Research

The Marc Bloch University is a research centre offering a great number of Humanities fields. The university's research teams work in a large range of disciplines: from literature to sociology, from languages to arts, from archaeology to computer graphics, from theology to artistic production techniques, from philosophy to the development of man.

Each research team interacts with researchers in their field from other universities and institutions, both on a national and an international level. In the framework of Eucor, for example, several universities from the Rhine area work together on various programmes. The purpose of these teams is to accommodate doctoral students – the young researchers are trained in this way and they work together on the research programmes of the various teams. Researchers publish their articles in scientific magazines or other publications edited by Marc Bloch University. However, these activities are in no way limited to a single discipline and there is room for ample cross-disciplinary work.

Depending on the disciplines, Marc Bloch’s research teams gather information in the field. The archaeologists, for example, go on excavations in the region, but also in Greece, Egypt, Turkey, Syria, etc; and the linguists visit the countries in which the language they study is spoken. Both Marc Bloch University and the University library of Strasbourg contain considerable information resources, particularly in the fields of Religious Science and Antiquity Sciences.

Research at Marc Bloch strives to open its doors to people from outside the university framework. The university values initiatives that allow the nature of the work and the results found by the various teams to be made known beyond the university circles. Marc Bloch equally sees it as their duty to vary the research fields: they carry out studies, audits, surveys, and provide technical assistance in fields such as social intervention, human resources, urbanism, sport and educational management and languages.

The Vice-President of the Scientific Council is in charge of all research. He is responsible for the coordination, administration and follow-up of all the programmes registered on a four-year basis.