Caen is located in Normandie, a region with a unique historical heritage which started in medieval times with William the Conqueror and continued more recently with the D-Day landing and the Battle of Normandy.
Founded in 1432, the Université de Caen Normandie (UNICAEN) is one of the 10 oldest universities in Europe. It welcomes around 33,000 students spread over several campuses in the Caen metropolitan area and on remote sites in Normandy. It is a multidisciplinary university that provides comprehensive education in a wide range of initial and continuing education in 4 main fields of study:
– Arts, Literature and Languages
– Law, Economics and Management
– Humanities and Social Sciences
– Science, Technology and Health
Within its 12 departments, 3 University graduate schools (Management, Education and Engineering) and University Institute of Technology, it offers 28 bachelor’s degrees (Licence), 61 Master’s degrees, 3 engineering degrees and 38 PhD specializations, as well as 25 University Bachelor of Technology.
UNICAEN strives to provide higher education with academic and excellence values but also ethical, societal and civic ones (transparency, non-discrimination, inclusion).
UNICAEN, by welcoming its 3 200 international students from 128 nationalities and with its 322 partner universities from 61 countries reinforces its desire for internationalization, modernization and intercultural enrichment. Internationalisation is one of UNICAEN’s strategic priorities: scientific cooperation, supervised mobility, and English-language courses (3 Masters taught in English, 4 Graduate Schools and 3 Masters Erasmus Mundus).
UNICAEN values the individual mobility of its students and staff and conducts an adapted language policy and welcoming system. UNICAEN has received the Label « Bienvenue en France** ».
UNICAEN is also a member of Normandie Université (top 5% worldwide with a ranking of 801-1000 of the World University Rankings 2022), ranked in 5 scientific disciplines in the Shanghai GRAS 2023 and is ranked 5th best student town in France.
Finally, UNICAEN has a service of global education and international affairs, the Carré international, serving the community and providing:
– Faculty, staff and student mobility programs (PPMI)
– International project engineering (PDI)
– French language programs for international students and researchers and training in 15 foreign languages (PFL)
– Euraxess service centre
– Dedicated and year-round support centre for international students (SPI) providing administrative assistance, buddy programs, orientation week, cultural and social activities etc.)
Carré international welcomes many Indonesian students. Since 2017/2018, UNICAEN has welcomed from 10 to 40 students who come to study French, especially during semester 2 (January-May). Those students come mainly from Indonesian agencies and the IFI’s program “Destination France”. After their DUEF (French University diploma) some of them stay to register for undergraduate programs (Languages, Sciences and Economics mainly). UNICAEN also had a partnership with Universitas Padjajaran since 2017.
Academic: GPA of 3.0 or above on their studies to date
English Language:
– IELTS: 6.0 (no subscore below 6.0)
– TOEFL iBT: 78 (minimum speaking 20, and other components 17)
– Duolingo English Test: 100
02 September 2024 – 20 December 2024
Available Courses
(Applicants must choose courses from the same campus branch only)
Caen Campus
EC International Business news analysis (general introduction to international news analysis. look at the significance of world events for international business – The objective of this course is to understand the implications and potential impacts of international events on businesses; understand where to obtain relevant and reliable information, and analyse recent events and their significance for businesses).
EC tutored projects (Sept-December)
EC Strategic Management (description: what is strategic management – competitive strategy – value creation – diversification, external growth, PESTEL model – competition dynamic – organize company structure decide and act model – understand the Company environment – adapt strategy following company structure – implement strategy)
EC French for international students “
– EC Fundamentals of Finance (The objective of this course is to give students the expertise needed to analyze and interpret financial statements pivotal in financial decision-making. Following an understanding of the foundational aspects of financial statements, students will engage in constructing pro-forma financial statements for financial planning. Furthermore, the course discusses a particular corporate event, Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A), delving into how companies navigate these decisions, comprehend diverse acquisition types, and grasp their defining characteristics)
– EC Statistics and data analysis (Use of multivariate statistics, as well as their applications: This course is an introduction to data analysis and multivariate statistics. We will introduce basic concepts, to represent the data and to be able to analyze them. We will see the different standard invariants allowing us to extract a maximum of information from the studied data. We will develop some examples applied to trade and economics. Time permitting, introduction to the basics of using and programming.
– EC Individual and collective management (the keys to managerial effectiveness, trust, progress, exemplarity, assertiveness, enthusiasm, vision and values delegating, discovering the factors of team cohesion, motivation and involvement, uniting a team)
– EC Managerial Challenges of technological transformations (Develop and strengthen managerial skills and know-how to enable teams to progress and achieve their objectives (safety, quality, deadlines, costs, etc.)
