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The Faculty of Science and Technology of the University of Lille  is a key partner for IMT Nord Europe. It is even involved in the school’s governance. The Faculty provides nearly 9,000 students with a quality multidisciplinary education through its nine academic departments. Its research activities rely on 25 internationally renowned laboratories equipped with the highest-level scientific facilities and technological platforms. The University of Lille has been assessed by HCERES (France’s High Council for the Evaluation of Research and Higher Education).

L’École Doctorale Sciences de la Matière, du Rayonnement et de l’Environnement is one of the six doctoral schools that make up Collège Doctoral Lille Nord de France. It offers excellent training through research in a wide range of fields including physics, chemistry, earth and life sciences, and agri-food biotechnology. Its mission is to organise and lead the education of PhD students to best prepare them for their future professional integration, in the fields of research and higher education as well as in the corporate sector.

Créée en septembre 2021, l’Ecole Graduée (EG) ENGSYS-632, qui couvre le secteur des sciences de l’ingénierie et des systèmes, est l’une des 7 écoles graduées du Collège des Etudes Graduées de l’Université de Lille. Environ 300 doctorants y préparent leur doctorat dans l’un des 3 domaines suivants: Génie Electrique (GE), Micro et NanoTechnologies, Acoustique et Télécommunications (MNTAT), Mécanique, Génie Civil, Energetique, Matériaux (MGCEM).

Créée depuis 2021-2022, l’Ecole Graduée MADIS-631, Mathématiques-Sciences du numérique et de leurs interactions, est l’une des 7 écoles doctorales du collège doctoral de l’Université de Lille. Plus de 250 doctorants environ y préparent leur doctorat dans l’un des 3 domaines suivants : Automatique, Génie Informatique et Traitement du Signal et des Images, Informatique, Mathématiques pures et appliquées.

Depuis 2010, le Pôle MEDEE est une passerelle entre le monde industriel et celui de la recherche.
Basé à Lille, le cluster fédère et anime une communauté d’acteurs spécialisés en génie électrique : grands groupes, PME innovantes, startups, laboratoires et établissements d’enseignement supérieur.

Le CITC Hauts-de-France dispense des formations dans les technologies émergentes(systèmes embarqués, RFID, NFC, conception d’objets connectés, design d’antennes, sécurité…).

Créé en 2010 par Christian Traisnel et labellisé la même année, TEAM2 (Technologies de l’Environnement Appliquées aux Matières et Matériaux) est le pôle de compétitivité national dédié à l’économie circulaire et au recyclage. Grâce à son expertise et son réseau de partenaires industriels, scientifiques et institutionnels, TEAM2 stimule l’innovation pour les ressources du futur, issues du recyclage.

Ancré dans la Région Hauts-de-France, i-TRANS est le pôle de compétitivité des mobilités décarbonées et connectées.
La mission du pôle est de développer par l’innovation collaborative la compétitivité des entreprises comme moteur de croissance et d’emplois. Le pôle associe grands groupes, ETI, PME et laboratoires de tous horizons dans des projets R&D&I ambitieux dans les domaines du ferroviaire, de l’automobile, de la mobilité et du fret.

The LGCgE brings together teams of researchers from the Community of Universities and Institutions (COMUE) Lille Nord de France. The laboratory pursues multidisciplinary research to meet the challenges of sustainable construction, development and ecology. It therefore responds to issues raised by construction, sustainable development, the safety of works and infrastructure, sustainable energy management, protection of natural resources (especially water resources), management of contaminated sites and biodiversity.

CRIStAL is a member of the IRCICA Interdisciplinary Research Institute – USR CNRS 3380. Its activities are linked to major scientific and societal challenges such as big data, human-machine interactions, robotics, intelligent embedded systems and bioinformatics. Its applications are designed for various sectors of the trade industry, health technologies and smart grids.

Le grand centre de recherche européen en Micro et Nanotechnologies IEMN regroupe dans une structure unique l’essentiel de la recherche régionale dans un vaste domaine scientifique allant de la physique des matériaux et des nanostructures aux systèmes de télécommunications et à l’instrumentation acoustique et micro-ondes. Un effort particulier est mis sur les micro et nanotechnologies (nanostructures et nano-électronique, micro-électroniques, micro-ondes et microsystèmes)

The Lille Centre for Sociological and Economic Studies and Research (Clersé) is a joint research unit of the University of Lille and of CNRS (UMR 8019). It has therefore always been a multidisciplinary laboratory. In keeping with this identity, Clersé has established strong links with the Centre for Studies and Research on Qualifications (Céreq).

