Université Jean Monnet

University Jean Monnet (UJM) is multidisciplinary university with 6 campuses, offering undergraduate, graduate and doctoral degree programmes in a wide range of fields to over 20 000 students each year, as well as a variety of work-study and continuing education training programmes. The main fields of study and research include: Arts, Literature and Languages; Humanities and Social Sciences; Law, Economics and Management; Sciences, Maths, Technology and Engineering; Health and Medicine; and Architecture.

UJM is a member of the European University alliance Transform4Europe (T4EU), is involved in a great number of international cooperation actions, and welcomes 2 500 internation students each year. UJM boasts a dynamic research environment home to 24 research laboratories, 3 graduate schools, 3 institutes and 6 doctoral schools, producing approximately 60 defended PhDs each year with a University Foundation, a Fablab and start-up incubator to support local innovation, and 76 patent requests filed in the last 5 years.

The field of health and sport is a key research area at UJM, build on strong ties between UJM, the CHU University hospital, and the Centre for Engineering and Health (CIS) partnership with the Saint-Etienne School of Mines (EMSE), the recently created PATHS Graduate School on Physical Activity, Training and Heath in Sport, as well as the exceptional research facilities of the Regional Institute of Sport Medicine and Engineering (IRMIS).