The Université de Picardie Jules Verne (UPJV), with its 28,000 students and some 1,000 research professors, is a multi-disciplinary university on a human scale. It has sites in six towns in the Picardie region, mainly in Amiens, the regional capital. Founded in 1969, the UPJV benefits from a long university tradition dating from the beginning of the 19th century. Formations The UPJV offers a wide range of programmes in all disciplines and at every level. In the context of the development of the European Higher Education Area, our university has adopted the LMD (licence/masters/doctorate) system since 2004. The programmes of the 12 faculties are now divided into 6 fields, in addition to the 6 IUTs (technical institutes), with specific subject areas within each field. The European credit system (ECTS) permits greater flexibility for students' programmes and facilitates their international mobility.