The University of Lorraine (), abbreviated as UL, is a

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based in

Lorraine Lorraine, also , ; ; Lorrain: ''Louréne''; Lorraine Franconian: ''Lottringe''; ; ; is a cultural and historical region in Eastern France, now located in the administrative region of Grand Est. Its name stems from the medieval kingdom of ...

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region,

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. It was 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 formed the Nancy-Université federation with two other institutions in 2005. In 2012, Nancy-Université was merged with U ...

Nancy 2 University Nancy 2 University (''Université Nancy 2'') was a French university located in 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 ...

and the

National Polytechnic Institute of Lorraine National Polytechnic Institute of Lorraine ( ; abbr. Lorraine INP) is a French technological university system, based in Nancy, France, Nancy. It is under the Academy of Nancy and Metz. INPL is a part of the University of Lorraine. It federates 1 ...

(INPL). It aimed to unify the main colleges of the Lorraine region. The merger process started in 2009 with the creation of a ''

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'' (PRES) and was completed in 2012. The university has 51 campus sites, over the Lorraine region, the main ones are around Nancy and

Metz Metz ( , , , then ) is a city in northeast France located at the confluence of the Moselle (river), Moselle and the Seille (Moselle), Seille rivers. Metz is the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Moselle (department), Moselle Departments ...

. The other sites are in the towns of Epinal,

Saint-Dié-des-Vosges Saint-Dié-des-Vosges (; , before 1999: ''Saint-Dié'') is a Communes of France, commune in the Vosges department, Grand Est, northeastern France. It is a Subprefectures in France, sub-prefecture of the department. Geography Saint-Dié is locat ...

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, ...

Lunéville Lunéville ( ; German : ''Lünstadt'' ; Lorrain: ''Leneinvile'') 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 Ve ...

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Yutz Yutz (; ; Lorraine Franconian/ ) 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 ''Basse-Yutz'' and '' ...

Longwy Longwy (; older , ; ) is a Communes of France, commune in the Departments of France, French department of Meurthe-et-Moselle, Lorraine, administrative region of Grand Est, northeastern France. The inhabitants are known as ''Longoviciens''. In ...

Forbach Forbach ( , , ; ) 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 constitutes a ...

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 east of Metz, France and southwest of Saarbrücken, Germany. History The Saint-Avold area ha ...

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 o ...

. The University of Lorraine has over 62,000 students (10,000 international students, mostly from

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and

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) 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-Mou ...

Charles III Charles III (Charles Philip Arthur George; born 14 November 1948) is King of the United Kingdom and the 14 other Commonwealth realms. Charles was born at Buckingham Palace during the reign of his maternal grandfather, King George VI, and ...

, duke of Lorraine, and

Charles, Cardinal of Lorraine Charles de Lorraine (17 February 1524 – 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 t ...

, it was then run by the

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. The university was transferred to Nancy in 1768. It was closed by the revolutionaries in 1793, and reopened in 1864. In 1968, the Faure law created the

(Nancy 1),

and the

. The

was created in 1971. In 2012, the 3 universities of Nancy and that of

were merged to create the current University of Lorraine. So, the University of Lorraine was formed by the merger of: *

Nancy-Université Nancy-Université was a French federal university which federated the three principal institutes of higher education in Nancy, Lorraine before their merger into the University of Lorraine: * Henri Poincaré University (UHP, also known as Na ...

, itself a merger of: **

(Nancy 1) **

(INPL) *

Teaching

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

École européenne d'ingénieurs en génie des matériaux The École Européenne d'Ingénieurs en Génie des Matériaux (, EEIGM) is a French engineering College created in 1991. The EEIGM trains 90 materials engineers every year. All students study the main groups of materials, which are metals and a ...

(EEIGM) : material engineering *

École nationale d'ingénieurs de Metz École nationale d'ingénieurs de Metz (; abbr. ''ENI Metz'' or ''ENIM'') is a French grande ecole of engineering established in 1960. It is one of the Groupe des écoles nationales d'ingénieurs (ENI Group), but also an internal school of 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 or Ecole may refer to: * an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education establishments (collège and lycée) * École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing in région Île-de-France * Éco ...

(ENSGSI) *

Mines Nancy Mine, mines, miners or mining may refer to: Extraction or digging *Miner, a person engaged in mining or digging *Mining, extraction of mineral resources from the ground through a mine Grammar *Mine, a first-person English possessive pronoun Mi ...

* 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 ...

Research

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

CNRS The French National Centre for Scientific Research (, , CNRS) is the French state research organisation and is the largest fundamental science agency in Europe. In 2016, it employed 31,637 staff, including 11,137 tenured researchers, 13,415 eng ...

INSERM The (Inserm, ) is the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research. History and organisation Inserm was created in 1964 as a successor to the French National Institute of Health. Inserm is the only public research institution ...

INRAE The Institut national de la recherche agronomique (; ; abbr. INRA ) was a French public research institute dedicated to agricultural science. It was founded in 1946 and is a Public Scientific and Technical Research Establishment under the join ...

and

INRIA The National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology (Inria) () is a French national research institution focusing on computer science and applied mathematics. It was created under the name French Institute for Research in Comp ...

. They are organized into 10 research areas. Among these: * (LORIA): computer sciences * : material sciences Doctoral studies are organized into 8

doctoral A doctorate (from Latin ''doctor'', meaning "teacher") or doctoral degree is a postgraduate academic degree awarded by universities and some other educational institutions, derived from the ancient formalism '' licentia docendi'' ("licence to teach ...

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 interpr ...

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

positive law Positive laws () 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''. The concept of posit ...

. *

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

(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 Distribution (mathematics), distributions, which gives a well-defined meaning to objects such as the Dirac delta function. He was awar ...

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

Fields Medal The Fields Medal is a prize awarded to two, three, or four mathematicians under 40 years of age at the International Congress of Mathematicians, International Congress of the International Mathematical Union (IMU), a meeting that takes place e ...

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 inau ...

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

in 1954. *

Alexander Grothendieck Alexander Grothendieck, later Alexandre Grothendieck in French (; ; ; 28 March 1928 – 13 November 2014), was a German-born French mathematician who became the leading figure in the creation of modern algebraic geometry. His research ext ...

(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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