University of Pau and the Adour Region
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| Motto | L'Université est une chance. Saisissons-la! |
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| Type | Public |
| Established | 1972 |
| President | Jean-Louis Gout |
| Rector | Bordeaux rectorate |
Academic staff | arts, laws, economics, management, Sciences sports |
| Students | 12,000 |
| Address | Université de Pau - 64000 Pau, France , , Aquitaine Region (Pau, Bayonne, Mont de Marsan), Midi-Pyrénées Region (Tarbes) , France |
| Website | http://www.univ-pau.fr/ (in French) |
The University of Pau and Pays de l'Adour (L'Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour or UPPA) was founded in 1972. The University is a multiple-site establishment, based in Pau (département of Pyrénées-Atlantiques) but also in Bayonne, Tarbes and Mont-de-Marsan in the Adour river basin. It is under the Academy of Bordeaux. It is the third biggest university (12,000 students) in the South-Western region of France, after Bordeaux and Toulouse.
The site in Pau
This site is the biggest, with nearly 9,000 students located there. That's where the President office is located in the Présidence hemicircular building.
- Common services
- The CRI (Centre des ressources informatiques) service provides the internet access, especially the uppawifi wireless network signal, available to students equipped with laptops in the UFR, through authentification procedure.
- The domaines service organises the repair of the different buildings, the gardening work.
- The CRATICE service provides multimedia assistance.
- The Reprographie centrale (Press and copy service) allows users to edit paper works.
- UFR
There are 3 UFR (unités de formation et de recherche) : arts, law, sciences. There is also an Institut Universitaire Technologique (IUT), the ENSGTI and an Institut d'Administration des Entreprises (IAE) located in Pau with an antenna in Bayonne.
There are 2 specialised universitary libraries (French BU, bibliothèque Universitaire), one for the sciences UFR, firsst building behind the Présidence building, the other common to the law and arts faculties, just south of the arts faculty and south-east to the law faculty.
UFR de Lettres, (arts)
Law, economics and management - IAE
General description
The "UFR (faculté, faculty) de Droit, Économie et Gestion - IAE" (also known as FDEG-IAE) gathers the law, economics and management services as well as the Institut d'Administration des Entreprises.
The UFR provides tuition to about 3,000 students dispatched in several degrees.
- Location
It is located in the north-western part of the UPPA campus, south-west of the École supérieure de commerce (ESC), west of the "fac de Lettres", north-west of the IRSAM building and east of the André Lavie stadium, across Dean Poplawski avenue. South of the UFR lays a big lawn much appreciated by students during summer times.
- Access
There is a east-west road entrance (rue Saint-John Perse) to the campus dedicated to the UFR branching from the north-south oriented Dean Poplawski avenue. This is just north of the UFR. The entrance is restricted to cars by a height barrier. Delivery vehicle have to come from another entrance to the campus.
There is a personnel electronic-badge-operated gate-restricted parking lot just there, and a bit further south the big free access student parking lot.
There is a STAP (Pau's bus company) Studibus-line bus stop along Dean Poplawski avenue with direction town center and the SNCF train station.
The UFR is accessible to disabled peoples, though the double-doors and the badge restricted areas may still be problems for them to access the elevator.
- the building
The UFR is lodged in a three storeys elaborate building with the amphitheatre-like classrooms ("amphis") being grouped at the eastern corner of the complex. The inner infrastructure is made of unpainted crude supporting concrete walls with lighter separation plaster painted walls. The exterior roofing is made of small clay tiles. Brick is also used for the sculptural elements like the well-like artificial space in the center of the inner patio, as well as pebbles for floor decoration. Large glass bays are also used as separation elements.
The north-south oriented part of the building is called aile B (B aisle), the northernmost south-west - north-east oriented part is the aile C (C aisle), the southernmost east-west oriented part being the aile A (A aisle).
- Rooms
The classrooms are disposed on the three floors of the building, mainly in B and C aisles. Classroom are numbered accordingly to their position in a specific aisle and on a specific floor (for example, B200 is the first room in the B aisle on the second floor, B205 is the fifth room on that same second floor).
3 classrooms, named Aspe, Barretous and Ossau, are equipped with computers on the first floor and are dedicated to teaching. Two more computers-equipped classrooms on the second floor (B200 and B202) are in free access for students.
