University of Picardy Jules Verne

Université de Picardie Jules Verne
La citadelle d’Amiens
Type	Public
Established	1970
President	Mohammed Benlahsen
Academic staff	1,200 professors and researchers[1]
Students	32,000[2]
Location	Amiens ; Beauvais ; Cuffies-Soissons ; Saint-Quentin ; Creil ; Laon , Hauts-de-France , France
Campus	Urban
Affiliations	AUF, COMUE Lille Nord de France, EUA
Website	U-picardie.fr

The University of Picardy Jules Verne (French: Université de Picardie Jules Verne; UPJV) is a public university located in the former Picardy region of France (now part of Hauts-de-France).

It consists of several campuses located in the towns of Amiens, Beauvais, Cuffies, Saint-Quentin, Creil, and Laon.

The university was part of the University of Lille Nord de France group.

History

The University of Picardy Jules Verne was established in 1970 as a successor to the former University of Amiens. It was initially simply called the University of Picardy during its first two decades, until 1991 when writer Jules Verne's named was added.^[3] Verne spent much of his life in Amiens. What started as a small university now has over 30,000 students across all campuses. The university celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2019-2020.

Organisation

The university is organised into five main faculties or groupings each with a number of schools or institutes:

Arts, Literature, Languages

• UFR Arts
• UFR Languages and foreign cultures
• UFR Literature

Law, Economics, Management

• UFR Law and Political Science
• UFR Economics and Management
• Institut d'Administration des Entreprises (IAE)
• Institut de Préparation à l'Administration Générale (IPAG)

ESPE, Antenne et IUT

• Antenne Universitaire de Beauvais (AUB)
• École Supérieure du Professorat et de l'Éducation (ESPE)
• Institut Universitaire de Technologie d'Amiens
• Institut Universitaire de Technologie de l'Aisne
• Institut Universitaire de Technologie de l'Oise

Sciences Humaines et Sociales

• UFR d'Histoire et de Géographie
• UFR Sciences Humaines, Sociales et Philosophie

Sciences, Technologie, Santé

• UFR de Médecine
• Institut d'Ingénierie de la Santé - 2IS
• UFR de Pharmacie
• UFR des Sciences
• UFR des Sciences et Techniques des Activités Physiques et Sportives - STAPS
• Institut Supérieur des Sciences et Techniques - INSSET

Notable faculty

• Jacqueline Lévi-Valensi (1932-2004) - specialist in the work of Albert Camus
• Andrée Ehresmann (born 1935) - mathematician specialising in category theory
• Nadine-Josette Chaline (born 1938) - specialist in religious history
• Jean-Michel Macron (born 1950) - neurologist; father of Emmanuel Macron
• Jean-Marie Tarascon (born 1953) - chemist
• Brigitte Fouré (born 1955) - university lecturer and former government minister
• Laurence Bertrand Dorléac (born 1957) - art historian
• Enzo Traverso (born 1957) - Italian scholar of European intellectual history
• Nikolay Nenovsky (born 1963) - Bulgarian economist, working in the fields of monetary theory and policy, monetary history and history of economic thought
• Pablo Martín Asuero (born 1967) - Spanish scholar from the Basque Country. He specialises in Middle Eastern history
• Alain Bui (born 1969) - specialist in information technology; president of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University
• Fabien Danesi - art historian
• Nicole Jacques-Lefevre - Professor of Literature who specialises in the study of demonological texts of the Enlightenment in the eighteenth century including werewolves and lycanthropy
• Jean-Paul Cointet - historian
• Didier Eribon - philosopher

Notable alumni

• Daniel Ona Ondo (born 1945) - Gabonese politician who was Prime Minister of Gabon from January 2014 to September 2016
• Calliope Spanou - Greek academic who served from 2011 to 2015 as the Greek Ombudsman