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WELCOME TO CAYENNE AND GUYANA - JULY 2021. - JULY Photos: DR - Cover photo: ©Matyas Rehak, AdobeStock photo: ©Matyas Photos: DR - Cover - Rubrik (91) C Production: YOUR ARRIVAL HOUSING IN CAYENNE / IN GUYANA /

Student Welcome at the Université de Guyane There are solutions for housing in Cayenne and elsewhere in Guyana: Student-only At Université de Guyane, a small university, your accommodations managed by CROUS, student main point of contact is Service des Relations housing and private residences, and rooms in Internationales, within the Direction de la Scolarité, private homes. de la Recherche et de la Vie Étudiantes (DSRVE) What’s most important is to take care of this as (department of admissions, research and student early as possible, before your arrival. services). The Service de Scolarité oversees all the • Guyana’s Departmental Accommodation administrative aspects of your studies, from Information Agency (ADIL) - Agence enrollment through to graduation. Départementale d’Information Logement provides Address: Université de Guyane, Troubiran Campus, advice on accommodation for young people: Bureau des Relations Internationales, Building D, 1st https://www.adil973.org > Votre question > Mon floor, 2091, route Baduel, logement, profil Locataire > (colonne de droite): 97300 Cayenne. Jeunes - trouvez votre logement. Hours: Monday to Friday, 9 a.m to 12 pm • The Centre Régional d’Information Jeunesse, the Tuesday and Thursday, 2 p.m to 4 pm regional youth information centre (CRIJ Guyana- Contact: +594 594 29 79 17 or Cayenne) can also help you find accommodation. [email protected] Contact: +33 (0)5 94 29 64 50. There is a University Institute of Technology (IUT) in , Guyana. A FEW TIPS Address and phone number: Campus de Bois Chaudat, 97310 Kourou, 05 94 32 80 00 Short-term housing To learn more, consult notably: • For all types of short-term accommodation, - pages covering enrollment (for different student please use the search engine on Guyana’s Tourist profiles) on the Université de Guyane website: Office website: https://www.univ-guyane.fr > Étudiant (upper left) > https://www.guyane-amazonie.fr > Votre séjour > Scolarités > Inscriptions. Se loger. - download the student guide, the Long-term housing “Guide Etudiant”: 2019 2020 https://www.univ-guyane.fr > • The Antilles et Guyana CROUS (Centre Régional Étudiants > Guides > Guide étudiant. des Œuvres Universitaires - Regional Center for - the University’s Facebook page: University Services) for student housing. Address: Cité universitaire de Baduel, GUIDEde https://www.facebook.com/ L’ETUDIANT DOSIP | Université de Guyane | 1 univguyane/ 97000 Cayenne. Hours: Monday to Friday, 8am to 12pm. Contact: 05 94 37 85 00. Welcome and orientation for researchers and Website: http://www.crous-antillesguyane.fr/ doctoral students The website Trouver un logement: At the Université de Guyane, researchers and https://trouverunlogement.lescrous.fr/ doctoral students should also contact the Bureau des Relations Internationales (see above). On campus, the CROUS also manages all low-cost food services (university restaurants, cafeterias, National Services food-trucks, etc.). - students: www.etudiant.gouv.fr - doctoral students, researchers: http://www.euraxess.fr/fr

