The University of Picardy Jules Verne ( French: ''Université de Picardie Jules Verne''; UPJV) is a

public university A public university, state university, or public college is a university or college that is State ownership, owned by the state or receives significant funding from a government. Whether a national university is considered public varies from o ...

located in the former

Picardy Picardy (; Picard language, Picard and , , ) is a historical and cultural territory and a former regions of France, administrative region located in northern France. The first mentions of this province date back to the Middle Ages: it gained it ...

region of France (now part of

Hauts-de-France Hauts-de-France (; ; ), also referred to in English as Upper France, is the northernmost region of France, created by the territorial reform of French regions in 2014, from a merger of Nord-Pas-de-Calais and Picardy. Its prefecture is Lille. ...

). It consists of several campuses located in the towns of

Amiens Amiens (English: or ; ; , or ) is a city and Communes of France, commune in northern France, located north of Paris and south-west of Lille. It is the capital of the Somme (department), Somme Departments of France, department in the region ...

Beauvais Beauvais ( , ; ) is a town and Communes of France, commune in northern France, and prefecture of the Oise Departments of France, département, in the Hauts-de-France Regions of France, region, north of Paris. The Communes of France, commune o ...

, Cuffies, Saint-Quentin,

Creil Creil () is a Communes of France, commune in the Oise Departments of France, department, northern France. The Creil station is an important railway junction. History Archaeological remains in the area include a Neolithic site as well as a late ...

, and

Laon Laon () is a city in the Aisne Departments of France, department in Hauts-de-France in northern France. History Early history The Ancient Diocese of Laon, which rises a hundred metres above the otherwise flat Picardy plain, has always held s ...

. The university was part of the University of Lille Nord de France group.

History

The University of Picardy Jules Verne was established in 1970 as a successor to the former University of Amiens. It was initially simply called the University of Picardy during its first two decades, until 1991 when writer

Jules Verne Jules Gabriel Verne (;''Longman Pronunciation Dictionary''. ; 8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet and playwright. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the ''Voyages extraor ...

's named was added. Verne spent much of his life in

. What started as a small university now has over 30,000 students across all campuses. The university celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2019-2020.

Organisation

The university is organised into five main faculties or groupings each with a number of schools or institutes:

Arts, Literature, Languages

* UFR Arts * UFR Languages and foreign cultures * UFR Literature

Law, Economics, Management

* UFR Law and Political Science * UFR Economics and Management * Institut d'Administration des Entreprises (IAE) * Institut de Préparation à l'Administration Générale (IPAG)

ESPE, Antenne et IUT

* Antenne Universitaire de Beauvais (AUB) * École Supérieure du Professorat et de l'Éducation (ESPE) * Institut Universitaire de Technologie d'Amiens * Institut Universitaire de Technologie de l'Aisne * Institut Universitaire de Technologie de l'Oise

Sciences Humaines et Sociales

* UFR d'Histoire et de Géographie * UFR Sciences Humaines, Sociales et Philosophie

Sciences, Technologie, Santé

* UFR de Médecine * Institut d'Ingénierie de la Santé - 2IS * UFR de Pharmacie * UFR des Sciences * UFR des Sciences et Techniques des Activités Physiques et Sportives - STAPS * Institut Supérieur des Sciences et Techniques - INSSET

Notable faculty

* Jacqueline Lévi-Valensi (1932-2004) - specialist in the work of Albert Camus *

Andrée Ehresmann Andrée Ehresmann (born Andrée Bastiani; 1935) is a French people, French mathematician specialising in category theory. Education and career Ehresmann was a researcher at Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS from 1957 to 1963. S ...

(born 1935) - mathematician specialising in category theory * Nadine-Josette Chaline (born 1938) - specialist in religious history * Jean-Michel Macron (born 1950) - neurologist; father of Emmanuel Macron * Jean-Marie Tarascon (born 1953) - chemist * Brigitte Fouré (born 1955) - university lecturer and former government minister * Laurence Bertrand Dorléac (born 1957) - art historian * Enzo Traverso (born 1957) - Italian scholar of European intellectual history *

Nikolay Nenovsky Nikolay Nenovsky (born 26 July 1963) is a Bulgarian economist, working in the fields of monetary theory and policy, monetary history and history of economic thought. He is Professor of economics at the University of Picardie Jules Verne, LEFM ...

(born 1963) - Bulgarian economist, working in the fields of monetary theory and policy, monetary history and history of economic thought * Pablo Martín Asuero (born 1967) - Spanish scholar from the Basque Country. He specialises in Middle Eastern history * Alain Bui (born 1969) - specialist in information technology; president of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University * Fabien Danesi - art historian * Nicole Jacques-Lefevre - Professor of Literature who specialises in the study of demonological texts of the Enlightenment in the eighteenth century including werewolves and lycanthropy * Jean-Paul Cointet - historian * Didier Eribon - philosopher

Notable alumni

* Daniel Ona Ondo (born 1945) - Gabonese politician who was Prime Minister of Gabon from January 2014 to September 2016 * Calliope Spanou - Greek academic who served from 2011 to 2015 as the Greek Ombudsman

References

External links

University of Picardy Website
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