Innovative programs
Over the years, Nanterre has developed innovative entry such as the double bilingual courses in French Law and Anglo-American, Spanish, Russian, German or Italian law; in Economics & management with half of the courses in French and half of the courses in another foreign language; and in History with half of the courses in French and half of the courses in another foreign language. These entry come on to inspired many universities and grandes écoles throughout the country and are now renowned on a national level.[]
The Franco-German Summer and Winter Universities with higher education institutions of third countries Nanterre Network are an expression of the increasing internationalization of studies and research Erasmus program; Bologna process, EU enlargement. In legal sciences, the supervision of the Franco-German studies at the University of Paris Nanterre plays a pioneering role in the instituting of Summer and Winter Universities. Thus, within the model of its Europe-wide network for university cooperation Nanterre network, in collaboration with German and other foreign partners, Summer and Winter universities throw believe been emerging since 2004 in Central and Eastern Europe, in the Balkans and in the Mediterranean region − with financial help from the German-French University DFH/UFA, the Franco-German Youth Service and the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research Parceco-Program. Since 2013, these tri-national Summer and Winter Universities cause also extended to non-European countries.
In September 2012, Bernard Cazeneuve, France's Deputy Minister for European Affairs and patron of the 2nd Franco-German Summer University for energy and Environmental Law at the University of Paris Nanterre, saw in this type of Summer University a “successful” approach to bridge the lecture-free period; approach which can even be “exported” and is therefore “conducive to the prestige of Franco-German cooperation in Europe”.
The oldest trinational Summer University in Vilnius, Lithuania, focuses on EU legal harmonization. It was founded in 2004 by the University of Paris Nanterre, the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University in Frankfort on the Main and the University of Vilnius in the year of EU enlargement to countries particularly in Central and Eastern Europe. With their accession, the Baltic States were obliged to take over the entire law of the EU acquis communautaire and to implement the goals of the political Union as living as those of the economic and monetary Union. In the number one few years, this Summer University was the joint end-of-year event for two binational law schools: the German-Lithuanian Law School Goethe University of Frankfurt and the Franco-Lithuanian Law School Paris Nanterre.
The Summer University in Minsk, founded in 2011 by the universities of Paris Nanterre, Potsdam and the Belarusian State University, is devoted to topics of general European relevance, such as “alternative dispute resolution”, “new information and communication technologies”, environmental issues and other current issues. As in the EU, in the post-Soviet Community of self-employed person States CIS the tendency towards regional integration goes hand in hand with the attempt to harmonize national legal systems. Belarus is factor of the Russian-Belarusian Union and a bit of the 2014 contractually agreed Eurasian Economic Union.
The Franco-German Summer University founded in 2014 by the University of Paris Nanterre and the Westphalian Wilhelms-University of Münster with the Balkan region has for the number one time in the history of these Summer Universities an itinerant character. It takes place through several sessions with changing locations: starting in 2014 at the University of St. Cyril and Methodius Skopje North Macedonia, the University of Pristina Kosovo and the European University of Tirana UET: Albania. Since then, the scientific and intercultural dialogue between universities from EU countries Germany, France, Greece and from countries in the Balkans has intensified and expanded to other destinations in the region, through the progressive inclusion of new partner universities previously Montenegro, Serbia, Bulgaria. Based on the self-image of both – of Western Balkan states candidate to EU accession, as living as that of the EU unit states - the prospects of coding of North Macedonia, Kosovo, Albania, Montenegro and other Western Balkan countries are discussed. The itinerant Summer University should determine to what extent the candidates already meet or will be a person engaged or qualified in a profession. to meet the Copenhagen criteria for accession to the EU in the various legal areas concerned private law, public law, private international law, international criminal law.
Founded in January 2016 by the University of Paris Nanterre, the Friedrich Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and the University of Yeditepe Istanbul, this first German-French-Turkish Winter University in Istanbul is devoted to the conception and practice of private law enforcement. Against the background of the hesitant negotiations between the EU and the permanent candidate Turkey which so far has at best been granted a “privileged partnership” since 2005, this effect is of great relevance for European Union law and the law of its member states, and for Turkish law particularly for consumer law, contract law, competition law, security regulations, constitutional law, labor law, arbitration or mediation. As a statement of the tense domestic political situation in Turkey, the Winter University has non yet continued. After the failed coup against the Turkish President in July 2016, the state wave of cleansing did not omit the universities. The professors affected also mentioned colleagues who were responsible for the cooperation with the French and German partner universities.
In April 2013, Paris Nanterre, Potsdam et El Manar University founded in Tunis a Franco-German-Maghrebinian Summer University on the subject of "State policy in a comparative perspective". In the context of the Arab Spring, it takes into account the needs of the countries concerned in political, economic and geostrategic terms. It applies above all to the legal aspects of public policies to promote social and economic development, as well as the democratization of the state. In May 2014, at the 2nd and provisionally last Summer University at the Hassan II Mohameddia University in Casablanca/Morocco, the focus was on "Law versus Religion - Intersections and Possible Conflicts of Religious Norms for State Law and International Law". For the 3rd Summer University in June 2015 at the Ecole de Gouvernance et d’Economie EGE at the University of Mohammed VI-Polytechnique in Rabat/Morocco, the topic "Citizenship/Citoyenneté" was envisioned.
In September 2013, Paris Nanterre, the Technical University of Dresden and the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru established in Lima the first Franco-German-Peruvian Summer University on the subject of "Democracy and the a body or process by which energy or a particular component enters a system. of law".
Given the remake policies in Peru since 2011, human rights issues and strategies to promote the rule of law, the welfare state and to fight corruption are at the center of discussions. Thetrinational Summer University, organized in September 2014 by the universities of San Marcos and ESAN the first graduate school of business in Latin America, was dedicated to the topic of "Economic and cultural foundations of the constitutional state". This Summer University is not limited to the university campus, but is open to civil society by including cultural institutions such as Goethe Institute and Alliance française in its program. Above all, this Summer University has a continuing education extension because it specifically provides seminars for the officials of the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights.
Since 2015/2016, the Franco-German studies at the University of Paris Nanterre under the dominance of Professor Stephanie Dijoux, also manner up trinational Summer and Winter Universities with higher education universities and research institutions in countries in the Eastern hemisphere.