The Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon or INSA Lyon is a Grande École (French highly selective higher education establishments) forming multidisciplinary engineers. The university is located on the La Doua – LyonTech campus, in a cluster of science and technological universities and Grandes Écoles. La Doua is located in Villeurbanne, a suburb of Lyon. The school was founded in 1957 to train […]
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The Université d’Évry Val-d’Essonne (Université d’Évry Val-d’Essonne or UEVE) is a French public university located in Évry (just outside Paris), Île-de-France, France and is one of the six founding members of University of Paris-Saclay. This University founded in 1991, is located in a “ville nouvelle” which is dynamic and constantly evolving. The city of Évry is home to many firms (Accor, Carrefour etc.), the largest mall in Île-de-France and a national theatre. […]
Lumière University Lyon 2 is one of the three universities that comprise the current University of Lyon, having splintered from an older university of the same name, and is primarily based on two campuses in Lyon itself. It has a total of 27,500 students studying for three-to-eight-year degrees in the arts, humanities and social sciences. Lyon 2 Lumière […]
The University of Nîmes (Université de Nîmes), also known as Unîmes, is a French university, in the Academy of Montpellier. It was founded on 7 May 2007 as the successor to the Nîmes University Center for Training and Research (Centre Universitaire de Formation et de Recherche de Nîmes), which already bore the short name Unîmes.
The University of Burgundy former University of Dijon, Université de Dijon (until 1984)) is a university in Dijon, France. The University of Burgundy is situated on a large campus (more than 150 ha) in the west part of Dijon of called Campus Montmuzard, about 15 minutes by tram from the city centre. The humanities and sciences are well represented on the main […]
Paris Nanterre University (French: Université Paris Nanterre), formerly called “Paris X Nanterre” and more recently “Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense”, is a French university in the Academy of Versailles. It is one of the most prestigious French universities, mainly in the areas of law, humanities, political science, social and natural sciences and economics. It is one of […]
University of the Littoral Opal Coast (Université du Littoral Côte d’Opale), also known as ULCO, is a French university, based in Boulogne, Calais, Dunkirk (Dunkerque) and Saint Omer. The head office is in Dunkirk (Dunkerque in French). It reports to the Academy of Lille and is a member of the European Doctoral College Lille-Nord-Pas de Calais and of the Community of Universities and […]
The University of Nantes is a French university, located in the city of Nantes. In addition to the several campuses scattered in the city of Nantes, there are two satellite campuses located respectively in Saint-Nazaire and La Roche-sur-Yon. Currently, the university is attended by approximately 34,500 students. More than 10% of them are international students coming from 110 countries. The university ranked between 401-500th in the Times […]
Jean Monnet University is a French public research university based in Saint-Étienne. It is under the Academy of Lyon and belongs to the administrative entity denominated University of Lyon, which gathers different schools in Lyon and Saint-Étienne. The main campus is located in Tréfilerie, in the city of Saint-Étienne. It houses arts, languages and letters courses, with law, economics and management, human sciences […]
The University of Rennes 1 is one of the two main universities in the city of Rennes, France. It is under the Academy of Rennes. It specializes in science, technology, law, economics, management and philosophy. The University of Rennes 1 has been in existence since 1969, but its heritage stems back to the days of the Breton University founded in 1461. […]
The University of Pau and the Adour Region (L’Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour or UPPA) is a French multi-site, public university. Founded in 1972, it is based in Pau (département of Pyrénées-Atlantiques) but also in Anglet, Bayonne, Tarbes and Mont-de-Marsan in the Adour river basin. Coming administratively under the Academy of Bordeaux, it is the third largest university in southwestern France (after Bordeaux and Toulouse), with some 12,000 students. The University’s logo […]
The University of Technology of Compiègne is a public research university located in Compiègne, France. The university has both the status of public university and Grande Ecole. It was founded in 1972 as the first experimental Institute of Technology in France. The university is a founding member of Sorbonne University Association, a group composed of french leading academic and research institutions, which alumni and faculty include 19 Nobel […]
Artois University is a French university based in Arras. It is under the umbrella of the Academy of Lille and is a member of the European Doctoral College Lille-Nord-Pas de Calais and of the Community of Universities and Institutions (COMUE) Lille Nord de France.
