title: Community of universities and higher education institutions of Aquitaine
text: # Community of universities and higher education institutions of Aquitaine
  
  The community of universities and higher education institutions of Aquitaine (CUEA, French: Communauté d'universités et établissements d'Aquitaine) is an association of universities and higher education institutions (ComUE) for higher education institutions in the Aquitaine region of France, including the city of Bordeaux.
  
  ## History
  
  Groupings of higher education institutions in the Bordeaux area date back at least to 1997 with the creation of a "pôle universitaire de Bordeaux". In 2007 under the auspices of a 2006 law creating Pôle de recherche et d'enseignement supérieur the PRES Université de Bordeaux was organized, grouping the 4 Bordeaux universities and several technical schools under one coordinating association.
  
  With the 2013 Law on Higher Education and Research (France) discontinuing PRES and establishing a new associative form in the association of universities and higher education institutions (ComUE), the 2007 Université de Bordeaux was replaced by CUEA (which formally began 11 March 2015). Meanwhile, on 1 January 2014, a new University of Bordeaux had been organized by merging again three of the Bordeaux universities.
  
  ## Members
  
  The founding members of the CUEA are:
  
  * University of Bordeaux,
  * Bordeaux Montaigne University
  * University of Pau and Pays de l'Adour
  * Bordeaux INP
  * Institut d'études politiques de Bordeaux
  * Bordeaux Sciences Agro
  
  Associate members are:
  
  * Centre hospitalier universitaire de Bordeaux,
  * Institut Bergonié (Centre régional de lutte contre le cancer),
  * CROUS de Bordeaux Aquitaine,
  * Centre national de la recherche scientifique,
  * École nationale supérieure d'architecture et de paysage de Bordeaux,
  * KEDGE Business School,
  * École supérieure des technologies industrielles avancées (ESTIA),
  * École nationale de la magistrature,
  * École nationale supérieure d'arts et métiers - centre de Bordeaux (ENSAM),
  * École des beaux-arts de Bordeaux.
  