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75-657: The Union was founded in Paris on 20 October 1920, during the first post-war international conference on TB at the Sorbonne University , where the representatives of 31 countries pledged to work together to fight the disease. The antecedents of The Union include the former Central Bureau for the Prevention of Tuberculosis. At the time it was known as the International Union Against Tuberculosis (IUAT) and

150-636: A Graduate program in the Humanities ( Translitterae ) and a PhD program in Cognitive science (FrontCog). The "Science Art Creation Research" (SACRe) doctoral program aims at developing new fields of research by exploring the interfaces between the arts, and between arts and science (hard sciences as well as the humanities and social sciences). The program implements a new kind of PhD in Art strongly articulating practice and theoretical thinking. It brings together, along with

225-538: A broad range of disciplines in science , engineering , humanities , social sciences , fine art and performing arts . PSL alumni and staff include 28 Nobel laureates , 11 Fields Medalists , 3 Abel laureates , 49 CNRS Gold Medalists, 50 César winners and 79 Molière winners. In 2004, institutions in the Latin Quarter began thinking of how to join forces to boost their international visibility. The French law on research promulgated in 2006, which encouraged

300-507: A detailed review process, nine institutions agreed to put in place an integrated budget and a multi-year strategy for academic recruitment, as well as to create a number of shared platforms and services. Chimie ParisTech, École Nationale des Chartes, École Normale Supérieure, École Pratique des Hautes Etudes, ESPCI Paris, Institut Curie, Observatoire de Paris, MINES ParisTech, Paris-Dauphine University decided to jointly form PSL University. The agreement approved by their respective boards calls for

375-520: A focus on tuberculosis, HIV , lung health and non-communicable diseases , tobacco control and research. The Union publishes two scientific journals; the International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease ( IJTLD ) and Public Health Action ( PHA ). The IJTLD is distributed to over 165 countries world-wide and has an impact factor of 2.76. The IJTLD is the reference for clinical research and epidemiological studies on tuberculosis. It

450-484: A free faculty in 1905), and the École supérieure de pharmacie . It was inaugurated on 19 November 1896 by its president, Félix Faure . The universities of Paris-Sorbonne and Pierre-et-Marie-Curie were created as a result of the university reform prepared by Edgar Faure in 1968. At that time, the University of Paris , divided into five faculties, was split into several interdisciplinary universities. Some, including

525-822: A new international institution. The most famous projects are : Since 2014, the Sorbonne College for bachelor's degrees ("Collège des Licences de la Sorbonne") has been coordinating the academic projects of Sorbonne University with Panthéon-Assas University , the law school of the Sorbonne University Group which has not merged into the Sorbonne University and remained independent. It also offers cross-institutional academic courses in many fields, allowing students to graduate from both institutions. For example, some cross-institutional bachelor's degrees ("double licences") are proposed to students in : As it

600-541: A yearly summer school open to European students, to help understand the challenges of sustainable development: the European School of Positive Impact and Responsibility (ESPOIR). Université PSL offers training programs for graduate students through its constituent schools in a broad array of disciplines: engineering, fine and applied arts, management, economics, biology, humanities and social sciences, astronomy. The first post-graduate/Master programme to be created under

675-553: Is Alain Fuchs . He took over the position from Thierry Coulhon in 2017, when Coulhon was appointed advisor to the French President in charge of Education, Higher Education, and Research. PSL is administered by a Board of Directors chaired by the PSL president. It relies on the recommendations of an Academic Council and a Strategic Steering Committee. The executive organ of the university is

750-547: Is Jussieu Campus , officially named "Pierre and Marie Curie Campus". It houses the Sorbonne University Faculty of Science and Engineering and its Sorbonne Polytechnic School , Sorbonne Center for Artificial Intelligence, Sorbonne Institute for Environmental Transition, the Institute of Health Engineering (IUIS) and the Institute of Computing and Data Sciences (ISCD). The first buildings are from 1957. The main part of

825-868: Is a public research university and Grand établissement based in Paris , France. It was established in 2010 and formally created as a university in 2019. It is a collegiate university with 11 constituent schools, with the oldest founded in 1530. PSL is located in central Paris , with its main sites in the Latin Quarter , at the Montagne Sainte-Geneviève Campus, at the Jourdan Campus, at Dauphine Campus , at Condorcet Campus , and at Carré Richelieu . PSL awards Bachelor's , Master's , and PhD diplomas for its constituent schools and institutes. It offers an education based on research and interdisciplinary instruction, and its 17,000 students have access to

