Strategy & Partnerships

Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University makes international outreach one of the strategic pillars of its institutional project. The university’s international strategy is built on a large number of strong and long-standing partnerships, continuously reinforced over the years, enabling it to offer a wide range of international degrees. Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne has also developed innovative forms of international cooperation, such as the European university alliance Una Europa, as well as structural capacity-building projects focused on governance and quality in higher education.

Since 2018, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne has been actively involved in building European universities through the Una Europa alliance, which today brings together eleven leading institutions across Europe to develop joint and innovative teaching and research programmes. At the global level, the university has contributed to the creation of new French-national universities and has led several capacity-building projects aimed at developing curricula and supporting structural transformations in higher education, particularly on the African continent.

Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne also pursues a strategy to attract international students, faculty, and administrative staff. In 2025, it was awarded the highest level (three stars) of the “Bienvenue en France” certification. The university offers an international visiting professorship programme that enables more than 130 professors from around the world to visit Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne each year. These international faculty members play a key role in the university’s scientific and educational outreach by fostering global engagement among students and the academic community, and by creating opportunities to initiate or strengthen teaching and research collaborations.

Our university is also committed to advance the internationalisation of its programmes, notably by developing new courses in foreign languages and promoting student mobility in all its forms. In recent years, the university has enabled an ever-growing number of students, faculty, and administrative staff to benefit from international experiences. These mobility opportunities help raise qualification levels, improve the quality and relevance of higher education in terms of employability and impact, strengthen links between teaching, research, and the socio-economic world, and promote the sharing of best practices.