UTC sup­ports its stu­dents throu­ghout their trai­ning and helps them with their day-to-day ques­tions and problems.

Student aid services

The BUTC is open to all. In order to help you with research assi­gn­ments and inves­ti­ga­tions during your stu­dies, the Libra­ry is there with its col­lec­tions and ser­vices. To find out more or how it works, please don't hesi­tate to talk with the librarians. 

CROUS and Region

French state grants managed by the CROUS services

These state grants enable finan­cial sup­port or access to student accom­mo­da­tion, allo­ca­tions being made on the basis of social cri­te­ria for:

• Stu­dents who are French nationals
• Non-French stu­dents, either with parents who have lived in France for over 2 years or who bene­fit from poli­ti­cal asy­lum measures

The grant or accom­mo­da­tion attri­bu­tion are deci­ded (with a points-scale, upda­ted each year) as a func­tion of fami­ly or per­so­nal resources (rele­vant infor­ma­tion can be had at the CROUS office in Amiens or at the 'wel­come' desk of the local Uni­ver­si­ty Resi­dence). The deci­sions are noti­fied direct­ly to the appli­cants by the CROUS.

› Please note that if you are in final year of the engi­nee­ring course and are pre­pa­ring a Master's degree in paral­lel, you are not allo­wed to apply for the Master's grant. You can, howe­ver, be consi­de­red under French Higher Edu­ca­tion grants, like­wise based on social criteria. 

Aids offered by the Hauts-de-France Region

Picardie Pass'Études

The Picar­die 'Pass'Etudes' aid allows you to obtain a 50 to 100% reduc­tion of an SNCF rail­way sub­scrip­tion: home-UTC or home to pla­ce­ment address (pro­vi­ded the pla­ce­ment is unpaid). Rele­vant infor­ma­tion and condi­tions can be obtai­ned at any SNCF sta­tion or by cal­ling the "green-free" phone N°: 0 800 099 565.

The accommodation deposit warranty fund applies to students staying at the CROUS residences

It allow stu­dents to bene­fit from a soli­da­ri­ty war­ran­ty from the Picar­die Region should they not have been able to secure the requi­red depo­sit amount (from friends, fami­ly, Loca­pass …). Each request is asses­sed by the CROUS.

Free meals at the CROUS restaurants

If you are aged less than 30, have qua­li­fied for a level 6 or 5 grant (social index less than 2 200 points) and also have some finan­cial dif­fi­cul­ties, you can also qua­li­fy for free meals at the CROUS res­tau­rants, with a max.100 meals per aca­de­mic year. This food aid is pro­po­sed by a deci­sion of the CROUS service. 

Aids for health-related matters

If you have qua­li­fied for a grant, the Picar­die Region can also offer 90€ to off­set a com­ple­men­ta­ry health insu­rance scheme. An appli­ca­tion form can be found at http://cursusante.picardie.fr.

Conseil Régio­nal de Picar­die

Direc­tion de l'Enseignement Supé­rieur et de la Recherche

 +33 (0)3 22 97 37 31 

desr@cr-picardie.fr

Loans

Loans (on honour)

If you are a French natio­nal student (or non-French but bene­fit­ting from poli­ti­cal asy­lum), you may make an appli­ca­tion for a loan (on honour) for one aca­de­mic year. Loans can­not come in addi­tion to any other Higher Edu­ca­tion Grant and finan­cial funds for them are very limi­ted; conse­quent­ly, only a few appli­cants are selec­ted to receive the loan. The loan com­mit­tee convenes ear­ly Decem­ber each year.

The loans must contrac­tual­ly be refun­ded, at latest in the 10^th year after graduation.

Personal loans

Should you expe­rience finan­cial dif­fi­cul­ties, you can contact the social ser­vice of the Crous (see below) at phone num­bers, either +33 3 44 86 59 63 or +33 3 44 20 36 28.

Bank loans

Cer­tain banks in France can per­so­nal loans at attrac­tive inter­est rates, espe­cial­ly if you are like­ly to spend some of your student per­iod abroad. The various bank out­lets in Com­piegne have all the infor­ma­tion nee­ded for pos­sible student loan schemes.

Housing

If you are see­king accommodation/housing in/near Com­piegne, here are some pos­sible sources of infor­ma­tion and assistance. 

ALESC

ALESC is an asso­cia­tion spe­cial­ly set up to help stu­dents find accommodation. 

CROUS

In France, the regio­nal uni­ver­si­ty and school ser­vices (code-named Crous) are public offices there to help social­ly, to wel­come stu­dents from abroad, to help find student accom­mo­da­tion, mana­ging uni­ver­si­ty level res­tau­rants and stu­dents' cultu­ral time-out. They are part of a natio­nal net­work: the CNOUS.

CNOUS

This Centre (natio­nal level " Crous ") is desi­gned to help stu­dents throu­ghout their trai­ning years. The CNOUS is nota­bly present in mobi­li­ty-inten­sive cursus. 

The “Visale” mechanism (formerly known as “Clé”, i.e., caution locative étudiante or “Lokaviz” – French acronym for student rental guarantee)

The for­mer CROUS “CLÉ”, or « cau­tion loca­tive étu­diante » is now known as the Visale garantee.

This new grant mecha­nism is an alter­na­tive to the paren­tal gua­ran­tee in agree­ment with the land­lord to be put in place before the signing of the inven­to­ry of accom­mo­da­tion fix­tures. In prin­ciple, nothing changes: it is a gua­ran­tee that makes it pos­sible to reim­burse unpaid rent and set charges in the event of finan­cial dif­fi­cul­ties. After the land­lord has been paid off, the student tenant will also have to repay his or her debt to Visale irres­pec­tive of having taken out insu­rance for his/her ren­tal. Thus ‘Action Loge­ment’ assumes the res­pon­si­bi­li­ty of a gua­ran­tor for stu­dents, free of charge, for the entire dura­tion of the occu­pa­tion of the accom­mo­da­tion. For the public, the gua­ran­tee is inten­ded for young people under the age of 30. In addi­tion, young tenants are eli­gible for ‘APL’, and also for the ener­gy vou­cher to faci­li­tate and sim­pli­fy the for­ma­li­ties of moving in, such as the pro­ce­dures for ope­ning the elec­tri­ci­ty meter.

Ensemble2Générations

This is an asso­cia­tion that helps pro­vide for free accom­mo­da­tion for stu­dents and a way to break the soli­tude of senior citi­zens, who agree to live toge­ther and pro­vide inter-gene­ra­tion, mutual services.

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