The University of Lorraine (), often abbreviated in UL, is a

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created on 1 January 2012, by the merger of

Henri Poincaré University The Henri Poincaré University, or Nancy 1, nicknamed UHP, was a public research university located in Nancy, France. UHP was merged into University of Lorraine in 2012, and was previously a member of the Nancy-Université federation, belongin ...

Nancy 2 University Nancy 2 University (''Université Nancy 2'') was a French university located in Nancy, France, Nancy, France. It was a member of the Nancy-Université federation, a group of the three higher education institutions in Nancy.Paul Verlaine University – Metz Paul Verlaine University – Metz (Université Paul Verlaine - Metz, or UPV-M) was a French university, based in Metz. It merged with Nancy-I, Nancy-II, and the INPL forming the University of Lorraine. The merger process started in 2009 with t ...

and the

National Polytechnic Institute of Lorraine National Polytechnic Institute of Lorraine (l'Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine or Lorraine INP), based in Nancy, is a French technological university system. It is under the Academy of Nancy and Metz. INPL is a part of the University ...

(INPL). It aimed to unify the main colleges of the Lorraine region. The merger process started in 2009 with the creation of a "Pôle de Recherche et d'Enseignement Supérieur". The university has 51 campus sites, over the Lorraine region, the main ones are around Nancy and

Metz Metz ( , , lat, Divodurum Mediomatricorum, then ) is a city in northeast France located at the confluence of the Moselle and the Seille rivers. Metz is the prefecture of the Moselle department and the seat of the parliament of the Grand E ...

. The other sites are in the towns of Epinal, Saint-Dié-des-Vosges,

Bar-Le-Duc Bar-le-Duc (), formerly known as Bar, is a commune in the Meuse département, of which it is the capital. The department is in Grand Est in northeastern France. The lower, more modern and busier part of the town extends along a narrow valley, sh ...

Lunéville Lunéville ( ; German, obsolete: ''Lünstadt'' ) is a commune in the northeastern French department of Meurthe-et-Moselle. It is a subprefecture of the department and lies on the river Meurthe at its confluence with the Vezouze. History Lun ...

Thionville Thionville (; ; german: Diedenhofen ) is a city in the northeastern French department of Moselle. The city is located on the left bank of the river Moselle, opposite its suburb Yutz. History Thionville was settled as early as the time of th ...

Yutz Yutz (; german: Jeutz; Lorraine Franconian: ''Jäiz'') is a commune in the Moselle department in Grand Est in north-eastern France, close to the borders with both Luxembourg and Germany. It was created in 1971 by merging the former communes of ' ...

Longwy Longwy (; older german: Langich, ; lb, label=Luxemburgish, Lonkech) is a commune in the French department of Meurthe-et-Moselle, Lorraine, administrative region of Grand Est, northeastern France. The inhabitants are known as ''Longoviciens''. ...

Forbach Forbach ( , , ; gsw, Fuerboch) is a commune in the French department of Moselle, northeastern French region of Grand Est. It is located on the German border approximately 15 minutes from the center of Saarbrücken, Germany, with which it const ...

Saint-Avold Saint-Avold (; ; Lorraine Franconian: ''Sänt Avuur'') is a commune in the Moselle department in Grand Est in north-eastern France. It is situated twenty-eight miles (45 km) east of Metz, France and seventeen miles (27 km) southwest ...

Sarreguemines Sarreguemines (; German: ''Saargemünd'' , Lorraine Franconian: ''Saargemìnn'') is a commune in the Moselle department of the Grand Est administrative region in north-eastern France. It is the seat of an arrondissement and a canton. As of t ...

. The University of Lorraine has over 62,000 students (10,000 international students) and 7,000 staff.

History

The original University of Lorraine was founded in 1572 in the nearby city of

Pont-à-Mousson Pont-à-Mousson () is a commune in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department in north-eastern France. Its inhabitants are known as ''Mussipontains'' in French. It is an industrial town (mainly steel industry), situated on the river Moselle. Pont-à-Mouss ...

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, duke of Lorraine, and

Charles, Cardinal of Lorraine Charles de Lorraine (c. 1525 – 26 December 1574), Duke of Chevreuse, was a French Cardinal, a member of the powerful House of Guise. He was known at first as the Cardinal of Guise, and then as the second Cardinal of Lorraine, after the death o ...

, and was then run by the

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. The University was transferred to Nancy in 1768. The

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was closed by the revolutionaries in 1793, and reopened in 1864. University of Lorraine is the merger of: *

Nancy-Université Nancy-Université federated the three principal institutes of higher education of Nancy, France, Nancy, in Lorraine (region), Lorraine, France before their merger into the University of Lorraine: * Henri Poincaré University (UHP, also known as ...

, itself a merger of: **

(or Nancy 1): natural sciences, wrapping several faculties and engineering schools **

Nancy 2 University Nancy 2 University (''Université Nancy 2'') was a French university located in Nancy, France, Nancy, France. It was a member of the Nancy-Université federation, a group of the three higher education institutions in Nancy.Institut national polytechnique de Lorraine An institute is an organisational body created for a certain purpose. They are often research organisations (research institutes) created to do research on specific topics, or can also be a professional body. In some countries, institutes can ...