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900-628: Is a public research university located in Paris , France . The institution's legacy reaches back to the Middle Ages in 1257 when Sorbonne College was established by Robert de Sorbon as a constituent college of the University of Paris , one of the first universities in Europe . Its current iteration was formed in 2018 by the merger of Paris-Sorbonne University (Paris IV) and the Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI). Sorbonne University

975-953: Is also home to the AP-HP Sorbonne University Hospital Group . Two other campuses are the Clignancourt and Malesherbes centers of the Sorbonne University Faculty of Arts and Humanities. Undergraduate students in their first and second years of study in Philosophy, History, Geography , Musicology , English and Spanish take their classes at the Clignancourt center. The Clignancourt Library contains 78,000 works, 210 French and international periodicals and 800 educational DVDs. Undergraduate students in their first and second years of study in French literature , French language, Latin , and Ancient Greek take their classes at

1050-642: Is also the only peer-reviewed journal dedicated to lung health, including articles on non-tuberculosis-related respiratory diseases such as asthma, acute respiratory infection, COPD and the hazards of tobacco and pollution. Public Health Action is The Union's open-access online journal which is published quarterly. PHA addresses the need for showcasing operational research that addresses issues in health systems and services and aims to provide new knowledge to improve access, equity, quality and efficiency of health systems and services. Sorbonne University Sorbonne University ( French : Sorbonne Université )

1125-519: Is co-leader of the SDSN Network for France, under the initiative of the United Nations ., together with Kedge Business School and Universite Cergy-Pontoise . In this context, Université PSL is promoting that all students shall have access to courses related to climate, biodiversity and sustainability. PSL has launched in 2020 a bachelor program dedicated to sustainability sciences. PSL organizes

1200-726: Is in the historic central Sorbonne building, located at 47 rue des Écoles, in the historic Latin Quarter university campus. The building is the undivided property of the 13 successor universities of the University of Paris, managed by the Chancellerie des Universités de Paris . Besides the monuments of the Cour d'Honneur, the Sorbonne Chapel and the Grand Amphithéâtre , the building houses

1275-568: Is jointly governed by the Abu Dhabi Education Council (ADEC) and by SUAD's board of trustees, with six members, three of whom are appointed by the home Sorbonne University and the other three appointed by the Abu Dhabi Executive Council. The president of SUAD is the president of Sorbonne University in Paris, currently Prof Nathalie Drach-Temam. Academic programmes are offered at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels in

1350-575: Is offered for one or two year(s) to students who do not meet the French language requirement for registration. The establishment of the university demonstrates the keenness of Abu Dhabi to create an international hub in culture and education, having also signed a contract with the Louvre in 2007 to create the Louvre Abu Dhabi , and with New York University in 2007 to create New York University Abu Dhabi . SUAD

1425-509: Is one of the most sought after universities by students and researchers from France , Europe , and the French speaking countries . Most notably, Marie Skłodowska-Curie , who came from Poland in 1891 and joined the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Paris , was also the first woman to become a professor at the Sorbonne. Marie Curie and her husband Pierre Curie are considered the founders of

1500-646: Is organised around a core of discipline-specific programs and interdisciplinary programs such as the laboratories of excellence (Labex) (fr) and the Interdisciplinary and Strategic Research Initiatives. Examples of interdisciplinary programs are Scripta (History and practices of writing), the OCAV program ( Origins and Conditions for the Emergence of Life ), or the Q-Life Institute. PSL's research landscape includes

1575-695: Is ranked among the best world universities in 39 of the 54 subjects, e.g., 10th in the world for Mathematics and for Physics, and 12th in Ecology. In 2022, Université PSL is ranked first in the Young University Rankings 2022. International in scope, PSL has cultivated framework agreements with the University of Cambridge , UCL , EPFL , Columbia , Berkeley , NYU , Technion , ANU , Peking University , Shanghai Jiao Tong , National Taiwan University , Tsinghua University , and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology . The PSL Orchestra and Choir

