DISCOVER YOUR CITY Campus France will guide you through your first steps in France and exploring Albi, your new home. WELCOME TO ALBI - Photos: DR - Cover photo: © SergiyN, Fotolia - JULY 2021. - JULY photo: © SergiyN, Fotolia - Photos: DR Cover Rubrik (91) C Production: YOUR ARRIVAL IN - IMT Mines Albi-Carmaux. Direction des Affaires Internationales (International ALBI / Relations) Address: Jarlard Campus, 81000 Albi. General hours: Monday to Friday, 8am to 12:30pm A regional Welcome Desk and 2pm to 6pm. Contact (switchboard): 05 63 49 30 00 or [email protected] The city of Albi is located 75km from Toulouse where the Welcome Desk, a comprehensive Buddy System student reception center was created by the You can be assisted by a local student in Albi! Université Fédérale de Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées Some of our institutions offer a Buddy System to which groups all the region’s higher education help you settle in to your new hometown. institutions. For more information: The Welcome Desk is for students and - contact the Internation’Albi association at INU researchers, both French and foreign to help Champollion Albi. them in settling in and with their different Contact: [email protected] administrative procedures. - consult the Welcome Desk site: A specialized multilingual team welcomes and https://welcomedesk.univ-toulouse.fr/ > S’ouvrir à guides students and researchers on housing, l’international > Parrainage d’étudiants étrangers residence permits, day-to-day life, sports, National Services recreation, culture and so much more. - students: www.etudiant.gouv.fr Year round the different services of the Préfecture, - doctoral students, researchers: Rectorat (Board of Education), CROUS and CAF http://www.euraxess.fr/fr will help you in setting up in Toulouse. Foreign doctoral students and researchers may also use the Welcome Desk. Address: Welcome Desk, 41 allée Jules-Guesde, 31000 Toulouse. Hours: Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm. Contact: [email protected] Reach all the welcome and orientation services in one click: https://welcomedesk.univ-toulouse.fr/ The Toul’Box is also available in Albi. It's a personalized tool designed for students, doctoral students and researchers to help you get started, including orientation, assistance with housing and other administrative procedures and French lessons, etc.): https://toulbox.univ-toulouse.fr/ HOUSING IN ALBI / Welcome and orientation in the institutions Albi has two higher education institutions: There are solutions for housing in Albi: Student- - Institut National Universitaire (INU) Jean- only accommodations managed by CROUS, François Champollion. student housing and private residences, and rooms Address: Place de Verdun, 81000 Albi. in private homes. 2 offices: - Guichet Unique, a one-stop desk for general Most important is to take care of this as early as information in the Administrative building. possible and before your arrival. Contact: 05 63 48 91 43 or • You can consult the Housing pages on the [email protected] Welcome Desk de Toulouse web site: - Welcome and orientation for foreign students in https://welcomedesk.univ-toulouse.fr > S’installer > the Service des Relations Internationales infos pratiques > Logement Contact: 05 63 48 19 66 or [email protected] 2 • At the Institut National Universitaire Jean- Jeunesse du Tarn) can also assist you in your François Champollion, visit the one-stop Guichet search. Unique. Fédération Léo Lagrange, Address: Ground floor of the Administration 10 place de la Marne, 81000 Albi. Building, Place de Verdun, 81000 Albi. Contact: 05 63 56 22 54. Hours: Monday to Friday, 8:30am to 5pm. Site: https://www.pourlesjeunestarnais.com/ Contact: 05 63 48 91 43 or 05 63 48 64 19. • Private accommodation • IMT Mines d’Albi, reserves space in student - Try these sites: housing for its students. https://www.immojeune.com https://www.location-etudiant.fr > Albi 8 residences on 4 sites have sufficient capacity https://housinganywhere.com/fr/ for all the international engineering and masters - There is also a site managed by the CROUS, students. Lokaviz, which includes a listing of student Contact: 05 63 49 30 00 or accomodations in private homes: [email protected] https://www.lokaviz.fr/ For more information: https://www.imt-mines-albi.fr • Shared housing > Ecole > Le campus > Hébergement Consult La Carte des Colocs, a national site for shared leases that’s free and simple to use: A FEW TIPS https://www.lacartedescolocs.fr/ Short-term housing • Other solutions available on the Campus France site: https://www.campusfrance.org/fr > Getting • The Youth Hostel located near the old town center. Organized > Accommodation Address: Habitat des Jeunes en Albigeois, 50 rue Croix Verte, 