- Jehanne Réguer and Emma Rolland-Derrien, students at the University of Angers, are leaving on 7 February for a five-week humanitarian placement in Togo.
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- The University of Angers has recently been recognised in three prestigious international academic rankings. The quality of research, the training offered, the international collaborations... The indicators are manifold. Here is a brief description.
- Families of staff at UA open their homes and invite international students for Christmas. It is a unique opportunity to experience local family traditions!
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- John Cowles, a former English teacher at the University Institute of Technology (IUT), shares his staff mobility story after undertaking a teaching mobility in Portugal.
- Student involvement is at the heart of the European alliance EU Green. Four UA students have joined the EU Green Student Council, a body set up to represent the interests of the student community within the alliance.
- With the support of the European Commission, the BREATH research project co-finances a doctoral training programme combining human and social sciences with health disciplines for twenty young researchers from the universities of Angers, Nantes and Le Mans. The project started in September 2025.
- Researchers at CRCI2NA have successfully cured mice suffering from glioblastoma, the most aggressive form of brain cancer. The treatment, based on the administration of antibodies tagged with a radioactive element, provided long-term protection for the animals and prevented recurrence.
A reinforced partnership with China
The April 24, 2024
- This year marks 60 years of diplomatic relationships between France and China. In celebration of this anniversary, a delegation from the University of Angers visited China late April for the tenth board meeting of the French-Chinese Icuna institute (Joint institute between the universities of Ningbo and Angers).
INNTO France: The future of Tourism in French higher education
The May 30, 2024
- INNTO France is the result of a group led by ESTHUA - the National Institute of Tourism of the University of Angers - and accompanied by 5 other French universities - Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, Toulouse Jean-Jaurès, Savoie Mont-Blanc, Gustave-Eiffel and the University of Côte d’Azur.
After two years of work and joint effort, the name of the network was made official at its launch in Paris on Thursday 30th May 2024: National Institutes of Tourism, INNTO (Instituts nationaux de tourisme).
Angers Autumn School Foraminifera and geochemistry
From September 30, 2024 to October 4, 2024
- Registration is now open for the Angers Autumn School, 1st international training course on recent foraminiferas combined with sediment geochemistry in coastal environments. This second edition will take place from September 30th to October 4th, 2024 at the University of Angers (France).
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Environment: the EARTH Chair focuses on interdisciplinarity
From April 5, 2024 to June 5, 2024
- The new EARTH Chair, created by the Centre Jean-Bodin, Centre for Legal and Political Research, seeks to bring together researchers in the humanities and social sciences around the challenges of the environmental crisis and to share the results with the general public.
- Audrey, a third-year English degree student at UA, went to Finland for an Erasmus exchange. Read about her experience.
- Maxime Pontié, a professor at the Faculty of Science, and his team from the Analysis and Processes Group (GA&P) are taking action to protect the Mediterranean Sea from water pollution.
- On 5 December 2023, UA awarded the honorary title of Doctor Honoris Causa to Véronique Préat, Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium), and to Federica Migliardo, Professor in Experimental Physics at the University of Messina (Italy). The ceremony was preceded by a round-table discussion on the topic of "Women and Science".
- The acquisition of observation data on plants has seen considerable progress in controlled environments. This is not the case for outdoor phenotyping. The European Phenet project is determined to rise to this challenge.
- Abigail Whyte is an Australian student from the University of New England (UNE), located in the town of Armidale in Eastern Australia. She is currently studying Old French and Latin at the Faculty of Languages, Humanities and Social Sciences and will stay in Angers for 5 months. She has kindly agreed to answer our questions on her background and experience in France.
- The COMBO research project, which has received €4 million in funding from the European Commission, brings together 13 national and international partners, including the University of Angers, and seeks to develop new strategies for supplying marine molecules to the health and cosmetics markets. Nicolas Papon, professor of parasitology and medical mycology, and coordinator of this project at UA, explains the importance of the project.
Woman, Life, Freedom
From November 6, 2023 to November 30, 2023
- Throughout November, to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, the University of Angers is hosting several events to honour the lives of women and men in Iran: Exhibition, film-debate and and photo-conference.
- The Second Language Learning at School for all teenagers (SLS4Teens) project, which is a product of the EU-Green alliance, has won a call for projects from the Erasmus+ programme and is looking at the role of neurolinguistics in foreign and second language learning. Delphine Guedat-Bittighoffer, teacher-researcher at Cirpall and project coordinator, explains.
- Lynda Lecaudey, Associate Professor of English at the Faculty of Law, Economics and Business Studies, shares her staff mobility story after having taken a course in "mindfulness in the teaching and learning process" in Ireland.
- During the International Sustainable Development Week, UA welcomed fifteen students from our EU GREEN partner universities.
- Winner of the Marc-Julia prize last April, Antoine Goujon, a teacher-researcher at Moltech Anjou, has just been awarded a prestigious grant from the European Research Council (ERC) for his PhotoFreeze project. Interview.
Nomination for Fall semester 2024-25 : Late nominations
From May 1, 2024 to May 31, 2024
- Late nominations for the Fall semester of the academic year 2024-25 can be made from 1 May until 31 May.
Nominate your students by filling in the online nomination form on this page before 31 May.
- The University of Angers confirms its position among the top 25-30 French universities in all the rankings in which it features. These good results are also reflected in its position in international rankings. ratio