A room is dedicated to associations (salle des associations or salle des assos) and is equipped with 2 computer stations, one with a scanner, and a copier.
Documentation centers are maintained in the badge-restricted areas, one on the ground floor for law researches, another on the first floor for economics and management researches.
- Local services
There is a general purposes service (affaires générales) that takes care of all of material issues regarding the UFR with a service chief and a secretary. Its missions include the organisation of a reception desk service (accueil) situated in the main hall of the UFR and operated by one agent, a student secretary (called la scolarité and often shortened as la scol) with 8 or so secretaries, a accountancy service (comptabilité or just compta) with two secretaries, a repair and cleaning service with 8 or so agents, a computer-issues service with four agents maintaining an assistance point to teachers and students (permanence informatique) at the first floor.
Other services include the dean secretary office with one secretary, the IAE direction secretary office with two agents, and a école doctorale secretary (PhD School) with two agents.
- land marks
- Le phare (the lighthouse) is the pillar-shape archives room near the student secretary.
- The sculpture-like structure in the patio received different names like le puit (the well)...
- La Cave (the cellar) , the underground part of the building which serves as storage for disused old things.
- The coffee-machines place and the eaves of the building are popular meeting points.
- The entrance faculté de Droit, d'économie et gestion concrete sign which serves as a bench in the shade of the trees.
- Research centers
Research centers are located in electronic identification badge-restricted areas at ground level (law) and at the second floor (economics, management). These include in law [1] : CECL, LIEN, CRAJ, CREPAO, IE2JA, in economics [2] : CATT and in management [3] : CREG.
- Directorial board
The current dean is Jean-Jacques Lemouland and the current IAE director is Jean-Jacques Rigal.
- Accomodations
There is a cafeteria called "L'Arlequin" close to the FDEG-IAE buildings and some vending machines have been put at different spots. Payments can be made via Aquipass student smart card moneo money service.
- Computer assited working
uppawifi wireless network signal is available to students equipped with laptops in the UFR.
Network printers are available through communication with a printing server. Students are allocated credit during inscription at the begining of the universitary year accordingly to their formation level and are automatically charged 5 euro-cents per printed page. When empty and in order to feed his printing account a student can pay for further copies to the reception desk.
Others servers are accessible for more specific tasks during tuition, like access to shared network drive spaces or softwares (for more see FDEG-IAE local resources site)
Teachers can use video projectors for teaching either with fix or mobile equipment.
- other equipments
The UFR is able to organise videoconferencing through CRATICE mediation.
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Entrance to the "fac de Droit, Économie Gestion" -
Entrance near the "L'Arlequin" cafeteria -
View toward the rear of the Présidence building from the lawn
Dedicated websites (in French) :
Tuition
Licence and Master degrees are available in :
- AES : Licence d'administration économique et sociale
- law
- management
UFR de Sciences
University surrounding
Located around Pau's universitary campus are a number of facilities :
- a E.Leclerc mall, library and computer store, opposite to the campus across Allées Condorcet road
- a Champion mall, facing Présidence southern entrance
- a Quick fast-food restaurant, a MégaCGR cinema,
- a number of more specialised stores : photocopies making, computer parts selling, bar-tabacs-Presse-type stores, French boulangeries,...
- Pau's Université-La Poste post-office
- Banks
others venues :
- the Lycée Saint-John Perse
- the Helioparc site
- a gendarmerie, a Cité administrative and a Maison de l'agriculture,
- a church
- ...
- External link
The site in Bayonne
with 2.500 students in 2 UFR
- sciences
- multidisciplinary
and an IUT.
The site in Tarbes
with 700 students, 2 UFR :
- lettres (arts)
- sciences
There is a sport section (STAPS).
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Sports Hall
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Offices
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Martial arts hall
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The site in Mont-de-Marsan
300 students in one UFR (law) and an IUT.
History
The U.P.P.A. was founded in 1970, in a splendid formerly urban park.
The Law faculty (UFR de droit, économie et gestion) seems to have further back in time origins. It has been created in 1947 by deans Poplawski and Vizioz, and was lodged in Villa Lawrence in the center of town.