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University of Poitiers

Public university in Poitiers, France

Summary

Public university in Poitiers, France

Field	Value
name	University of Poitiers
native_name	Université de Poitiers
image_size	200px
motto	Des savoirs & des talents
Knowledges and talents
image_name	LOGO UNIV Poitiers.png
established
type	Public
administrative_staff	2,300
president	Virginie Laval
budget	272 680 000 Euro (2016)
students	25,078 (2016)
city	Poitiers
country	France
campus	University town
colors	Red
affiliations	Coimbra Group, IRUN
website	www.univ-poitiers.fr

Knowledges and talents

The University of Poitiers (UP; , ) is a public university located in Poitiers, France. It is a member of the Coimbra Group. It is multidisciplinary and contributes to making Poitiers the city with the highest student/inhabitant ratio in France by welcoming nearly 28,000 students in 2017.

The University of Poitiers represents a global operating budget of around 150 million euros per year, one-third of which is for operating and investment costs and two-thirds for personnel costs. As of July 2015 it is a member of the regional university association Leonardo da Vinci consolidated University.

History

Founded in 1431 by Pope Eugene IV and chartered by King Charles VII, the University of Poitiers was originally composed of five faculties: theology, canon law, civil law, medicine, and arts.

In the 16th century, the university exerted its influence over the town cultural life, and was ranked second only to Paris. Of the 4,000 students who attended it at the time, some were to become famous: Joachim Du Bellay, Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac, François Rabelais, René Descartes, and Scévole de Sainte-Marthe, to name but a few.

After temporary closure during the French Revolution when provincial universities were abolished, the University of Poitiers reopened in 1796. The reinstated university was merged from several schools and contained new faculties such as the faculty of science and the faculty of letters.

They established the École nationale supérieure d'ingénieurs de Poitiers, a department which trains engineers, in 1984 after having created the Institut de sciences et techniques de Poitiers, its predecessor.

The first Confucius Institute in France was created on the campus in 2005 with the cooperation of Nanchang University and Jiujiang University.

After having managed its payroll and budget since January 1, 2010, the University of Poitiers is the third university in France to have its premises.

In late 2011 the university changed its logo. They submitted four so that students and the staff were able to decide. The up-to-date logo is based on the original coat of arms while the former was something modern. Over 9,000 people participated in the selection of the new logo.

In 2012, the university launched a blogging platform where the teaching staff and researchers deal with topical subjects, each in their area of expertise. The slogan is the word of experts.

Organization

The headquarters of the university of Poitiers in the city center

The university covers all major academic fields through its 14 teaching and research departments, institutes and schools:

Teaching and Research Departments
- Department of Law and Social Sciences
- Department of Economics
- Department of Basic and Applied Science
- Department of Literature and Languages
- Department of Human Sciences and Arts
- Department of Sports Sciences
- Department of Medicine and Pharmacy
School
- Graduate Engineering School - École nationale supérieure d'ingénieurs de Poitiers (ENSIP)
Institutes
- Polytechnic of Poitiers (IUT)
- Polytechnic of Angoulême (IUT)
- IAE University Business School (IAE Poitiers)
- Institute of Communication and New Technologies (ICOMTEC)
- General Administration Preparatory Institute (IPAG)
- Institute of Industrial, Insurance and Financial Risks (IRIAF)

Research

ENSI Poitiers]] in the center of the campus, at the East of Poitiers

In the scientific domain, it has these laboratories, where ENSIP is part of:

LIAS: automatics
IC2MP: chemistry and materials
Institut Pprime: physics

In the legal domain, the Center for Studies on International Legal Cooperation (CECOJI) is a joint research unit (UMR) involving the University of Poitiers and the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS).

Life on campus

Students can play in athletic teams, or just enjoy all the sports proposed. It is also possible to play golf at the north of the campus of Poitiers and sail in La Rochelle.

The Bitards are also known as the university's most famous student association.

Notable people

Medieval

Johann Reuchlin (1455-1522) - Greek and Hebrew scholar
François Rabelais (c.1490-1553) - writer
Hubert Languet (1518-1581) - diplomat
Joachim du Bellay (c.1522-1560) - poet, critic
Pierre de Ronsard (1524-1585) - poet
François Viète (1540-1603) - mathematician
Robert Hayman (1575-1629) - poet and colonist
Georg Anton von Rodenstein (1579-1652) - bishop
René Descartes (1596-1650) - philosopher
Joseph-François Lafitau (1681-1746) - Jesuit missionary, ethnologist, and naturalist

Modern

Humanities

Georges Vacher de Lapouge (1854-1936) - anthropologist
Alfred Jeanroy (1859-1953) - linguist
José Fernández Montesinos (1897-1972) - historian and literary critic
Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1995) - philosopher
Edmond-René Labande (1908-1992) - archivist and historian
Mikel Dufrenne (1910-1995) - philosopher
Roger Garaudy (1913-2012) - philosopher
John Howard Griffin (1920-1980) - American journalist and author
Jean Foyer (1921-2008) - lawyer and politician
Pierre Bec (1921-2014) - poet and linguist
Michel Clouscard (1928-2009) - philosopher and sociologist
Jean-Claude Coquet (1928-2023) - linguist and semiotician
Samir Amin (1931-2018) - economist
Kweku Etrew Amua-Sekyi (1933-2007) - Ghanaian Supreme Court Judge
Claude Hagège (b. 1936) - linguist
Joaquim Chissano (b. 1939) - Mozambican politician
Pascal Salin (b. 1939) - economist
Pascoal Mocumbi (1941-2023) - Mozambican politician
Jean-Pierre Arrignon (1943-2021) - historian
Jean-Luc Marion (b. 1946) - philosopher
François-Bernard Huyghe (1951-2022) - political scientist
Pascale Ballet (b. 1953) - Egyptologist

Science

Jules Gosselet (1832-1916) - geologist
Édouard Louis Trouessart (1842-1927) - zoologist
Noël Bernard (1874-1911) - botanist
Henri Lebesgue (1875-1941) - mathematician
René Maurice Fréchet (1878-1973) - mathematician
Paul Becquerel (1879-1955) - biologist
Albert Maige (1872-1943) - botanist
Michel Lazard (1924-1987) - mathematician
Michel Brunet (b. 1940) - paleontologist
Mostafa Mir-Salim (b. 1947) - engineer
Abderrazak El Albani - sedimentologist

Points of interest

Jardin botanique universitaire de Poitiers

References

"Decree 2015-857 of 13 July 2015 on the statutes for the ComUE " Université confédérale Léonard de Vinci "".
[http://www.auf.org/actualites/38-le-premier-institut-confucius-france-est-cr--lu/ Le premier Institut Confucius en France est créé à l'Université de Poitiers] {{webarchive. link. (6 September 2013 , AUF, 18 October 2005)
[http://ecole-eco.fr/nouveau-logo-de-l-universite-de-poitiers-et-le-gagnant-est-coup-de-coeur-92.html Nouveau logo de l'Université de Poitiers]{{Dead link. (August 2025)
"7 à Poitiers, numéro 147 du 21 au 27 novembre 2012, Blogs à part, Arnault Varanne".
[http://www.univ-poitiers.fr/campus/a-decouvrir/centre-golfique-des-chalons/centre-golfique-des-chalons-717281.kjsp Centre golfique des Chalons] {{Webarchive. link. (18 February 2019 , University of Poitiers)

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