Education and Science
Villeneuve d'Ascq is the first academic pole of the metropolitan area. Numerous academic and scientific facilities are located there (around 42,000 students and 2,500 researchers).
The city hosts two main university campuses. They are science and technology university Université Lille 1, most regional scientific academic center, and most national acandemic place for continuing education, and humanities taught university Charles de Gaulle University – Lille III. Those two campuses count a half of Université Lille Nord de France students.
Villeneuve d'Ascq hosts also an University Institutes for Technology (IUT A), the school in architecture École nationale supérieure d'architecture et de paysage de Lille, along with five graduate schools : École centrale de Lille, École nationale supérieure de chimie de Lille, Polytech'Lille (formerly EUDIL), TELECOM Lille 1 (formerly ENIC), École supérieure des techniques industrielles et des textiles (ESTIT).
200 public and private laboratories whose 31 of them members of French National Centre for Scientific Research are located in the technopole. Some main research institute are situated in Villeneuve d'Ascq, for example IEMN (Institut d'électronique de microélectronique et de nanotechnologie), INRIA Lille (National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control), IFSTTAR (Institut national de recherche sur les transports et leur sécurité), INRA (Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique), the veterinary laboratory of the Nord department, l'IRIS (Institut de recherche de l'industrie sucrière), ITF-Nord (Institut textile de France).
At last but not least, the technopole hosts the European scientific park Haute Borne, 150 hectare next to Université Lille 1.
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