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1650-475: Is ranked first university in France, and 44th in the world. UPMC is a member of Sorbonne University Association . Sorbonne students can study abroad for a semester or a year at partner institutions such as McGill University , University of Toronto , King's College London , and University of Warwick . Members have worked on several projects in order to strengthen the relations between them and potentially create

1725-583: Is ranked in range 39 globally and 3rd in France. In the Times Higher Education European Teaching Rankings 2024, Sorbonne University was ranked in fourth place in France. In the Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings 2019, Sorbonne University was ranked in range 51–60 globally and 2nd in France. The 2021 QS World University Rankings ranked Sorbonne University 83rd overall in

1800-527: Is the case in the Anglo-American university system, Sorbonne University proposes a major-minor system, that is currently being deployed at the university. Sorbonne University, in partnership with INSEAD, also offers all of its alumni and PhD students a professionalizing course in business management to complete their curriculum. Since 2010, every PhD student is being delivered an honorary diploma labeled Sorbonne University. This diploma highlights and gathers

1875-421: Is the first higher education institution in Paris region to win such an endowment. The university was established by a decree issued 21 April 2017, taking effect 1 January 2018. Sorbonne University has three faculties: Arts and Humanities, Science and Engineering, and Medicine. The Sorbonne University Faculty of Arts and Humanities provides studies in arts, languages, letters, and human and social sciences, and

1950-419: Is the largest in France. Fields such as history, geography, languages, linguistics, musicology, philosophy, classical and modern literature, foreign literature and civilisations, and the history of art and archaeology are part of this faculty. The Sorbonne Faculty of Science and Engineering is a major research institution in France. It can be considered the successor in direct line to the Faculty of Science of

2025-571: The Times Higher Education ranking in 72nd place globally and 1st place in France, and 41st place globally in 2018. In 2020, PSL University appears for the first time in two other major university rankings: CWTS Leiden Ranking and ARWU : in the Shanghai ranking it is ranked 36th and 2nd French University behind Paris-Saclay University . In ARWU Global Ranking of Academic Subjects (also known as Shanghai Ranking by Subjects) University PSL

2100-489: The ARWU . Robert de Sorbon (1201–1274), chaplain to King Louis IX (Saint Louis), observed the difficulties experienced by poor "schoolchildren" in achieving the rank of doctor. In February 1257, he had a house ( domus ) officially established which he intended for a certain number of secular clergy who, living in common and without concern for their material existence, would be entirely occupied with study and teaching. This house

2175-519: The Ecole normale supérieure , five French schools of creative and performing arts: CNSAD (French professional acting school), Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris (dance, music and sound design), École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs , École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts and La Fémis . PSL hosts some 140 laboratories, 2,900 research and teaching staff, and about 100 ERC grants . The scientific research strategy

2250-683: The Institut d'Études Hispaniques ' collection of 25,000 works on Iberian and Latin-American culture. Catalan studies take place at the Centre d'Études Catalanes in the Marais . The Sorbonne University also includes the Saint-Antoine Campus for the study of medicine ; the Cordeliers Convent , Curie and Raspail campuses for sciences studies. An exclusive international agreement between Sorbonne and

2325-597: The Laboratoire Kastler-Brossel (Quantum Physics, shared with PSL University ). The Sorbonne University Faculty of Health Sciences, in association with the Greater Paris University Hospitals (AP-HP), manages the AP-HP Sorbonne University Hospital Group ( Hôpital Charles-Foix , Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital , Hôpital Fondation Rothschild , Hôpital Saint-Antoine , Hôpital Tenon , Hôpital Armand-Trousseau , Hôpital de La Roche-Guyon ) and

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2400-579: The Lycée Henri IV , along with Mines ParisTech , ESPCI Paris , Paris Dauphine University , Paris Observatory , Ecole normale supérieure and Lycée Louis-le-Grand have implemented a three-year undergraduate program : CPES Multidisciplinary undergraduate course. At Université Paris-Dauphine, a constituent of Université PSL, bachelor's degrees are available for students in the following fields: management, economics and finance, accounting, applied mathematics, computing, journalism (IPJ-Dauphine). PSL

