University Of Nimes
| UNIMAS | |
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| Original Name | University of Nimes |
| Information | |
| Foundation | 2007 (2009) |
| Location | |
| City | Nimes |
| Country |  France |
| Region | Languedoc-Roussillon |
| Direction | |
| President | Jacques Marignan |
| Key figures | |
| Staff | 51 (2010) |
| Teachers | 62 (2010) |
| Students | 3276 (2010) |
| Miscellaneous | |
| Affiliates | University Montpellier South of France |
| Website | www.unimes.fr/ |
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The University of Nimes (formerly also called UNIMA), is a university located in Nimes in the department of Gard in France. It was created in 2007 from a university open to him in 2002 , she was the fifth university in the academy of Montpellier.
The components of the university are spread over three sites in Greater Nmes. Its main location is in the Vauban fort north of downtown Nimes , and it has a secondary site at the Carmelites in the city center and a science park location in the Georges Besse south of the town. A fourth site destined to become the main site to enter service in 2013 in the east of downtown.
The university is multidisciplinary, and trains some 3,276 students in the fields of science, law and management, as well as letters and humanities. His research activities are conducted under the auspices of other institutions in the region. She is also a member of the center of research and higher education University of Montpellier South of France since its inception in 2009.
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History
First relocations university
The first open university structures in Nimes are components of the University of Montpellier , then after 1969 , the three universities in Montpellier. The first departments of IUT opened in 1968 , and the same year, a capacity in law is open. This last instruction is completed in 1971 by opening a full undergraduate law. The city has also since 1972 a full course of medical studies. IUT IUT becomes a full-year 1992 .
Towards the establishment of the university
In the early 1990s , several local governments express their favors on the proposed establishment of a university to Nimes. In 1990 , the regional pattern of land use and development of the territory of Languedoc-Roussillon is in line with a full University, and a parallel with the creation of the University of Perpignan , which had allowed her time to prevent student departure to the neighboring region. In 1995 , the regional pattern of higher education and research acknowledges the spirit of local communities, also supported the establishment of a university: "The creation of a full University is an old claim the business community and elected Nmes, but it is now necessary with a particularly urgent at a short notice. " The same year, the mayor of Nimes says it wants to go to university by 2000 in Nmes to Nmes University .
Unlike the political powers, most universities in Montpellier at that time are opposed to the empowerment of their structures Nimes. For Montpellier I , the creation of a university in Nimes meant the division of the Faculty of Medicine, and thus reducing its numerus clausus. For Montpellier II , the situation was ambiguous, because it recognized the identity of Nmes department's Faculty of Science, while also opposing the creation of a full University. The lack of research team made it difficult to Nmes the formation of a Faculty , and otherwise it would have meant the joining of the IUT de Nimes, the height of 1000 students at the time and research potential important for the university. Finally, to Montpellier III , the only local university supports an independent university in Nimes , opening lessons in the city allowed to decongest the main campus after a sharp increase in its workforce. For these reasons, universities mother did not coordinate their actions on the site of the new university .
Implementation Project
Several scenarios are envisaged for the creation of the new university, and in 1995 , 1998 and 2000 , three missions are implemented by the Ministry of Education to study their feasibility .
A draft of "university of the great delta" is formulated, which plans to meet project site Nmes with the University of Avignon. The proximity of these two cities and Arles, as well as success stories of multi-university established in previous years are that the project is supported from 1997 by the Presidency of the University of Avignon , which hopes to surpass the threshold of 10 000 students, but also by the Ministry of Education in a ratio of 2000. However, opposition to this project is strong because the cities concerned, on the border of two regions, three departments, and two academies, depending on different administrations , but also because the project could go to a form of annexation of the site of Nimes by the University of Avignon, founded in 1984. From 2000 , this project is rejected .
A draft "University of Nimes is also made with two possible approaches. A university is thus proposed as thematic mission of 1995 , centered on the theme of "Science of the valuation of assets, but it is rejected by the university in Montpellier. They criticize this project for not a topic insufficiently consistent with school projects as defined in the four-year contracts, and also fear of having to abandon some of their skills and their disciplines. The Department of Education offers 1999 a different approach by including Nimes in a list of six cities where it proposes to create technological universities , but the project remains at that time no further .
Finally, in a report of 2000 the Ministry of National Education, two emergencies are highlighted on the site Nmes at the time, namely, give it an identity and autonomy, but also to find a legal solution and institutional. The status of EPA is then favored, and it is born by a decree of 16 April 2002 , attached to the universities of Montpellier .
Creation and development
The University Centre for Training and Research
The center was established in 2002 as a minimum, and do not meet all the academic components present in Nimes. Neither the IUT of Nimes , or the antenna of Medicine from joining the EPA , an IUT can not, according to French law, be attached to this type of structure .
