The Community of Universities and Institutions (COMUE) Lille Nord de France (formerly Université Lille Nord de France) was a French Groups of Universities and Institutions (
COMUE) spread over multiple campuses and centered in
Lille
Lille ( , ; nl, Rijsel ; pcd, Lile; vls, Rysel) is a city in the northern part of France, in French Flanders. On the river Deûle, near France's border with Belgium, it is the capital of the Hauts-de-France Regions of France, region, the Pref ...
(North -
Hauts-de-France
Hauts-de-France (; pcd, Heuts-d'Franche; , also ''Upper France'') is the northernmost Regions of France, region of France, created by the territorial reform of French regions in 2014, from a merger of Nord-Pas-de-Calais and Picardy. Its Prefectu ...
). It included a
European Doctoral College and federated universities, engineering schools and research centers. With more than one hundred thousand students, it was one of the largest university federations in France. The
University of Lille
The University of Lille (french: Université de Lille, abbreviated as ULille, UDL or univ-lille) is a French public research university based in Lille, Hauts-de-France. It has its origins in the University of Douai (1559), and resulted from the ...
, with nearly 70,000 students, was its main component. The COMUE stopped its activity in 2019 and its activities were transferred to its founding institutions.
History
Founded as
University of Douai
The University of Douai (french: Université de Douai) ( nl, Universiteit van Dowaai) is a former university in Douai, France. With a medieval heritage of scholarly activities in Douai, the university was established in 1559 and lectures started ...
in 1562, the university was renamed ''Université impériale de Douai-Lille'' in 1808, then as ''Université de Lille'' with faculty expansion in the Lille region from mid-19th century onwards.
* The roots of the faculties in law and humanities date back from the 16th century;
* The school of medicine and university hospital expanded rapidly from end-18th century;
* Research and education in mechanical engineering and chemistry expanded from the early 19th century;
* The faculty of sciences was set up in 1854 by bringing together different university-grade schools in Lille city centre;
* Research and education in control sciences and information technologies were set up in 1957;
* Research in fundamental physics, micro-electronics, molecular engineering and bio-technologies started in the 1980s.
The university expanded into several campuses and formed several universities/institutions in Lille region and North at the end of the 20th century.
Finally the universities and institutions came together as the Université Lille Nord de France; and after as the Community of Universities and Institutions (COMUE) Lille Nord de France.
Members
The Community of Universities and Institutions (COMUE) Lille Nord de France included the following establishments :
*
University of Lille
The University of Lille (french: Université de Lille, abbreviated as ULille, UDL or univ-lille) is a French public research university based in Lille, Hauts-de-France. It has its origins in the University of Douai (1559), and resulted from the ...
(the main component)
*
University of Artois
The University of Artois ( French: ''Université d'Artois'') is a public university situated in the Nord and Pas-de-Calais departments of northern France.
It is situated on 5 campuses in Arras, Béthune, Douai, Lens and Liévin.
The Univ ...
*
University of the Littoral Opal Coast
The University of the Littoral Opal Coast (French: ''Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale''; ULCO) is a public university located in the Nord and Pas-de-Calais departments of northern France. Its namesake is the Opal Coast region, of which it i ...
*
University of Valenciennes and Hainaut-Cambresis
The Polytechnic University of Hauts-de-France (''Université Polytechnique des Hauts-de-France''), previously known as University of Valenciennes and Hainaut-Cambrésis (''Université de Valenciennes et du Hainaut-Cambrésis'') until 1 January 2 ...
*
École des Mines-Télécom de Lille-Douai (IMT)
*
École centrale de Lille
Located in the campus of Science and Technology (Cité Scientifique) of the University of Lille in Villeneuve-d'Ascq ( European Metropolis of Lille - Hauts-de-France); École Centrale de Lille is a renowned graduate engineering school, with ro ...
*
Lille Catholic University
Lille ( , ; nl, Rijsel ; pcd, Lile; vls, Rysel) is a city in the northern part of France, in French Flanders. On the river Deûle, near France's border with Belgium, it is the capital of the Hauts-de-France region, the prefecture of the Nord ...
*
Centre national de la recherche scientifique
The French National Centre for Scientific Research (french: link=no, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS) is the French state research organisation and is the largest fundamental science
Basic research, also called pure research o ...
