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.
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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. 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
Ingénierie, Sciences, Technologie, Santé
École d'ingénieurs Jules Verne (EIJV)
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
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