At the heart of Europe, the University of Limoges is a major multidisciplinary higher education establishment set in an ideal environment for scientific fulfilment. It is an outward-looking, vibrant institution with a wide-ranging student population, efficient reception structures, supportive staff and courses based on high-level research and directed towards clearly identified opportunities. With its state-of-the-art laboratories and ambitious partnerships, its scientific excellence is helping to invent the world of the future.

The University of Limoges also stands out for its innovation in terms of courses and research work. Zinedine Zidane, Laurent Blanc (and many others) have come here to study for their Management Degree in sports law and economics. Its laboratories specialising in material science and EMMS (electromechanical microsystems) are working on the space shuttles. In genetics, Michel Cogné is responsible for a worldwide discovery relating to the suicide of genes. A team led by François Raynaud has designed a process that consists of changing the colours of the stars in order to observe them more easily on giant telescopes. The Centre for Semiotic Research – the biggest in Europe – is working on the wide-ranging subject of the production of meaning to gain a better understanding of our information
and communication-based societies. The international criminal courts have chosen our research centres to keep and better manage their archives. The University of Limoges is therefore at the heart of the new intelligence economy that will lead the way in the 21st Century.