Difficulties arise also with the universities present at Montpellier. The EPA remains attached to these universities, and thus depends on the direction of his own two councils, as well as nine tips from the three universities in Montpellier. Thus, when requests for authorization of the literary industry to the academic center of Nimes are forwarded to the Department via the University of Montpellier III , they all have an unfavorable opinion of the latter. In July 2003 , none of the conventions that the center should be concluded with each of its connecting universities is approved by it, posing particular problems for the validation of diplomas or the organization of research . Conflicts also arise about the allocations that universities receive from the Department based on the number of students enrolled, the universities of Montpellier refusing to repay the center Nmes allocations received in 2003 for its students .
University
The institution achieves the status of university by Decree No. 2007-733 of 7 May 2007 . She also entering the extended powers the 1January 2011 , and should adopt its final status in 2012 . She participates in the project PRES Universit Montpellier South of France with the status of associate member when it is launched in 2009 , as well as tenders in which it participates in the large loan .
The university sees as common in 2010 reappear in Nimes the project to establish a second university, as a university of technology, supported by the University of Technology of Troyes and by the member Yvan Lachaud , but rejected by several members of the university .
Components
Teaching Departments
The university is divided into three teaching departments with regard to teaching activities. The temporary structure is inherited from the old university center, and a final structure should be adopted in 2012 .
- Department Psychology, Humanities, Languages and History is directed by Gabriel Jandot. It comprises 2010 some 1 400 students enrolled in four licenses, professional license, and a master . It is located on the site Vauban .
- Science and Arts Department is headed by Joel Lancelot. It includes a 2010 a little less than one thousand students enrolled in three licenses, five professional licenses, and a master . It is located on the site of the Carmelites in the central city of Nimes with regard to the teachings of biology, physics, chemistry, mathematics and computing, and the park George Besse lessons geochemistry .
- The Department of Law, Economics and Management is headed by Emmanuel Roux. It comprises 2010 some 1 200 students enrolled in two licenses, four professional licenses, and two master's degree programs . It is located on the site Vauban .
Documentation Service
The hotel offers a documentation service which manages the holdings of the university. He manages the site Vauban a library of 3000 m 2, open 56 hours per week. It is divided into several work rooms, a multimedia room and a training room. Other sites that may also have a work room, are fed by Vauban fund the site. An annual budget of 180,000 euros is dedicated to new acquisitions, mainly oriented to the needs of undergraduates and one third is dedicated to the purchase of electronic resources .
The library use by students is 70% of them. The loan documents are down for the period two thousand and eight - 2.01 thousand with a decrease of 5% and 7%, and at the same time connections to the portal online documentary increase with an increase of 45% and 58% .
Teaching and Research
Training
The University of Nimes offers in September 2010 a total of nine references to license ten references professional licenses , and four references to master , the latter being offered in co-supervision with other universities in the region .
The general license is issued in several areas that are available and then mentions specialties. It is proposed in the university a license-Languages Arts and Letters has 3 entries, License Law, Economics and Management with 2 references, license Humanities and Social Sciences, with 2 references, and a Bachelor Science, Technology, Health with 2 entries . In their evaluations AERES, one of those entries received B ratings, and eight notation C , . Moreover, the university organizes the teaching of professional licenses , they went from six mentions in 2007 to ten in 2009 .
Similarly, the master shall be issued in several areas that are available then entries in specialties and then possibly in route. It is proposed in this University a Master Biology and Health with a specialty, a master psychology with a specialty, a Master in Public Law with two specialties, and a Master in Private Law with a specialty .
Service training was also provided by the university. This was initially managed by the University of Montpellier 2 who was in charge until 2008 , when the University of Nmes recovered management. It has, in 2009, 45 interns engaged in initial training, and 31 enrolled in university degrees .
International Relations
The university is involved in exchange programs such general that Erasmus , and is also linked to foreign universities by bilateral agreements. With regard to the Europe , three conventions are active with Spanish universities, and other countries like Italy, Germany and Sweden are also represented. In December 2009, additional agreements were signed, extending the network of the university in American countries ( Cuba , Florida ), from Africa ( Algeria , Morocco , Central African Republic ) or Asia ( Iraq ) .
The number of students affected by these protocols is variable. Twenty university students are enrolled each year at a university partner, Quebec is home to almost half of them. Inward mobility is lower, with the coming five years, from 2005 to 2010 , a total of 23 students . Of this population incoming those from an exchange Erasmus represent the period 2 003 - 2 008 between 0 and 0.47% of university students, which has placed the establishment between the 69th and the 82nd place French universities for this type of agreement . Teachers are also involved in these exchanges. The foreign personnel may rely on funding from the region , and a dozen teachers were welcomed by the bias between 2006 and 2010 .
