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Founded in 1765 and reopened in 1981, the University of Corsica Pasquale Paoli is one of the 71 French universities. As an academic and research structure firmly anchored in its territory, it directly contacts major local and international issues. The University of Corsica Pasquale Paoli is a multidisciplinary institution that counts eight faculties, institutes, and schools. It offers 100 diplomas, ranging from two-year undergraduate studies to doctoral studies. Permanently concerned with our 4600 students' occupational integration, we propose a highly professionalizing academic offer linked to the main development issues of our territory. Engaged in an international dynamic, the University of Corsica encourages its students to develop a real mobility culture. A large and varied cultural and sports offer is also available. Personal or associative initiatives are encouraged and valorized. The University of Corsica has the necessary human and material means to ensure the students the best possible conditions of education, professional integration, and self-fulfillment. The scientific identity of the University of Corsica is designated by the CNRS (National center for scientific research) and evolves around eight fundamental, multidisciplinary projects. Strongly oriented toward regional development, each of these projects associates fundamental and practical research resulting in actual realizations of high added value. The University of Corsica has a strong interest in several scientific domains concerning sustainable development and environmental issues (Laboratoire CNRS-Université de Corse Sciences pour l'Environnement, Laboratoire CNRS-Université de Corse Lieux, Identités, eSpaces et Activités). The University of Corsica is also endowed with research structures dedicated to the legal aspects of scientific research (The Patrimonial and Business Hosting Group) and public health (The Corsican and Mediterranean Bioscope Hosting Group). The University of Corsica strives to develop and transfer its research activity to society as a whole through four platforms: two dedicated to Technical Sciences: MYRTE/PAGLIA ORBA and STELLA MARE (UMS CNRS) and 2 in the Humanities and Social Sciences: M3C and LOCUS. Yearlong, the University of Corsica organizes and hosts international symposiums and is involved in several significant networks: the Institute for Scientific Study in Cargese (Université de Corse / CNRS / Université Nice Sophia Antipolis) is one example. The University of Corsica is strongly involved in its territory's socio-economic development, which is a strategic axis of the institution. This has resulted in the development of technological platforms linked to the professional environment (STELLA MARE, for example, whose scientific objectives are closely correlated with the economic objectives of island aquaculturists and fishers), or in the opening of a Fab Lab whose purpose is to facilitate, through digital tools, the economic production, especially in the craft world. More broadly, because of the values, it nurtures, especially the proximity between the players and the attachment to a pioneering spirit, the University of Corsica articulates people and skills, practices, ideas, resources, and projects. Backed by profound convictions, it deploys its historical and geographical heritage in a spirit of citizen openness in the service of knowledge, youth, and Corsica. Strongly invested in the international dynamic, it is linked via exchange programs to more than 100 institutions, and it is part of a Euro-Mediterranean Research and Cooperation Association alongside the French universities of Nice Sophia Antipolis, Paris VI, Toulon, and the Italian universities of Pisa, Genoa, and Turin. It has also created the RETI (excellence network of island territories), a network of 27 island universities worldwide. Engaged in an international dynamic, the University of Corsica encourages its students to develop a real mobility culture. Deeply concerned about its students' occupational integration, the University proposes highly professionalizing courses, oriented towards specific jobs and linked to the main development issues of the territory: digital technology, law, audio-visual media and communication, economics and business management, environmental engineering and renewable energies, sustainable tourism, structural engineering, health… Several university schools and faculties organize each year an improvement council. Block release programs also have a lot to offer: gaining up to nearly 100% of the SMIC, working in a company while attending courses, and preparing a recognized diploma. The principle is simple: the student alternates the periods of courses and the periods inside the company all year round. This block release training organization facilitates occupational integration since most of the alternating students find a job at the end of their contract. The University of Corsica offers more than thirty block release courses in all sectors, from the DUT to the Masters. View full university