Groupe des Ecoles des Mines - Ecole des Mines de Nancy

E. M. Nancy is an establishment of teaching and research in engineering with 1000 students, 60 permanent professors, 400 people in research and R&D including a hundred doctorants.

 Innovative to the core

Founded in 1919 under the name Institut Métallurgique et Minier, the Ecole des Mines de Nancy had to respond to the needs of the reconstruction of the French economy. Nancy was chosen due to Lorraine's industrial dynamism, its prestigious academic reputation, and the presence of many engineers from the Mining Corps.

From the start, the university equipped itself with a board of directors composed of a significant number of industrialists. Very quickly, the university opted for a national competitive examination and registered its strategy under the banner of academic-industrial relations.

At the end of the 1950s, under the leadership of Bertrand Swartz, Pierre-Marie Fourt and Michel Turpin, the university invented the concept of a generalist engineer and created metallurgy and physics laboratories which today rank Nancy among the best in the world in the field of materials research.

In 1999, with the ICN Ecole de Management (School of Management) and the Ecole nationale supérieure d'art de Nancy (the Nancy Fine Arts School), the Ecole des Mines created the concept of Artem, designed to give the students from the 3 schools a common core syllabus enabling them to build bridges with the others and to add to the humane' culture already present in the Ecole des Mines de Nancy training.

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The Ecole des Mines de Nancy offers a research potential that is one of the highest among French grandes écoles. It has 6 research laboratories (in association with the CNRS, the INRIA and the INERIS) and 2 research teams, all of which represents more than 350 people.

 The Physics of Materials Laboratory (LPM)
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 The Science and Engineering of Materials and Metallurgy Laboratory (LSG2M)
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 The Science and Engineering of Surfaces Laboratory (LSGS)
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These three laboratories form the Ecole des Mines de Nancy's centre of materials engineering (CIM).

 The Environment, Geomechanics, Structures Laboratory (LAEGO)
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 The LORraine Laboratory for Information Technology and its Applications (LORIA)
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 The Research Centre for Petrographics and Geochemicals (CRPG), the Ecole des Mines de Nancy branch
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 Research team on innovative processes (ERPI)

 Research team on fast equipment, working with the CIRTES, Centre européen de recherche et de transfert en développement rapides des produits (the European research and transfer centre for the development of fast products).
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Regional development and transfer of technology  

Through its industrial relations and its numerous research contracts with companies, the Ecole des Mines de Nancy has an important role in regional and national economic development. Three centres of technological resources (CRT) work in partnership with the University :

 Apollor (Plastics technology),
 Metall2T (metallic materials)
 and CIRTES (fast development of products).

The CIRTES is also a research company that has a contract with the university.  

These regional centres interest small industries and companies and large industrial groups.

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Nancy, be prepared to be amazed

A ducal town from the 13th to the 18th century, the capital of an independent State until 1766, a border town between 1871 and 1914, an Art Nouveau centre at the end of the 19th century, the history of Nancy is rich and eventful. The city has moved on from the industrial crisis of the 70s and 80s and has accepted its economic transformation. Today, Nancy is at the heart of the urbanised area of Greater Nancy which has a population of 258 000 and brings together 20 towns.

A multi-faceted city, Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque and Art Nouveau all at once, Nancy amazes us with its diversity and its rich heritage composed of three areas: the Old Town, the New Town of Charles III and the Royal Town of Stanislas, with the square which bears his name, and an architectural collection which has made Nancy a Unesco World Heritage Site.

A city with a heritage, Nancy is also a city of culture. The Théatre de la Manufacture, the Opéra de Nancy and the Nancy Symphonic and Operatic Orchestra, the Choreographic Centre of the Lorraine National Ballet offer a rich and diverse programme. The big venues (Zénith, Salle Poirel, the big top in the city park or la Pépinière) along with the smallest (Terminal Export, Vertigo, Forum, etc) are aimed at a variety of different audiences and come alive during the big festivals, particularly during the famous Nancy Jazz Pulsations.

A university city, made up of three universities, the Henri Poincaré Univerity, the University of Nancy 2 and the National Polytechnic Institute of Lorraine (l'Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine), it brings together almost 48 000 students and 3 500 teachers and researchers.

Art : the Ecole de Nancy

At the beginning of the 20th century, Nancy, together with Barcelona, Brussels, Prague and Vienna, was one of the homes to Art Nouveau. The Ecole de Nancy is an art movement which at this period brought together artists desirous to make every day life more attractive.

These manufacturers, craftsmen and artists, glassblowers, ceramicists, cabinetmakers, architects, painters, engravers, bookbinders, gold and silversmiths had the ability to play with shapes, materials and colours in such a way as to reproduce in their work the riches of the plant world, the source of their inspiration.

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