Welcome to the UNIVERSITY LILLE 1 BIENVENUES!! LILLE LILLE LILLE Lille is a top travel destination, with its Flemish ambience, excellent museums, great food, and the world-renowned Grande Braderie (Europe's biggest flea market). Lille (or Ryssel in Flemish) is the most important city in northern France, and the fourth biggest in France. The award of European Capital of Culture in 2004, and the massive investment that came with it, have helped boost the profile of the city. With more affordable accommodations and living costs compared to other major European capitals, Lille is a student oriented city, with a very young population and a vibrant cultural scene and an array of historical sights to take in. At the crossroads of Northern Europe, Lille is closely situated to many other interesting travel destinations, only an hour to Paris, 40 mins to Brussels and 1.45 hours to London by fast train Université Lille 1 currently has approximately 20,000 students and is built on 110 hectares with 4 campuses. It is one of the largest scientific universities in France . Constantly developing high-level research in all of its taught disciplines. The teaching and research missions of the University are closely linked and interdependent on one another. Université Lille 1 has 2,000 researchers belonging to laboratories with national recognition from the French Ministry of Research for the quality of their research activity. Furthermore, most of the major French research bodies work in close collaboration with Université Lille 1 laboratories. Université Lille 1 benefits from access to a number of recent high performance scientific facilities, many of which are unique to Europe. This allows you to improve your skills and competence through working with modern scientific techniques. شكرا Thank you!