The Brest Campus, where all engineering students must spend at least a year, is without a doubt one of the most attractive in Europe. Everything here is designed to make student life easier.
Postal address:
IMT Atlantique Bretagne-Pays de la Loire
Campus de Brest
Technopôle Brest-Iroise
CS 83818
29238 Brest cedex 03
France
Tél. +33 (0)2 29 00 11 11
GPS coordinates : N 48.3597° - W 04.5705°
With its feet in the ocean
The Brest Campus, where all engineering students must spend at least a year, is without a doubt one of the most attractive in Europe. Everything here is designed to make student life easier.
How to get to campus by train?
Brest can be reached by high speed train (TGV) from the Paris-Montparnasse train station (via Rennes).
There are other direct trains, from Lyon and Bordeaux, for example.
There are also coach lines:
- Ouibus, for example, has a Paris-Bercy <> Brest line and liks many other cities to Brest: Nantes, Rennes, Marseille, Toulouse etc
- Flixbus also has a Paris <> Brest line
Travel from the station to the campus
Taxis
Taxis are available in front of the station. The trip takes about 20 minutes.
Public transport
- Bus only (from Brest town centre to Brest Campus)
At the Gare SNCF (Railway Station), take bus number 1 towards Fort Montbarey until the terminus (the Fort Montbarey stop), then take bus number 13 towards Plouzané-Mairie. Get off at the Technopôle stop. - Tram and bus
If you prefer to travel by both bus and tram when coming from the Railway Station:- Go to the Place de la Liberté :
- Either on foot (if you do not have too much luggage): leave the station through the covered pedestrian walkway. At the far end, keep walking to the right along Avenue Georges Clémenceau. This will take you five minutes.
- Or by bus to the Brest Liberté stop. Take either bus number 1 towards Hôpital Cavale or bus number 4 towards Hôpital Cavale.
- Then take the tram towards Porte de Plouzané until the terminus - the Porte de Plouzané stop.
- Lastly, take bus number 13 towards Plouzané-Mairie and get off at the Technopôle stop.
- Go to the Place de la Liberté :
- From Brest Campus to Brest town centre
- At the Plouzané Technopôle stop, take bus number13 towards Fort Montbarey and get off atthe Porte de Plouzané stop.
- Take the tram towards Porte de Gouesnou-Porte de Guipavas and get off at the Liberté stop.
See www.viaoo29.fr for more information. - All you need to know on local public transport in one click (coach, bus, train, boat...).
How to get to campus by plane?
Regular flights:
There are flights to Brest Bretagne Airport from Orly Airport, Paris (eight flights every weekday) and Charles-de Gaulle Airport, Paris (three daily flights). Other direct flight destinations (which may be seasonal) include Lyon, Marseille, Nantes and Toulon.
More information is available on the Brest Bretagne Airport website.
Transport from the airport to the university campus:
A taxi ride from Brest Bretagne Airport to the university campus takes 30 to 40 minutes.
Public transport :
A shuttle bus links the airport to the end of the tram line at Porte de Guipavas. Look up shuttle bus times on the airport website. Please go to the Bibus website for tram times.
Take the tram towards "Porte de Plouzané". Get off at the "Liberté" stop if you want to go into the centre of Brest. If you are coming directly to IMT Atlantique - Brest Campus, get off at the "Fort Montbarey" stop, then take Bus number 13 and get off at the "Technopôle" stop.
For €1.50 (in May 2017) you can travel for one hour on any part of the Bibus network (shuttle, tram and bus).
Campus map and access routes
Find your way to the Brest campus
Internet access
To access Internet via the wireless network (WiFi), several possibilities exist, depending on your status:
- you have been admitted to IMT Atlantique as a student or member of staff. On arrival, you will be given a computer account giving you access to the wired network and to the WiFi network. On arrival, students or visitors in residence on the Brest or Rennes sites should contact the ResEl association which manages the residence network. On the Nantes campus, the connection is managed by the IT department. Eduroam connections are possible;
- you are a member of an institution that is a member of the EDUROAM project that provides secure internet mobility for the teaching-research community. In this case, your email account (in the form login@etablissement,) allows you to authenticate yourself, provided that you have previously configured your WiFi terminal.
- you are visiting the insitution and the person who invites you or welcomes you has created an account for you (login/password/period of validity). In this case, you have access to the PORTAIL_INVITE network (no specific configuration of the computer is necessary). In case you don't have a login, you can request a connection at the reception.
The use of any of these access facilities implies, among other things, the acceptance and respect of :
- the charter concerning the use of IT resources at IMT Atlantique
- the charter of good use of IT and the Renater network (annexed to the IMT Atlantique charter above)
Living in Brest
The Pays de Brest area is one of Brittany's top destinations. Its glorious natural landscapes and its wild coastline are among the most beautiful in France, as is its way of life.
Here, you can enjoy the simple pleasures of life: eating local seafood, having a drink on a terrace with a view, taking a trip out to sea, enjoying concerts, festivals, shows and exhibitions, but also walking along the coastal paths, and, of course, a great big breath of fresh air!
Brest - a dynamic student city
Brest has over 24,000 students for a population of 200,000 people. That's one of the highest ratios in France. With a university, nine Grandes Écoles and research centres, Brest, also known as "la Cité du Ponant", is vibrant with student life.
Connected to Europe
Brest's international airport, provides quick flights to all major European cities. At under an hour from Paris (ten flights per day), and one hour from Brussels and London, Brest is far from isolated.
There are also eight high-speed trains (TGV) to Paris per day.