Université de Nantes has adopted a comprehensive approach for preventing and combatting sexual harassment, moral or psychological bullying, sexism and discrimination.

If you want to use your summer holidays to experience a cultural and linguistic stay in Nantes or prepare your upcomin studies at University, French Summer Courses at Université de Nantes are an answer to your needs. The course will ensure you a dynamic learning experience in a relaxed atmosphere ! Registrations for our Summer intensive courses are still open online until May, 10.

For the third consecutive year, Philippe Moreau, university professor and hospital practitioner, director of the Integrated Cancer Research Site and haematologist specialized in the treatment of multiple myeloma, is among the top 1% of the world’s leading researchers most cited across all fields of research, according to the prestigious Clarivate Analytics Report.

Discussing the key issues on floating wind turbines for 2030, the development of technology and its acceptability, and preparing for the future in order to develop near-term collaborations between the United States and France were just some of subjects on the agenda at the French-American Innovation Days in Boston on 18 and 19 March 2019, on the theme of “Floating Offshore wind Energy Technology”.

The renowned teacher educator and education researcher, Edwige Chirouter (UNESCO Chair/University of Nantes Chair for the Practice of Philosophy with Children) held free sessions for teachers in Auckland and Wellington, supported by a minor grant from the New Zealand National Commission for UNESCO, 10, 11 April in Auckland and 15 April in Wellington.

Université de Nantes offers several long and short term programs to learn French as a Foreign Language, for all proficiency levels. Registrations for our Full-time semester courses are now open online until April, 31. Students will prepare the Diplome Universitaire d'études françaises (DUEF).

Université de Nantes is a partner in one of the largest current European research programmes (€10 million). John Tolan, Professor of History at the University and a specialist in the medieval Mediterranean world, is one of the four scientific leaders of the “EuQu” (The European Qur’an)

Seven professors and researchers from the Nantes Laboratoire de Planétologie et Géodynamique are contributing to InSight, a new space mission to Mars led by the American space agency NASA. InSight took off from California on 5 May 2018 and landed on Mars on 26 November 2018, for a nominal term of 2 years.

A team of researchers from Université de Nantes have studied the mortality of oysters, the “sentinels of the sea”, on the French Atlantic coast in relation to climate variations. The researchers estimate that by 2035 oyster mortality risk will be equivalent to the worst episodes of mortality observed over the past 20 years.

Researchers from Nantes have discovered a new way to increase the energy of Li-ion (lithium-ion) batteries by adding magnesium. These results, published in Nature Communications, could lead to the development of new more competitive batteries with a lower environmental impact than current Li-ion batteries.