A privileged scientific environment

The MAUD cluster (Materials & Applications for a Sustainable Use) is located in the heart of an international science park called Haute-Borne and benefits from a privileged scientific environment.

Ecole Nationale supérieure de Chimie de Lille

An educational & research cluster which gathers on 300 hectares more than :

3,500 teachers and researchers

50,000 students

85 research laboratories from the “Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille”, from the “Université Charles de Gaulle” or prestigious higher education institutes such as « Ecole Centrale de Lille », « TELECOM Lille1 », « Polytech’Lille » and the ENSCL (« Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Lille »)
Research centres in high technology specialized in :
- micro-electronics and nanotechnology (IEMN)
- information & communication technologies (IRCICA, INRIA, LIFL, …)
- physics (PhLAM, CERLA, LSPES, …)
- chemistry and materials (UCCS, LASIR, PC2A, LCOM, IMMCL, Institut Chevreul, …)

A "Euro-Metropolis", dynamic and near sizeable markets

The MAUD cluster is located within the first cross-border metropolis with Europe, called “Lille Métropole”. 100 millions of consumers within a 300-km radius.

Une Eurométropole, dynamique et proche de marchés importants

100 millions of consumers within a 300-km radius.

1.9 million inhabitants
36 % of the population is less than 25 years old
100,000 students
4 universities, 1 European university cluster, 13 national colleges of engineering, 8 business schools, and so on.