Université de Bejaia

University of Bejaia is a public and pluridisciplinary institution that was established on October 1983.Currently, it has more than 45 700 students, 1714 teachers and 1227 administrative and technical staff spread on 08 faculties: Faculty of Technology - Faculty of Exact Sciences – Faculty of law and Political Sciences – Natural and Life Sciences- Faculty of Literature and Languages- Human and Social Sciences- Economic Sciences, Management and Commercial Sciences- Medical Sciences.

The university of Bejaia could implement programs more and more aligned with labor market. This approach enabled it to identify the needs of its partners of economic sector in term of human resources and skills.

University of Bejaia has, currently, about thirty research laboratories, approved by the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research concerning several fields: Modeling and optimization of systems- Materials and process engineering Technology – Organic materials – environmental engineering  – Hydraulics – information and industrial technology-  Biomathematics, Biophysics  Biochemistry- applied mathematics- theoretical physics- Ecology and environment- Economy and development- applied microbiology- Applied biochemistry- training in applied languages and engineering languages in multilingual environment-   aquaculture and marine ecosystems.

University of Bejaia has begun an important structuring work in order to make research in the level of national and international competition and constitute a favorable dynamics to its growth and development.    Indeed, it implements several development research projects, in particular: technological incubator- Center of innovation and technology transfer- national center of research in agri-food technology.

Highly open on its socio-economic sector, university of Bejaia has been constantly working to encourage sustainable development and to be in harmony with challenges of globalization. From now on, connection between university and local economic sector is an objective reality, a challenge, a strategy of Bejaïa university in order to implement promising projects.  Therefore, a lot of cooperation agreements were signed with national companies. The University/company partnership becomes one of the priority themes in a changing economic environment. In this context, and since 2007, a forum on university and productive world is organized each academic year. It is considered as a space of exchanges and debates on current scientific and socio-economic themes.   Therefore, the university has implemented an office of liaison between university and companies (BLEU).

The desire of university to open to the world is reflected by signing more than sixty cooperation agreements with universities of many countries (France, Italy, Russia, Span, Romania, Canada, Ukraine, Tunisia …etc). These agreements were established in order to facilitate scientific exchanges and mobility of teachers researchers, students and administrative staff. The university aims to build a bridge of experience and competences exchange and also improvement of pedagogical methods, enhance the scientific research and establish a strong and sustainable cooperation network. 

University of Bejaia participates to many exchange programs such as the European scholarships program Erasmus Mundus  (4 Averroes programs, Green It, BATTUTA and UNetBA), Tempus Meda program (employability, tourism, communication, international relations, inclusive education, etc…) ; CMEP/Tassili program, and t DEF/CNRS with France, PCIM program with Span and Italy and others.