2475-598: The Panthéon-Sorbonne University , Sorbonne Nouvelle University , Sorbonne University, Paris Cité University , under the administration of Panthéon-Sorbonne . It is open exclusively to undergraduate students in their third year and graduate students. With the former archives of the now-defunct University of Paris, 2,500,000 books, 400,000 of them ancient, 2,500 historical manuscripts, 18,000 doctoral dissertation papers, 17,750 past and current French and international periodicals and 7,100 historical printing plates,

2550-663: The Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital and University Center (CHU), founded in 1657 in the 13th arrondissement of Paris. All undergraduate and graduate medical students study on this campus. Postgraduate courses are held at the Cordeliers Convent on the Latin Quarter campus. The hospital campus also houses the Sorbonne Health Simulation Department, the Paris Brain Institute and the Institute of Cardiometabolism and Nutrition (IHU-ICAN). The campus

2625-556: The Quinze-Vingts National Ophthalmology Hospital , promoting multidisciplinary research, and training doctors and other health professionals. There is no law school as such in Sorbonne University. In 1971, most of the law professors from the Faculty of Law and Economics of the University of Paris decided to restructure it as a university, called Panthéon-Assas University Paris (after the two main campuses of

2700-617: The Serpente Library that has 55,000 works and 292 past and current French and international periodicals. All doctoral dissertations since 1 January 1986 have been stored at the Serpente Library. Both the Institut d'Urbanisme et d'Aménagement and the Institut d'Études Hispaniques in the Latin Quarter campus host third year and graduate students of Geography and Iberian and Latin American studies. The Marcel Bataillon Library houses

2775-720: The University of Paris with the Paris-Saclay Faculty of Sciences . It has 79 laboratories in the Paris region, most in association with the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS). Some of the most notable institutes and laboratories include the Institut Henri Poincaré (Mathematics), Institut d'astrophysique de Paris (Astrophysics), LIP6 (Informatics / Computer Science), Institut des systèmes intelligents et de robotique (Robotics), Institut de mathématiques de Jussieu – Paris Rive Gauche (foundations of Mathematics, shared with University Paris Cité ) and

2850-687: The University of Paris-Sorbonne , retained the name " Sorbonne " and premises in the historic centre of the University of Paris, which had until then been mainly devoted to the Faculties of Arts and Sciences. The University of Paris-VI is created from the majority of the teaching and research units of the Faculty of Sciences of Paris (the others joining the universities of Paris-VII Denis Diderot (now Université Paris Cité ), Paris-Saclay University in Orsay, Paris-XII and Paris-XIII in Villetaneuse) and part of

2925-517: The Corail, HaStec, and TEPSIS Labex laboratories joined the list with EHESS and EPHE becoming members of PSL. Also in 2011, PSL's institutions presented ten projects under the "Equipped with excellence" (Equipex) program. Among the initial submissions, they obtained eight Equipex facilities: BEDOFIH, D-FIH, Equip@Meso, ICGex, IPGG, Paris-en-Resonnance, Planaqua, Ultrabrain. These projects have received funding ranging from 2 to 10 million euros. In 2017, after

3000-546: The Executive Committee (the president, vice-presidents, and deans), supported by the Council of Members. PSL offers education from undergraduate to doctoral level, across all academic disciplines, including life sciences , physical sciences , humanities and social sciences , creative arts , economics , administration and management. All of PSL's institutions have adopted a model of education through research. PSL and

3075-563: The French government launched a call for proposals to boost higher education: the Investing for the Future program (also called the grand emprunt ). PSL has successfully responded to several calls for proposals. In 2011, with the Initiatives for Excellence call for proposals, PSL was one of the first three projects selected, along with University of Bordeaux and University of Strasbourg . While

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3150-560: The Malesherbes center. All undergraduate students in these academic disciplines study in the central Sorbonne building in their third year. Undergraduate and graduate students in German studies , Slavic studies , Italic studies and Romanian studies , regardless of level, take all of their classes at the Malesherbes center. The Malesherbes center also hosts three research centers in Italian culture ,

