IEA

The Institute for Advanced Studies wishes to provide to the invited residents a high quality of services in terms of hosting and surrounding environment in order to enable them focusing on their research project. The headquarters of Nantes Institute for Advanced Studies are located down town, at a distance of 200 meters from the TGV station where trains reach Paris in two hours. These headquarters will group together the Institute for Advanced Studies and the Ange Guépin House of Humanities allowing thus invited researchers to establish fluid contacts with the academic community of Nantes.

The specific space allocated to the Institute for Advanced Studies includes 22 equipped offices for researchers, the offices of the management team, as well as a lobby-restaurant with a covered roof, and an open garden over the Loire river. Common space with Ange Guépin House of Humanities includes the documentation resource center, a lecture hall with a capacity of 100 seats, meeting rooms, information technology offices and a cafeteria.

The Institute for Advanced Studies also has at its disposal some twenty flats  (ranging from studios to 4 rooms) totally furnished and equipped. These flats will be at the disposal of the Institute’s fellows according to the length of their stay and the size of their family. This place of residency, adjacent to the research space, includes a living room, a common kitchen, and a laundry room.

Fellows gather thurdays for the weekly seminars.