Research
Most of the research university is conducted in laboratories attached to other universities. 76% of faculty members are well connected in 2010 to external devices , Universities Montpellier serving for sixteen guardianship of their laboratories, the universities of Aix - Marseille for four of their labs, the four remaining being shared guardianship between institutions of Bordeaux , Grenoble , Lyon and Paris. The rise in human numbers 2010 to some 42 research professors and 15 associate professors or doctors docs . The research areas covered include everything from chemistry and biology, computer science and mathematics, physics and geo-sciences, letters and languages, history, arts and design, management, psychology, and law .
The exploitation of research through the holding of scientific events such as organizing conferences and seminars, as well as organizing activities aimed at non-university as "Researchers' Night", "Day Science, "or" Tuesdays UNIMA. Researchers are also engaged in advisory activities, expertise, and innovation, and the University hosts research activities conducted by external partners .
Locations
The activities of the university are spread over three sites, all located in the city of Nimes, and a fourth scheduled to open in 2013. The management of these depends on different statutes, the Vauban site is owned by the state while the other two sites are leased by the university .
The site Vauban
The Vauban site is located in an old citadel of the same name. It was built between 1687 and 1688 by Jacques Cubizol Nimes and the king's architect Jacques Papot, based on plans drawn by an engineer of King Louis XIV , Jean Francois Ferry, inspired by the work of Vauban. The site was later used as prison in 1820 under the name of "Central House of Detention for the Gard" and the rest until June 1991 , when he was rehabilitated by architect Andrea Bruno for transforming in university campus and opened on 11 October 1995 .
On this site are grouped on 15 230 m poles of teaching and research in arts , law , economy and AES , letters , and psychology. It also includes several infrastructure as the main library of the university, or eating places .
The site of the Carmelites
The site of the Carmelites is located in the center of Nimes, in a building built on the site of the former Carmelite church. It is destroyed in the second half of the nineteenth century to make way for a "Theatre of the Renaissance" which gives the site its current facade. It was destroyed twice by fire, first in 1885 , then the 6 June 1893 after being rebuilt in 1887 , taking passage in the "La Scala". The site has subsequently several uses, including that of department store, the Ladies of France, before the site was converted into a university structure . The site was opened in the current scientific 1998 .
The site includes over 5330 m 2 the majority of the scientific establishment, with teaching and research in biological sciences, physical sciences and chemicals, and mathematics and computer science. It also houses an incubator for biotechnology companies, and also has a library and a cafeteria .
The site GIS
Located in the Science Park Georges Besse, south of the city, this site gathers about 700 m 2 of the pole in physics education and research laboratories such as isotope geochemistry .
Quarter-Hoche Sernam
The quarter-Hoche Sernam is a development program of twenty acres located east of the city, where the university is to eventually have some 20,000 m 2 to establish its main hub. The former hospital on the site should be redeveloped to accommodate a thousand students of general and vocational, and the land previously occupied by the army and the station must accommodate student housing, a science center, as well as other structures of life .
The first installment of this campus is included in the project contracts State-Region 2 007 - in 2013 and the first student housing are delivered in September 2010 . The first part should be completed in 2012 with the redevelopment of the former hospital. The second part, to be launched in 2012, relates to the science center .
Student Life
Sociology
The university students are enrolled for 90% undergraduate, and 5% in the second round. The graduate students are enrolled in one of the partner universities. The population is 75% female. These students represent about one third of students in metropolitan Nmes , and 5% of students enrolled in Languedoc-Roussillon .
Concerning the origin of students, they come from geographically Nimes and his department for 90% of them, and are at 47.3% a href = "Centre_r% C3% C5% 93uvres_universitaires_et_scolaires A9gional_des_%" title = "Regional Centre for University and School"> stock, or 18% more than the average of ' Academy. They are for 75% of them hold a general degree , 17% hold a bachelor technology , for 7% of a professional degree , and three-quarters of freshmen first-time graduates. Furthermore, 65% of students change during their university course, against 36% for the University of Perpignan and 24% for the University of Montpellier III Student organizations Extra curricular activities are carried at the institutional level by a vice-president "education, support success and student life, and a student vice-president appointed by the president of the university, and from a life office student, consists entirely of elected students. The projects in this framework associations may be recognized in the studies up to five ECTS in the first and second year of license. Funding is provided up to a thousand euros per year dedicated to the office of student life, and by 75% of the solidarity fund and development of student initiatives for various civic projects . Fourteen associations are listed on the university, most industry associations. They have no structure dedicated hosting in 2010 , but a construction project of this type is decided that same year. Most activities are also focused on the Vauban site . Changing demographics of the university population Demographics
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