The Interdisciplinary Project for the Development of Enterprise, Innovation and Strategy has recently launched its IDEIS platform. IDEIS is a university project focusing on the evaluation of business capacities and needs in the field of innovation, and on the production of associated assessments and diagnostic reports.
Emmanuel Garnier, associate professor at the University of Caen and member of the IUF - University Institute of France, will be an invited guest at the University of Cambridge from January to July 2012. He will be concentrating his research on the climatic, economic and social impact of volcanic eruptions, in partnership with Dr Clive Oppenheimer from the University of Cambridge.
The University of Caen, the University of Rouen, the University of Le Havre, ENSICAEN and INSA Rouen are the 5 founding higher education establishments behind the PRES NORMANDIE UNIVERSITE. The creation of this EPCS (Etablissement public de coopération scentifique), a public establishment with a vocation for research and scientific cooperation, should offer Normandy increased exposure, whilst pooling efforts and facilitating cooperation between higher education, research and economic players.
Carole Dornier is a lecturer-researcher in 18th century French literature at the University of Caen Lower Normandy and she loves words - in particular what can be said of them. She is in charge of the publication of Montesquieu’s Thoughts, shortly available via the Internet.
After 21 months of work, the House of Languages and International Cooperation (Maison des Langues et de l’International - MLI) will be opening its doors in September. Concurrent to construction of the building, a second, administrative project has also been developed. It led to the creation, in March 2011, of the Carré International.
Since 2004, the Research center in Private law of the University of Caen Basse-Normandie bends over the questions of intellectual property in the innovative projects.
A mathematician and two historians. Bernard Leclerc, Jean-Marc Moriceau and Emmanuel Garnier: the three Caen-based researchers join the prestigious University Institute of France.
On the occasion of the International Year of Chemistry (IYC), ENSICAEN, CNRS and Caen University’s chemistry laboratories are organising a number of events from the 14th to the 17th of June. On the agenda: encounters, conferences, demonstrations, visits and a guest of honour: CNRS gold medallist, G
Jean-Luc Gaillard is in charge of Caen University’s Physicochemistry and Biotechnology Research Team (ERPCB). Part of the team’s work involves tracking down the micro-organisms present in milk, cider and, more generally, in the environment - in particular in marine settings.
With 24,336 students representing 67% of the region’s public post-Baccalaureat student population, Caen University is the leading player in higher education.
Quality teaching and a strong attachment to research, together with solid links with its socio-economic environment have rendered the university an open, reactive and modern higher education institution.