Pharmacie
- UFR des Sciences
- UFR des Sciences et Techniques des Activités Physiques et Sportives - STAPS
- Institut Supérieur des Sciences et Techniques - INSSET
Notable faculty
- Jacqueline Lévi-Valensi (1932-2004) - specialist in the work of Albert Camus
- Andrée Ehresmann (born 1935) - mathematician specialising in category theory
- Nadine-Josette Chaline (born 1938) - specialist in religious history
- Jean-Michel Macron (born 1950) - neurologist; father of Emmanuel Macron
- Jean-Marie Tarascon (born 1953) - chemist
- Brigitte Fouré (born 1955) - university lecturer and former government minister
- Laurence Bertrand Dorléac (born 1957) - art historian
- Enzo Traverso (born 1957) - Italian scholar of European intellectual history
- Nikolay Nenovsky (born 1963) - Bulgarian economist, working in the fields of monetary theory and policy, monetary history and history of economic thought
- Pablo Martín Asuero (born 1967) - Spanish scholar from the Basque Country. He specialises in Middle Eastern history
- Alain Bui (born 1969) - specialist in information technology; president of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University
- Fabien Danesi - art historian
- Nicole Jacques-Lefevre- Professor of Literature who specialises in the study of demonological texts of the Enlightenment in the eighteenth century including werewolves and lycanthropy
- Jean-Paul Cointet - historian
- Didier Eribon - philosopher
Notable alumni
- Daniel Ona Ondo (born 1945) - Gabonese politician who was Prime Minister of Gabon from January 2014 to September 2016
- Calliope Spanou - Greek academic who served from 2011 to 2015 as the Greek Ombudsman
See also
- List of colleges and universities
- List of public universities in France by academy
- Amiens
References
- ^ "Projet de sites : Picardie Universités" (PDF): 2. Retrieved 24 July 2022.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ "L'UPJV : université de territoire ouverte sur le monde". Retrieved 24 July 2022.
- ^ "Past to present". Université de Picardie Jules Verne. Retrieved 24 July 2022.
External links
- University of Picardy Website (in French and English)