– EC Cross-generational management
– EC Agile Management (the agile mindset in managerial practices: introduction and the needs in a company – understanding of agile management and its principles – To complete the projects entrusted to them, future project managers need to understand and know how to implement methods and tools for framing, defining objectives and scope, controlling risks, organizing resources, and planning project tasks while understanding the societal challenges that have motivated the rise of agile management)
– EC Digital Agility
– EC Priority management and personal efficiency (Get the global picture to set up clear targets: understanding & analysis capacity/Team management /Time management/self-organization)
– Integration (The French press and the media – the education system and the concept of laicité – the concept of secularism- The state of the nation – french wars of religions – the French political system – France and Europe – labour laws and social welfare)
Cherbourg Campus
Course objective: acquire basic knowledge about the history of the nuclear energy
Prerequisites: the 20th century’s history
Content: The main steps of the nuclear energy development, From the Manhattan Project during World War II to « Atoms for Peace », Reconstruction and development of the main sectors, The major steps, The accidents of Chernobyl and Fukushima, Nuclear options for the 21th century, what we learned about nuclear energy
Course objective: acquire some basic knowledge on crystallography and phase diagrams.
Prerequisites: basic physics (atoms, electrons, chemical bond).
Content: crystalline state, crystal structures, crystal defects, phase diagrams (constitution, domains of existence, etc.), notion of eutectic, peritectic, correlation diagram and microstructure.
Course objective: revisit classical mathematical techniques. Apply these techniques to engineering problems.
Prerequisites: elementary calculus and methods.
Content:
Differential equations, Laplace transform, Fourier series.
Complex functions, residue theorem. Z-transform.
Linear algebra, vectors and matrices.
Vector analysis and partial differential equations.
Introduction to optimization.
Course objective: determine stress and strain in steel truss structure.
Prerequisites: general mechanics.
Content: reminders on strength of materials. Stress concentration and combined stresses. Energetic methods applied to the calculation of stress and strain in steel truss (isostatic or hyperstatic) structures.
Course objective: to communicate orally with any colleague in any situation. Know how to explain, convince and motivate in front of a group, or one-to-one. Get familiar with non-verbal techniques.
Prerequisites: none.
Content:
1) Structure of an oral presentation.
2) Use of media (especially Power Point).
3) Presentation of non-verbal techniques.
4) Public speaking.
Course objective: understand the importance of the surface of a product for its interaction with the environment.
Prerequisites: elementary physics and chemistry.
Content: revisit elementary thermodynamics and electrochemistry.
Adsorption (physisorption, chemisorption), reactivity, wettability.
Mechanical, chemical, thermal, electrical and optical interactions.
Surface characterization methods (roughness, specific surface).
Surface treatments – Selection criteria.
Course objective: apply the tools of CFD to study the Marine Renewable Energies converters.
Prerequisites: fluid mechanics, Partial derivative equations, solid mechanics.
Content: Introduction to CFD, Fundamental equations, numerical techniques, Fluid structure interactions, Practical Works (using of ANSYS, 18h).
This lesson is classical coupled with a project using CFD.
Course objective: understand a part of the chain of measurements: acquire a signal (temperature, pressure, position,…) using an appropriate sensor, and amplify this signal in view of processing it.
Prerequisites: mathematics (calculus & methods), physics (electricity).
Content: Introduction to sensors. Resistive, capacitive and inductive sensors. Analysis of optical, force, acceleration, temperature, humidity, magnetic and hall effect sensors.
Course objective: understanding and knowledge – individual and collective participation
Prerequisites: none.
Content:
First part: Ethics and Nuclear Energy: Nuclear industry and community engagement
– What is ethics, risks and principles of sustainable development
– Inquieries and the French public debates, history of the public debate,
– Experimenting a public debate
– Control bodies
Stakeholders and local, national and international levels.
Second part: Ethics and epistemology: nuclear ethics
What does “epistemology” mean? The tools of knowledge
A strong link and a weak link: human factor
Course objective: understand the principles of solid-body motion. Apply these principles to engineering problems.
Prerequisites: elementary physics and mathematics.
Content: reference frames and point kinematics. Systems of particles, Newton’s laws, kinetic energy theorem. Kinematics and dynamics of a rigid body. Interactions between rigid bodies. Technical mechanics.
Course objective: understand the basic properties of granular media, their importance in everyday life and in production.
Prerequisites: elementary courses in material science.
Content: definition and characteristics of a granular medium (size, shape, chemical composition, etc.). Techniques for the manufacture and the characterization of powders. Use of powders (ceramics, metallurgy, etc). Dangers of powders and means of protection (silicosis, asbestosis, etc.).
Course objective: Get to know how to evaluate the risks, and identify the actors of a crisis situation.
Prerequisite: none.
Content: Introduction to risk management, origins of cyndinics (founding axioms, systemic cyndinogenic deficits, etc.). Crisis management, definition of crisis, actors, crisis cell. Human factor in various major accidents.