2 • Private Housing Platforms Other offers for student lodging, managed by private GETTING AROUND organisms, are also available in Cayenne and in Guyana. GUYANA Try these sites: - https://www.cap-logement-etudiant.com When travelling to Guyana, depending on - https://www.immojeune.com where you are travelling from (Americas, Don’t forget to check websites that republish ads ), you are likely to fly in directly to from local real estate agents, for example: Cayenne-Félix-Éboué international airport, https://www.97immo.com around 10.5 miles outside Cayenne (there is • There is also a site managed by the CROUS, no shuttle service to the town center): Lokaviz, which includes a listing of student http://www.guyane.cci.fr > Aéroport accommodation in private homes: Félix-Eboué. https://www.lokaviz.fr/ For travelling in and around Cayenne, you • Shared Leases: consult La Carte des Colocs, a can use the Agglo’bus network which runs national site for shared leases that’s free and simple 7 bus routes to various neighborhoods and to use: https://www.lacartedescolocs.fr/ 6 greater Cayenne bus lines: http://odm973. com/cacl4/ • Other solutions available on the Campus France The Carte Jeune enables you to travel at site: www.campusfrance.org > Getting Organized > reduced rates on urban lines. Accommodation. For longer journeys, you can use shared taxis If you need a guarantor to secure your lodging or even canoe-taxis on the Maroni River (on Visale is a new and free guarantor system: the border with ) and the Oyapock www.visale.fr River (on the border with ). Further information can be found on Guyana’s If you want to file an application for APL funds Tourist Office website: (Aide Personnalisée au Logement, or persona- https://www.guyane-amazonie.fr > Votre lized housing aid), séjour > Transports. CAF (Caisse des Allocations Familiales) can check For ride-sharing see the BLADA collaborative your eligibility: +33 (0)8 10 29 29 29 or www.caf.fr site: https://www.blada.com > Boîte-aux- If you need housing adapted to your special lettres > Covoiturage. needs For a bit more independence, you can rent a Contact the CROUS Service Social which will take bike via a community-based, association-led action with your institution. website La Kaz à Vélo: https://la-kaz-a-velo.fr/ Some establishments have specialized services for If you want to rent a car (often useful in students with disabilities (assistance for housing, Guyana), check out the offers on the Tourist and also transportation and tuition). Office website: The Relais Handicap at Université de Guyane, https://www.guyane-amazonie.fr welcomes and supports disabled students. Contact: 05 94 29 50 59 or [email protected]

3 FIRST THINGS Take note : To renew your student residency FIRST / permit “Titre de séjour” (VLS-TS), your request must be done during the 3rd month before the expiration date of your current “Titre de séjour” ENROLLMENT IN YOUR INSTITUTION (permit) on the website: https://administration- etrangers-en-france.interieur.gouv.fr CVEC This tutorial will help you: Before you can enroll in your institution, you must https://www.youtube.com/ download proof of payment of the Contribution Vie watch?v=j_suMJ3fIiw&list=PLpm2evF1qaJe_ Etudiante et de Campus (CVEC) – the student and oq0a-LMIKujAihwAtVEy&index=16 campus life contribution fee. - Log in at: https://cvec.etudiant.gouv.fr/ - For additional information and special cases: The reception services of your establishment can https://www.campusfrance.org > Getting Organized guide you in the event of difficulties. > CVEC. www.service-public.fr > Etranger > Titre de séjour et Confirm Registration document de circulatio (Foreigners > Resident Card Take note! Even if you have a pre-registration letter, and Travel Document) you are not officially enrolled. You must confirm your enrollment with the institution’s Service de la Scolarité (Admissions) as soon as you arrive. PRACTICAL

RESIDENCE PERMIT (TITRE DE SÉJOUR) INFORMATION / • To find out more about rights and obligations: OPENING A BANK ACCOUNT

GOOD TO KNOW If you stay in France for more than 3 months, it will be much easier day-to-day if you open a bank • If you have arrived in France with a VLS-TS account, online or in one of the 10 bank agencies long-term student visa: you must validate located in Cayenne. it online upon your arrival and imperatively In France, opening a bank account is a right: within the first three months of your stay www.service-public.fr > Argent > Comptes bancaires (in France) on the ANEF (Administration > Droit au compte. numérique pour les étrangers en France) website: https://administration-etrangers-en- france.interieur.gouv.fr HEALTHCARE • If you are an Algerian national or a student Healthcare in mainland France and the overseas with a “Concours” (tests) visa» or a visa with territory of Guyana is practically free but you need the indication “Carte à solliciter dans les deux health insurance. Taking out health insurance is mois” (Residency permit is to be requested therefore compulsory. within 2 months of entry): your residency permit application has to be made at the Prefecture. Login to the site: • If you hold a “mineur scolarisé” (enrolled https://etudiant-etranger.ameli.fr site to minor) visa and you attained the age of register, to understand your eligibility and majority, you have to request for a “Titre de benefits, and to take the necessary steps. séjour” online on the ANEF website or at the prefecture where you live within 2 months following your majority. Learn more: https://administration-etrangers-en-france. https://www.campusfrance.org > Getting Organized interieur.gouv.fr > Health.