(CNRS)
*
(INRIA)
Several institutions were associate members :
*
Skema Business School
SKEMA Business School (School of Knowledge Economy and Management) is a French business school, devoted to higher education and research. It has the legal status of a non-profit association under the French "1901 law". It was founded in 2009 as a ...
* CHU Lille University Hospital
* Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale (
Inserm)
* École nationale supérieure des arts et industries textiles (
ENSAIT
The École nationale supérieure des arts et industries textiles (ENSAIT) is a French Engineering grand établissement (grande école) and a member of UP-TEX research cluster ( Union Pôle Textile).
ENSAIT is a higher education and research in ...
)
*
Arts et Métiers ParisTech
Arts et Métiers ParisTech is a French engineering and research institute of higher education. It is a ''grande école'', recognized for leading in the fields of mechanics and industrialization. Founded in 1780, it is among the oldest French ins ...
(Lille Campus)
* École nationale supérieure d'architecture et de paysage de Lille (ENSAPL)
*
École nationale supérieure de chimie de Lille
The École nationale supérieure de chimie de Lille (ENSCL or Chimie Lille) was founded in 1894 as the Institut de chimie de Lille. It is part of the Community of Universities and Institutions (COMUE) Lille Nord de France.
It is located on the s ...
(ENSCL)
* École supérieure d'art Dunkerque-Tourcoing (ESA)
*
École supérieure de journalisme de Lille The École supérieure de journalisme (ESJ Lille) (in English: ''Superior School of Journalism of Lille'') is an institution of higher education, a French '' Grande École'' in Lille dedicated to journalism and related studies. It has been elected b ...
(ESJ Lille)
* Institut d'études politiques de Lille (
Sciences Po Lille
Institut d'études politiques de Lille ( en, Lille Institute of Political Studies), officially referred to as Sciences Po Lille, is a grande école located in Lille, France. It is a part of the '' Conférence des Grandes Écoles''. It was created a ...
)
* Institut national de recherche sur les transports et leur sécurité (
IFSTTAR
The French Institute of Science and Technology for Transport, Development and Networks (french: Institut français des sciences et technologies des transports, de l'aménagement et des réseaux, IFSTTAR) is a public research institution (a Public S ...
)
*
Institut Pasteur de Lille
The Pasteur Institute of Lille (french: Institut Pasteur de Lille, Pasteur-Lille, IPL) is a research centre and member of the Pasteur Institute network.
It includes 14 research units and 1,150 employees including 626 researchers located in Lille, ...
*
Institut national de la recherche agronomique (INRA)
* Institut français de recherche pour l'exploitation de la mer (
IFREMER
IFREMER (Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer; ) is an oceanographic institution in Brest, France.
Scope of works
Ifremer focuses its research activities in the following areas:
* Monitoring, use and enhancement of coa ...
)
*
(INRETS)
* Office national d'études et de recherches aérospatiales-Institut de mécanique des fluides de Lille (
ONERA
The Office National d'Etudes et de Recherches Aérospatiales (ONERA) is the French national aerospace research centre. It is a public establishment with industrial and commercial operations, and carries out application-oriented research to supp ...
)
* Belgian universities and their research teams
It participated in French competitiveness clusters :
* Pôle de compétitivité Industrie du commerce (PICOM)
* Pôle de compétitivité Industrie des transports (i-TRANS)
* Pôle de compétitivité Maîtrise énergétique des entraînements électriques (MEDEE)
* Pôle de compétitivité Aquimer
* Pôle de compétitivité Matériaux et Applications pour une Utilisation Durable (MAUD)
* Pôle de compétitivité Nutrition Santé Longévité (NSL) (Eurasanté)
* Pôle de compétitivité Technologies de l’Environnement Appliquées au Matières et aux Matériaux (TEAM2)
* Pôle de compétitivité Textiles innovants (UP-TEX)
Doctoral school and research laboratories
139 research labs and institutes were associated to the
European Doctoral College Lille Nord-de-France. Six doctoral schools were included with 3,000 registered PhD students.
Altogether, the university research labs owned an active portfolio of more than 170 invention patent families.
Lille Univ patent portfolio
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* SPI - Doctoral School of Engineering Sciences, supported by 22 research labs.
* SMRE - Doctoral School for Science of Matter, Radiation, Environment, supported by 26 research labs.
