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26 500 students A DYNAMIC UNIVERSITY Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne (URCA) is a 1 325 multidisciplinary university offering a range of courses in all lecturers and fields of knowledge that closely reflects the needs of society. lecturer-researchers Its several sites make it a local university on a human scale. Welcoming and dynamic, it offers a favourable environment for studying, student life and research. 1 025 library, engineering, administrative, technical, social and health staff INTERNATIONALLY RECOGNIZED

Over HIGH-LEVEL RESEARCH 140 In partnership with national research organizations and ’s qualifications Grandes Écoles, it conducts high-level research in the context of major scientific projects, advanced technological resources and partnerships with socio-economic actors. Its scientific 5 strategy supports the emergence of new themes that produce sites tomorrow’s discoveries and innovations. A training and research university, URCA is organized into 4 29 scientific centres of excellence : research units

2 labelled and research federations structures

AGROSCIENCES, ENVIRONMENT, HEALTH 9 BIOTECHNOLOGIES AND CLUSTER academic and BIOECONOMY CLUSTER (AEBB) industrial chairs

4 10101 doctoral schools 12 technological platforms HUMAN AND SOCIAL SCIENCE DIGITAL AND ENGINEERING and technical facilities CLUSTER (SHS) SCIENCE CLUSTER (SNI) 300 lecturer-researchers within SFR Cap Santé

Common Health HEALTH CLUSTER Research Service 20 research laboratories within SFR Cap Santé

AN ADVANCED CLUSTER WITH NICHES OF EXCELLENCE 4 national research The SFR Cap Santé federates laboratories in health with the organizations support of large research institutes. It aims at developing a homogenous ensemble between fundamental and clinical research to access a true transdisciplinary research. This results in multiple and diverse collaborations on national and international basis and in hosting excellence research chairs. 8 plateforms and technical facilities

A RICH AND VARIED RANGE 2 Biological Resource Centres OF MEDICAL AND (CRB CHAR, CRB Toxoplasma) PARAMEDICAL TRAINING Health covers a wide scope of applications clearly beyond health and including diverse scientific and technologic areas. In that way, medical, paramedical, and scientific training programs such as License-Master-Doctorate are professional 2 chairs of excellence (INSERM PEpithe chaire and MAGiCS programs with the graduate school Common Health Research industrial chair) Service (SFS) offering skill training by and for health research. Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne 51 Rue Cognacq-Jay F-51100 Reims

20 patents, 35 licenses, A NETWORK OF COMMITTED 15 long standing projects PARTNERS at the SATT Nord Special collaborations in translational research: CHU in Reims, Godinot Institute (CLCC in Reims) and UTT.

Public-private partnerships in industrial research: Carnot 100 PhD students at Institute MICA, competitiveness clusters MATERALIA and Alsace the graduate school BioValley, SATT Nord and pharmaceutical and cosmetic indutries. «Fundamental Sciences and Health» (ED SFS) Partnerships in high education and research: ESR establishment network with its 18 partners.

400 publications yearly 01. RESEARCH Its goal is to promote a regional strategy in basic research and Our knowledge academic training in health. Highly supporting the emergence of new federating projects and hosting excellence research chairs, the SFR Laboratories, the window of scientific Cap Santé focuses on consolidating expertise of excellence scientific quality and international projection. The health cluster combines interdisciplinarity, academic excellence, The SFR Cap Santé is based on four innovation, and specialization around major axes: scientific projects of excellence with health / environment national and international influence. regeneration / ageing The Research Federating Structure (SFR) Cap fragility / cognition / Santé gathers over twenty URCA laboratories vulnerability whose thematic research areas focuses technology / health on health and including labeled units by, amongst others, ANSES, CNRS, INERIS, and INSERM. The scientific expertise of the laboratories are wide: infectious and pathogenic agents, biomaterials, biomolecules, bioresources, The technological platforms, inflammation, extracellular matrix, oncology, a force for research cell plasticity, immune response, epithelial to mesenchymal transition (EMT)… The technological platforms aim to put the service of the research community high- level technological expertise: molecular analysis, animal house, cytometry, imaging, modeling, simulation, nanocharacterisation, supercalculator…

