Universities of Lorraine

As part of the Universities of Lorraine, the three universities in Nancy and Paul-Verlaine University have decided to merge together in the area of knowledge and technology transfer. The department of knowledge transfer of the PRES (the optimisation service provided by the PRES) is the only department in the four universities of Lorraine for knowledge transfer. It is based on two innovative pioneers (Metz and Nancy) having two locations: one being for engineering and the other for legal sciences. The department for knowledge transfer in the area of research manages between 300 and 350 contracts a year in Lorraine (excluding the French national research agency ANR (The French National Research Agency) and European contracts) with an average turnover of € 7 million a year. Since 2006 the department has processed more than 60 projects in the field of innovation development and has over 57 categories of patents and ten trademark and software registrations.