university of Toulouse

{{Infobox university

|name = University of Toulouse

|native_name = Université de Toulouse

|image_name = Logo PRES Université de Toulouse.png

|established = {{start date and age|1229}}

|city = Toulouse

|country = France

|students = 110,000

|total_staff = 37,000

|president = Michael Toplis

|website = [http://www.univ-toulouse.fr/ www.univ-toulouse.fr]

}}

The University of Toulouse ({{langx|fr|Université de Toulouse}}, {{IPA|fr|ynivɛʁsite də tuluz|pron}}) is a community of universities and establishments (ComUE) based in Toulouse, France. Originally it was established in 1229, making it one of the earliest universities to emerge in Europe. Suppressed during the French Revolution in 1793, it was refounded in 1896 as part of the reorganization of higher education. It was finally abolished in 1969, giving birth to the three current universities: Toulouse 1 Capitole University, University of Toulouse-Jean Jaurès and Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier University. The ComUE in the Toulouse region was known as Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées. On January 1, 2023, the university was renamed as the University of Toulouse.{{Cite web|url=https://en.univ-toulouse.fr/strengths-network/multidisciplinary-campus|website=Université de Toulouse|title=Homepage}}

The three universities, along with other institutions, participated in the reconstruction of the University of Toulouse – a joint structure of 107,000 students including 4,500 doctoral students, 17,000 staffs and 145 research laboratories. The mission was entrusted to Patrick Lévy, former president of the Grenoble Alpes University, accompanied by Philippe Raimbault, president of the Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées. This development, strongly desired by the elected officials of the Occitania region and Toulouse Métropole, aims to give greater visibility to Toulouse higher education in international rankings.

History

The formation of the University of Toulouse was imposed on Count Raymond VII as a part of the Treaty of Paris in 1229 ending the crusade against the Albigensians. As he was suspected of sympathizing with the heretics, Raymond VII had to finance the teaching of theology. Bishop Foulques de Toulouse was among the founders of the university. Among its first lecturers were Jean de Garlande and Roland of Cremona. Other faculties (law, medicine) were added later. Initially, the university was located in the center of the city, together with the ancestors of student residences, the colleges.

In 1969, the University of Toulouse split into three separate universities and numerous specialised institutions of higher education. The three universities are: Toulouse 1 Capitole University, University of Toulouse-Jean Jaurès and Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier University.

The university system was founded on 27 March 2007.{{cite web|url=http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichTexte.do?cidTexte=JORFTEXT000000649623&dateTexte=|title=Décret n° 2007-385 du 21 mars 2007 portant création de l'établissement public de coopération scientifique Université de Toulouse – Legifrance|access-date=5 July 2015}} It no longer represented a single university, it was the collective entity (PRES) which federated the universities and institutions of higher education in Toulouse region. With more than 100,000 students, Midi-Pyrénées is the fifth-largest university area in France.[pdf] [http://media.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr/file/Atlas_2008-2009/59/7/Atlas_0809_Web_Midi_Pyrenees_148597.pdf Regional atlas student population in 2008–2009]

The current university system was created as a ComUE according to the 2013 Law on Higher Education and Research (France), effective on July 1, 2015. It replaced the pôle de recherche et d'enseignement supérieur (PRES) which had been organized in 2007 to coordinate higher education and research in the region.

In 2021, Patrick Lévy conducted an audit of the university site, which proposed changes.{{Cite web |date=2021-02-22 |title=Fusion ou nouvelle gouvernance ? Les universités de Toulouse face à leur destin (collectif) |url=https://toulouse.latribune.fr/politique/territoires/2021-02-22/fusion-ou-nouvelle-gouvernance-les-universites-de-toulouse-face-a-leur-destin-collectif-877849.html |access-date=2023-05-11 |website=La Tribune |language=fr}} In 2022, this process led to the evolution of the institution towards the status of an experimental ComUE.{{cite web |title=Naviguer dans le sommaire |url=https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/jorf/id/JORFTEXT000046711536 |website=www.legifrance.gouv.fr |access-date=2 June 2023 |language=fr |date=Dec 8, 2022 }} On January 1, 2023, the Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées became the University of Toulouse.