University of Upper Alsace is a multidisciplinary teaching and research centre based in the two cities of Mulhouse and Colmar, France. Research and teaching at UHA concentrates mainly on science, technology, economics, management, arts and humanities. In 2017, UHA has more than 8000 students with about a hundred courses offered. The founding of UHA was driven by social and […]
The University of Montpellier is a French public research university in Montpellier in south-east of France. Established in 1220, the University of Montpellier is one of the oldest universities in the world. The university was split into three universities (the University of Montpellier 1, the University of Montpellier 2 and the Paul Valéry University Montpellier 3) for 45 years from 1970 until 2015 when it was […]
The University of Strasbourg in Strasbourg, Alsace, France, is a university in France with over 52,000 students and almost 3,300 researchers. The French university traces its history to the earlier German-language Universität Straßburg, which was founded in 1538, and was divided in the 1970s into three separate institutions: Louis Pasteur University, Marc Bloch University, and Robert Schuman University. On 1 January 2009, […]
The École nationale supérieure des arts et industries textiles (ENSAIT) is a French Engineering grand établissement (grande école) and a member of UP-TEX research cluster (Union Pôle Textile). ENSAIT is a higher education and research institute, gathering all the disciplines related to textiles. ENSAIT chairs include four departments related to education and research. A majority of full-time students requesting admission have to pass […]
The Institut supérieur de l’aéronautique et de l’espace (ISAE-SUPAERO, English: National Higher French Institute of Aeronautics and Space) is one of the most prestigious French universities (grandes écoles) in engineering, founded in 1909. It was the world’s first dedicated aerospace engineering school and is considered to be one of the best in Europe in that field. The school […]
Lycée Paul Éluard is a senior high school/sixth-form college in Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis, France, in the Paris metropolitan area. As of 2016 the school has fewer than 300 employees, including about 200 teachers, and about 1,700 students.
The Lycée Vauvenargues is a public school located in Aix-en-Provence bringing together a general high school, a vocational high school , a preparatory class for grandes écoles ( CPGE ), an apprenticeship training center ( CFA ) offering a BTS and a Greta . Originally called Lycée Carnot , it took its current name in 1962 in tribute to the moralist Luc de Clapiers , Marquis de Vauvenargues . It occupies an entire wing of the establishment, with its […]
The Lycée Saint-Louis-de-Gonzague (“Franklin”), founded in 1894, is a highly selective Roman Catholic, Jesuitschool in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. It is regarded as the most prestigious French private school and has been ranked #1 lycée in France in the ranking of the newspaper Le Figaro. The Jesuit school includes: an elementary school (école primaire) (3 to 10 years old) a middle school (collège) with about 600 students (10 to […]
ACMAT (Ateliers de Construction Mécanique de L’Atlantique, also known as ALM-ACMAT) is a French manufacturer of cross-country and tactical military vehicles since 1958. Known for their reliability, simplicity, ruggedness and their 80% (over 3,500) commonality of parts across the entire product line, these vehicles were originally targeted at African and Asian countries who could not afford more expensive vehicles. They […]
Hexis S.A. is a manufacturer of self-adhesive vinyl (PVC) films used for commercial signage and as digital printing media for large format inkjet printers. The company headquarters are in Frontignan, France. The company was founded in 1989 by its current (2010) president, Michel Mateu. The company specializes in pressure-sensitive adhesive (PSA) coating of thin plastic films and pioneered their own process to […]
LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton commonly known as LVMH, is a French multinational corporation and conglomerate specializing in luxury goods, headquartered in Paris, France. The company was formed in 1987 through the merger of fashion house Louis Vuitton (founded in 1854) with Moët Hennessy, which was established after the 1971 merger between the champagne producer Moët & Chandon (founded in 1743) and the cognac producer Hennessy (founded in 1765). LVMH controls around 60 subsidiaries that each manage […]
E.Leclerc is a French cooperative society and hypermarket chain, headquartered in Ivry-sur-Seine. E.Leclerc was established on 1 January 1948 by Édouard Leclerc in Brittany. E.Leclerc currently has more than 500 locations in France and 114 stores outside of the country, as of 2012. The chain enables semi-independent stores to operate under the Leclerc brand. Own brand ranges come under the Marque Repère and Eco+ banners. Some larger hypermarkets have a […]
Veuve Clicquot Ponsardinis a French Champagne house based in Reims, specializing in premium products. It was founded in 1772 by Philippe Clicquot and is one of the largest champagne houses in the world. Madame Clicquot is credited with major breakthroughs, creating the first known vintage champagne in 1810, and inventing the riddling table process to clarify champagne in 1816.
