The University of Strasbourg is a multidisciplinary university, which in 2017 will have more than 50,000 students, of which 19.5% will be foreign students of 150 nationalities, 5,200 teacher-researchers and staff, 36 training and research units (faculties) and 72 research units. Relying on all fields of knowledge, it intends to pursue an innovative policy in terms of initial and continuing training, research and professional integration of its students while playing a major role at the heart of the city and on the international scene. Its action is at the heart of numerous partnerships: EUCOR the European Campus (the Confederation of Upper Rhine Universities with Switzerland and Germany) and the LERU (League of European Research Universities), two networks of which it is a founding member.
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The Institute of Political Studies (IEP) of the University of Strasbourg is one of France’s Grandes Ecoles, i.e. institutions of higher education of a selectively high level. After a 5-year interdisciplinary university course, students receive an internationally recognised Master’s degree. The IEP prepares its laureates mainly for careers in the senior civil service in France, Europe and internationally. The institute in Strasbourg has always played a leading role in European education and exchanges, through its participation in the Erasmus + programme and through its many international partnerships. The geographical location of Strasbourg, with its proximity to European organisations, offers many opportunities for collaboration in the European field. In addition, the IEP is involved in exchanges with more than 130 universities around the world and has six double Master’s degree programmes with Canada, Belgium, Poland, Germany and the Czech Republic. In addition to the training offer in European Studies (Master 2 European Public Policies), in 2018, the IEP has opened a specialisation in International Relations with a new Master 2 in Border Studies. The IEP is also a member of the Transfrontier Euroinstitute Network (TEIN), which brings together twelve training organisations from eight European border regions and the Mission opérationnelle transfrontalière (MOT) in Paris, and since 2018 it has been hosting a new Franco-German Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence whose main theme is cross-border cooperation. In terms of research, it is the joint University-CNRS (UMR) Dynamiques européennes unit (UMR) which specialises in border issues. The activities of this network aim to link the competences of the Franco-German Centre of Excellence in Border Studies and European Studies with those of 2 other Jean Monnet centres of excellence in Cluj (Romania) and Victoria (Canada), 4 Jean Monnet chairs (in Arras, Cork, Cluj, Victoria) and 3 research centres specialising in Border Studies (the Franco-Belgian Institute for Border Studies Louvain-la-Neuve/University of Artois, University of Southern Denmark, Centre for Cross-border Studies Armagh).
