Conference Venue
Ecole Centrale Marseille, France
http://www.centrale-marseille.fr
38 rue
Frédéric
Joliot-Curie
13013 Marseille, France
+33 (0)4 91 05 45 45
Most of Centrale Marseille’s buildings are
located at the Château-Gombert Technopole, a
buzzing campus of several higher education
institutions, a research centre and a large
number of businesses at the foot of the
Massif de l'Étoile.
Easily accessible from the centre of
Marseilles by public transport (metro & bus)
and from Maresilles’ Saint-Charles Railway
Station, Centrale Marseille sits at the
heart of a dynamic and ever-changing
environment.
With buildings and facilities custom-built
for university teaching and research,
Centrale Marseille strongly encourages its
students to become involved in
extracurricular activities in the community
and hosts many public events each year.
Student accommodation is available in
several residential halls close to the École
Centrale Marseille buildings.
Buildings and Facilities: a continuously
expanding campus!
While most of its campus is located at the
Château-Gombert Technopole at the foot of
the Massif de l'Étoile, Centrale Marseille
has other buildings on the University campus
at Saint Jérôme. The Centrale Marseille
campus currently covers 5.7 hectares, but
future plans will add another 4 hectares.
Among the new facilities planned for the
coming years are: a new amphitheatre, a
gymnasium, student residences, plaza area,
and renovation of existing buildings.
Today, Centrale Marseille houses research
laboratories, associations and technology
companies. For developing its own
activities, the School has more than 11,000
square metres of teaching facilities and
resources:
● polyvalent lecture halls (over 2,700
sq;m.) and a large amphitheatre seating more
than 400 students, 3 amphitheatres seating
115, and a large number of tutorial rooms;
● At the same time, there are many other
rooms and facilities equipped with high-tech
technological platforms for practical
studies (2,400 sq.m.);
● Finally, 1,000 square metres of computer
facilities.
The campus is 10 minutes’ walk from the
Metro station and the Centrale Marseille
campus is on the municipal bus routes. A
University restaurant (CROUS) is located in
the School building offering lunches for
students and staff. Sports facilities are
available on the campus and nearby.
The École Centrale de Marseille is a leading
graduate school of engineering (or Grande
école of engineering) located in Marseille,
the second largest city in France. The École
Centrale de Marseille was created in 2006 by
the merging of different previous
institutions and has its origins from the
École d'ingénieurs de Marseille founded in
1890. It is one of the Centrale Graduate
Schools (Paris, Lyon, Lille, Nantes,
Marseille and Beijing) and a member of the
TIME (Top Industrial Managers for Europe)
network.