They supply equipment and applications in the field of health research: Centre Image, Nano’Mat, PICT, PlAneT, P3M, ROMEO, URCACyt, URCAnim and Centers of Biological Resources (CRB). 02. TRAINING Our vocation

Within URCA coexist professionally targeted courses in health sector and university qualifications like License- Master-Doctorate (LMD) in areas as diverse as biology, biophysics, biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine biomaterials, bioinformatics, psychology, sport… Faculty of Dentistry

Faculty of Pharmacy

Faculty of Natural Science Graduate school “Basic Sciences and Health” (SFS) Faculty of Sciences and Technics of Physical and This multidisciplinary graduate Spoil Activities school (mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, biotechnology, Faculty of Arts and health and sport) brings together Humanities nearly one hundred PhD students in health, combining basic science with translational research. By facilitating research project integration linked to patient interest. Master of Biology Health The graduate school SFS also M aster of Chemistry and provides PhD students with training Life Science in bibliometric, popularization of science, scientific valorization and Master of Medicinal ethics, both in animal experiments Product Science and in clinical trials. Master of Public Health Education, Research and Pedagogy 03. > Establishment Network of Higher Education and Research in Champagne- Ardenne PARTNERSHIP URCA is the leader of this ESR Our strength establishment network. The shared ambition is to highlight the academic, economic and scientific attractiveness while respecting each establishment’s Partnership in health is essential in order to autonomy. always be more efficient and competitive Actors of the ESR establishment network: at national and international level. AgroParisTech, CentraleSupélec, CESI Reims, CHU Reims, CNAC Châlons en Champagne, CNAM , CREPS, Basic, Clinical and CROUS Reims, EPF Troyes, ESAD, ESTP Paris, Translational Research Y SCHOOLS, Institut Godinot, IRTS, NEOMA Business School, URCA, UTT. > CHU and CLCC: major local partners Collaborations with the Hostpital-University Center Popularization of science (CHU) in Reims allow and scientific animation translational research development with funding > ACCUSTICA of three common hospital-university This association aims at promoting research projects: protein and vascular science, technology and innovation and ageing (VIVA); Research and innovation making them accessible to everyone. in inflammatory respiratory pathology (RINNOPARI); Social cognition and > SFR CAP SANTÉ neurodevelopmental diseases (Ndev-X). On a regular basis, the SFR Cap Santé organizes scientific animations and Godinot Institute (IG) is the meetings in health. Cancer Center (CLCC) of Reims. Sponsoring and > CRB: critical tool for biomedical research Territorial Communities There is three Centers of Biological Resources (CRB) shared between URCA, > URCA Foundation CHU and IG: Tumorothèque (tumor It fosters institutional, industrial and biobank), CRB Toxoplasma and CRB CHAR. financial partners as well as local citizens to invest together in the “University of > UTT: “Ageing well” partner Tomorrow”. On the initiative of University of Technology in Troyes (UTT), the Living Lab > and Grand Est ActivAgeing (LL2A) designs and evaluates These territorial communities are key support solutions centered on human for economical URCA collaborators in order elderly people autonomy. to promote development of excellence in research and training. Industrial Research, Structures for Innovation Experimental GRAND E-NOV, THE REGIONAL AGENCY OF Development INNOVATION The proposed services CARNOT Institute permit to cover a value chain from project of Carnot Institute MICA innovation feasibility up to placing on gathers specialists of the market. functional materials and also of surfaces and interfaces, from research up to application. INNOVACT, THE INCUBATOR Regional Competitiveness clusters This independent association Competitiveness cluster is dedicated to promoting Alsace BioValley is an project of innovation economic structure managed emergence and placing by and for industrial firms in on the market regardless their activity health. sector. Competitiveness cluster MATERALIA is the association VILLAGE BY CA REIMS of the players in the material True ecosystem focused on and process sector. open innovation, it aims at promoting and supporting SOCIETY OF TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER innovation in the heart of the ACCELERATION region in order to increase the appeal of the territory. The SATT Nord is a structuring valorization tool in the service of CREATIV’LABZ, THE URCA INCUBATOR researchers. The incubator of the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne is supporting entrepreneurship projects and business start-ups led by students. CONTACT

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