Polytech Nice Sophia

École polytechnique de l'Université Côte d'Azur (Polytech Nice Sophia or PNS) a higher education French engineering College based in the middle of the Sophia Antipolis technology park.^[1]

Polytech Nice Sophia

Ecole polytechnique de l'université Côte d'Azur
Motto	Relevons les défis de demain
Type	Public
Established	2005 (from ESINSA, ESSI & MP)
Chairman	Alexandre Caminada
Director	Philippe Lorenzini
Academic staff	75
Administrative staff	22
Students	989
Doctoral students	50
Location	Sophia Antipolis, Nice , Alpes-Maritimes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur , France
Campus	STIC
Colors	Dodger blue   Yellow green
Mascot	Broco le Dino
Website	https://polytech.univ-cotedazur.fr/

The school has 989 engineering students, 50 doctoral students, 75 faculty members, 22 administrative and technical staff and 7 research laboratories associated. More than 200 engineers graduate each year.^[2]

Polytech Nice Sophia is a member of the Polytech Group Network.

History and Location

Establishing

Polytech Nice Sophia School is created as a result of the association of the Engineering Schools of ESINSA (École Supérieure d'Ingénieurs de Nice Sophia), ESSI (École Supérieure en Sciences Informatique) and Magisterium of Pharmacology at the publication of Decree No. 2005 - 219 at the French "Journal Officiel" on March 10, 2005.^[3] Polytech Nice Sophia is the Polytechnic Engineering unit of the Côte d'Azur University.^[4]

Location

The new Sophie-Politan campus of Nice Sophia University was inaugurated in September 2012, while the project is still not finished. Polytech campus is based on two separate area :

• The "Lucioles" area (ex Magisterium of Pharmacology) grouping PeiP, ISEM and Miage.
• The "Templier" area (ex ESSI) including every students engineering promotions (Master of Advanced Studies)

Administration

The new college is a member of Polytech Group was managed by Francis Rocca until the September 1st, 2007.
Philippe Gourbesville succeeds to Roger Marlin and seat as the Director of Polytech Nice Sophia considering the agreement of the School Administrative Council (AC) on July 2, 2007. Philippe Gourbesville was re-elected on July 11, 2012, for a term of 5 more years.