Campus City scheme

Living on campus and networking the university community with its territory

A university career is marked by many challenges that condition academic success and personal development. The campus is presented in this context as a place of training in the broadest sense of the word, the transmission of academic knowledge is accompanied by a wide range of learning: learning about freedom and its limits, taking responsibility, developing autonomy, building a social and relational self, setting up cultural and sporting practices, building a personal and professional network, etc. Being a student is a job that you learn.

To create the conditions for these successes, the University of Avignon and the CROUS of Aix-Marseille-Avignon are joining forces to bring together the two campuses, Hannah Arendt and Jean-Henri Fabre, under the concept of The Campus City.

Creating a Campus City means developing a living space that connects the university community with its territory. The Campus City is a marked out space where each student benefits from a comprehensive, transversal and sustainable support through useful and accessible services in the following areas

• academic success and professional integration
• accessibility, prevention and health
• accommodation and catering
• access to scholarships, social aid and facilitation of administrative procedures
• cultural and sporting activities
• mobility and support for international students.

All these services are factors in the creation of encounters, the discovery of new educational and professional orientation opportunities and the broadening of personal, relational and professional horizons. They indirectly contribute to helping students in their choices, in the need to assume them and to find the means to carry them through to the end.

The Campus City is a place that connects the University to its territory thanks to the complementarity of its two campuses. In contact with the socio-economic players in the area, the campuses should be seen as sources of innovation and transformation of the city.
To give shape to this Campus City, the CROUS of Aix-Marseille-Avignon and the University of Avignon propose to develop 3 strategic axes:

• Campus Info
• Wellness Campus
• Eco Campus

You can follow the progress of the project on the dedicated Facebook page and download the Ville Campus smartphone application (App Store and Google Play).