Paris 8 University

Founded as an experimental academic center in Vincennes in 1969, Université Paris 8 moved to Saint-Denis in 1980. Our university has become a significant teaching and research center for humanities in the Île-de-France region. The main objective of Université Paris 8 - with its focus on humanities, human sciences, arts, and social sciences has always been to give students a better understanding of the modern world while enabling them, at the same time, to achieve a long-term integration into society.
The innovative nature of the research undertaken here can be traced back to the various fields studied at Université Paris 8. Our university became a pioneer in fields that were usually not approached by other French universities: psychoanalysis, urban planning, geopolitics, cinema, plastic arts, gender studies, etc.
To this day, Université Paris 8 has always insisted on maintaining a strong link between research and teaching, adapting teaching methods to different kinds of audiences, and providing education for all at every stage of life.
Paris 8: a university open onto the world, a place for teaching, for research, knowledge, creation, and culture, where reflection and interaction with our world are encouraged
Université Paris 8 Vincennes - Saint-Denis, founded in 1968, is the heir to the testing center of Vincennes born in the intellectual and pedagogical turmoils which followed in the wake of May 68. Since then, the university has been characterized by a desire to promote democratic access to knowledge and education and has oriented research to answer our modern world's challenges.
The reputation and influence of Université Paris 8 is also grounded on the international fame of a number of scholars who have held teaching positions in our institution, among others : Hélène Cixous, François Châtelet, Jean-François Lyotard, Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Lacan, Madeleine Rebérioux, Robert Castel, Denis Guedj, and Daniel Bensaïd.
Based in Saint-Denis since 1980, Université Paris 8 is attended by students from all around the world. We like to define ourselves today as a "world university".
The quality of our faculty and students, the interdisciplinary nature of our classes and research, the fact that we are open to the modern world, our numerous international partnerships in education and research, and our involvement with the local social, economic, cultural, and professional environments have enabled Université Paris 8 to become an elite institution for learning and research in the fields of the humanities, human sciences, social sciences, and arts.
Degrees (undergraduate level), 77 "master's" specialties (graduate level), and 50 university diplomas are available in six teaching areas: arts culture and communication law, economics and management humanities and languages human and social sciences, science, technology, and health.
Since its opening in 1968, Université Paris 8 Vincennes - Saint-Denis has put international relations at the core of its research and teaching activities.
Université Paris 8 has partnerships with numerous foreign higher education institutions. It also actively participates in several major international programs, such as the ERASMUS exchange program for European universities and the CREPUQ program with Quebec, which concerns French-speaking universities.
The agreements signed by Université Paris 8 are of limited duration and pursue different objectives depending on its partner universities: research involving the faculty of the various universities, international conferences, and joint publications, study periods for students in the partner universities, development of curricula and courses involving international partnerships, delocalization of the degrees, etc.
The role of the international relations office is to provide decision-making bodies with information concerning development opportunities abroad and assistance to faculty members wishing to work with foreign partners, as well as to students who want to complete their curriculum or find an internship abroad (we call this "student mobility").