4 As a student, you can also take advantage of the FINDING A JOB OR AN INTERNSHIP university medical services.In these health centers where consultations are free, you’ll be greeted by Useful websites: a team of doctors, nurses, and social workers who • The Direction de l’Orientation, des Stages et de can give personalized advice in terms of health and l’Insertion professionnelle (DOSIP) at Université de prevention. Guyane offers: This is case at the Université de Guyane which has - help finding internships via theBureau d’Aide a Service de médecine préventive (SUMPPS) at the à l’Insertion Professionnelle (BAIP) which also Troubiran campus: publishes classified ads. https://www.univ-guyane.fr > Campus > Santé. Address and phone number: BAIP, Building G Contact: 05 94 29 50 75. (Service de la vie étudiante), Troubiran Campus, 05 94 29 50 57 or [email protected] ADDITIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE - job offers within university services and departments (student welcome services, promoting You can also sign up for Additional Health study program, assistance and support for disabled Insurance which will cover all health expenses students, careers assistance). not covered by the free and compulsory health To apply: [email protected] insurance. • The Jobaviz website, run by the CROUS, can help Take note: the plans and coverage levels differ from you find a student job that’s compatible with your one company to another. To choose an Additional studies: https://www.jobaviz.fr/ Health Insurance policy which meets your needs and your budget, you can compare student health insurance plans. INSURE YOUR HOME THINGS TO DO IN CAYENNE In France, housing insurance is mandatory. AND GUYANA / The “garantie risques locatifs” - rental risk guarantee - is housing insurance to which you can subscribe with TAKE UP A SPORT your bank or a private insurance company. Online subscription is also often possible. In your institution, contact the Service des Sports for free access to sports facilities. The Service Universitaire d’Activités Physiques et Sportives (SUAPS) at the Université de Guyane offers SAMU: Call 15 Emergency Medical Services and oversees a range of sporting activities for all Police emergency: Call 17 in the event of students: https://www.univ-guyane.fr > Campus > Sport. violence, theft, robbery. The city of Cayenne offers various sports facilities Fire Department: Call 18 in the event of fire, and sporting events: http://www.ville-cayenne.fr > gas leak, water damage, natural catastrophe, or Cadre de vie > Sport. traffic accident. Call 112: European emergency services number that’s accessible from anywhere in the European Union in addition to the French numbers above.

LEARNING FRENCH Learning French is an opportunity that’s not to be missed! Find what works best for you: - by consulting the Campus France site or the Français Langue Etrangère (FLE) - French as a foreign language - centers and universities which offer courses at all levels year-round: http://ecolesdete.campusfrance.org - by asking in your institution, at city hall, or in your host city’s Maison des Associations - community centers.

5 BE ACTIVE a good way of finding out what’s going on locally: https://www.guyane-amazonie.fr > Votre séjour > A Attend cultural and sporting events, or join a social voir, à faire > Agenda. or community group, through one of the numerous local or national student clubs and associations. To learn more, check with your school (Service de la vie étudiante, Student Services) or visit the following TOP sites: www.animafac.net or www.letudiant.fr At Université de Guyane, student associations ATTRACTIONS / ensure that campus life is never dull: https://www.univ-guyane.fr > Campus > Bureau de The town of St-Laurent du Maroni in Guyana was la vie étudiante recognized as, a “Town of Art and History” in 2005. GAINING CULTURE AND PARTYING • Cayenne’s historic town center with Fort Cépérou and Place des Palmistes, a lovely spot for a stroll. Movie theaters, concerts, theaters, exhibitions, and • Maison Félix Éboué in Cayenne, traditional Creole festivals are on the program and most of the time, architecture, the museum commemorates Governor at reduced cost for students. Félix Éboué who was a major resistance figure in For more information, see the City of Cayenne France’s overseas territories during the Second website: http://www.ville-cayenne.fr/ or the website World War. of the Guyana-Amazonie Tourism office: https://www.guyane-amazonie.fr/ • The Quartier Officiel in St-Laurent du Maroni, along the banks of the river, with the remains The Pôle Culture at Université de Guyane of the famous penal colony, the Camp de la contributes to artistic education and promoting Transportation. culture among the student population, by organizing a variety of activities and events: • The Îles du Salut () off Kourou, https://www.univ-guyane.fr > Campus > Action where the former penal colony is open to the public. culturelle. • Guyana Space Center in Kourou, to visit the For entertainment or to pick up some culture, you Space Museum and watch a rocket launch. Free can choose from: registration to watch a launch: - 4 major multi-screen movie theaters in Guyana, http://www.cnes-csg.fr/web/CNES-CSG-fr/9821 > (student rates, rewards -card), and an arthouse lower the page left on: Rendez-nous visite. theater, L’Eldorado: https://eldoradoguyane.jimdo. • Guyana Amazonian Park, in the Southern region, a com/ French National Park in the heart of the Amazonian - 6 museums including a science museum, Musée forest, the largest protected area in the European Territorial Alexandre-Franconie, one of the oldest Union: http://www.parc-amazonien-guyane.fr/fr cultural institutions in Cayenne (open to the general • Guyana Zoo in , species that are public, free admission): unique to French Guyana and the world, with over https://www.guyane-amazonie.fr > Activités de loisir 450 animals and over 75 different species: - there are around ten theater and concert https://www.zoodeguyane.com/ venues in Guyana, including Les Trois Fleuves, a Public Institution for Cultural Cooperation in the • Remire-Montjoly beaches with their palm trees and performing arts (EPCC) in Guyana: fine sand! https://www.troisfleuves.fr/ To learn and see more: check out the Guyana- - around ten bookshops, including Lettres Amazonie Tourist Office website: d’Amazonie, a general-interest and specialized https://www.guyane-amazonie.fr/ bookshop. - various libraries, whether municipal (with informal lending libraries), departmental or regional, as well as the University Library at Université de Guyane: https://www.univ-guyane.fr > Campus > Bibliothèque. In Guyane, for going out or staying abreast of current events, read France-Guyana, the regional daily paper, available on the Internet: https://www.franceguyane.fr/ The “Diary” section on the Tourist Office website is

