DISCOVER YOUR CITY Campus France will guide you through your first steps in France and exploring Amiens, your new home. WELCOME TO AMIENS - JULY 2021. - JULY Photos: DR - Cover photo: ©Hugues Courtois, Fotolia.com Photos: DR - Cover - Rubrik (91) C Production: YOUR ARRIVAL IN HOUSING AMIENS / IN AMIENS / Different measures are in place to greet you and There are numerous solutions for housing assist you in your procedures. in Amiens: Student-only accommodations managed by CROUS, student housing and private Welcome and Orientation at Université de residences, and rooms in private homes. Picardie - Jules Verne (UPJV) What’s most important is to take care of this as At UPJV, a Welcome and Support Desk is set up early as possible, before your arrival. during the entire month of September, first in • The Amiens Métropole site a one-stop city center location and then at the inventories all student housing Direction des Relations Internationales (DRI). solutions (private residences): This one-stop service (Guichet) aims to assist arriving https://www.amiens.fr > Vivre à students in their administrative procedures and Amiens > Jeunesse > Etudier > residence permits and to provide them with information Se loger on housing, health insurance, CAF and more. Address: DRI, 11 rue des Francs Mûriers, • The CRIJ des Hauts-de- 80000 Amiens France (Centre Régional Contact: 03 22 82 72 51 or [email protected] d’Information Jeunesse), For more information: www.u-picardie.fr/international the regional youth information Buddy System center publishes a Housing You can be assisted by a local student in Amiens! Guide which will simplify your With the ESN Amiens Association (Erasmus Student installation: Network), a the Buddy System can meet you and http://www.crij-hdf.fr > Nos publications > Guide du help you in all your procedures: logement http://amiens.ixesn.fr and http://buddysytem.eu/ A FEW TIPS Welcome and orientation for researchers and doctoral students Short-term housing Researchers arriving in Amiens are welcomed and • The Amiens Youth Hostel located near the city supported by Amiens Métropole, the metropolitan center (on the Nemo bus red line). authority, and the Amiens Picardie CCI: Address: 30 square Friant les 4 Chênes, http://www.accueil-mobilite.fr/ 80000 Amiens. Contact: 03 22 33 27 30. Welcome and orientation in other institutions Site: https://www.hifrance.org > Auberge de If you are enrolled in another institution, please jeunesse consult the Campus France website for orientation. • Other hotel-residences: use the search engine on The site presents a series of Information Sheets the Amiens Tourist Office site which inventories all covering the different higher learning institutions: types of housing: https://www.campusfrance.org > Students > http://www.amiens-tourisme.com > Tourinsoft > Documentary resources > Practical information recherche > Hébergement for students and researchers > Reception arrangements in institutions If you cannot find your school in this list, then go directly to their website. • Every year, the city and the institutions organize an important day of welcoming festivities in September for arriving students and researchers. More information on the Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/JAE.Amiens/ National Services - students: www.etudiant.gouv.fr - doctoral students, researchers: http://www.euraxess.fr/fr 2 Long-term housing If you need housing adapted to your special • The CROUS (Centre Régional des Œuvres needs Universitaires - Regional Center for University Contact the CROUS Social Services which will take Services) student housing for Amiens-Picardie. action with your institution. Some establishments Address: 5 rue Saint-Leu, 80000 Amiens. have specialized services for students with Hours: disabilities (assistance for housing, and also - September 1 to October 31: Monday to Friday, transportation and tuition). 8:30am to 5:00pm. At University of Picardie - Jules Verne, contact the - November 2 to August 31: Monday to Friday, Service for Special-Needs Students: 9am to 12:30pm and 1:30pm to 5pm. https://www.u-picardie.fr > L’université > Handicap Contact: 09 69 36 19 19 Site: www.crous.amiens.fr The website Trouver un logement: https://trouverunlogement.lescrous.fr/ On campus, the CROUS also manages all low-cost food services (university restaurants, cafeterias, food-trucks, etc.). • Private sites for housing search You can also check out these specialized sites: - https://www.adele.org > résidence > agglomération > Amiens - http://www.logement-etudiant.com/ offre-de-logement/Amiens/liste.asp - https://www.location-etudiant.fr > résidences GETTING AROUND étudiantes > Amiens - https://housinganywhere.com/fr/s/Amiens-- AMIENS France • There is also a site managed by the CROUS, There are many ways to get to Amiens: By Lokaviz, which includes a listing of student train from the Paris Gare du Nord station (1 accomodations in private homes: hour 15 minutes) or from Paris Charles de https://www.lokaviz.fr/ Gaulle airport by way of the Haute Picardie TGV train station. Travel to Amiens by bus or • Shared Leases: consult La Carte des Colocs, a ride-sharing is also possible. national site for shared leases that’s free and simple Trains: https://www.oui.sncf/ to use: https://www.lacartedescolocs.fr/ Bus: https://www.flixbus.fr/voyages-car • Other solutions available on the Campus France Ride-sharing: https://www.blablacar.fr site: www.campusfrance.org > Getting organized > If you arrive at the Beauvais airport, take the Keolis Accommodation Beauvais-Amiens bus (1 hour and 15 minutes). If you need a guarantor to secure your lodging In the city, use the Ametis network and its Visale is a new and free guarantor system: 17 bus lines (operates every day including www.visale.fr holidays): https://www.ametis.fr/ For greater independence, use rental bikes: If you want to file an application for APL funds - The Ametis bus network is completed with a (Aide Personnalisée au Logement, or persona- bicycle service for both short- and long-term lized housing aid), rentals, Buscyclette: CAF (Caisse des Allocations Familiales) can check https://www.ametis.fr/buscyclette/ your eligibility: 08.10.29.29.29 or www.caf.fr - the local Velam network, bikes are available in 26 docking stations: http://www.velam.amiens.fr For travel within the region, take the regional trains: https://www.ter.sncf.com/hauts-de-france Buses are also an option for low-cost travel: https://fr.ouibus.com/ or https://www.flixbus.fr/ 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: • To find out more about rights and obligations: https://www.campusfrance.org > Getting Organized The reception services of your establishment can > CVEC guide you in the event of difficulties. www.service-public.fr > Etranger > Titre de séjour Confirm Registration et document de circulation (Foreigners > Resident Take note! Even if you have a pre-registration letter, Card 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. RESIDENCE PERMIT (TITRE DE SÉJOUR) PRACTICAL GOOD TO KNOW INFORMATION / • If you have arrived in France with a VLS-TS long-term student visa: you must validate it online upon your arrival and imperatively OPENING A BANK ACCOUNT within the first three months of your stay If you stay in France for more than 3 months, it (in France) on the ANEF (Administration will be much easier day-to-day if you open a bank numérique pour les étrangers en France) account, online or in one of the 75 bank agencies website: https://administration-etrangers-en- located in Amiens. france.interieur.gouv.fr In France, opening a bank account is a right: • If you are an Algerian national or a student www.service-public.fr > Argent > Comptes with a “Concours” (tests) visa» or a visa with bancaires> Droit au compte the indication “Carte à solliciter dans les deux mois” (Residency permit is to be requested HEALTHCARE within 2 months of entry): your residency permit application has to be made at the In France, receiving medical treatment is practically Prefecture. free but you must be insured. Accordingly, signing up for medical insurance is mandatory. • If you hold a “mineur scolarisé” (enrolled minor) visa and you attained the age of Login to the majority, you have to request for a “Titre de https://etudiant-etranger.ameli.fr site to séjour” online on the ANEF website or at the register, to understand your eligibility and prefecture where you live within 2 months benefits, and to take the necessary steps. following your majority. https://administration-etrangers-en-france. Learn more: interieur.gouv.fr https://www.campusfrance.org > Getting Organized > Health 4 As a student, you can also take advantage of the LEARNING FRENCH university medical services. That’s the case for University of Picardie which has a Service de Santé Learning French is an opportunity that’s not to be Universitaire (SSU), or university health services. missed! Find what works best for you: In these health services where consultations - by consulting the Campus France site or the are free, you’ll be greeted by a team of medical Français Langue Etrangère (FLE) - French as a professionals who can give you a health check-up foreign language - centers and universities which and personalized advice in terms of health and offer courses at all levels year-round: prevention.