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Le souffle Atlantique Loire
Atlantique (44)

Western Loire
7, rue de Valmy,

B.P. 64106,
44041 NANTES 01

Phone : 0 892 464 044
Fax : 02 40 89 11 99
 



 

Formerly the capital of Brittany, Nantes was separated from the region by the Vichy government in June 1941.

Although the city has been part of the Pays de la Loire région since 1971, the feeling that Nantes belongs to Brittany is still solid nowadays.

For cultural and political reasons, many people still identify with Brittany. The local football team is the FC Nantes Atlantique.

 


The Celtic band Tri Yann was originally known as Tri Yann an Naoned (the three Johns from Nantes). Nantes's primary sister city is Jacksonville, Florida.

Colleges and Universities    

  • École Centrale de Nantes

École Centrale de Nantes is one of the leading French Grandes écoles of engineering. It is located in Nantes. It belongs to the Intergroupe des Écoles Centrales, together with École Centrale de Lille, École Centrale de Lyon, and École Centrale Paris (ECP).

  • Audencia

Founded in 1900 as École Supérieure de Commerce, Audencia Nantes School of Management has grown since the late 1970s to become a well-ranked French management school. It holds triple accreditation by the Association of MBAs, AACSB and Equis.

The school's purpose-built campus alongside Nantes University is just 12 minutes tram ride from the city centre and next to the River Erdre. The city of Nantes itself is just two hours by regular high speed train from Paris and less than an hour from the sandy Atlantic coast.

Audencia Nantes' faculty is made up of top professors, over 70% of whom hold a PhD or 'doctorat'. More than a third of these experts are from outside France, a figure that increases every year.

  • École Polytechnique de l'Université de Nantes

École Polytechnique de l'Université de Nantes, part of the Université de Nantes, is one of the leading French Grandes écoles, a School of Engineering which provides academic and research programmes in a variety of scientific and technological fields.

It is located in Nantes and in Saint Nazaire. It is part of the Polytech network which includes 9 french Schools of Engineering, located in Marseille, Montpellier, Nice, Grenoble, Clermont-Ferrand, Orléans, Tours and Lille.

  • École des Mines de Nantes

The École des Mines de Nantes (EMN, or ENSTIMN or EMNAntes) is a French engineering school based in Nantes, in the west of France. The school was founded in 1990 by the Ministry of Industry and belongs to the prestigious network of the Ecole des Mines (GEM).

The school offers 9 majors :

  • Energy (GSE)
  • Decision-making software engineering (GIPAD)
  • Logistics and production systems (GOPL)
  • Management of Information Technologies (OMTI)
  • Information Systems engineering (GSI)
  • Quality and Safety (QSF)
  • Automation (AII)
  • Environment (GE)

The EMN has also signed agreements with Audencia Business School to offer a joint degree in management of information technologies.

  • Université de Nantes

The University of Nantes is a well-known French university, located in the city of Nantes. Currently, it is attended by approximately 40,000 students, of which the vast majority are French. It is the second largest University in France.

List of faculties and schools:

  • Faculté de Droit et Sciences économiques et de gestion (Faculty of Law)
  • Faculté de Santé (Faculty of Medicine)
  • Faculté de Sciences (Faculty of Sciences)
  • Faculté de Langues
  • Faculté de Lettres et Sciences Humaines
  • IUT
  • École Polytechnique de Nantes

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