3225-778: The Master's and PhD level and offer a Bachelor's program, with an emphasis on equal opportunity students (40% scholarship students in the CPES multidisciplinary preparatory class). Between 2011 and 2012, ten new institutions joined the foundation: Conservatoire national supérieur d'Art dramatique , Conservatoire national supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris , École nationale supérieure des Arts décoratifs , École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts , La Fémis , Pierre-Gilles de Gennes Foundation for Research, Institut Curie , Institut Louis-Bachelier, MINES ParisTech and Université Paris-Dauphine . Their arrival reinforced PSL's scientific potential in

3300-574: The Paris Law Faculty: place du Panthéon and rue d’Assas campuses). Panthéon-Assas now provides legal studies for Sorbonne University as an independent university. Another law school, the Panthéon-Sorbonne University School of Law (also a spin-off of the Faculty of Law and Economics of the University of Paris ) also exists in Paris, but has no connection with Sorbonne University. Sorbonne University' s historical campus

3375-585: The Sorbonne Library is the largest university library in Paris and was entirely refurbished in 2013. The Sorbonne University Library 's Arts and Humanities Department (French: Pôle Lettres de la Bibliothèque de Sorbonne Université ), part of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, offers its students and teaching staff access to 18 libraries and thematic collections. The catalog includes 600,000 books, 350,000 e-books, 60,000 issues of online periodicals and 165 databases. The largest of Sorbonne University's campuses

3450-651: The Sorbonne University Faculty of Arts and Humanities take their classes at the Institut d'Art et d'Archéologie , located at the main entrance of the Jardin du Luxembourg . Constructed by architect Paul Bigot between 1925 and 1930, the Mesopotamian-style building was classified as a national historic building in 1996. It hosts the Michelet Library that contains 100,000 volumes of work on art history and archeology with 100 French and international periodicals. Only 10,000 of

3525-541: The Sorbonne University Faculty of Arts and Humanities, the Academy of Paris Rectorat, the Chancellerie des Universités de Paris , and part of the universities Panthéon-Sorbonne , Sorbonne Nouvelle , Paris Cité and the École Nationale des Chartes as well as the École Pratique des Hautes Études that are constituent schools of PSL University . Before the 19th century, the Sorbonne occupied several buildings. The chapel

3600-442: The art history and archeology works are open to students, the others requiring special authorization of usage. Graduate Art History and Archeology students take their courses at the Institut National de l'Histoire de l'Art in the Galerie Colbert, a partnered national institution of the university. The Maison de la Recherche campus is the central building for doctoral studies that hosts the history and geography departments. It houses

3675-409: The campus, the " Grill d'Albert ", was built in 1964, and was completely refurbished from 1996 to 2016. Within the Sorbonne University Library , it houses 6 university libraries, including an important research library in mathematics and computer science . The Pitié-Salpêtrière Campus is home to Sorbonne University Faculty of Health Sciences and its Department of Medical Studies. It is located at

3750-399: The chapel into the whole was also Nénot's work with the construction of a cour d'honneur . The Sorbonne building is generally reserved for undergraduate students in their third year and graduate students in certain academic disciplines. Only students in Semitic studies, regardless of level, take all their classes at the Sorbonne campus. The Sorbonne Library is an inter-university library of

3825-412: The cultures and literature of central Europe and the Balkans and the Germanic, Nordic and Dutch centers. The Malesherbes Library contains 200,000 works specializing in the study of foreign languages and cultures and 1,200 past and current French and international periodicals. More than 50,000 doctoral dissertations are available for public viewing. Undergraduate Art History and Archeology students of

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3900-426: The diversity of project participants has sometimes been cited as a weakness, the promoters of PSL underline the complementarity of its institutions and the potential for collaboration. The funding of the Excellence Initiative has, in addition, supported the creation of 11 Laboratories of excellence (Labex) within PSL: CelTisPhyBio, DCBIOL, DEEP, DYNAMO, ENS-ICFP, ESEP, IEC, IPGG , MemoLife, TransferS, and WIFI. In 2014,

3975-492: The fields of engineering , biology , the arts , and management . In 2014, another four institutions specializing in humanities and social science joined the association: École française d'Extrême-Orient , École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), École nationale des Chartes , and École pratique des hautes études (EPHE). In 2015, PSL organized itself into a university community ( ComUE : PSL Research University). PSL began awarding PhDs at that point. In 2010,