(INPL): engineering schools *

Paul Verlaine University – Metz Paul Verlaine University – Metz (Université Paul Verlaine - Metz, or UPV-M) was a French university, based in Metz. It merged with Nancy-I, Nancy-II, and the INPL forming the University of Lorraine. The merger process started in 2009 with t ...

Teaching

Faculté de Pharmacie Bâtiment Lionnois 2018

Teaching includes 43 teaching units (faculties, schools, departments), organized into 9 collegia: * Arts, Literature, and Languages * Engineering Schools * Health * Humanities and Social Sciences * Interface * Law, Economy, and Management * Lorraine Management Innovation * Sciences and Technologies * Technology

Engineering schools

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(EEIGM) : material engineering *

École nationale d'ingénieurs de Metz École nationale d'ingénieurs de Metz (''ENI Metz'' or ''ENIM'') a French engineering College created in 1960. It is an engineering school oriented towards mechanics and production but which, through the diversity of its training, falls into the ...

(ENIM) * École Nationale Supérieure des Industries Alimentaires (ENSAIA): agricultural engineering * École Nationale Supérieure d'Electricité et de Mécanique (ENSEM): electrical and mechanical engineering * École Nationale Supérieure de Géologie (ENSG): geology * École Nationale Supérieure des Industries Chimiques (ENSIC): chemistry * École Nationale Supérieure des Technologies et Industries du Bois (ENSTIB): wood industry and technology engineering *

École nationale supérieure en génie des systèmes et de l'innovation École nationale supérieure en génie des systèmes et de l'innovation (ENSGSI) a French engineering College created in 1993. The school trains engineers with in organizational engineering, design engineering, innovation, management of complex p ...

(ENSGSI) * Mines Nancy * Polytech Nancy *

Telecom Nancy The TELECOM Nancy (formerly École supérieure d'informatique et applications de Lorraine or ÉSIAL) is a grande école of engineering created in 1990. It is associated with the University of Lorraine. TELECOM Nancy is a school associated with th ...

Research

The university has 60 research units, linked with the most important French research organizations:

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, INSERM, INRAE and

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. They are organized into 10 research areas. Among these: *

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: computer sciences * Institut Jean Lamour: material sciences Doctoral studies are organized into 8

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schools, where 400 thesis are defended annually. The 1,800 phd students come from 90 different nationalities.

Libraries

The university has a network of 25 libraries, managed by the Documentation department.

Culture and museums

University of Lorraine operates several arts and scientific places and museums, and a botanic garden: Le préau, national theater Espace Bernard-Marie Koltès, Maison pour la Science en Lorraine, Musée archéologique, Aquarium Museum, Musée de l’Histoire du Fer, Jardin Botanique Jean-Marie-Pelt. The last three are co-operated with the Metropole of Grand Nancy''.''

Rankings

University of Lorraine undergraduate law program is ranked 5th of France by

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, with 3 stars (2016/17). According to Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) 2021, University of Lorraine is ranked first European University in the subject Mining & Mineral Engineering.

Notable people

François Gény François Gény (1861–1959) was a French jurist and professor of law at the University of Nancy, who introduced the notion of " free scientific research" to the interpretation of positive law. His advocacy of judicial discretion in the interp ...

(1861–1959), French professor and jurist who introduced notion of "free scientific research" in

positive law Positive laws ( la, links=no, ius positum) are human-made laws that oblige or specify an action. Positive law also describes the establishment of specific rights for an individual or group. Etymologically, the name derives from the verb ''to posit ...

. *

Victor Grignard Francois Auguste Victor Grignard (6 May 1871 – 13 December 1935) was a French chemist who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry, Nobel Prize for his discovery of the eponymously named Grignard reagent and Grignard reaction, both of which are impor ...

(1871-1935) was a researcher and a teacher at the university when he won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1912. *

Laurent Schwartz Laurent-Moïse Schwartz (; 5 March 1915 – 4 July 2002) was a French mathematician. He pioneered the theory of distributions, which gives a well-defined meaning to objects such as the Dirac delta function. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 19 ...

(1915-2002) was a researcher and teacher at the university when he received the

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in 1950. *

Jean-Pierre Serre Jean-Pierre Serre (; born 15 September 1926) is a French mathematician who has made contributions to algebraic topology, algebraic geometry, and algebraic number theory. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1954, the Wolf Prize in 2000 and the ina ...

(1926-alive) was a " ''maître de conférences''" (MCF) at the university when he received the

in 1954. * Alexander Grothendieck (1928-2014), alumni that later became the leading figure in the creation of modern algebraic geometry.

References

External links

Website: Université de Lorraine

Website: Welcome Université de Lorraine

Website: Open Science at the University of Lorraine

Video: Presentation of the University of Lorraine (2015)

Video: Université de Lorraine Key Figures (2020)

Video: We are Université de Lorraine (2021)
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