University Of Avignon And Pays De Vaucluse

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To compete with the creation of the Sorbonne , considered too close to the French royal power, Pope Boniface VIII founds the University of Avignon in 2 July 1303 . Schools that already exist (medicine, theology, arts grammar ...) are federated into four faculties and developed within the university through grants from the Roman papacy yet. On 5 May of that year, Charles II , King of Sicily and Count of Provence, grants immunity to school in Avignon.

It grows with the presence of the Popes in Avignon , competing with the universities of Montpellier and Aix-en-Provence , to accommodate 17,000 students. Then after the return of the popes in Rome, the University focused on the right loses its prestige address Jesuits and seminars. At the French Revolution , the town was annexed to France and the university removed all French universities as per the decree of 15 September 1793.

The current university

Avignon becomes University in 1963 , the opening of a Centre for Higher Education Science, followed the next year as a center of higher education literature. The two entities depend respectively from the Faculty of Sciences and the Faculty of Letters of Aix-Marseille.

In 1972 , the two units of instruction and research are merged into a university center, which becomes full University (independent of the University of Aix-Marseille) on 17 July 1984 under the name of the University of Avignon and Pays de Vaucluse. At that time, three Faculty (Arts and Humanities, Natural Sciences, Applied Sciences and Languages) 2000 students were sharing. The fourth division, the legal, will result from the creation of a law school instead of an annex of the University of Aix Marseille III. That was followed by an Institute of Technology in 1990 and University Professional Institute in 1992.

To avoid excessive dispersion of students (there were 10 implantation sites in 1991 ) and revitalize the downtown, it was decided to move the various formations within a single site capable of hosting facilities ( university library and restaurant in particular). The development of the former Ste-Marthe is launched and ends in September 1997.

University Presidents

It is chaired since 2007 by Emmanuel Ethis.

• 1984-1988: Guy Cheymol
• 1988-1992: Frances Pcaut
• 1992-1997: Bernard Blavoux
• 1997 - 2002: Henry Mloni
• 2002 - 2007: Michael Volle
• Since 2007: Emmanuel Ethis

Components

It includes 4 Units Training and Research ( UFR ), 1 University Institute of Technology ( IUT ) and the Centre for Study and Research in Information Technology (CERI) (former IUP ).

Units Training and Research

The University of Avignon is divided into 4 components:

• Faculty Humanities
• UFR Sciences and Natural Sciences
• Faculty of Science and Applied Language
• UFR legal, political and economic

Institutes

• University Institute of Technology (4 departments: Marketing techniques, biological engineering, packaging engineering and packaging and Statistics and data processing)
• Centre for Study and Research in Information Technology (CERI), a former university institute professionalized.

Education and research

Teachings

International Relations

Research

The UAPV has several renowned research laboratories:

• Physiology Laboratory of fruits and vegetables (EA 4279)
• UMR CNRS-IRD IMEP Mediterranean Institute of Ecology and Paleoecology
• Laboratory analysis and nonlinear geometry (EA 2151)
• Laboratory property, standards, contracts (EA 3788)
• Culture and Communication Laboratory (EA 3151)
• Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry and Molecular Systems Vector (EA 932)
• Laboratory History of Avignon (lhises) (EA 3152)
• Hydro Lab (EA 2665)
• Cultural Identity Laboratory, Texts and Theatricality (CITT) EA 4277
• Laboratoire Informatique d'Avignon (EA 931)
• Laboratory Management and Commerce International - Track Wine (Practice)
• Pathophysiology of cardiovascular adaptations to exercise (EA 2426)
• UMR 406 Ecology of Invertebrates
• Joint Research Unit INRA-A408 UAPV
• Joint Research Unit SPACE (CNRS 6012)
• Joint Research Unit Climate Soil and Environment

Locations

Despite the concentration of powers by creating the site Sainte-Marthe, the university consists of five sites together on both campuses , one in downtown and one in Agroparc:

• Campus St. Martha: main site in the walls of the old city hospital, combining 3 of the 4 UFR (30,087 m)
• Faculty of Sciences (8479 m)
• former barracks Chabran (training) (2220 m under renovation)
• the site of the IUT , CERI (former IUP Engineering and Computational Mathematics) and the Laboratoire Informatique d'Avignon (LIA) on Agroparc (8000 m)
• Pole Agrosciences on Agroparc (8000 m)

Campus Saint Martha

Founded in 1354, by the gift of ten thousand gold florins by Bernard Knight Rascas, Marshal of justice, and placed under the patronage of St. Martha, the municipal hospital in 1482 by the cardinal legate Giuliano della Rovere. The classic design of the facade of one hundred seventy-five meters, whose work range from 1667 and 1830, due to the narrow bays and tight, two-level windows, capped with a skylight, is initiated by Jean Pru between 1689 and 1693. Jean-Baptiste Franque between 1743 and 1745 the extension to the east, and signed with his son Francis, the central monumental portico. Closed in the 1980s because of the dilapidated premises, the hospital has been rehabilitated since 1997 to accommodate the students .

Virtual Campus

The UAPV profits since 2002 of a virtual campus in the form of digital environment. And the universities of Aix-Marseille, Avignon, Nice and Toulon are the UNR PACA (Digital University in Provence Alpes Cote d'Azur) .

Student Life

Demographics

Personalities linked

Teachers

See: Lecturer at the University of Avignon

• Jean-Louis Guigou (b. 1939) - Agronomist, Inspector General of Education
• Lobrichon Guy (b. 1945) - Historian
• Yves Jeanneret (b. 1951) - Professor of Information Sciences and Communication
• Chiffoleau Jacques (b. 1951) - Historian
• Francoise Thebaud (b. 1952) - Historian
• Bachimon Philippe (1955) - Geography
• Petiteau Natalie (b. 1963) - Historian
• Mohammed Moussaoui (b. 1964) - mathematician, President of the French Council of Muslim Faith
• Frdric Monier (b. 1966) - Historian

Alumni