Theater an eventful history that marked the academic world in the late 60s, the Paris West University Nanterre La Défense now offers its academic community a rare gem in the Paris region: a real 32 hectare campus , located close to La Defense, Europe's largest business district, and well served by public transport. Place of life and culture with its pool, its parks and its theater, the University also wants a place where advanced training vie to f international ormation, all backed research recognized worldwide and award-winning, in the most diverse fields. The university also boasts of its many partnerships, both with foreign higher education institutions, but also with French and foreign companies, attracted by the thousands of graduates from innovative and demanding training. West Paris has built in recent years an image to match the ambitions a large institution, such as the dream had been its founders.