About Nantes Université

Established in 2022, Nantes Université is a public higher education and research institution offering a unique model for a world-ranked university in France. It brings together a university organised into colleges, an engineering school (Centrale Nantes), an art school (School of Art Nantes Saint-Nazaire), a school of architecture (école nationale supérieure d'architecture de Nantes), a university hospital (Nantes' university hospital), a technological research institute (IRT Jules Verne), and a national research body (Inserm).

These partners combine their strengths and expertise to deliver education, advance research, and drive innovation. This innovative approach creates new learning opportunities for students by fostering cross-disciplinary collaboration and breaking down traditional barriers between different fields, cultures, and practices, thus contributing to societal transformation and addressing the challenges posed by the major transitions at work 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.

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