University Of Poitiers
| University of Poitiers | |
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| Information | |
| Foundation | 1431 |
| Type | Public University |
| Location | |
| City | Poitiers |
| Country |  France |
| Direction | |
| President | Jean-Pierre Gesson |
| Researchers | 103 CNRS guests + 120 |
| Students | 24 000 |
| Miscellaneous | |
| Affiliates | NEAR Limousin Poitou-Charentes |
| Website | www.univ-poitiers.fr/ |
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The University of Poitiers is a French university located in Poitiers. It is one of two universities in the region Poitou-Charentes. It is multidisciplinary and welcomes nearly 24,000 students (2008) . It is currently chaired by Professor Jean-Pierre Gesson .
The University of Poitiers is an overall operating budget of approximately EUR 150 million per year a third for operating expenses and investment and two-thirds for personal expenses.
Summary |
History
History
The University of Poitiers is one of the oldest in France. It was founded in 1431 and willed by King Charles VII to reward the loyalty had always been the Poitou. Its creation is therefore the circumstances of the Hundred Years War , the occupation of Paris by the English that led to the exile of part of the University of Paris. On 29 May 1431 , a bull of Pope Eugene IV in authorizing the creation, effective on 16 March 1432 by letters patent of the King of France .
They are also professors at the University of Poitiers to Paris exiles who examined Joan of Arc to determine whether she was telling the truth about his voice.
University Presidents
Components
Units Training and Research
The university is organized into seven Dept. :
- Sport Sciences,
- Law and Social Sciences,
- Letters and languages,
- medical and pharmacy ,
- Economics,
- basic and applied sciences,
- humanities and arts.
Schools and Institutes
The other components are:
- Graduate School of Engineers of Poitiers ,
- Institute of Business Administration ,
- Institute to prepare for general administration ,
- Institute of industrial insurance and financial risks,
- University Institute of Teacher Training ,
- Institut Universitaire de Technologie d'Angouleme ,
- Institut Universitaire de Technologie de Poitiers.
Common Service Documentation
The central documentation service of the University of Poitiers has a large collection of old documents (40 000). In addition, it is center acquisition and dissemination of scientific and technical information (CADIST) for the history of the Middle Ages , through the Centre for Advanced Studies of medieval civilization (CESCM).
Teaching and Research
Training
As already written, the University of Poitiers is multidisciplinary. Among the training units, UFR-Basic and Applied Sciences contains a large number of training: Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Paleontology, ...
International Relations
Research
Graduate Schools
The University of Poitiers has 8 graduate schools :
- Materials Science and Engineering, Mechanical, Aerospace and Energetics * Science and Engineering for Information
- Gay Lussac - Environmental Sciences
- Biohealth
- Pierre Couvrat - Law and Political Science
- Cognition, Behavior, Language (s)
- Societies and Organizations
- Literature, Thought, and Art History
All of these graduate schools are grouped in the College of Graduate Schools of the University of Poitiers and ENSMA which manages all joint actions such as induction day, cross training, ...
Research Teams
- Science, physics, mathematics, engineering and computer science (SP2MI)
- CEAT - Centre for aerodynamic and thermal
- LAII - Laboratory of Automation and Computer Engineering - EA 1219
- LEA - Laboratory of Aerodynamic Studies - UMR 6609
- LET - Laboratoire d'Etudes Thermal - UMR 6608
- LISI - Laboratoire d'Informatique Scientifique et Industrielle - EA 1232
- LCD - Laboratory of Combustion and Detonation - UPR 9028
- LMA - Department of Mathematics and Applications - UMR 6086
- LMS - Laboratory of Solid Mechanics - UMR 6610
- LMPM - Laboratory of Mechanics and Physics of Materials - UMR 6617
- Phymatous - Materials Physics Laboratory - UMR 6630
- Laboratory XLIM-CIS: Signal - Image - Communications - Department of XLIM Institute, UMR CNRS 6172
- Institute Pprime - Pole Poitevin search for the mechanical engineer, materials and energy - UPR 3346 CNRS
- Chemistry
- Geosciences
- Biology, health, agronomy, ecology
- Biotechnological applications for the cultivation of roses - ERT 1082
- Therapeutic and leukemic stem cells - INSERM - UMR _S 935
- REAUMUR Federation of Poitiers - FR3100 - Chemistry, Geosciences, Biology
- GREVIC - Research Group on Aging Brain - EA 3808
