The University of the Côte d’Azur held a university press conference this Friday at the Grand Château de Valrose. It was an opportunity to review the start of the academic year and the various projects that will engage the University during the 2020-2021 year, in the presence of Jeanick Brisswalter, the President of the University, and Stéphane Azoulay, Vice President of Education.
Since January 1, 2020, the University of the Côte d’Azur has been officially recognized as an “experimental” university. This new academic status is based on the development of a system built on the integration of education, innovation, and research.
Key Figures
The University has replaced the Nice Sophia Antipolis University and the Community of Universities and Institutions (ComUE) of the University of the Côte d’Azur.
Since the beginning of 2020, it has nearly 30,000 students spread across various courses. The majority, 68%, are enrolled in the LMD (license, master, and doctorate) programs. The remaining students include 2,000 in Technical University Diplomas (DUT), 1,270 in engineering training, and 3,800 in medical and dental training.
Nationally, there were about 7.6 million confirmed applications from candidates, of which 63,000 were counted in the Côte d’Azur.
For non-selective fields (licenses), there was a 23% increase in the number of applications. However, the number decreased for DUT and double degrees (-10%).
The Issues and Challenges for 2021
In this unique academic year, due to the Coronavirus pandemic, the University of the Côte d’Azur has implemented measures that enable students to work under optimal conditions.
Thanks to funding for hybrid education and with the contribution of the L@UCA project, the University is offering components assistance to equip themselves with materials that would ease the task for everyone (video cameras, improved WiFi network, electronic tablets…).
The L@UCA project concerns the seven general license gateways of the Nice Sophia Antipolis University spread over five campuses: Humanities and Social Sciences, Life Sciences, STAPS, Science and Technology, Law-Political Science, Economics-Management, Literature Languages Arts Culture.
Finally, to facilitate the “high school-to-license” transition, the University and the Academy have created a web application called “Les Rendez-vous de l’Orientation” (The Orientation Meetings). It will allow families and students to view and be informed about all orientation events (forums, fairs, open days…) offered by higher education institutions in the Côte d’Azur.
All of this aims to “support students in their orientation and work to guarantee them a future under the best study conditions”, as stated by President Brisswalter.