Givenchy is a Frenchluxury fashion and perfume house. It hosts the brand of haute couture clothing, accessories and Parfums Givenchy, perfumes and cosmetics. The house of Givenchy was founded in 1952 by designer Hubert de Givenchy and is a member of Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture et du Pret-a-Porter. It is owned by a luxury conglomerate LVMH. From 2 May 2017 until 10 April 2020, […]
Carte Noire is a coffee brand belonging to the Italian company Luigi Lavazza (Turin) since February 2016. Before that date, it was part of the American group Mondelēz International, resulting from a split from the American Kraft Foods .
Lacoste S.A. is a French company, founded in 1933 by tennis player René Lacoste and André Gillier. It sells clothing, footwear, sportswear, eyewear, leather goods, perfume, towels and watches. The company can be recognised by its green crocodile logo. René Lacoste, the company’s founder, was nicknamed “the Crocodile” by fans because of his tenacity on the tennis court. In November 2012 Lacoste was bought outright by Swiss family-held group Maus Frères.
Yves Rocher is a worldwide cosmetics and beauty brand, founded in 1959 by the French entrepreneur Yves Rocher (1930–2009) in La Gacilly. The company is present in 88 countries on five continents and employs 13,500 personnel, excluding more than 215,000 through additional indirect jobs. The company maintains a botanical garden, the Jardin botanique Yves Rocher de La Gacilly, at its industrial site in La […]
Citroën is a French automobile manufacturer. It was founded in March 1919 by industrialist André-Gustave Citroën, and has been part of Stellantis since 2021.
Lactalis is a French multinational dairy products corporation, owned by the Besnier family and based in Laval, Mayenne, France. The company’s former name was Besnier SA. It is the largest dairy products group in the world, and is the second largest food products group in France, behind Danone. It owns brands such as Parmalat, Président, Siggi’s Dairy, Skånemejerier, Rachel’s Organic, and Stonyfield Farm.
AT Internet is a privately held company that provides web analytics services and consulting for websites, intranet, mobile sites and mobile applications. It has provided these services since 1995. The company is commonly known (especially in France) by the former name of its flagship product XiTi. AT Internet’s application, the Analytics Suite, is used on approximately 20,000 websites and mobile applications worldwide.
Motion Twin is an independent studio specializing in online video games. Founded in 2001, the company is a worker cooperative enterprise based in Bordeaux, France.
Stelia Aerospace (stylised STELIA Aerospace) is an aerospace company headquartered in Toulouse, France. It specialises in the design and manufacture of aerostructures, pilot seats and premium class passenger seats mainly for the commercial aviation sector. Stelia Aerospace was created on 1 January 2015 by the merger of two Airbus business units: Aerolia and SOGERMA. The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Airbus.
Euronews is a pan-European pay television news network, headquartered in Lyon, France. The network began broadcasting on 1 January 1993 and aimed to cover world news from a pan-European perspective. It is jointly owned by several European and North African public and state-owned broadcasting organizations, and is currently majority-owned (88%) by Media Globe Networks, led by Egyptian billionaire Naguib Sawiris, who is […]