Members

Image:Toulouse - Anciennes Facultes.jpg

The University of Toulouse is a higher education and research institute cluster which brings together the following institutions:

Université Toulouse 1 Capitole – UT1 (Law, Economics, Management)
Université Toulouse – Jean Jaurès – UT2J (Arts, Literature, Humanities and Languages)
Université Toulouse III – Paul Sabatier – UT3 (Science, Technologies and Health)
Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse – INP Toulouse (Engineering)Although listed as a university by the Ministry of Higher Education and Research, the National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse and the two other instituts nationaux polytechniques are really university systems, as each one groups together a number of autonomous institutes of higher education. Because it consists exclusively of grandes écoles, which have selective admissions policies, the National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse is qualitatively different from the French public universities.
École Nationale Supérieure Agronomique de Toulouse – INP-ENSAT (Agronomy)
École Nationale Supérieure d’Électrotechnique, d’Électronique, d’Informatique, d’Hydraulique et des Télécommunications – INP-ENSEEIHT (Engineering)
École Nationale Supérieure des Ingénieurs en Arts Chimiques et Technologiques – INP-ENSIACET (Engineering)
École Nationale d'Ingénieurs de Tarbes – INP-ENIT (Engineering)
École Nationale de la Météorologie – INP-ENM (Meteorology)
École d'ingénieurs de Purpan – INP-EI Purpan (Agronomy)
École Nationale Vétérinaire de Toulouse – ENVT (Veterinary Studies)
Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Toulouse – INSA Toulouse (Engineering)
Institut Supérieur de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace – ISAE-SUPAERO (Engineering)
Centre Universitaire de Formation et de Recherche Jean-François Champollion – CUFR Champollion (Several fields of study)
École des Mines d'Albi-Carmaux – EMAC (Engineering)
École Nationale de l'Aviation Civile – ENAC (Civil Aviation)
École nationale supérieure de formation de l’enseignement agricole – ENSFEA (Agronomy)
École Nationale Supérieur d'Architecture de Toulouse – ENSA Toulouse (Architecture)
Toulouse Business School – TBS Education (Business and Commerce)
Institut d'études politiques de Toulouse – Sciences Po Toulouse (Political Studies)
Institut Catholique d'Arts et Métiers de Toulouse – ICAM Toulouse (Engineering)

Doctoral schools

The Doctoral Schools are all members of the Research and Doctoral Department of the Université de Toulouse : 15 Doctoral Schools

representing a research potential of 4200 Scientists including 2400 Senior Scientists; 4200 PhD students and 800 Doctorate diplomas

awarded per year.

=In the field of Science and Technology=

Biology, Health & Biotechnologies{{cite web|url=http://www.edbio.ups-tlse.fr/spipedbio/|title=ADUM – Outil de gestion et de communication pour les écoles doctorales et les établissements d'enseignement supérieurs|access-date=5 July 2015}}
Sciences for Ecology, Veterinary, Agronomy & Bioengineery{{cite web|url=http://www.sevab.ups-tlse.fr/en/index.php|title=Site de l'école doctorale SEVAB : Accueil|author=LAPEYRE Martial-DELRIEU Eric-CHARMANTIER Audrey|access-date=5 July 2015}}
Geosciences, Astrophysics & Space Sciences{{cite web|url=http://sdu2e.omp.obs-mip.fr/index.php|title=Ecole Doctorale SDU2E|access-date=5 July 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150404043603/http://sdu2e.omp.obs-mip.fr/index.php|archive-date=4 April 2015|url-status=dead}}
Mathematics, Informatics & Telecommunications Toulouse Doctoral School{{cite web|url=http://www.edmitt.ups-tlse.fr/|title=Ecole doctorale MITT Mathématiques Informatique Télécommunications de Toulous – ED 475 Toulouse|access-date=5 July 2015}}
Electrical, Electronic Engineering & Telecommunications {{cite web|url=http://www.laas.fr/GEET/|title=Ecole doctorale GEET – ED 323 Toulouse|access-date=5 July 2015}}
Systems {{cite web|url=http://www.laas.fr/EDSYS/|title=ECOLE DOCTORALE SYSTEMES – ED 309|access-date=5 July 2015}}
Physics, Chemistry & Materials Sciences {{cite web|url=http://www.edsdm.ups-tlse.fr/|title=Ecole Doctorale Sciences de la Matière – Toulouse|access-date=5 July 2015}}
Mechanics, Energetics, Civil & Process Engineering[http://www.ed-megep.fr/ Mechanics, Energetics, Civil & Process Engineering Doctoral School official website]
Aeronautics & Astronautics {{cite web|url=http://www.isae.fr/ed-aa/|title=ED 467 Ecole doctorale Aeronautique Astronautique – Toulouse|access-date=5 July 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080123110942/http://www.isae.fr/ed-aa/|archive-date=23 January 2008|url-status=dead}}

