Research policy

The Université de Lorraine covers a wide range of scientific fields, including Science and Technology, Life and Environmental Sciences, and Human and Social Sciences. It achieves this through 60 research units, half of which are shared with national research bodies such as CNRS, INRAE, Inria, and Inserm, along with the Nancy CHRU (University Hospital Center). These research units are divided among 10 thematic science clusters, complemented by 5 federative structures. In addition, the university houses a Universe Science Observatory and a House of Human Sciences (MSH Lorraine).

RESEARCH

POLICY

Involving Lorraine’s major actors

In a broader context, the Université de Lorraine is actively engaged in a collaborative research strategy with the main research entities on the Lorraine site, namely CNRS, INRAE, Inria, Inserm, and Nancy CHRU. This collaboration is fostered through the Lorraine Scientific Coordination and Orientation Committee.

This partnership is organized around research focuses identified as priorities, site markers that enjoy wide international visibility:

Natural resources and environment
Energy and processes
Materials and products
Mathematics, computer science and automation
Languages and knowledge
Biology, health and ageing
Changes in institutions and organizations
Heritages, identities and interculturality

The Lorraine site has firmly established itself as a nationally and internationally recognized intensive research site through structuring projects of excellence in the fields of forestry and timber, materials, environment-natural resources and language processing (3 LabEx and an EquipEx), and, above all, the central “Lorraine Université d’Excellence” (LUE) I-SITE project since 2016.

Lorraine Université d’Excellence

Over the past few years, the Lorraine Université d’Excellence (LUE) initiative has enabled us to step up research and increase its impact on the region’s socioeconomic growth, and to extend or implement a number of projects fostering excellence: funding of longer exchange programs for students and staff, improvement of facilities and teaching and learning methods, facilitating the entrepreneurial spirit and technology transfer, and arousing the general public’s interest by encouraging research vocations.