Research Center

INRIA is a French national research institution focusing on computer science, control theory and applied mathematics. It has 8 research centers located in Sophia Antipolis, Bordeaux, Grenoble, Lille, Nancy, Paris, Rennes, and Saclay.
INRIA's internship programme allows foreign students from partner institutions to work for several months within an INRIA project team, providing them with financial support for their living expenses in France.

This type of internship has as goal to help students acquire work experience relevant to their subject of study. Under these terms, the student can be supported by an Erasmus-Placement funding. Detailed information can be found in the following link: http://www.interel.uoa.gr/erasmus/sp/pm.html


Sophia Antipolis 
The research teams in Sophia Antipolis focus on “Applied Mathematics, Computation and Simulation”, “Algorithmic, Programming, Software and Architecture”, “Networks, Systems and Services, Distributed Computing”, “Perception, Cognition, Interaction”, and “Computational Sciences for Biology, Medicine and the Environment”.

People that want to reach the research center in Sophia Antipolis can find valuable information here. In general, the bus 230 is available from the airport or Nice-Ville and operates from Monday through Friday. It has regular connections from Nice-Aéroport to Sophia Antipolis and the trip is approximately 40 minutes. From within the metropolitan Sophia Antipolis, INRIA can be reached using the buses of the public transport network called Envibus. Bus lines that stop near INRIA are the ones with numbers 11, 22, and 100 and the bus stops are called “inria” and “templiers”. Bus schedules for Valbonne -  Sophia Antipolis can be found here. Passengers can use a ticket that will be valid for an hour and will cost 1 € or a monthly pass at a cost of 12 € for passengers under 26 years old or 22 € otherwise.