- Launch in Ireland of the EMERGE European University Alliance
  On Tuesday 17 June 2025, Université Bretagne Sud and eight European universities gathered in Limerick to officially launch the EMERGE University Alliance (Empowering the Margins of Europe through Regional and Global Engagement).
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- Staff Mobility with EMERGE partner
  Frédéric Pugnière-Saavedra, ERASMUS+ Staff grant recipient, visited our EMERGE partner Matej Bel University in order to develop new projects on caregiving issues.
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- EMERGE Alliance
  UBS joined the circle of major "European Universities" alliances in June 2024. Named EMERGE, it comprises a total of 9 universities.
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- A Successful and Inspiring EMERGE Staff Week
  A successful and inspiring EMERGE Staff Week took place from the 24th of April until the 28th of April, bringing together representatives from all full partners of the Alliance.
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- Cooperation ideas for research and teaching
  At the end of the summer semester 2022, Aschaffenburg University of Applied Sciences welcomed guests from the partner university Université Bretagne Sud (UBS).
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Key figures

14research labs
10000students
3campuses in Vannes, Lorient and Pontivy
900staff with 500 faculty members
6faculties
100undergrad, grad and PhD programs
130exchange programs worldwide

- Our innovation ecosystems
  Strategy
  
  'Sea & coast'
  This ecosystem serves to extend the 2019 launch of the 'Institut citoyen d’études maritimes & littorales' ('Citizens' Institute of Maritime and Coastal Studies'), also known as '
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- Environment, health and handicap
  Digital technology is shaking up the field of health. Thanks to big data management, medicine is becoming more personalised, predictive and preventative. The notion of 'patient' will become obsolete; tomorrow's medicine will take action even before a person falls ill. At the same time, biotechnologies have become a reality; new functional foods, drugs and treatments are being developed and are already used to treat many conditions. They also help bring health and quality along the entire food chain, even including waste treatment.
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- Industry of the future
  Lying at the core of the fourth industrial revolution, industry 4.0 or industry of the future encompasses the scientific and technological aspects of artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, automated processes, logistics and industrial cybersecurity.
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- Cyber and data intelligence
  Digital transformation is defined as the process of integrating digital technologies across an organisation's entire ecosystem.
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- Sea & coasts
  This ecosystem aims to: coordinate scientific and pedagogical actions; enhance nationwide and international visibility of activities dedicated to maritime issues; better respond to requests from users and partners; and forge more bonds with companies.
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- Erasmus +
  UBS holds an Erasmus Charter for Higher Education for the 2014-2020 period.
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- Excellence Awards
  
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- FLE
  FLE is the Label of Excellence in Français Langue Etrangère (FLE) which means French for French as a foreign language, or French for non-native speakers.
  
  UBS was awarded the FLE quality label which recognises...
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- HRS4R Label
  The European Commission's "HR Excellence in Research" label recognizes institutions that have signed the "European Charter for Researchers" and the "Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers". The latter contribute to their attractiveness to researchers from all over the world and are a prerequisite for obtaining research funding from the European Union.
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