=In the field of Social Sciences and Humanities=

Behavior, Language, Education, Socialisation, Cognition{{cite web|url=http://clesco.univ-tlse2.fr|title=UT2J – Ecole Doctorale CLESCO (Comportement, Langage, Education, Socialisation, Cognition) – Accueil|author=Katia Dago|access-date=5 July 2015}}
Art, Literatures, Languages, Philosophy, Information & Communication{{cite web|url=http://allpha.univ-tlse2.fr/|title=UT2J – Ecole Doctorale ALLPH@ (Arts, Lettres, Langues, Philosophie, Communication) – Accueil École doctorale ALLPHA|author=Katia Dago|access-date=5 July 2015}}
Time, Spaces, Societies & Cultures{{cite web|url=http://tesc.univ-tlse2.fr/|title=UT2J – Ecole Doctorale TESC (Temps, Espaces, Sociétés, Cultures) – Accueil|author=Katia Dago|access-date=5 July 2015}}
Legal & Political Sciences{{Cite web |url=http://edscjupo.univ-tlse1.fr/21850614/0/fiche___pagelibre/ |title=Legal & Political Sciences Doctoral School official website |access-date=27 January 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721023453/http://edscjupo.univ-tlse1.fr/21850614/0/fiche___pagelibre/ |archive-date=21 July 2011 |url-status=dead }}
Management Sciences{{cite web|url=http://www.edgestion.univ-tlse1.fr/|title=Ecole doctorale Sciences de Gestion Toulouse|author=Oréalys|access-date=5 July 2015}}
Toulouse School of Economics{{cite web|url=http://www.tse-fr.eu/|title=TSE|access-date=5 July 2015}}

Faculty

Paul Sabatier, (chemist) (1854–1941), Dean of the Faculty of Science at the University of Toulouse in 1905. Nobel Prize in Chemistry jointly with fellow Frenchman Victor Grignard in 1912.
Adrianus Turnebus, (1512 – 12 June 1565), classical scholar.
Pierre Laromiguière, (3 November 1756 – 12 August 1837), philosopher.
Jean Jaurès, (3 September 1859 – 31 July 1914), politician.
Paul Fauconnet, (1874–1938), sociologist.
Raymond Aron, (14 March 1905, Paris – 17 October 1983) philosopher, sociologist and political scientist.
Jean-Jacques Laffont, (13 April 1947 – 1 May 2004), economist.
Jean Tirole, (born 9 August 1953), professor of economics, Nobel Prize in economic sciences in 2014.
Paul Seabright, (born 8 July 1958), professor of economics.