4050-553: The following research fields: law, economics, and business administration; literature, literary theory, and philosophy; aesthetics and art theory; life and health sciences; area studies; energy and engineering; physics; chemistry; history; anthropology; informatics and data science; mathematics; materials science and soft matter science; cognitive science; sociology; earth and space science; religious studies; archaeology and heritage science. The first recognition of PSL's existence as an integrated university came in 2017, when it appeared on

4125-519: The formation of research networks (in various forms including PRES and RTRA), paved the way for new projects such as Paris Universitas , PRES ParisTech and an early version of the PSL project. This new organization combined five institutions of higher education in the Latin Quarter: Chimie ParisTech , Collège de France , École normale supérieure (Paris) , École Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles de la ville de Paris (ESPCI Paris) , and Observatoire de Paris . Together, they adopted

4200-591: The governance of the University. Associate members contribute to the strategy of the University, receive financial resources from PSL University and may carry scientific programs on behalf and by delegation thereof. PSL is a collegiate university (17,000 students). It consists of 11 constituent schools, with plans to gradually expand to include some or all other associate colleges. Three national research organisations ( CNRS , Inserm , Inria ) are involved in governance and help to define PSL's strategy, with which they coordinate their own strategies. The current president

4275-457: The government of Abu Dhabi was signed on 19 February 2006, starting plans to bring Sorbonne University to Abu Dhabi. Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi (SUAD) was established on 30 May 2008 on Reem Island by a decree of the ruler of Abu Dhabi of the United Arab Emirates . All programs are taught in the French language except for the Bachelor of Physics and most of the masters programmes, that are taught in English . An intensive French language programme

4350-459: The modern-day Faculty of Science and Engineering of Sorbonne University . As of 2021, its alumni and professors have won 33 Nobel Prizes , six Fields Medals , and one Turing Award . According to the ARWU and THE university rankings, its three main French rivals are PSL University , Saclay University and Paris Cité University . The university ranks 11th in the world in mathematics, 13th in earth sciences and 8th in oceanography according to

4425-578: The new statutes of the University were published. A few changes had occurred in the list of constituents, with nine institutions approving the new statutes and becoming établissement-composante (constituent colleges): Chimie ParisTech , Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique , École Nationale des Chartes , École normale supérieure , École pratique des hautes études , ESPCI Paris , Observatoire de Paris , MINES ParisTech , Paris Dauphine . Additionally, College de France and Institut Curie became associate members, participating closely in

4500-430: The poorest of them all". In 1982, it instituted World Tuberculosis Day , commemorating 100 years from the date when Robert Koch discovered cause of tuberculosis. The expanded name and mission were adopted in 1986. Past presidents include: According to its website, The Union has twelve offices around the world serving Africa, the Asia Pacific, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, North America and South-East Asia, with

4575-449: The promulgation of laws on 28 April 1893, giving civil personality to the bodies formed by the union of several faculties of an academy, and 10 July 1896, giving the name of university to the bodies of faculties, the new University of Paris was created in 1896 through the merger of the Faculty of Science, the Faculty of Letters, the Faculty of Law, the Faculty of Medicine, the Faculty of Protestant Theology (created in 1877 and transformed into

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4650-484: The same time, the Sorbonne Universities Association was renamed the Sorbonne University alliance; it includes the following institutions for academic cooperation: As part of the reforms of French Higher Education, on 19 March 2018, the international jury called by the French Government for the " Initiative d'excellence " (IDEX) confirmed the definite win of Sorbonne University. Consequently, Sorbonne University won an endowment of 900 Million euros with no limit of time. This

4725-758: The schools and institutions that form the university to adopt a unified strategy, to submit to the budgetary authority of the president of the university, to jointly plan their recruitment, and to transfer the whole of their diplomas to PSL. Towards the end of the process, in 2018, one of the former members, EHESS , did not approve the new statutes and decided not to be part of the target university. Beaux-Arts de Paris, Collège de France, Conservatoire National Supérieur d'Art Dramatique, Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, École Française d'Extrême-Orient, École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, La Fémis, Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique and Institut Louis Bachelier are recognized as associates of

4800-430: The skills of the doctors and researchers from the institutions that form Sorbonne University. The Sorbonne Doctoral College , created in 2013, coordinates the activities of the 26 doctoral schools. Since 2014, it has developed cross-disciplinary Ph.Ds between the different members of the Sorbonne University Association . PSL University Paris Sciences et Lettres University ( PSL University or simply PSL )

