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DISCOVER YOUR CITY Campus France will guide you through your first steps in France and exploring Toulon, your new home. WELCOME TO TOULON ARRIVING Learn more: - check the University web pages for international IN TOULON / students, whether exchange students or free- movers (regular admission): UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULON http://www.univ-tln.fr > Student Welcome services at Université de International > Welcome Book. Toulon - download the “Venir étudier à At Université de Toulon, a small university, the Toulon” guide: Service des Relations Internationales team is your http://www.univ-tln.fr > VENIR ÉTUDIER main point of contact to help you prepare your À TOULON International > Venir étudier à arrival. Toulon (from list of downloads on Université de Toulon offers a personalized welcome the left-hand side). service for students: accommodation, French as - download the “Guide de l’Etudiant”, published by a foreign language lessons, a discovery weekend the Maison de l’Etudiant (the city of Toulon): https:// to explore the region, cultural excursions, student www.toulon.fr > Mon Toulon pratique > Etudiant à buddy system, and more. Toulon > Maison de l’Etudiant. Address: Université de Toulon, Service des Relations Internationales, La Garde Campus, Le Béal 2 Buddy System Building, Avenue de l’Université, 83130 La Garde. The Buddy Program is available to assist you in Hours: Monday to Friday from 9am to 12pm and Toulon! from 1pm to 4pm. The Service des Relations Internationales offers Contact: Click on the following link to find your support for international exchange students, points of contact through the Buddy Program which pairs up new http://www.univ-tln.fr/Service-Relations- international students with students from the Internationales.html or on 04 94 14 20 44. University: http://www.univ-tln.fr > International > Venir étudier Free-movers or non-exchange foreign students à Toulon > Bienvenue en France > Buddy Program. As soon as you arrive in France, please contact the Service de la Scolarité and from 01 September Welcome and orientation for researchers 2021, you must go to the admissions office (building At Université de Toulon, the Chercheur Invité V1) in order to collect a registration file and make program allows the university to host foreign an appointment to complete your administrative teacher-researchers who have gained a reputation registration. in their field. Contact: [email protected]. Contact: 04 94 14 21 37. When you arrive at the University, a team will be Further information: http://www.univ-tln.fr > available on the ground-floor of Building V1 (La International > Mobilité des enseignants- Garde Campus) to enroll students and a Welcome chercheurs > Programme chercheur invité. Desk will be open in Le Béal 2 Building to one- Welcome and Orientation in other institutions stop service desk and assist with administrative procedures. If you are enrolled in another institution, please Contact: consult the Campus France website for orientation. - Service des Admissions, [email protected] The site presents a series of Information Sheets - Service des Relations Internationales, covering the different higher learning institutions: 04 94 14 20 44. https://www.campusfrance.org > Students > Documentary resources > Practical information Students on exchange programs for students and researchers > Reception As soon as you arrive in France, please contact the arrangements in institutions Service des Relations Internationales in Le Béal 2 If you cannot find your school in this list, then go Building, on the 1st floor (La Garde Campus). A team directly to their website. will be available to welcome you and assist with administrative procedures. National Services Contact: [email protected] - students: www.etudiant.gouv.fr - international students from EU countries: - doctoral students, researchers: 04 94 14 21 37. http://www.euraxess.fr/fr - international students from non-EU countries: 04 94 14 28 34 2 Address: 657 avenue du 1er Bataillon d’Infanterie de HOUSING Marine du Pacifique, F-83130 La Garde. IN TOULON / Hours: Monday to Friday, 8am to 6pm during the academic year (summer hours apply). Contact: 04 94 08 83 00 or [email protected] There are numerous solutions for housing in Website: http://www.crous-nice.fr/ Toulon: Student-only accommodations managed Trouver un logement site: https:// by CROUS, student housing and private residences, trouverunlogement.lescrous.fr/ and rooms in private homes. On campus, the CROUS is also responsible for all Most important is to take care of this as early as low-cost food services (university restaurants and possible and before your arrival. cafeterias). • The Université de Toulon in partnership with Studapart, gives you access to hundreds