Notable alumni

Étienne Dolet (1509–1546), French scholar, translator and printer.
Michael Servetus (1511–1553), Spanish theologian and physician.
Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592), French philosopher and moralist.
Vincent de Paul (1581–1660), French Catholic priest.
Henry de Puyjalon, (1841–1905), French/Canadian pioneer in biology and ecology.
Selman Riza, (5 February 1872 – 5 October 1931), linguist and politician.
Mustafa Kamil Pasha (1874–1908), Egyptian lawyer, journalist, activist, and nationalist leader.
Armand Praviel (1875–1944, Doctor of Law 1901), French writer and journalist.
Marcel Dassault (1892–1986, graduated in 1913 from ISAE), French aircraft industrialist. He founded the company Dassault Aviation.
Henri Koch-Kent (1905–1999), Luxemburger anti-fascist activist, author, historian
François Hussenot (1912–1951, graduated in 1935 from ISAE aeronautical engineer credited with the invention of one of the early forms of the flight data recorder.
Abdul Hafeez Mirza, (born 1939, graduated in 1964), Pakistani Tourism worker, professor of French language and a cultural activist, recipient of the Ordre des Palmes Academiques in 2015.
Saeed Abu Ali, (born 1955), Palestinian politician and Assistant Secretary-General of the League of Arab Nations.
Jean Castex (born 25 June 1965), French Prime Minister, from 3 July 2020 to 16 May 2022.
Thomas Pesquet (born in 1978, graduated in 2001 from ISAE), European Space Agency astronaut.{{cite web|url=http://www.esa.int/esa-mmg/mmg.pl?idf=SEM8MB0OWUF&type=I|title=Thomas Pesquet |date=20 May 2005 |work=European Space Agency |access-date=5 July 2015}}
Thomas Castaignède, (born 1975, graduated from INSA Toulouse), rugby union footballer, played with the France national team
Romain Mesnil (born 1977, graduated in 2001 from INSA Toulouse), French Pole vaulter
Jean Bouilhou, (born 1978, graduated in 2002 from INSA Toulouse), rugby union footballer, played with the France national team
David Skrela, (born 1979, graduated in 2003 from INSA Toulouse), rugby union footballer, played with the France national team

Notes and references

External links

[https://web.archive.org/web/20100120073745/http://www.univ-toulouse.fr/23734046/1/fiche___pagelibre/%26RH%3D1212582705986?RF=1212582705986 Université de Toulouse]
[http://www.univ-tlse1.fr/ Université de Toulouse I: Capitole]
[http://www.univ-tlse2.fr/ Université de Toulouse II: Le Mirail]
[http://www.ups-tlse.fr/ Université de Toulouse III: Paul Sabatier]
[http://uk.inp-toulouse.fr/Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse – INPT]{{Dead link|date=September 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
[http://www.ensat.fr/ École Nationale Supérieure Agronomique de Toulouse – INP-ENSAT]
[http://www.enseeiht.fr/ École Nationale Supérieure d’Électrotechnique, d’Électronique, d’Informatique, d’Hydraulique et des Télécommunications – INP-ENSEEIHT]
[http://www.ensiacet.fr/ École Nationale Supérieure des Ingénieurs en Arts Chimiques et Technologiques – INP-ENSIACET]
[http://www.enit.fr/sr/395/index.php École Nationale d'Ingénieurs de Tarbes – ENIT]
[http://www.enm.meteo.fr/ École Nationale de Météorologie – INP-ENM]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20091211220722/http://www.purpan.fr/en/default.htm École d'Ingénieurs de Purpan – EI Purpan]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20100725173901/http://www.envt.fr/Accueil/eng_index.htm École Nationale Vétérinaire de Toulouse – ENVT]
[http://www.insa-toulouse.fr/en/index.html Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Toulouse – INSA Toulouse]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20080212041435/http://www.isae.fr/en/index.html Institut Supérieur de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace – ISAE]
[http://www.univ-jfc.fr/ Centre Universitaire de Formation et de Recherche Jean-François Champollion – CUFR Champollion]
[http://www.enstimac.fr/ École des Mines d'Albi-Carmaux – EMAC]
[http://www.enac.fr/ École Nationale de l'Aviation Civile – ENAC]
[http://www.enfa.fr/ École Nationale de Formation Agronomique – ENFA]
[http://www.toulouse.archi.fr/ École Nationale Supérieur d'Architecture de Toulouse – ENSA Toulouse]
[http://www.esc-toulouse.fr/default.asp?langue=en Toulouse Business School]
[http://www.sciencespo-toulouse.fr/ Institut d'études politiques de Toulouse – IEP/Sciences Po Toulouse]
[http://www.icam.fr/ Institut Catholique d'Arts et Métiers de Toulouse – ICAM Toulouse]
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