University of Upper Alsace (french: Université de Haute-Alsace, UHA) is a multidisciplinary teaching and research centre based in the two cities of

Mulhouse Mulhouse (; Alsatian: or , ; ; meaning '' mill house'') is a city of the Haut-Rhin department, in the Grand Est region, eastern France, close to the Swiss and German borders. It is the largest city in Haut-Rhin and second largest in Alsace a ...

and

Colmar Colmar (, ; Alsatian: ' ; German during 1871–1918 and 1940–1945: ') is a city and commune in the Haut-Rhin department and Grand Est region of north-eastern France. The third-largest commune in Alsace (after Strasbourg and Mulhouse), it i ...

, France. Research and teaching at UHA concentrates mainly on science, technology, economics, management, arts and humanities. In 2017, UHA has more than 8000 students with about a hundred courses offered. The founding of UHA was driven by social and business players, among them was

Jean-Baptiste Donnet Jean-Baptiste Donnet (28 September 1923 in Pontgibaud (Puy-de-Dôme) – 30 November 2014 in Sentheim (Haut-Rhin)) was a French chemist who is noted as a pioneer in the surface chemistry of carbon black and as a founder of the Upper Alsace Univer ...

. The special geographical situation of UHA, which lies close to the Swiss and German borders, is favourable to the emergence of single courses leading to double or triple degrees that are recognized in the neighbouring countries. Together with

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, as well as

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, the university of Upper Alsace is a member of the EUCOR, which is a trinational cross-border alliance of five universities on the

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in the border region between

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and

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History

Departments

The university consists of Unités de Formation — Université de Mulhouse Colmar Alsace — DUT, Licences, Licences professionnelles, Masters, Doctorats et Diplômes d'écoles d'ingénieurs
/ref> five faculties: *FLSH - Faculte des Lettres, Langues et Sciences Humaines *FSESJ - Faculte des Sciences Economiques, Sociales et Juridiques *FST - Faculte des Sciences et Techniques *PEPS - Pluridisciplinaire d'Enseignement Professionnalisé Supérieur *FMA - Faculte de Marketing et Agrosciences two institutes of technology: Entree IUT Mulhouse

* IUT DE COLMAR - Institut Universitaire de Technologie de Colmar * IUT DE MULHOUSE - Institut Universitaire de Technologie de Mulhouse and two schools of engineering: *ENSCMu - Ecole Nationale Superieure de Chimie de Mulhouse *ENSISA - Ecole Nationale Superieure d'Ingénieurs Sud Alsace (Merger in 2006 between ENSITM and ESSAIM)

Notable people

Faculty *

Bernard Heyberger Bernard Heyberger (born 1954) is a French historian. He specializes in the history of Middle Eastern Christianity from the sixteenth century to the present; modern Catholicism and Catholic missions; and the Arab provinces of the late Ottoman Empi ...

(born 1954) - specialist in the history of Middle Eastern Christianity *

Jennifer K Dick Jennifer K Dick, (born 1970) is an American poet, translator and educator/scholar born in Minnesota, raised in Iowa and currently living in Mulhouse, France. She has been classified as a post-L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E school poet and, by Amy Catanzano, a ...

(born 1970) - American poet, translator and educator/scholar Alumni *

Mehmet Çekiç Mehmet Çekiç (born 1 January 1970) is a Turkish Paralympic alpine skier who competes in the LW4 disability class of men's slalom, standing and giant slalom, standing events. He represented his country, Turkey, at the 2014 Sochi and 2018 P ...

(born 1970) - Turkish Paralympic alpine skier

References

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