University of Tours

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The University of Tours is a French multidisciplinary university located in Tours.

She took the name of University of Tours, during the C.A., in place of François-Rabelais University. This is the largest university in the Centre-Val de Loire region.

History

Establishment
The University of Tours was established in 1971, in accordance with the Faure Act, which aims to modernise and democratize higher education structures. It brings together the higher education institutions that exist at that time.

Prior to the creation of the Orléans-Tours Academy (1961), there was no faculty in Tours. There was only one Renaissance Study Centre (depending on the Poitiers Faculty of Letters) which would become the Renaissance Higher Studies Centre (CESR) and a "School of Medicine". The latter is transformed into the Faculty of Medicine-Pharmacy and the ministry creates a Faculty of Humanities and Humanities and a University Scientific College. Then, in , a University Institute of Technology opens with its first two courses, experimental, "Information Careers" and "Social Careers". There was also a University College of Law and Economics attached to the University of Orléans.

All premises are either temporary facilities in old premises or temporary buildings. The first new building built was the IUT in North Tours in 1969/1970. It will be completed on the same site a specific building for biology in 1972. Then, on the banks of the Loire River, the "Faculty of Letters" in 1971/1972, which hosts the three units of teaching and research (UER) (English, literature, humanities), born on the occasion of the creation of the university.

Developments
In 1995, François Fillon, then Minister of Higher Education and Research, opened the new faculty of economics and social sciences on the campus of the Deux-Lions.

From 2004, the university moved closer to the University of Orléans with the establishment of the Centre Val-de-Loire university centre (association law of 1901).

In , she became a founding member with the Centre - Val de Loire University, a research and higher education centre.

In 2009, it became an autonomous university within the meaning of the Act on University Freedoms and Responsibilities.

In 2012, she signed a new contract with the ministry in which she saw herself as a university with a European dimension, focusing on strengthening her attractiveness internationally, which was reflected in the same year in the launch of an international ad-hoc portal.

In , it was renamed "University of Tours" and adopted a new logo at the beginning of the following year.

In September 2022, IAE became a fully-fledged component. Twelfth component of the university, the faculty of dodo