About Nantes Université

Nantes Université is a higher education and research institute that offers a unique model at a world-ranked French university. It brings together a university organised into faculties, three ‘grandes écoles’ (Centrale Nantes, École des Beaux-Arts Nantes Saint-Nazaire, and École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Nantes), a university hospital (CHU de Nantes), a technological research institute (IRT Jules Verne), and a national research body (Inserm).

These actors combine their strengths and capabilities to train, research and innovate. This innovative vision offers new training opportunities to students by breaking down barriers between ways of thinking, cultures and practices, thereby contributing to the transformation of society and addressing the challenges posed by the major transitions currently underway in society.

Committed to its local community, Europe and the world, Nantes Université works in synergy with public, private, socio-economic and cultural stakeholders. As a member of the European University for Well-being EUniWell, it contributes to the construction of Europe and the achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

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The project's core principle: knowledge as a common good

Nantes Université considers that knowledge created at the university, financed by public funds, is a common good and should be made freely available to as many people as possible. This approach to openness is divided into several interrelated areas: open science, open education, open innovation, scientific mediation and open governance.

The structure of Nantes Université