81000 Albi. If you need a guarantor to secure your lodging Contact: 05 63 54 16 47. Visale is a new and free guarantor system: They also offer other housing solutions. www.visale.fr Learn more: http://www.habitat-jeunes-albi.fr > Logements > auberges de jeunesse If you want to file an application for APL funds (Aide Personnalisée au Logement, or persona- • You can also consult the Albi Tourist Office lized housing aid), which has a list featuring all the types of accommodation available: CAF (Caisse des Allocations Familiales) can check https://www.albi-tourisme.fr your eligibility: 08.10.29.29.29 or www.caf.fr Long-term housing If you need housing adapted to your special needs • CROUS (Centre Régional des Œuvres Universitaires Contact the CROUS Social Services which will take et Scolaires) student housing for Toulouse - action with your institution. Some establishments Occitanie. have specialized services for students with The CROUS has 3 university residences for disabilities (assistance for housing, and also 157 students in Albi. transportation and tuition). Contacts: To learn more, consult the dedicated pages on the - CROUS Albi, 05 63 48 16 92 or Welcome Desk site: [email protected] https://welcomedesk.univ-toulouse.fr/tags/handicap - CROUS Toulouse, 05 61 12 54 00 or 08 06 80 01 31. Site: www.crous-toulouse.fr Trouver un Logement site https://trouverunlogement.lescrous.fr/ On campus, the CROUS also manages all low-cost food services (university restaurants, cafeterias, food-trucks, etc.). Other solutions: • Public and youth housing - Tarn Habitat, the main public housing body also offers student housing: http://www.tarnhabitat.fr/nos-offres-etudiants - Tarn Youth Information network (Information 3 FIRST THINGS GETTING FIRST / AROUND ALBI ENROLLMENT IN YOUR INSTITUTION If you arrive by train ( https://www.oui.sncf/ ), the main Albi station is a 15 minute walk CVEC from the town center. Buses also leave from Before you can enroll in your institution, you must outside the station: lines R, L or K depending download proof of payment of the Contribution Vie on your destination. Etudiante et de Campus (CVEC) – the student and Toulouse-Blagnac is the closest airport: campus life contribution fee. 1 hour by car or 2 hours by train from - Log in at: https://cvec.etudiant.gouv.fr/ Toulouse to Albi. - For additional information and special cases: https://www.campusfrance.org > Getting Organized Albibus is the Greater Albi public bus service > CVEC for getting around the town and surrounding Confirm Registration area: http://www.grand-albigeois.fr/361-transports. Take note! Even if you have a pre-registration letter, htm you are not officially enrolled. You must confirm your enrollment with the There are regional trains for getting around the institution’s Service de la Scolarité (Admissions) as region (reduced fares available): soon as you arrive. https://www.ter.sncf.com/occitanie/ SNCF and the Region have put 1€ tickets RESIDENCE PERMIT (TITRE DE SÉJOUR) in place for local travel in Occitanie: https://www.ter.sncf.com > tarifs et abonnements > EVASIO’ 1€ Buses are also an option for low-cost travel: GOOD TO KNOW https://fr.ouibus.com/ or • If you have arrived in France with a VLS-TS https://www.flixbus.fr/ long-term student visa: you must validate it online upon your arrival and imperatively For ride-sharing, refer to the collaborative within the first three months of your stay websites: (in France) on the ANEF (Administration - local: numérique pour les étrangers en France) http://www.grand-albigeois.fr/376-covoiturer. website: https://administration-etrangers-en- htm france.interieur.gouv.fr - national: • If you are an Algerian national or a student https://www.blablacar.fr/ with a “Concours” (tests) visa» or a visa with the indication “Carte à solliciter dans les deux For more independence, use the free bike mois” (Residency permit is to be requested service provided by the Institut National within 2 months of entry): your residency permit Universitaire and the Greater Albi local application has to be made at the Prefecture. authority. Learn more: • If you hold a “mineur scolarisé” (enrolled minor) visa and you attained the age of https://www.univ-jfc.fr/cyclochampo majority, you have to request for a “Titre de IMT Mines Albi also has an association séjour” online on the ANEF website or at the which loans bikes for free (Vemac): prefecture where you live within 2 months https://vemaci2d.wixsite.com/vemac following your majority. https://administration-etrangers-en-france. interieur.gouv.fr 4 This is the case at Institut National Universitaire Take note : To renew your student residency where a regular weekly service is provided by the permit “Titre de séjour” (VLS-TS), your request Service Interuniversitaire