Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris
The Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris ( CIUP ) is founded in 1925, located in the 14th arrondissement of Paris International students settlement. It annually hosts approximately 10,000 students, scientists and artists.
General
The Cité is divided into 40 different houses (where two houses are located in the 19th arrondissement and one outside Paris, on the Ile de Brehat in Brittany ), which are usually associated with a nation, Germany is represented with the Maison Heinrich Heine. In every house, about half of the residents of the nationality of the individual house belongs to, the other half is made up of different nationalities. This is intended to promote the international exchange. Currently, the CIUP students and researchers from home to more than 120 countries.
The individual "houses" of CIUP regularly organize cultural and political events of high quality, which also attract international celebrities from politics and culture. In addition, the CIUP has its own theater, an orchestra and a variety of other student groups the areas sports, arts and culture.
Prerequisite for inclusion in the Cité Internationale is a comprehensive application that will demonstrate technical and social suitability.
In addition, the CIUP also has an architectural appeal. Thus, the Swiss house was built by the architect Le Corbusier.
History
The Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris was founded in 1925 with the help of industrial patrons, bankers and foreign foundations. Goal of the facility was and is not only future elites to provide the best possible working conditions, but (initiated after the trauma of World War I ) to promote international exchange, peace and friendship among peoples.
Location
The Cité Internationale is located in the area of the former zone non Aedificandi in a park of 34 hectares in the south of Paris. It represents the largest concentration of student housing in the Ile de France
The Cité is located (last / first stop in the core zone ) and the tram T3 at Cité Universitaire RER B. It is also accessible via the line 4, last stop Porte d'Orléans.
The individual houses
Fondation de la Meurthe German
Through a generous donation by Émile German de la Meurthe financed, designed by Lucien Bechmann and finished in 1923, represents the Fondation German de la Meurthe an exception in the Cité U is - it is not about a single house, but their seven. Six pavilions accommodate undergraduate and graduate students, a pavilion is reserved for administrative and service. There is in the basement has a grand ballroom, continue mailboxes, a laundry room with washing machines and dryers as well as a gym. In the second low level there are rehearsal rooms for musicians and a ping pong table.
On the ground floor are a dance hall as well as the administrative offices and the Secretariat. Also the Gardien, the watchman and porter, here has his box. Secretariat and porter are staffed around the clock. On the first floor there is the library, which is equipped not only with books but also with a dozen computers with Internet access. On the second floor is still a TV and lounge room.
A pleasant offering internet access to a wireless network that extends since 2006 on all seven buildings and its use in the monthly rent ( redevance, so called fee ) of about 370 euros (as of 2009/10, rates for students) is included. In the living pavilions housed, there is also a photo lab and a bicycle storage in the German de la Meurthe. Total live about 380 undergraduate and graduate students from all over the world in the German de la Meurthe.
Also, figures such as the writer and philosopher Jean -Paul Sartre, the Senegalese President Leopold Sedar Senghor and the former French Economy and Finance Minister Raymond Barre lived during her studies in German de la Meurthe.
Heinrich -Heine- House ( Maison Heinrich Heine )
The Heinrich -Heine- House ( Maison Heinrich Heine - Fondation de l' Allemagne ) is the German House at the Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris. It was opened in 1956, built by the architect Johannes Krahn. It pays tribute with his name the poet Heinrich Heine, who has lived many years in Paris. The Heine-Haus is home to about 100 undergraduate and graduate students, of which the majority German origin. According to statutes are to about 50% of places will be allocated in exchange with other houses of CIUP to non - German students; rarely actually form the non-German students more than about one-third of the residents.
The rooms are equipped with a washbasin, shared toilets and showers, and a kitchen are located on the corridor. The kitchens are equipped with large wooden tables and chairs and the center of the encounter and coexistence. In addition, the Heinrich- Heine-Haus offers its residents living rooms, music studios, as well as a TV room. The monthly rent is 410 € (as of September 2012).
Besides functioning as a student residence, the Heine House sees as a cultural meeting place. There are regular exhibitions, concerts, conferences and lectures, in addition (and sometimes competing ) to the Goethe Institute. Among the guests were, among others, Edgar Reitz, Burghart Klaussner and Nora - Eugenie Gomringer. Every now and then get talented residents and even the ability to play these concerts. The colloquia will not be made even before the controversial topics halt. So one day colloquium was devoted among other things because of their vulgar obscene texts controversial author Elfriede Jelinek.
The Heine-Haus hosts a German -language library. This is also external users ( with German language skills ) for free.
Also, the Heinrich-Heine -Haus has some well-known personalities during their period of study in Paris houses, including the former President of the DAAD, Theodor Berchem, and the political scientist Arnulf Baring.
The Maison Heinrich Heine is located on the southern edge of the Cité Universitaire, directly on the Paris City Highway Boulevard Périphérique. Director since 2002 Christiane Deussen.
Literature: Maison Heinrich Heine Paris - Quarante ans de présence culturelle 1956-1996, Bonn / Paris 1998 (400 pages with many b / w photos and Names)
Swedish House ( Maison des Etudiants Suédois )
The Swedish House in 1931 by the then Crown Prince Gustav VI. Adolf ( Sweden) inaugurated and French President Paul Doumer, is one of the smallest houses in the Cité Universitaire. Since its renovation in 1994, it has 43 rooms and two studios. The admission requirements follows the guidelines of the mixture of nations in the houses of the Cité Universitaire and houses not only Sweden but also French and students of other nationalities.
From the outset, organized by the Swedish House cultural evenings ( soirées culturelles ), first with writers such as Jules Romains and André Maurois, and later, among others, the novelist Michel Butor, the journalist André Fontaine et Jussi Björling the tenor. For several years the director of the Swedish house was also the Head of the Swedish Institute (Institute suédois ) of Paris.
Today, among the cultural events offered both traditional Swedish celebrations, as well as concerts and exhibitions. Is celebrated in particular the United Lucia celebration on December 13, and the Walpurgis Night on April 30.
It is said that there since the 13th century has been in Paris a house of Swedish students, as 12 young theology student from Uppsala came to the Sorbonne to study. That Swedish house shall have borne the name Collegium Upsalienses. At the beginning of the 12th century there were also two schools ( collège ) of the dioceses Linköping and Skara.
More houses
In chronological order. Indicated is the opening date. The list is incomplete.