University of Nantes
| University of Nantes | |
|---|---|
| founding | 1961 |
| place | Nantes |
| country |
 France
|
| President de l'Université | Olivier Laboux |
| Students | 37,468 (2016-2017) |
| Employee | 3818 (2016-2017) |
| Annual budget | EUR 353 million |
| Networks | CGU |
| Website | www.univ-nantes.fr |
The University of Nantes ( French : Université de Nantes ) was founded in its current form in 1961 and has its origins in the ducal University of Brittany founded in 1460 by Duke Francis II of Brittany in Nantes by papal bull by Pope Pius II .
construction
It has 6 locations in the metropolitan area of Nantes and secondary locations in Saint-Nazaire and La Roche-sur-Yon . The University of Nantes is a founding member of the University of Brittany Loire.
Canteens
The Crous from Nantes manages the various canteens on campus and the meals they offer. Most restaurants are open Monday through Friday for lunch and dinner and offer a full meal at an annual price. For the 2017-2018 academic year, the price of a meal was set at € 3.25.
Student life
theatre
The university's theater (Théâtre universitaire (TU)) is supported 50% by the City of Nantes, 24% by the University of Nantes and 15% by the Direction régionale des affaires culturelles (DRAC). Additional support comes from the Loire-Atlantique and the region Pays de la Loire .
Partner universities and institutes
The university has a variety of relationships. Currently there is a partnership with 397 universities in 60 countries.
Personalities and honors
Well-known graduates and lecturers
- Jean-Marc Ayrault : former French Prime Minister and former Mayor of Nantes
- Stéphane Le Foll : Minister for Agriculture and Food in the Jean-Marc Ayrault I government
- François Bégaudeau : French writer and journalist
- Julien Bontemps: windsurfer, silver medalist at the Beijing Olympics
- Pierre Bordage : French science fiction writer
- Claude Sérillon : French journalist
- Jeanne Cherhal : French singer-songwriter
- Patrick Deville : French writer
- Philippe de Villiers : politician , former member of the European Parliament and publicist
- Marina Jaunâtre: French champion in cycling.
- Jérôme Kerviel : former employee of the major French bank Société Générale
- Alain Mabanckou : Franco-Congolese writer
- Jean Rouaud : French writer
- Tertius Zongo : Prime Minister of Burkina Faso , DESS at the Institut d'administration des entreprises de Nantes (1982)
- Franck Louvrier: politician and communications advisor to Nicolas Sarkozy, lawyer and political scientist.
Doctors honoris causa (selection)
- Ismail Serageldin : Director of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Alexandria
- Golo Mann : German-Swiss historian , publicist and writer
- Jean Starobinski : Swiss doctor and literary scholar , medical historian and historian of ideas
- Neil Bartlett : British - American chemist
- Ibrahima Thioub : Senegalese professor of modern and contemporary history and executive director of the history seminar at the Université Cheikh Anta Diop (UCAD) in Dakar
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Olivier Laboux
- ↑ Infography: les effectifs étudiants à l'Université de Nantes 2016-2017
- ↑ Member universities. In: web.gcompostela.org. Compostela Group of Universities, 2019, accessed on September 15, 2019 .
- ↑ Nos Restos U and Cafets U
- ^ Search for exchange agreements.
Coordinates: 47 ° 14 ′ 24 ″ N , 1 ° 33 ′ 0 ″ W.