Université Lille Nord de France

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name = University of Lille - North of France
native_name = Université de Lille - Nord de France


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established = 1562 (Douai), 1854(Lille)
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city = Lille
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country = France
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campus = Multiple site campus : Arras Béthune Boulogne-sur-Mer Calais Cambrai Douai Dunkerque Lens Liévin Lille Maubeuge Ronchin Roubaix Tourcoing Valenciennes Villeneuve-d'Ascq Wimereux
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affiliations = EUA -Utrecht Network-Compostela-IMCC-ESDP
website = http://cde.univ-lille1.fr/

footnotes = The University of Lille -Nord de France ("Université Lille - Nord de France"), located in Lille, France, is a center for higher education, academic research and doctoral studies located over multiple campuses in the Academie de Lille.It includes a doctoral college that federates university institutes, engineering schools and research centres.

With more than one hundred thousand students, the Université Lille Nord de France is one of the five largest university federation in France.

History

Founded as University of Douai in 1562, the state university in Northern France 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. Fr icon [http://asa3.univ-lille1.fr/spip/ASA_histoire/mathematiques/mathematiques-1.htm Histoire de l'université de Lille] .
* 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 1980's.

The university expanded into several campus in Lille region end 20th century and has built itself as the Université Lille Nord de France.

Multiple site campus

University of Lille -Nord de France is organised over several campus sites :
* Campus Lille I : Lille University of Science and Technology and Ecole centrale de Lille
* Campus Lille II : Lille 2 University of Health and Law and CHRU Lille university hospital
* Campus Lille III : Lille University Charles de Gaulle for humanities, social sciences, litterature and arts
* Campus Artois : Multidisciplinary Artois University and École des Mines de Douai
* Campus Littoral : Multidisciplinary University of the Littoral Opal Coast
* Campus Valenciennes : Multidisciplinary University of Valenciennes and Hainaut-Cambresis.

Doctoral school and research laboratories

139 research labs and institutes are associated to the European Doctoral College Lille Nord-Pas de Calais.

Altogether, the university research labs own an active portfolio of more than 170 invention patent families [http://v3.espacenet.com/results?sf=a&DB=EPODOC&PA=Univ+Lille&PGS=15&CY=ep&LG=en&ST=advanced Lille Univ patent portfolio] . (Approximately 411 results found for "Univ Lille" in the EPO worldwide patent database in mid-2008)

Famous students and professors

Charles Barrois, Émile Borel, Pierre Bourdieu, Joseph Boussinesq, René Cassin (Nobel Prize), Henri Cartan, Albert Châtelet, Jean Delannoy, Paul Dubreil, Étienne Gilson, Vladimir Jankélévitch, Pierre Macherey, Szolem Mandelbrojt, Benoît Mandelbrot, Henri Padé, Paul Painlevé, Louis Pasteur, Ernest Vessiot.

Student and researcher mobility

University institutes and research labs promote student and researchers mobility and cooperate in several university networks :
* ESDP
* Utrecht Network
* IMCC
* Compostela Group of Universities
* [http://www.poleuniv-lille-npdc.fr/en/index.html Mobility centre]

References

* [http://cde.univ-lille1.fr/index.php?id=23&L=1 Doctoral college of Université Lille Nord de France]
* [http://www.poleuniv-lille-npdc.fr/en/index.html Mobility centre Lille Nord Pas de Calais]
* [http://asa3.univ-lille1.fr/spip/ASA_histoire/mathematiques/mathematiques-9.htm Histoire de la Faculté des Sciences de l'Université de Lille]