* BSL - Doctoral School Biology - Health, supported by 47 research labs.
* SESAM - Doctoral School in Business, economics, urban planning and management, supported by 11 research labs.
* SHS - Doctoral School in Social Sciences and Humanities, supported by 19 research labs.
* SJPG - Doctoral School for Law, Administration, Political Science, supported by 14 research labs.
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Notable alumni and faculty
Image:Louis Pasteur en 1857.jpg, Louis Pasteur
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Image:Joseph Boussinesq.jpg, Joseph Valentin Boussinesq
Joseph Valentin Boussinesq (; 13 March 1842 – 19 February 1929) was a French mathematician and physicist who made significant contributions to the theory of hydrodynamics, vibration, light, and heat.
Biography
From 1872 to 1886, he was appoi ...
Image:Alfred_Giard_1846-1908.jpg, Alfred Mathieu Giard
Alfred Mathieu Giard (8 August 1846 – 8 August 1908) was a French zoologist born in Valenciennes.
Biography
In 1867 he began his studies of natural sciences at the École Normale Supérieure, followed by work as ''préparateur de zoologie'' a ...
Image:Henri Padé.jpeg, Henri Padé
Henri Eugène Padé (; 17 December 1863 – 9 July 1953) was a French mathematician, who is now remembered mainly for his development of Padé approximation techniques for functions using rational functions.
Education and career
Padà ...
Image:Paul Painlevé 01.jpg, Paul Painlevé
Paul Painlevé (; 5 December 1863 – 29 October 1933) was a French mathematician and statesman. He served twice as Prime Minister of the Third Republic: 12 September – 13 November 1917 and 17 April – 22 November 1925. His entry into politic ...
* Mathematics, engineering and information theory : Émile Borel
Félix Édouard Justin Émile Borel (; 7 January 1871 – 3 February 1956) was a French mathematician and politician. As a mathematician, he was known for his founding work in the areas of measure theory and probability.
Biography
Borel was ...
, Joseph Boussinesq
Joseph Valentin Boussinesq (; 13 March 1842 – 19 February 1929) was a French mathematician and physicist who made significant contributions to the theory of hydrodynamics, vibration, light, and heat.
Biography
From 1872 to 1886, he was appoi ...
, Henri Cartan, Albert Châtelet
Albert Châtelet (24 October 1883 – 30 June 1960) was a French politician and mathematician.
Biography
Châtelet was a student at the École normale supérieure (Paris) from 1905 to 1908, succeeding to the Agrégation (a highly selective compe ...
, Paul Dubreil, Joseph Kampé de Fériet
Marie-Joseph Kamp̩ de F̩riet (Paris, 14 May 1893 РVilleneuve d'Ascq, 6 April 1982) was professor at Universit̩ Lille Nord de France from 1919 to 1969. Besides his works on mathematics and fluid mechanics, he directed the ''Institut de m̩ ...
, Szolem Mandelbrojt, Benoît Mandelbrot
Benoit B. Mandelbrot (20 November 1924 – 14 October 2010) was a Polish-born French-American mathematician and polymath with broad interests in the practical sciences, especially regarding what he labeled as "the art of roughness" of phy ...
, Mohammad Ali Mojtahedi
Dr. Mohammad Ali Modjtahedi Gilani (23 September 1908 – 1 July 1997) was an Iranian University professor and lifetime principal of the highly prestigious Alborz High School in Tehran, Iran.
Founder of Sharif University of Technology (origi ...
, Henri Padé
Henri Eugène Padé (; 17 December 1863 – 9 July 1953) was a French mathematician, who is now remembered mainly for his development of Padé approximation techniques for functions using rational functions.
Education and career
Padà ...
, Paul Painlevé
Paul Painlevé (; 5 December 1863 – 29 October 1933) was a French mathematician and statesman. He served twice as Prime Minister of the Third Republic: 12 September – 13 November 1917 and 17 April – 22 November 1925. His entry into politic ...
, Faustin-Archange Touadéra
Faustin-Archange Touadéra (; born 21 April 1957) is a Central African politician and academic who has been President of the Central African Republic since March 2016. He previously was Prime Minister of the Central African Republic from Janua ...
