My French University Paris 7, Paris Diderot University
Where I obtained my Doctorate Degree in Strategic Planning & Socio-Economic Geography 1980
Paris 7, Paris Diderot University - also known as Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7, is a leading French University located in Paris, France. It is one of the heirs of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Paris (together with Paris 6), which, founded in the mid-12th century, was one of the earliest universities established in Europe. It adopted its current name in 1994.
Featuring two Nobel Prize laureates, a Fields Medal winner and two former French Ministers of Education among its faculty or former faculty, the University is famous for its teaching in science, especially in mathematics. Indeed many fundamental results of the theory of Probability have been discovered at one of its research centers, the Laboratoire de Probabilités et Modèles Aléatoires (Laboratory of Probability and Random Models). The university is also known for its teaching in psychology, which adopts a specific approach drawing from both the domains of psychopathology and psychoanalysis.
But the University also hosts many others disciplines: currently, there are 2300 educators and researchers, 1100 administrative personnel and 26,000 students studying humanities, science, and medicine. Cooperation bringing together four renowned Parisian universities and four higher education and research institutes.
Formerly based at the Jussieu Campus in the 5th arrondissement, the University moved to a new campus in the 13th arrondissement, in the Paris Rive Gauche neighborhood. The first buildings were brought into use in 2006. The university has many facilities in Paris, and two in other parts of the general area. In 2012, the University completed its move in its new ultra-modern campus.
Paris Diderot : "the place
to be". A comprehensive university, where academic disciplines and
knowledge come together right
Situated in the heart of Paris, Université Paris Diderot is the only multidisciplinary university in Paris to offer a wide range of degrees in the Humanities, Medicine and the Sciences.
Situated in the heart of Paris, Université Paris Diderot is the only multidisciplinary university in Paris to offer a wide range of degrees in the Humanities, Medicine and the Sciences.
With its 26,000 students, 20% of
whom are international, its 2,000 faculty and its 92 research laboratories, it
is a major actor in European higher education and research. According to its own tradition and
humanist principles set out by eighteenth-century encyclopaedist Denis Diderot, the university’s ambition is to enlighten 21st-century
society by opening up new fields of study, renewing traditional disciplines,
developing and enhancing the achievements and results of research, and
connecting with the community at large.
The University has acquired an
international reputation for the excellence of its standards of research in all
the fields in which it is active, namely science,
medicine, dentistry, art and humanities and social sciences. The University has recently (2007)
relocated its central administration and most of its departments in a
newly developing area of Paris –
known as Paris Rive Gauche – a few streets south east of the Bibliothèque
Nationale de France. Former industrial buildings have been rehabilitated, thus
preserving an important link with the history of Paris, while brand new ones
have also been commissioned from world-class architects.
By 2012, all departments – except the 7 university hospitals located in the north of Paris – will have joined the new campus, which also features Paris’s largest and newest university library.
Paris Diderot University is a
founding member of the higher education and research alliance Sorbonne Paris
Cité which is a Public Institution for Scientific Cooperation bringing
together four renowned Parisian universities and four higher education and
research institutes.[5]
Formerly based at the Jussieu
Campus in the 5th
arrondissement, the university moved to a new
campus in the 13th arrondissement,
in the Paris Rive Gauche
neighborhood. The first buildings were brought into use in 2006. The university
has many facilities in Paris, and two in other parts of the general area. In
2012, the university completed its move in its new ultra-modern campus.
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