University of Lille Nord de France


The Community of Universities and Institutions Lille Nord de France is a French Groups of Universities and Institutions spread over multiple campuses and centered in Lille. It includes a European Doctoral College and federates universities, engineering schools and research centers. With more than one hundred thousand students, it is one of the largest university federations in France. The University of Lille, with nearly 70,000 students, is the main component.

History

Founded as University of Douai in 1562, the university 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.
The university expanded into several campuses and formed several universities/institutions in Lille region and North at the end of the 20th century.
Finally the universities and institutions came together as the Université Lille Nord de France; and after as the Community of Universities and Institutions Lille Nord de France.
It is labeled I-Site in 2017 by the French government. It benefits from an allocation of 500 million euros for its project Université Lille Nord-Europe which aims to classify it in the top 50 universities of Europe.

Members

The Community of Universities and Institutions Lille Nord de France includes the following establishments :
Several institutions are associate members :
It participates in 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.
Altogether, the university research labs own an active portfolio of more than 170 invention patent families.


University institutes and research labs promote student and researchers mobility and cooperate in several university networks :