, Ernest Vessiot
Ernest Vessiot (; 8 March 1865 – 17 October 1952) was a French mathematician. He was born in Marseille, France, and died in La Bauche, Savoie, France. He entered the École Normale Supérieure in 1884.
He was Maître de Conférences at Lille ...
* Biology, chemistry, geology and medicine : Charles Barrois
Charles Eugene Barrois (21 August 18515 November 1939) was a French geologist and palaeontologist.
Life
Barrois was born at Lille and educated at the Jesuit College of St Joseph in that town, where he studied geology under Professor Jules Goss ...
, Albert Calmette
Léon Charles Albert Calmette ForMemRS (12 July 1863 – 29 October 1933) was a French physician, bacteriologist and immunologist, and an important officer of the Pasteur Institute. He discovered the Bacillus Calmette-Guérin, an attenuated for ...
, Jean Théodore Delacour, Alfred Mathieu Giard
Alfred Mathieu Giard (8 August 1846 – 8 August 1908) was a French zoologist born in Valenciennes.
Biography
In 1867 he began his studies of natural sciences at the École Normale Supérieure, followed by work as ''préparateur de zoologie'' a ...
, Camille Guérin
Jean-Marie Camille Guérin (; 22 December 1872 – 9 June 1961) was a French veterinarian, bacteriologist and immunologist who, together with Albert Calmette, developed the Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG), a vaccine for immunization against tube ...
, Claude Auguste Lamy
Claude Auguste Lamy (; 15 June 1820 – 20 March 1878) was a French chemist who discovered the element thallium independently from William Crookes in 1862.
Life
Lamy was born in the commune of Ney in the department of Jura, France in 1820. ...
, Louis Pasteur
Louis Pasteur (, ; 27 December 1822 – 28 September 1895) was a French chemist and microbiologist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation and pasteurization, the latter of which was named afte ...
* Law : René Cassin
Ren̩ Samuel Cassin (5 October 1887 Р20 February 1976) was a French jurist known for co-authoring the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and receiving the Nobel Peace Prize.
Born in Bayonne, Cassin served as a soldier in the First Wo ...
(Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prizes ( ; sv, Nobelpriset ; no, Nobelprisen ) are five separate prizes that, according to Alfred Nobel's will of 1895, are awarded to "those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind." Alfr ...
)
* Literature and human sciences : Pierre Bourdieu
Pierre Bourdieu (; 1 August 1930 – 23 January 2002) was a French sociologist and public intellectual. Bourdieu's contributions to the sociology of education, the theory of sociology, and sociology of aesthetics have achieved wide influence i ...
, Henri Gouhier
Henri Gouhier (; 5 December 1898 – 31 March 1994) was a French philosopher, a historian of philosophy, and a literary critic.
Biography
Born in Auxerre, Yonne, Gouhier's studies led to a doctorate in 1926. He served as the Professor of philos ...
, Étienne Gilson
Étienne Henri Gilson (; 13 June 1884 – 19 September 1978) was a French philosopher and historian of philosophy. A scholar of medieval philosophy, he originally specialised in the thought of Descartes; he also philosophized in the tradition ...
, Victor Henry, Pierre Macherey
Pierre Macherey (; born 17 February 1938, Belfort) is a French Marxist philosopher and literary critic at the University of Lille Nord de France. A former student of Louis Althusser and collaborator on the influential volume ''Reading Capital ...
, Vladimir Jankélévitch
Vladimir Jankélévitch (; 31 August 1903 – 6 June 1985) was a French philosopher and musicologist.
Biography
Jankélévitch was the son of Russian Jewish parents, who had emigrated to France.
In 1922 he started studying philosophy at the Éco ...
.
Student and researcher mobility
University institutes and research labs promote student and researchers mobility and cooperate in several university networks :
* ESDP
* Utrecht Network
The Utrecht Network is a network of European universities. Founded in 1987, the network promotes the internationalisation of tertiary education through summer schools, student and staff exchanges and joint degrees.
Utrecht Network member univer ...
*
* Compostela Group of Universities
The Compostela Group of Universities (CGU) is an international non-profit association that promotes and executes collaboration projects between institutions of higher education. It currently has 67 full members, 2 associate members and 9 mutual me ...
Mobility centre
References
Doctoral college of Université Lille Nord de France
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Universite Lille Nord de France
Educational institutions established in 1854
1854 establishments in France
Tourist attractions in Lille