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  • 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 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

  • 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).
  • 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.
  • 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 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.
  • 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.

UA celebrates Gender Equality

  • The 2024 edition of the Gender Equality Month at UA will question the place of bodies deemed non-conforming in our societies.
  • 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

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Can public authorities benefit from restricting the use of a particular chemical? This question is at the heart of the ambitious Valesor European research programme, coordinated by the University of Angers.
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