Université de Toulouse II-Le Mirail

The University of Toulouse Le Mirail was created early 13 century and aside from its long established tradition of high calibre education, the university is also famous because it accommodates prestigious humanists such as Michel Servert, Étienne Dolet, Michel de l?Hopital, Rabelais and probably Montaigne. In 1808, it become an imperial University and consisted of the faculties of Catholic and Protestant Theology, letters, law, Sciences and a medical school. In the twentieth century, the university reached its full development and moved to the new district of Mirail and the university was named after the district. While maintaining its long heritage, the University of Toulouse offers new contents and develops new courses in order to move with the changing nature of the international education system. The university currently provides vocational training for adults and developed a partnership with many institutions around the world. Presently, the university takes part in the great reform organized the State and is un the process of adopting new structures of operations that includes to further add more courses to their curriculum, to offer students a more clear and coherent formation and to increase the use of technology across the campuses. Faithful to its humanistic tradition, the University of Toulouse provides a dynamic education system in the fields of Letters, Arts, Languages, Social sciences and Sciences. In order to respond to the new demands of the world today, the university provided extended courses in various languages such as regional languages i.e. Basque, Catalan, European languages, languages of the Mediterranean region, Latin American languages and finally oriental languages. Furthermore, the university takes part in the great cultural projects on a worldwide scale through its exchange programs and permanently work to promote the exchange of people and ideas. Each year, a hundred teachers and foreign researchers f are accommodated at the University of Toulouse and more than 2000 foreign students are registered, including nearly 800 Europeans.The Research centre was inaugurated in September 1994 and designed to implement the scientific policy of the University in the field of the Letters, Languages and Social sciences. Thirty-two teams were put in place with all the services of support to research and doctorate studies.