The ISARA-ISEMA campus in Avignon, located in the heart of the Agroparc Technology Park, offers an attractive study environment combining academic excellence, innovation, and quality of student life. Designed as a place for personal development, it offers a dynamic and engaged student life, supported by the ISARA and ISEMA Student Union (BDE). Throughout the year, students enjoy a varied program combining student events, parties, ski trips, cultural outings, and solidarity initiatives such as Octobre Rose or local participatory initiatives.
Committed to the challenges of ecological transition and sustainable development, our Avignon campus values learning through action. The Vegetali’s club allows students interested in organic farming and responsible practices to get involved in the management of a vegetable garden and a composter. These projects reinforce practical skills and embody the values of sustainability at the heart of ISARA’s training programs.
Our Avignon campus welcomes nearly 250 students in modern, bright, and open spaces, within a 400-hectare environment dedicated to business, research, and training. This center of excellence promotes exchanges between students, researchers, entrepreneurs, start-ups, and professionals, and stimulates innovation and entrepreneurship around the themes of naturality, agroecology, and sustainable food systems.
Campus infrastructure Housed in a bright building, we have an amphitheater that can accommodate up to 100 people for presentations, professional conferences, business events, laboratories, living spaces, comfortable classrooms, and sports fields.
Outdoor spaces The Campus has a large parking lot, a secure bike storage area, a picnic area with trees and a vegetable garden, weight training equipment, and volleyball and pétanque courts.
Living spaces Les espaces de travail sont conçus pour être flexibles et polyvalents. Que l’on souhaite collaborer en groupe ou s’isoler pour se concentrer, de nombreuses configurations sont possibles. Un foyer étudiant permet également de se détendre en jouant au baby foot ou au ping pong.
Student life Student life on campus is punctuated by numerous events and activities offered by its clubs and associations:
Laboratories A practical training room designed entirely by modern teaching teams is available for microbiology and agri-food courses.
Sensory analysis room We have a sensory analysis room equipped with individual booths, allowing students to experience real-life conditions, whether for tastings as part of the Vine and Wine course, for practical exercises in sensory analysis classes in agri-food, or to test products made during group projects.
Technical partners – Practical work Networking between schools and businesses promotes fruitful collaboration on practical work in agri-food, agroecology, and automation. Our partners include Pétrarque high schools, INRAE, Innov’Alliance, and CTCPA.
INRAE: We work with the INRAE teams in Avignon to carry out practical work in physical chemistry at their premises, enabling us to analyze the impact of food processes on food.
We use the CTCPA’s technology hall to carry out our practical work in agri-food. With its pilot facilities, it places students in a professional situation.
We use the Terra Senso culinary platform to place students in agri-food R&D situations.
Our student associations and clubs For INRAE: “We are working with the INRAE teams in Avignon to carry out practical work in physical chemistry at their premises, enabling us to analyze the impact of food processing on food.”
Capital of Vaucluse and Côtes-du-Rhône wines, Avignon charms visitors with its stimulating and inspiring lifestyle. Here, history is part of everyday life, with remarkable heritage, a rich culture, nature at your fingertips, and the Provençal art of living.
Add to this a generous gastronomy and a dynamic arts scene, and you have a city where studying goes hand in hand with discoveries, encounters, and memorable experiences.
Listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site and visited by around 600,000 people each year, the historic center of Avignon offers a unique atmosphere.
Around the Palais des Papes, narrow streets and squares buzz with the rhythm of intense urban life, where students, artists, entrepreneurs, tourists, and festival-goers rub shoulders. Renowned for its medieval heritage as well as its International Theater Festival, which enlivens the city every summer, Avignon’s influence extends far beyond its ramparts.
Just a few minutes away, Provençal villages, vineyards, markets, typical landscapes, and local flavors extend the experience and attract visitors throughout the year.
The school is accessible:
By train
By bus
Map and timetables on Orizo
By road
You can easily find the campus by typing “ISARA – Campus Avignon” into your Waze or Google Maps app.
Taxi
On site, there is a dedicated lunch area with tables, refrigerators, microwaves, drink and snack vending machines, and more.
Food trucks take turns throughout the week.
Students can also take advantage of special rates at the CROUS restaurant, which is less than a 6-minute drive from campus.
In accordance with regulations, ISARA is committed to being accessible to all types of disabilities, allowing everyone, without distinction, to access, move around, and receive the information provided.
The Campus has facilities that comply with this commitment (reserved parking spaces, level entrance, horizontal and vertical interior circulation allowing wheelchair access, adapted toilets, adapted furniture, and compliant lighting, etc.).
In addition, the Campus team includes a disability advisor whose mission is to support and guide students with disabilities throughout their training.
Disability advisor: Frédérique ABREAL.
