Université Toulouse 3 – PAUL SABATIER (UPS), France
Since its creation in 1969, UPS has been expanding its offer of multidisciplinary education in the fields of science, health, engineering, technology and sports, developing one of the most important scientific research clusters in France. Centered on Toulouse, European space and aeronautics capital, UPS is a renowned European university with a global outlook. This institution is the second largest scientific University in France and host each year around 32,000 students (11,000 graduations per year in average), and supervised by approximately 2,600 teachers and teacher researchers with PhD degree and 1,980 library and administrative andtechnical staff members. UPS has 247-hectare campus 407,200 m 2 of premises, with 127,600 m2 dedicated to research (65 research laboratories). UPS is delivering around 500 PhDs degree every year. UPS is one of the leading French universities, in the quality of its teaching, the breadth of its scientific research and the number of students it attracts. With university courses aligning with European harmonization of qualifications, professional training attuned to the world of employment and proactive teaching strategies, UPS is constantly innovating, bringing realism and ambition to the education it provides. Whatever field is chosen: core sciences, life sciences and health, technology, sports or human and social sciences, all courses are available full or part-time. Courses with a professional focus, which are genuine passports to working life, are offered alongside more traditional courses which orient students towards positions in teaching and research. Above all, UPS is committed to the success of its students, who are given guidance in mapping out their future career and the best pattern of education to choose. As one of the top research establishments in France, UPS is active in public research at the highest level, working with excellence clusters and creating numerous partnerships with major scientific bodies. Recognized across Europe and all over the world, UPS research laboratories function in a scientific research context that works both with the core disciplines, and transversal scientific applications, sharing the results of their work to increase productivity in core research and encourage knowledge transfer.