- Inflammation, epithelial tissues and cytokines - EA
- IPBC - Institute of Physiology and Cell Biology - UMR 6187
- Ischemia reperfusion in kidney transplantation - INSERM - UMR _S 927
- LAPHAP - Laboratory of Physiological Adaptations for Physical Activities - EA 3813
- LEES - Laboratory Ecology, Evolution, Symbiose - UMR 6556
- Pharmacology Laboratory of anti-infectives - EA 3809
- Legal Science
- CECOJI - Centre for Studies on International Legal Cooperation - UMR 6224
- Centre for Research on Planning and Environment - EA 4237
- ERDP - Team for Research in Private Law - EA 1230
- EPRED - Team Poitevine Research and Doctoral Studies in Criminal Sciences - EA 1228
- Institute of History of Law - EA 3320
- IIP - Institute of Public Law - EA 2623
- Institute of Social and Health Law - EA 2247
- Juriscope
- Human, economic and social
- CESCM - Centre for Advanced Studies in Medieval Civilization - UMR 6223
- CEREGE - Centre for Business Research - EA 1722
- CRIEF - Center for Research on Economic Integration and Finance - EA 2249
- CRLA - Center for Latin American Research Archivos - Team ITEM - UMR 8132
- Cerca - Research Center on Cognition and Learning - UMR 6234
- FORELLE - Forms and Representations in Literature and Linguistics - EA 3816
- GERHICO - CERHILIM - Group of Studies and Historical Research Centre Ouest Atlantique - EA 4270
- Grescoe - Research Groups and Sociological Studies Center West - EA 3815
- ICOTEM - Identity and Knowledge Territories and changing environments - EA 2252
- IRMA - Engineering Media Resources for Learning - ERT 2001
- AML - Laboratory Research Clinical Psychopathology: new symptoms and social ties - EA 4050
- HERMA - Laboratory Hellenisation and Romanization in the Ancient World. Identities and phenomena - EA 3811 ( http://herma.labo.univ-poitiers.fr/ )
- MSHS - House of the human sciences and society
- MIMMOC - Memory, Identities, Marginalized in the Contemporary Western World - EA 3812
- Metaphysics and practical philosophy - EA 2626
- MIGRINTER - Migration, space and society - UMR 6588
Location
The headquarters of the university and most lessons are grouped in three areas of Poitiers center:
- downtown at the hotel smoked;
- campus, just outside;
- the site of the Futuroscope in Chasseneuil-du-Poitou , where part of the Faculty of Science is installed.
In addition, the University of Poitiers is located:
- at Chatellerault , with part of the IUT ;
- in Niort , for training about insurance, risk management and relocation of IUT de Poitiers;
- to Royan with the Audiovisual Center of Royan for language study (Carel);
- to Angouleme , which houses a multi antenna as well as the Polytechnic of Angouleme.
Student Life
Demographics
Changing demographics of the university population
Sources
References
- a and b "presidential team" on University of Poitiers. Retrieved October 11, 2009
- a , b , c and d "key figures" on University of Poitiers. Retrieved October 11, 2009
- Press release of the Ministry of Higher Education and Research for September 2009 ( read online )
- Report of the regional chamber of accounts on the University of Poitiers
- Richard Alfred, The Arms of the University of Poitiers in BSAO; Poitiers 1897 available on Gallica
- traveler's guide to Poitiers by Charles Cherg, Editor H. Oudin, 1851 ( read on Google Books )
- History of the Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy of Poitiers
- Jean-Richard Cytemann, Statistical references on education, training and research , 2001 edition, Government Printing Office, p. 161, ( ISBN 2-11-092136-6 ), accessed on www.education.gouv.fr August 10, 2010
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- Claudine Peretti, Statistical references on education, training and research , 2005 edition, Government Printing Office, p. 175 ( ISBN 2-11-095390 X ), accessed on August 10 www.education.gouv.fr 2010
- Statistical references on education, training and research , 2006, Imprimerie Nationale, p. 179, accessed on August 10, 2010 www.education.gouv.fr
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- Daniel Vitry, Statistical references on education, training and research , 2009 edition of Modern Printing East, p. 175, ( ISBN 978-2-11-097805-9 ), accessed at www.media. gouv.fr August 10, 2010
- Michel Qur Statistical references on education, training and research , 2010 edition, Modern Printing East, p. 173, ( ISBN 978-2-11-097819-6 ), accessed at www.media. gouv.fr September 17, 2010
Bibliography
- (En) History of the University of Poitiers: past and present (1432-1932) , printing Nicolas, Renault & Co., Poitiers, 1932, 575 p.
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