Pôle de recherche et d'enseignement supérieur


French university associations known as "pôles de recherche et d'enseignement supérieur" were a form of higher-level organization for universities and other institutions established by French law in effect from 2007 to 2013. The 2013 Law on Higher Education and Research discontinued the PRES; these have been largely replaced by the new Communities of Universities and Institutions. The list below indicates the status of those institutions designated as PRES or related associations before the 2013 law took effect. See the list of public universities in France for the current status of these institutions.

History

The reforms of French higher education in 1968-1971 broke apart several public universities into numerous autonomous successor universities. For example, the University of Paris was split into thirteen universities, Paris I through Paris XIII. These universities have subsequently formed groupings in order to pool resources and better advance their joint activities. Some of these groupings, which typically take the legal form of a groupement d'interêt public, or GIP, are themselves called universities or university centers. In addition to universities, they may include other institutions of higher education and research as well as municipal and regional governments. The process has accelerated with the on the reform of research in France. This has permitted the creation of tighter groupings called pôles de recherche et d'enseignement supérieur, or PRES. In addition, there are a number of consortia of engineering schools, such as the Grenoble Institute of Technology, that are so tightly united as to be listed as if they were single universities by the Ministry of Higher Education and Research.

Bordeaux

Systems and consortiums in Bordeaux:

University of Bordeaux

The present University of Bordeaux is a PRES, established 21 March 2007, made up of the four successor universities to the former University of Bordeaux as well as a number of other institutions:
  1. University of Bordeaux 1
  2. Victor Segalen Bordeaux 2 University
  3. Michel de Montaigne University Bordeaux 3
  4. Montesquieu University - Bordeaux IV
  5. ENSEIRB http://www.enseirb.fr/
  6. [ENSCPB https://web.archive.org/web/20091003071754/http://www.enscpb.fr/
  7. [Sciences Po Bordeaux
  8. ENITAB

    Bordeaux University Center

The Bordeaux University Center is a GIP, made up of the four successor universities to the former University of Bordeaux, along with municipal and regional governments. The four universities are:
  1. University of Bordeaux 1
  2. Victor Segalen Bordeaux 2 University
  3. Michel de Montaigne University Bordeaux 3
  4. Montesquieu University - Bordeaux IV

    [Cergy-Pontoise]

The Cergy-Pontoise University as well as all upper education institutions of Cergy-Pontoise are organized in a PRES including :
Systems and consortiums in Grenoble:

University of Grenoble

The University of Grenoble was a French university founded in 1339. There are three present-day successor universities:
  1. Joseph Fourier University
  2. Pierre Mendès-France University
  3. Stendhal University
The present University of Grenoble is a project of these three universities, together in the Grenoble Universités consortium with the Grenoble Institute of Technology, to place aspects of research, instruction, and support under joint administration. This project was formally established in November 2006, with the aim of starting work in 2007 and having the new University of Grenoble take over the tasks of the Grenoble Universités consortium by January 2009 at the latest.

''Grenoble Universités''

is a GIP, made up of the following four institutions:
  1. Joseph Fourier University
  2. Pierre Mendès-France University
  3. Stendhal University
  4. Grenoble Institute of Technology

    Grenoble Institute of Technology

The Grenoble Institute of Technology is a consortium of six engineering schools:
  1. Ense3
  2. Ensimag
  3. Esisar
  4. Génie industriel
  5. Pagora
  6. Phelma
It was established in 1971, along with the other two French national polytechnic institutes.

[Lille]

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It includes the following establishments :
Several institutions are associate members :
It participates in 8 French competitiveness clusters.
139 research labs and institutes are associated to the European Doctoral College Lille Nord-de-France. Six doctoral schools are included with 3,000 registered PhD students.

Lyon

There is the following consortium in Lyon:

University of Lyon

The University of Lyon comprises 16 institutions:
  1. Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
  2. Lumière University Lyon 2
  3. Jean Moulin University Lyon 3
  4. École Normale Supérieure de Lyon
  5. École normale supérieure lettres et sciences humaines
  6. École Centrale de Lyon
  7. INSA Lyon
  8. École National Supérieure des Sciences de l'Information et des Bibliothèques
  9. École Vétérinaire de Lyon
  10. Université catholique de Lyon
  11. École de Management de Lyon
  12. Institut National de Recherche Pédagogique
  13. Institut Polytechnique de Lyon
  14. Institut d'Études Politiques de Lyon
  15. Institut Universitaire de Formation des Maîtres der Akademie Lyon
  16. École Nationale des Travaux Publics de l'État

    [Marseille]

There is the following consortium in Toulouse:

[University of Toulouse]

The University of Toulouse is a Research and Higher Education Cluster consisting of 14 institutions :