Euroculture Strasbourg

EUROCULTURE IN STRASBOURG

European by nature and international by design, the University of Strasbourg’s strengths and assets stem from its active involvement in virtually every discipline comprising the current body of knowledge.

The University was first founded in 1621 before being founded again in a new form in 1871 during the German period.  After a split subsequent to the events of 1968, the university was reunited in 2009.  As a young university founded on an age-old tradition, it strives to attain cross-disciplinarity so that this mixing fosters new research opportunities and produces courses that meet society's needs.

The international dimension is fundamental for the University of Strasbourg and thanks to the world-wide reputation of its research teams, built on excellence and efficiency, it emerges among Europe's foremost research universities. Each of the University's main academic fields of instruction is based upon research sections that are the driving force of the institution, with over 2,600 professors and staff.

Solidly anchored in the European Higher Education Area, the University of Strasbourg, a beating heart of the Alsatian metropolis with its 55,000 students (of which approximately 20% come from abroad), has the potential to face the challenging international competition. In addition, “Unistra” is in close collaboration with neighbor Universities, especially in Germany and Switzerland. 

Euroculture at the University of Strasbourg is hosted by the Faculty of Languages.  The programme is also closely tied to the prestigious SAGE (Society, Actors, Government in Europe) research laboratory, where mainly sociologists, historians and Political scientists work on “Europe” and organize each year countless scientific and cultural events. 

By virtue of its location in a city on the highly symbolic Franco-German border, which is host to several European institutions, organisations, and museums, Euroculture Strasbourg offers two axes of specialist study in line with the areas of expertise of its teaching staff:

1. The institutions of European integration, most notably the Council of Europe, the European Court of Human Rights, and the European Parliament
2. Transnational cultural cooperation and shared cultural heritage and cultural studies, including Human and Minority rights.

In both axes, academics will be joined by our associated professionals working in these domains.