6 IMPORTANT JULY - AUGUST • Nuit du Sanpula in Awala-Yalimapo (July), ANNUAL EVENTS / singing and dancing to the rhythm of the Kali’na Amerindians’ sanpula drum. JANUARY - FEBRUARY • Indigenous People’s Day (August), three days to • The in Cayenne, the world’s longest promote the culture of the indigenous population carnival, a must-see event, takes place every (Amerindians) of Guyana. weekend for two months with music, processions, • Camp La Nuit Tombe, evening visits (all summer) evening parades and masked balls. by candle and torchlight, to the Camp de la Transportation (former penal colony) in St-Laurent MARCH du Maroni. • The Space Маrаthоn, between the town of Kоurоu and the Arіаnе launch base, is open to all SEPTEMBER competitors. • Journées Européennes du Patrimoine, (European Heritage Days), free admission to cultural sites APRIL throughout Guyana. • Rambutan Festival in Cacao, market and traditional festival to celebrate the rambutan (a red fruit in the OCTOBER lychee family). • Fête de Cayenne, numerous events throughout October: concerts, local folklore and Kayenn Jazz MAY Festival, an important cultural and musical event. • La Nuit européenne des Musées (European Museum Night) offers an opportunity to discover NOVEMBER museums and other cultural sites all over French • Science Festival, a major event in Guyana, bringing Guyana in a new light! together a number of local institutions: university, research organizations, associations, innovative JUNE companies, cultural institutions, etc. • Fête de la Musique with music everywhere in town (free concerts). DECEMBER • Abolition of Slavery Day (June 10), festive and • The Kali’na Games on the beach at Awala commemorative events throughout Guyana Yalimapo, celebrations and competitive sports. including theater, dance, music, conferences, etc.

To stay informed and attuned to others and the world, to share and dialogue with students, follow social media where Campus France has an especially strong presence! Don’t forget to join the France Alumni network. Take part in SHARE discussion groups on various subjects, take advantage of PARTICIPATE cultural outings, and consult job and internship offers.

7 THINGS TO KNOW

GUYANA:

GUYANA IS A residents Territorial Collectivity 300,000 of the French Republic, FRANCE’S YOUNGEST REGION one of the outermost regions (ORs) of the European Union and CAYENNE: France’s largest overseas territory 58,000 residents CAPITAL OF FRENCH GUYANA

UNIVERSITÉ DE GUYANE, MULTIDISCIPLINARY UNIVERSITY:

- 4,200 students including 20% international students, - 1 doctoral school, - 6 research centers, - 1 “Laboratory of Excellence” - JULY 2021. - JULY

Most of the information presented in the Campus France City Information Sheets concerns all international students regardless of their institution. In France, in each of the host cities, most foreign students study at universities. Accordingly, the City Information Sheets attach great importance to them without overlooking the other higher education institutions even if it is not possible to list them all here with their specific information.

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