Direction des Relations Internationales (DRI)
International networks, programs and agreements
Updated on: 10/06/2026
Our most active networks cover three priority geographical areas for international cooperation at Le Havre Normandie University: Asia, French-speaking Africa and Europe.
- The GU8 (Global University 8) consortium, for Asia,
- The CEMUR network (Coopération Europe Maghreb des Universités en réseau), for French-speaking Africa,
- SGroup and the ELPIS (European Legal Practice Integrated studies) network for Europe.
- The University of Le Havre Normandie Havre and the University of Strasbourg are leading the initiative to create a digital campus for complex systems on a global scale.
International networks
The GU8 consortium
The University of Le Havre Normandie signed an inter-university cooperation agreement in 2004. GU8’s partner universities are as follows:
– University of Hull, UK
– Inha University, South Korea
– Xiamen University, China
– University Malaysia Perlis (UNIMAP), Malaysia
– Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember (ITS), Indonesia
– University of Fortaleza (UNIFOR), Brazil
– Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany
The GU8 consortium aims to develop teaching and research activities between its members in the following fields: logistics, maritime affairs, management and new technologies. Sustainable development underpins the network’s activities.
https://guc8.org/
CEMUR
Created in 2001 as a non-profit association on the initiative of the University of Le Havre Normandie, this network brings together higher education establishments in the Maghreb countries (5 in Tunisia, 9 in Morocco, 9 in Algeria), a university in Mauritania and two French universities other than Le Havre, for a total of 27 members.
The University of Le Havre Normandie is taking part in a TEMPUS project led by the University of Valenciennes to strengthen the development of logistics training in Morocco through a Logistics Training Observatory and Logistics Excellence Platforms.
CEMUR network objectives
- create university/business interface structures (innovation and technology transfer, etc.),
- improve transport and logistics infrastructures,
- promote student integration
- participate in the creation of logistics engineering training programs,
- promote logistics skills (co-supervision of doctoral theses, international conferences, etc.).
Members list
SGROUP
European network of 48 establishments in 23 European countries and 6 non-European countries. The network is headquartered in Porto. This network enables the development of multilateral cooperation projects in training and research, and participation in mobility projects, largely financed by the European Union.
Le Havre Normandie University is involved in the following Sgroup projects:
- Erasmus Mundus Battuta project coordinated by the University of Rouen Normandy for north-south and south-north mobility with Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Libya and Egypt.
- conferences on telecollaboration or online intercultural exchanges coordinated by the University of Leon in Spain.
The University of Le Havre Normandie aims to create a network of researchers in the field of renewable energies, supported by SGroup.
ELPIS
European network of 37 higher education establishments in 26 countries for cooperation and mobility in the field of law. The Law Department of the Faculty of International Affairs has initiated a large number of Erasmus partnerships with universities in the ELPIS network, coordinated by the Leibniz University of Hanover, Germany.
International programmes
The global MBA and Supply Chain Management
Four universities – Inha (Korea), Xiamen (China), Otto von Guericke (Germany) and Le Havre Normandie – are partners in an MBA (Master of Business Administration). This program, managed by the Pôle International de Management (PIM) of the Faculty of International Business in cooperation with the Service des relations internationales (SRI), is aimed at PIM students (Master 2nd year). A few places are reserved for 5th-year students from the Institut Supérieur d’Etudes Logistiques (ISEL), which joined the program two years ago. Since the program’s creation in 2008, eighty-nine students have taken part, including 26 from PIM and 6 from ISEL.
The program begins in June and comprises eight weeks of training (two weeks at each of the partner universities), including courses, company visits and cultural activities. The working language is exclusively English.
The total number of students is 20 (five from each university), selected from the best students from the four universities.
In addition to being part of an international network, the program’s aim is to contribute to the training of future managers in a context of globalized trade. In particular, the program aims to give students a better understanding of the challenges of globalization, based on issues such as intercultural management, logistics, sustainable development and corporate social responsibility. It’s also a fantastic opportunity to forge links with foreign students and companies.
This agreement with UNESCO sets out the main objectives of the cooperation programme:
- to promote an integrated system of research, training, information and documentation activities in the field of complex systems science and engineering;
- to contribute to the goals of global development, taking into account its social, economic and cultural dimensions. To this end, to make complex systems science and engineering accessible to all in order to help relations between science, engineering, politics and ethics evolve towards sustainable development;
- to contribute to very high-quality research and education in complex systems science;
- to contribute to integrated knowledge and models of complex systems in order to bridge the gap between science and engineering;
- to contribute to personalised lifelong learning in basic sciences at primary and secondary levels, aimed at laying the foundations for personalised lifelong learning in complex systems science; to contribute to personalised education in complex systems science and in integrative and predictive sciences, including the integrative and predictive science of personalised education for all, at all levels and throughout life.
- to contribute to education and training in citizen cyber-science open to all, regardless of previously attained academic levels, and respectful of the diversity of social and cultural environments, genders, religions and lifestyles.
To this end:
- to launch the Complex Systems Digital Campus (CS-DC) as an ICT system for social intelligence, designed to bring together all resources and efforts relating to education, research and applications in complex systems science;
- to launch the CS-DC roadmap at all scales in order to identify the scientific, educational and societal challenges of the CS-DC, together with its scientific cloud computing ecosystem and its educational ecosystem;
- to launch the CS-DC scientific cloud computing ecosystem in order to build integrated models of complex systems of societal interest, by sharing partial models and multi-scale data, as well as software and e-infrastructures of all kinds;
- to launch the CS-DC educational ecosystem in order to build an integrated knowledge map, create and adapt educational material, and develop personalised lifelong learning on complex systems.
To find out more:
The Complex Systems Digital Campus defines its guidelines through living continental roadmaps; it is governed by committees; its operational structures are e-laboratories, which are intended to be grouped into e-departments.
Université Le Havre Normandie is the network leader of the e-laboratory: Human-Trace CS-DC and of the e-laboratory: Integrated Logistic Systems
International agreements
Cooperation agreements
The University of Le Havre Normandie has signed international agreements for mobility and the development of cooperation in research and training.
List of international conventions (download)
Mobility programs
The Erasmus+ program
Le Havre Normandie University is committed to implementing the Erasmus+ Strategy Statement and to respecting the fundamental principles of the Erasmus+ Charter 2021-2027.
Erasmus+ strategy statement
Erasmus Charter 2021-2027 (FR)
Erasmus Charter 2021-2027 (EN)