Paris Diderot University

Open to the city and the world, Paris Diderot is a multidisciplinary research university. Crossroads of knowledge, in tune with the great debates that animate contemporary society, it is a crucible that stimulates exchanges and innovations.

Multidisciplinary since its creation in 1970, it has always been committed to the dialogue of knowledge and develops more and more training and interdisciplinary research projects.
It has one of the largest university libraries in Paris ( the Grands Moulins library) and several specialized thematic libraries.

Initial or lifelong training, short or long courses, technological or theoretical , everyone will find the assets to succeed and flourish.

Each year, it welcomes a little over 29,000 students divided into three major fields: health / science / arts, literature, languages, social sciences and humanities.

With 87 laboratories , it is one of the largest French research universities and maintains collaborations with many foreign universities around the world. Its main campus is located in the 13th arrondissement near the Bibliothèque François Mitterrand.

You spent 2, 3 or 5 years at the University Paris Diderot? Do you have a license, a master's degree or a doctor's degree? Welcome to the alumni community of Paris Diderot!

By federating the network of its alumni, Paris Diderot allows you to meet, exchange and seize opportunities. This community is yours, contributing to its development is ensuring the influence of your university and your qualifications on the job market.

Your relationship with Paris Diderot does not end with the end of your studies! Thanks to our events, you maintain a link with a university open to the world and in touch with all the debates that animate contemporary society. To join in this story is to nourish one's reflection, to enrich oneself and to blossom.

Arts, Humanities, Languages, and Humanities, Economics and Social Sciences Sector
Develops several poles of excellence Languages ​​and civilizations, linguistics, history, geography, sociology, philosophy, history of sciences, psychoanalysis and psychopathologies, art and literature. Health Sector Develops fundamental and translational research of excellence related to clinical research in the fields of neuroscience, hematology, oncology, inflammation, infectious diseases, cardiovascular and odontology. Science Sector Covers the sciences of matter, earth sciences, mathematical and computer sciences, life sciences.

Paris Diderot University has made collegiality the cornerstone of its political and administrative functioning by sharing the decision-making process.

It has developed a number of internal dialogue tools with its components so that the establishment project is appropriate for all the actors and actresses involved in the operation of the institution.

Dialogue with the components through the strategic dialogues of objectives and means that allow the preparation of the budget and the priorities of the administrative action.
The working groups set up for the creation of the new university associating research professors and heads of administrative services for a project co-production. The development of transversality and collaborative work processes through a streamlined and agile administrative organization. A master plan for the information and digital system associating the professions and the skills of the institution in order to implement an ambitious and structured policy in this field.

Paris Diderot provides the university community with a space for reflection, sharing tools and advanced machines to stimulate creativity. The principle ? It's very simple: it's about (almost) doing everything! No limit should be put to your imagination. Creativity is the engine. Collaboration the vector. Rest the technique. We offer it to you. Ok, we still know the limits imposed by reality to the imagination, but this space is there to push them back to the maximum.

Paris Diderot is a university of excellence of world renown. It is the largest multidisciplinary university located in Paris Intramuros and grouped on a single campus. Thanks to these many assets, the Foundation can act in all disciplinary fields of higher education and research, through the social sciences, the exact sciences and the humanities.

In order to help students start their lives, the Foundation sets up awareness programs on entrepreneurship, designs and offers information modules on activities and trades, and actively supports the citizen engagement program. university, and will conduct actions with former students.

More generally, the Foundation supports the university in its mission to make known and promote the values ​​of the Enlightenment embodied by the tutelary figure of Denis Diderot. She has created the prize "Free Spirits" which is part of the action of the university in prison. It houses the Simone de Beauvoir Foundation for Gender Equality. It also proposes to develop training modules that allow students to thwart new forms of demagoguery and radicalization, especially those that pass through the internet and social networks.