Le Mans University was founded in 1977 and now offers to its 10,000 students a multidisciplinary range of programs from general-interest courses to technological and professional ones, falling under 4 domains : Law, Economics, Management - Liberal Arts, Humanities, Languages - Social Studies - Science, Technology. Le Mans University is a welcoming home university providing top quality support and monitoring to the students who attend courses on the 35-hectare green campus site on the outskirts of Le Mans (150,000 inhabitants). Le Mans University is made up by six schools located on two different sites. Le Mans University has displayed a consistent commitment in research aiming to build and develop laboratories of excellence, especially in science, economics and humanities. 7 research teams are affiliated to the French CNRS.

Role in the project.

UM became an autonomous public university from Januray 1st, 2011. In this framework it needs to plan in order to achieve this new status the development of an integrated information system devoted to all main administrative, financial, research and pedagogical resources. A full administrative service was created for this new way of university management on the base of information. In this framework UM would be able to transfer competencies and to share experience with NIS countries. UM's experience would be helpful in discussion and approval of the concept of university information management and organization of retraining courses for the selected participants.