18 interdisciplinary institutes, amon which 2 graduate schools
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Aware of the central societal role it plays in its region, Aix Marseille Université is constantly modernizing its practices to serve everyone. From 2019 onwards, it has created interdisciplinary institutes that have a strong structuring impact on the site's higher education and research ecosystem, and reinforce the attractiveness and excellence of its research and training.
Following on from programs that won national calls for projects - the 2017-2025 Institutes of Convergence Science (Centuri, ILCB), the 2018-2027 Graduate Schools (NeuroSchool, AMSE) and the Institute for Advanced Study (Iméra), Aix Marseille Université and its partners have been committed since 2019 to creating interdisciplinary institutes.
18 thematic institutes linking education and research
The Aix Marseille Université institutes are the fruit of an interdisciplinary approach that draws on the university's laboratories, faculties and schools, as well as its socio-economic partners, to strengthen its attractiveness and the visibility of the Aix-Marseille site at local, national and international levels.
These thematic institutes are new structuring objects that aim to enhance Aix Marseille Université's themes of excellence. They are unique in that they combine teaching and high-level research through an interdisciplinary approach.
They bring together teams from one or more research units and master's and doctorate-level training courses run by one or more faculties, with the aim of establishing a strong link around a shared multidisciplinary theme, articulated between training and research. Building on the existing master's programs and doctoral schools of Aix Marseille Université, the institutes aim to develop an interdisciplinary, internationally-oriented training culture, both through and for research, based on the model of graduate schools, and involving socio-economic partners in the training offer developed.
The aim of these thematic institutes is to meet the challenges of creating new knowledge through interdisciplinarity, fostering the emergence of talents, attracting the best researchers to the site, and raising funds.
Among the institutes, 4 national award-winning programs : 2 Institutes of Convergence Science & 2 Graduate schools
The Instiutes of Convergence Science program, part of the Programme d'Investissements d'Avenir (a national funding programe that has been absorbed by the France 2030 investment plan since 2021), is a pioneering mechanism for linking research and training through an interdisciplinary approach. The Institutes of Convergence Science aim to structure multidisciplinary scientific sites to address major issues at the crossroads of societal and economic challenges.
Aix Marseille Université is the winner of 2 Institutes of Convergence Science in 2016, Centuri and ILCB. They are respectively endowed with €21M and €8.8M co-funded by the Programme d'Investissements d'Avenir and the Amidex foundation, for a 10-year period.
Capitalizing on the experience of the INFORM Laboratory of Excellence, the project- coordinated by Professor Thomas Lecuit - has been selected by the ANR and became an Institute of Convergence Science in 2017.
Centuri aims to structure innovative interdisciplinary research on the dynamics of living systems, bringing together the study of development, neuroscience and immunity. Centuri brings together 48 research groups on amU's Luminy Campus, in biology, physics, computer science and mathematics, as well as numerous platforms. Training is also at the heart of the institute's program, which has set up a Centuri Graduate School (Master's degree, PhD and post-doc programs, summer schools).
CenTuri obtained the "Aix Marseille Université institute" label in 2021.
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Coordinated by Dr. Johannes Ziegler, this project aims to bring together Aix-Marseille's various players in the study of the cerebral bases of language, in order to understand language processing and its neuronal bases, and to derive applications in health, education and communication through 10 research units and 6 experimental platforms.
ILCB obtained the "Aix Marseille Université institute" label in 2022.
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2 Graduate Schools
The Graduate School (EUR) program relating to the Programme d'Investissements d'Avenir (a national funding programe that has been absorbed by the France 2030 investment plan since 2021), aims to strengthen the impact and international attractiveness of a university site's research and training in one or more scientific field(s). The aim is to fund the internationally recognized Graduate School model, which brings together master's and doctoral programs with one or more top-level research laboratories and research organizations.
Aix Marseille Université has been awarded two graduate schools in 2017, AMSE and NeuroSchool (nEURo*AMU), for a 10-year period.
They are endowed with 16.6M€ and 10 M€ respectively , co-financed by the Programme d'Investissements d'Avenir and the Amidex foundation.
Coordinated by Alain Venditti, this project brings together teaching and research around a new scientific project focused on public action in a world in crisis, particularly in the countries of the southern Mediterranean, facing specific challenges and obstacles on the path to development.
AMSE is a Grande École in Economics within Aix Â鶹tv, offering innovative training at master's and doctoral levels to train a new generation of economists, researchers, professors and policy-makers capable of meeting the challenges of a world in crisis.
AMSE was accredited as an "Aix Marseille Université institute" end of 2024.
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Coordinated by Anne Kavounoudias, this project aims to structure amU's strengths and potential in neuroscience, and to simplify and professionalize courses from the 3rd year of undergraduate studies to the doctoral program in neuroscience, in order to increase the visibility and international readability of this strong theme on the Aix-Marseille site.
Since 2019, NeuroSchool represents the training component of the institute for research and education NeuroMarseille.
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- Caterina Fabbri, Project Manager - Interdisciplinary institutes
Amidex foundation
E-mail: [first name].[last name] @univ-amu.fr
- Katharina Teucher, Communications Officer - Interdisciplinary institutes
Communication department
E-mail: [first name].[last name] @univ-amu.fr