Partnerships

The partnership between Laval University and Université Côte d'Azur, which began in 2015, is based on a special and fruitful collaboration involving lecturers, researchers and students on both sides of the Atlantic.

This partnership has led to developing and monitoring joint projects:

• 3 leadership chairs in education,
• privileged access to the Canadian Sentinel North programme with 7 partnership research projects,
• 1 Observatory on the Societal Impacts of Artificial Intelligence inspired by the successes in Quebec,
• 1 International Joint Unit, with a laboratory under development.

The Da Nang International Institute of Technology (DNIIT) was founded in 2017 within Danang University (Vietnam) thanks to the financial support of the UCAJEDI Excellence Initiative and the Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie. It has the support of both the Vietnamese and French Higher Education and Research Ministries.

The Da Nang International Institute of Technology aims to promote transdisciplinarity and innovation in order to provide scientific solutions to certain Vietnamese societal and regional challenges. This institute is running a pilot project to predict what may happen to the Côte d'Azur ecosystem in a region experiencing high growth. In Da Nang, it runs:
* applied research projects mirroring those developed at Université Côte d'Azur,
* Master's and PhD level programmes,
* a platform dedicated to innovation,
* AUF activities to promote the French-speaking world.



DNIIT operates as an international platform for collaborative research through project-teams that develop applied research projects which include innovation and educational activities:
- 6 project-teams
- organising international conferences, international summer schools, scientific symposiums in Da Nang
- organising 2 annual innovation competitions for DU students and lecturer-researchers involving projects on the ‘Smart-Campus’ theme
- relocating one UCA Master's degree and 4 short training courses for academics and professionals
- support in PhD courses for DU staff (vivas for 6 theses have been held), UCA management), numerous joint publications and dynamic (incoming and outgoing) exchanges between UCA and DNIIT: >150 weeks of lecturer-researcher exchanges and +300 months of student exchanges across all levels and all disciplines.

 The University of Chile is a long-standing partner, with whom much cooperative work has been conducted in various fields, including :

• mathematics,
• astrophysics,
• physics,
• earth sciences.

This partnership is tightly structured in order to strengthen, extend and organise such collaborative work within a strategic framework, with the support of the French Embassy in Chile.

Université Côte d’Azur and the University of Montenegro have jointly established the Balkan Institute of Science and Innovation (BISI). This institute has been created to encourage bilateral cooperation with universities in order to have a wider impact in the Balkan region.
The Balkan Institute of Science and Innovation, based at the University of Podgorica, comprises two entities :
 

REINOVA

A research and innovation unit working specifically on cooperative projects in applied research, innovation, scientific communication and technology transfer.
 

Nice CAMPUS Balkans

An educational and information unit focusing on cooperation in education, pedagogy and scientific and technological information.
 

The Franco-Russian University is a consortium created in 2016 bringing together several leading establishments in both France and Russia for university-level cooperation. The Franco-Russian University is a stakeholder in the Trianon Dialogue aimed at developing closer ties with civil society in the two countries. It helps to strengthen joint projects, both in terms of higher education (double degrees, student exchanges, short training programmes) and research (joint symposiums, joint publications, etc.). 

Université Côte d'Azur's partners within the Franco-Russian University are:

• the National Research University of Computer, Mechanical and Optical Technologies (ITMO University) 
• EDHEC Business School
• the National Nuclear Research University ‘MEPhI’ (Moscow Institute of Physical Engineering)
• NEOMA Business School
• the Russian People's Friendship University
• the Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation (RANEPA)
• the Russian Academy of Foreign Trade under the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation (RFTA)
• SKEMA Business school