La création de l’Unité de Mécanique de Lille – Joseph Boussinesq (UML), le 1er janvier 2018, s’inscrit dans une phase de restructuration de la mécanique lilloise. Il se veut une continuité de l’histoire du Laboratoire de Mécanique de Lille (LML), créé il y a plus de 30 ans, histoire riche de phases de croissance et de développements importants.

PC2A laboratory’s research activities are conducted by some sixty people from three research teams: Physicochemistry of Combustion, Physicochemistry of the Atmosphere and Nuclear Safety. They focus on laser diagnostics and chemical mechanisms in flames and clean processes, combustion in engines, homogeneous and heterogeneous atmospheric reactivity, theoretical chemistry and air quality. PC2A is part of the Institute for Multidisciplinary Research in Environmental Sciences (IRePSE).

The Central Laboratory for Air Quality Monitoring (Laboratoire Central de Surveillance de la Qualité de l’Air – LCSQA) appointed by the French Ministry of the Environment, is the technical coordinator for France’s air quality monitoring system. It was created as the result of close collaboration between three partners:  INERIS, the Laboratoire National de Métrologie et d’Essais (LNE) and IMT Nord Europe. 

The CaPPA laboratory of excellence – Physics and Chemistry of the Atmospheric Environment – draws on the multidisciplinary expertise of 7 research teams (LOA, PC2A, PhLAM, SAGE, LPCA, ICARE, LASIR) to promote metrological innovation in the field of the atmospheric environment. On the one hand, it focuses on the “aerosol” system and its precursors to gain a better understanding of their role in climate forcing and the hydrological cycle. On the other hand, it studies the development of air quality at global, regional and local scales, with specific studies on radionuclides.

Railenium, the Institute of Research and Technology (IRT) of the railway sector, brings together the skills and resources of nine research centres, eighteen companies in the railway sector and two network managers.  It aims to improve the performance of rail systems and trains of the future and strengthen the competitiveness of the rail sector and its industry internationally through innovation.

The Research Federation for Land Transport & Mobility (Fédération de Recherche Transports Terrestres & Mobilité -FR3733) aims to develop multidisciplinary synergies, pool resources and staff, as well as support access to the scientific resources needed to develop new and more generic knowledge, in order to be prepared to submit unified responses to regional, national and European calls. It is supported by the CNRS, the Polytechnic University of Hauts-de-France, the University of Lille and Centrale Lille Institut.

The Structure Fédérative de Recherche – Technologies pour la Santé et Médicament [Healthcare Technologies and Medicines] (SFR – TSM) brings together around twenty research teams, regional hospitals, and industries in the sector to support innovative projects integrating basic research, translational research and clinical research. It covers medicines and biomaterials, e-health and medical logistics and medical devices (bioengineering, computer-assisted movements).

CETIM, Technical Centre for Mechanical Industries, is a Carnot-certified technological institute and a member of the Alliance Industrie du Futur. It is the French centre of mechanical expertise. It also a valuable R&D resource for 6,500 mechanics companies and, with its associated centres and subsidiaries, represents a total of 1,100 people, of whom over two-thirds are engineers and technicians, with a total turnover of €150 million.  CETIM has been increasing its activities through a network of scientific and technical partners including, since 2002, IMT Nord Europe and its joint laboratory on pressure vessel technologies (LATEP).

Le Centre Scientifique et Technique du Bâtiment (CSTB) est un établissement public français à caractère industriel et commercial (EPIC). Il est placé sous la tutelle des ministères chargés de la construction et de la recherche. La mission du CSTB est de garantir la qualité et la sécurité des bâtiments. Pour mener ses tests et essais, le CSTB dispose de plus de 1 200 bancs d’essais ainsi que de grands équipements. Le CSTB emploie, au 31 décembre 2021, 986 salariés répartis dans quatre établissements en France, pour 125 M€ de produits d’exploitation, 10 projets cofinancés et plus de 80 publications annuelles. Un accord cadre avec le CSTB a été signé en 2024 pour renforcer les collaboration d’ajaccien fructueuses entre les deux institutions.

M.I.N.E.S Carnot Institute unites the research capacities of the MINES schools as well as the laboratories of École Polytechnique and ENSTA ParisTech. The aim of its 2,000 research staff is to stimulate value creation among its economic partners and activate the innovation chain through work from its laboratories.

Télécom & Société Numérique Carnot Institute, having received Carnot accreditation in 2006, mobilizes over 2,000 researchers. It focuses on the technical, economic and social implications of the digital transition, in particular the issues of communicating objects, networks and media of the future, uses and services, personal autonomy and health, the environment and security.