Aix-Marseille University (AMU) is the largest French-speaking multidisciplinary university, with 80,000 students and nearly 8,000 staff on five large campuses of international standards. Owner of 90% of its property, the university is present in 9 cities, in 4 departments of the Southern Region.
Its A*Midex University Foundation, which is the bearer of the IDEX, contributes to the development of a world-class interdisciplinary higher education and research cluster. Known as a "research-intensive university", it houses 122 research structures linked to the major national research organizations.
Aix-Marseille University is committed to interdisciplinarity, which is at the heart of its development strategy, and has recently created 15 institutional institutes to guarantee links between research and training and a broad international outlook. Partnership projects integrated into the regions, such as the Cité de l'Innovation et des Savoirs Aix-Marseille (CISAM), the territorial innovation clusters (PIT) and the technological platforms in conjunction with the CNRS and ISNERM, bear witness to AMU's commitment to innovation and its contribution to the creation of wealth for society.
The teaching of quality courses, backed up by major research teams, accompanied by measures to encourage student entrepreneurship and the possibility for economic players to access these resources are all levers for territorial development and its influence.
As a responsible university, Aix-Marseille University makes "living well together" a priority. The affirmation of its commitment to sustainable development in all its dimensions - human, environmental and heritage - is embodied in numerous actions and measures: travel plan, waste management plan, student awareness of the climate emergency and introduction of a sustainable development bonus, creation of the AMU Climate Council, but also a system for combating sexual, sexist and homophobic harassment, application of a master plan for disabilities, a system for combating racism and anti-Semitism, and numerous sports and festive events on campus. With 10,000 international students and more than 40 diplomas in international partnership, AMU has been awarded the European Commission's call for projects to build "CIVIS, a European Civic University" with its 7 European partners, contributing to major societal challenges, particularly in Africa and the Mediterranean.
Created on January 1, 2012, Aix-Marseille University (AMU) can legitimately consider, at the end of an initial period 2012-2017 largely devoted to the structuring of the single university, that it has met the major challenge it had set itself: to successfully merge the three universities in the region and give birth to a major university of world-class status.
AMU is thus a research-intensive university that has forged partnerships throughout the world, that has asserted its territorial roots and integration, and that ranks among the top French universities in the Shanghai ranking. AMU is a multidisciplinary university structured around five disciplinary sectors spread over 17 components (faculties, schools, institutes) and one multidisciplinary sector (including the ESPE and the IUT):
It is present in four departments and 9 cities. It has a real estate portfolio spread over 58 sites representing more than 830,000 m². AMU has been awarded the "Opération Campus", which, in conjunction with the CPER (State-Region Plan Contract), enables it to renovate and modernise its campuses in order to meet the best international standards. AMU is now a recognized and identified partner, which has been able to establish its identity and assert itself as a key player in its region, to whose development and influence it actively contributes.
Since 2012, AMU has developed and structured a rationalized and legible training offer. This work was further developed in the framework of the master plan for the training offer that it drew up in 2016 and 2017, the result of internal consultation but also of exchanges with socio-economic partners and local authorities. In terms of research and innovation, AMU has developed a strategy co-constructed on a site-wide scale in conjunction with the main research organizations (CNRS, Inserm, IRD, CEA...) and structured around its many research units and federations and its five intersectoral and interdisciplinary research clusters (PR2I):
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