of exclusive offers: studios, shared apartments, private rooms ... and benefit from personalized GETTING AROUND support throughout your rental! Use our online housing platform: http://housing.univ-tln.fr/ TOULON More information: http://www.univ-tln.fr> International> Coming to study in Toulon> Welcome There are several options for travelling to to France, Housing article. Toulon from Paris: - by plane, arriving at Nice-Côte d’Azur airport • The Maison de l’Etudiant, managed by the city or Marseille-Provence airport. If you decide to of Toulon and the Toulon Provence Méditerranée fly, you can catch a shuttle service from the metropolitan authority: airport to the Nice or Marseille train stations - establishes contact between landlords and and then take the train to Toulon. students seeking rental accommodation: - by train (4 hours by high-speed TGV train https://toulon.fr > Mon Toulon pratique > Etudiant à https://www.oui.sncf Toulon > La Maison de l’Etudiant > Offre de location. To get to the University La Garde campus - publishes the “Guide de l’Etudiant” with advice from the Toulon train station, take bus and addresses: https://www.toulon.fr > Mon Toulon number 29 or bus number 191. pratique > Etudiant à Toulon > Maison de l’Etudiant. For more information: http://www.univ-tln.fr • The Comité Local pour le Logement Autonome > International > Venir étudier à Toulon > des Jeunes (CLLAJ), the local committee for Bienvenue en France > Arrivée à Toulon independent housing for youth also provides good (access - transport). advice for finding accommodation in Toulon:http:// For travelling in and around town, you can use www.alinea-cllaj.com/ public transport (buses and boats!) operated • Toulon’s Bureau d’Information Jeunesse (Centre by the Mistral network, which oversees public Départemental d’Information Jeunesse), the youth transport in Toulon and surrounding area: information center can also help you: https://www. https://www.reseaumistral.com/ (student toulon.fr > Mon Toulon pratique > Jeunesse > Le rates and travel-cards). bureau information jeunesse. For travelling within the region, take the: It is also worth checking the “Trouver un logement - the Varlib network of around 100 buses en Provence Alpes Côte d’Azur” guide, compiled by which covers the department: the CRIJ: https://www.infojeunesse-paca.fr/ on the http://www.varlib.fr/ homepage. - regional trains in the PACA region (Provence Alpes Côte d’Azur): https://www.ter.sncf.com/ A FEW TIPS sud-provence-alpes-cote-d-azur Short-term housing: Buses are also an option for low-cost travel: https://fr.ouibus.com/ or • The search engine on the Tourist Office website https://www.flixbus.fr/ may help you find short-term accommodation in Toulon and surrounding area: For ride-sharing see the collaborative site: https://toulontourisme.com > Où dormir ? https://www.blablacar.fr/ For greater independence, rent a bike. The Long-term housing city of Toulon does not currently operate a • The Nice - Toulon CROUS student housing (Centre self-service bike system. You can rent a bike Régional des Œuvres Universitaires - Regional from a private rental company, for example: Center for University Services). https://www.mabicyclettebleue.fr/ 3 • Private Housing Platforms FIRST Other offers for student lodging, managed by private organisms, are also available in Toulon. THINGS FIRST / Try these sites: - https://www.adele.org - https://www.immojeune.com ENROLLMENT IN YOUR INSTITUTION - https://www.location-etudiant.fr CVEC - https://housinganywhere.com Before you can enroll in your institution, you must • There is also a site managed by the CROUS, download proof of payment of the Contribution Vie Lokaviz, which includes a listing of student Etudiante et de Campus (CVEC) – the student and accommodation in private homes: campus life contribution fee. https://www.lokaviz.fr/ - Connect to https://cvec.etudiant.gouv.fr/ • Shared Leases: consult La Carte des Colocs, a - For additional information and special cases: national site for shared leases that’s free and simple https://www.campusfrance.org > Getting Organized to use: https://www.lacartedescolocs.fr/ > CVEC. • Other solutions available on the Campus France The Nice-Toulon CROUS provides a CVEC service site: www.campusfrance.org > Getting Organized > during the enrollment period at La Garde Campus, in Accommodation the P’tit Béal cafeteria, 9am to 12pm and 1pm to 4pm. If you need a guarantor to secure your lodging Confirm Registration Visale is a new and free guarantor system: Take note! Even if you have a pre-registration letter, www.visale.fr you are not officially enrolled. You must confirm The University’s Service des Relations Internationales your enrollment with the institution’s Service de la can guide you through administrative procedures: Scolarité (Admissions)