University of Bretagne Occidentale

The ‘Laboratoire de Chimie, Electrochimie Moléculaires et Chimie Analytique, UMR CNRS 6521 – UBO, CEMCA’ (‘Molecular Chemistry, Electrochemistry and Analytical Chemistry’ Laboratory) is a joint, CNRS and University of Brest, research laboratory. It is located in Brest at the Faculty of Science and Technology. This laboratory was created in the early eighties (1981) by the fusion into a single research unit of four teams having expertises in organic, inorganic, physical and analytical chemistry. That is the sole research laboratory in chemistry of the University of Brest.

Since the creation of the team in 1982 by the founders of the institute, its researchers have been interested not only in the practices of space transformation but also in the doctrines, paradigms, ideas and theories on which they are based. This orientation has led us to build tools for observation, analysis and evaluation, but also to examine theories, discourses and representations.

From the school institution to actual classroom teaching practices, from the training of trainers in the use of technologies for education from didactics at school at several levels, to informal learning modalities in popular education, the fields of research as well as the theoretical and methodological frameworks mobilized cover many of the approaches deployed in Educational Sciences.

LEGO is a university research laboratory supported by two universities (Université de Bretagne Occidentale and Université de Bretagne Sud) and an engineering school (Institut des Mines Telecom Atlantique).

It focuses mainly on the study and analysis of exchanges between socio-economic actors. Researchers rely on multidisciplinary skills from Economics, Management and Management Sciences.

The HCTI laboratory, Heritage & Creation in Text & Image (UR 4249), is an interdisciplinary research unit. It consists of a team of fifty-six permanent members in Brest and Lorient, around forty doctoral students and fifty associates, researchers in the fields of Arts, Literature and Languages, who explore the modalities of heritage and creation in textual, digital, iconographic and filmic corpora, from Antiquity to the present day.

Born from the complementarity between the field of health and the communication sciences, the LaTIM ("laboratoire de traitement de l’information médicale" for laboratory of medical information processing) develops a multidisciplinary research driven by members from University of Western Brittany, IMT Atlantique, INSERM and Brest CHRU (university hospitals).

The project of INSERM Unit 1078 is to enable a better understanding of the genetic and pathophysiological bases of some human genetic diseases, for example cystic fibrosis, hemochromatosis, hereditary chronic pancreatitis or some mitochondrial pathologies.

The ambition of our research project from gene to patient is to decipher the relationship between the structure of the genes and their function and between genotype and phenotype. To carry out these projects, Unit 1078 relies on:

BEEP is a Joint Research Unit of CNRS, Ifremer and UBO. Located in front of the Brest gully on the exceptional site of the Brest-Iroise Technopole, its resources are spread over two adjacent campuses: the Ifremer Center in Brest and the European University Institute for the Sea (UBO sea component). The premises belong to UBO and Ifremer.

The Centre de recherche bretonne et celtique (CRBC) is a multidisciplinary research laboratory whose 43 members (historians, linguists, Anglicists and Celticists, enthnologists, sociologists...) explore topics and areas of research within Breton and Celtic cultural domains. They also lead individual or collective research in other fields, across Europe, the Atlantic and beyond.

The LGO is a multi-approach geoscience laboratory covering geophysics, geochemistry, tectonics, sedimentology and paleontology. Our research involves observing, measuring and modeling processes. We carry out methodological and instrumental developments applied to the exploration of the oceans, from telluric coats to the superficial envelopes of coastal and offshore areas.