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 (, ; ; ; ; ) is a city in the northern part of France, within French Flanders. Positioned along the Deûle river, near France's border with Belgium, it is the capital of the Hauts-de-France Regions of France, region, the Prefectures in F ...
(North -
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 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 (, 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 merger of three universities ...
, 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 (; ) was a historic university in Douai, France. With a medieval tradition of scholarly activity in the city, the university was established in 1559, and lectures began in 1562. It ceased operations from 1795 to 1808. In ...
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 (, 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 merger of three universities ...
(the main component)
*
University of Artois
*
University of the Littoral Opal Coast
*
University of Valenciennes and Hainaut-Cambresis
*
École des Mines-Télécom de Lille-Douai (IMT)
*
*
Lille Catholic University
*
Centre national de la recherche scientifique
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 ...
(CNRS)
*
(INRIA)
Several institutions were associate members :
*
Skema Business School
* CHU Lille University Hospital
* Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale (
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 ...
)
* École nationale supérieure des arts et industries textiles (
ENSAIT)
*
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 i ...
(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 (ESJ Lille)
* Institut d'études politiques de Lille (
Sciences Po Lille)
* Institut national de recherche sur les transports et leur sécurité (
IFSTTAR)
*
Institut Pasteur de Lille
The Pasteur Institute of Lille () 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, France. There are also 300 employees located outside ...
*
Institut national de la recherche agronomique
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 ...
(INRA)
* Institut français de recherche pour l'exploitation de la mer (
IFREMER
The or Ifremer is an oceanographic institution in Brest, France. A state-run and funded scientific organization, it is France’s national integrated marine science research institute.
Scope of works
Ifremer focuses its research activities in ...
)
*
(INRETS)
* Office national d'études et de recherches aérospatiales-Institut de mécanique des fluides de Lille (
ONERA
The Office National d'Études et de Recherches Aérospatiales ( English: National office for aerospace studies and research) or ONERA, dubbed ''The French Aerospace Lab'' in English, is the French national aerospace research center. Originally f ...
)
* 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
Louis Pasteur (, ; 27 December 1822 – 28 September 1895) was a French chemist, pharmacist, and microbiologist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, Fermentation, microbial fermentation, and pasteurization, the la ...
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 appoin ...
Image:Alfred_Giard_1846-1908.jpg, Alfred Mathieu Giard
Image:Henri Padé.jpeg, Henri Padé
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 France, Prime Minister of the French Third Republic, Third Republic: 12 September – 13 November 1917 and 17 A ...
* Mathematics, engineering and information theory : Émile Borel
Félix Édouard Justin Émile Borel (; 7 January 1871 – 3 February 1956) was a French people, French mathematician and politician. As a mathematician, he was known for his founding work in the areas of measure theory and probability.
Biograp ...
, Joseph Boussinesq, Henri Cartan
Henri Paul Cartan (; 8 July 1904 – 13 August 2008) was a French mathematician who made substantial contributions to algebraic topology.
He was the son of the mathematician Élie Cartan, nephew of mathematician Anna Cartan, oldest brother of c ...
, Albert Châtelet, Paul Dubreil, Joseph Kampé de Fériet, Szolem Mandelbrojt
Szolem Mandelbrojt (10 January 1899 – 23 September 1983) was a Polish-French mathematician who specialized in mathematical analysis. He was a professor at the Collège de France from 1938 to 1972, where he held the Chair of Analytical Mechanics ...
, 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 #Fractals and the ...
, Mohammad Ali Mojtahedi, Henri Padé, Paul Painlevé
Paul Painlevé (; 5 December 1863 – 29 October 1933) was a French mathematician and statesman. He served twice as Prime Minister of France, Prime Minister of the French Third Republic, Third Republic: 12 September – 13 November 1917 and 17 A ...
, 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 Janu ...
, Ernest Vessiot
* Biology, chemistry, geology and medicine : Charles Barrois, Albert Calmette, Jean Théodore Delacour
Jean Théodore Delacour (26 September 1890 – 5 November 1985) was a French ornithologist and aviculturist. He later became American. He was renowned for not only discovering but also rearing some of the rarest birds in the world. He establishe ...
, Alfred Mathieu Giard, Camille Guérin, Claude Auguste Lamy
Claude Auguste Lamy (; 15 June 1820 – 20 March 1878) was a French physicist and chemist chemist who discovered the element thallium independently from William Crookes in 1862; as a result, they are considered co-discoverers, although th ...
, Louis Pasteur
Louis Pasteur (, ; 27 December 1822 – 28 September 1895) was a French chemist, pharmacist, and microbiologist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, Fermentation, microbial fermentation, and pasteurization, the la ...
* Law : René Cassin (Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prizes ( ; ; ) are awards administered by the Nobel Foundation and granted in accordance with the principle of "for the greatest benefit to humankind". The prizes were first awarded in 1901, marking the fifth anniversary of Alfred N ...
)
* 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 influ ...
, Henri Gouhier, 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, Vladimir Jankélévitch
Vladimir Jankélévitch (; 31 August 1903 – 6 June 1985) was a French philosopher and musicologist.
Biography
Jankélévitch was the son of Ukrainian Jewish parents, who had emigrated to France.
In 1922 he started studying philosophy at the à ...
.
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. It is operated by the Universit ...
*
* Compostela Group of Universities
Mobility centre
References
Doctoral college of Université Lille Nord de France
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Universite Lille Nord de France
Universities and colleges established in 1854
1854 establishments in France
Tourist attractions in Lille