4875-416: The social sciences, humanities, law and sciences. Sorbonne University is consistently ranked in the top universities in Europe and the world. The first recognition of its existence as an integrated university came in 2018, when it appeared on the CWUR World University Rankings 2018–2019 in 29th place globally and 1st place in France. In the Academic Ranking of World Universities 2020, Sorbonne University

4950-467: The status of a scientific cooperation foundation (FCS) (fr) . The new entity, called "Paris Sciences et Lettres – Quartier Latin", was initially conceived as a scientific alliance. In 2011, the five institutions submitted a joint application for the Initiatives for Excellence (IDEX) as part of France's Investing for the Future program (PIA), causing the project to evolve into a new form of French university. This university would have 70% of its students at

5025-455: The umbrella of PSL between l' Université Paris-Dauphine and the Ecole normale supérieure , was the specialization Peace Studies launched in 2014 within the Master of International affairs and development. More than 70% of PSL students are at the Master's or PhD level. University PSL Graduate Programs are inspired by the graduate schools that can be found in most of the world's research universities. The first two programs of this kind are

5100-438: The units of the Faculty of Medicine of Paris (the others joining the universities of Paris-V René Descartes (now Université Paris Cité ), Paris-VII Denis Diderot and Paris-XIII ). In 2010, some of the direct successors of the faculties of the University of Paris created the Sorbonne Universities Association . The following universities, members of the university system , decided to merge into Sorbonne University in 2018: At

5175-418: The university pending later integration. In December 2018, an opportunity to formally create a full university arose with a new Ordonnance (ordinance) allowing to create a collegiate university , whose constituents may keep their legal personality , similar to British collegiate universities like Oxford and Cambridge . In November 2019, a decree creating Université PSL as a collegiate university and

5250-547: The world and 3rd in France. Individual faculties at Sorbonne University also featured in the rankings. Before the merger of Paris-Sorbonne University and Pierre and Marie Curie University , both had their own rankings in the world. Its founding predecessor Paris-Sorbonne University was ranked 222 in the world by the QS World University Rankings 2015. By faculty , it was ranked 9 in modern languages, 36 in arts and humanities (1st in France), and 127 in social sciences and management (5th in France). By academic reputation, it

5325-440: Was built in 1622 by the then-Provisor of the University of Paris, Cardinal Richelieu , during the reign of Louis XIII . In 1881, politician Jules Ferry decided to convert the Sorbonne into one single building. Under the supervision of Pierre Greard, Chief Officer of the Education Authority of Paris, Henri-Paul Nénot constructed the current building from 1883 to 1901 that reflects a basic architectural uniformity. The integration of

5400-436: Was named the college of Sorbonne . The old slogan of the establishment, " Sorbonne University, creators of futures since 1257 ", refers to this date. The college of Sorbonne was closed along with all the other colleges of the former University of Paris in 1793. The college of Sorbonne was located on the site of the current Sorbonne building, shared between Sorbonne University and Panthéon-Sorbonne University . Following

5475-582: Was often ranked as the best university in France. In 2014 UPMC was ranked 35th in the world, 6th in Europe and 1st in France by the Academic Ranking of World Universities . It was ranked 4th in the world in the field of mathematics by the same study. The 2013 QS World University Rankings ranked the university 112th overall in the world and 3rd in France. In 2013, according to University Ranking by Academic Performance (URAP) , Université Pierre et Marie Curie

5550-614: Was ranked 80 (2nd in France), according to the QS World University Rankings, and 2nd in overall highest international reputation of all academic institutions in France, according to the Times Higher Education 2015. In 2014 Paris-Sorbonne ranked 227 in the world, according to the QS World University Rankings , 115 for Social Sciences and Management, 33 for Arts and Humanities. Pierre and Marie Curie University

5625-543: Was renamed in 1995 to the current one to include other lung diseases. Early pioneers were Robert Koch , Sir John Crofton and Karel Styblo . According to The Lancet , in the 1970s, Styblo "harnessed the meager resources of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease and showed that, contrary to expert opinion, tuberculosis could be controlled in extremely poor countries: beginning in Tanzania, one of

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