page_title: Brest, France
section_title: Research and education
hierarchical_section_title: Brest, France / Research and education
caption_attribution_description: English: Building of the "Université de Bretagne Occidentale"
context_page_description: Brest is a port city in the Finistère département in Brittany. Located in a sheltered bay not far from the western tip of the peninsula, and the western extremity of metropolitan France, Brest is an important harbour and the second French military port after Toulon. The city is located on the western edge of continental Europe. With 142,722 inhabitants in a 2007 census, Brest is at the centre of Western Brittany's largest metropolitan area, ranking third behind only Nantes and Rennes in the whole of historic Brittany, and the 19th most populous city in France; moreover, Brest provides services to the one million inhabitants of Western Brittany. Although Brest is by far the largest city in Finistère, the préfecture of the department is the much smaller Quimper.
  During the Middle Ages, the history of Brest was the history of its castle. Then Richelieu made it a military harbour in 1631. Brest grew around its arsenal until the second part of the 20th century. Heavily damaged by the Allies' bombing raids during World War II, the city centre was completely rebuilt after the war.
context_section_description: Primarily the research centre of western Brittany, Brest and its surrounding area is the home of several research and elite educational establishments:
  a multidisciplinary university, Université de Bretagne Occidentale (UBO) 
  Brest has also several grandes écoles and other undergraduate or graduate schools:
  École nationale d'ingénieurs de Brest (ENIB) (in Plouzané next to Brest) 
  Télécom Bretagne (ENST Bretagne) (in Plouzané next to Brest) 
  École nationale supérieure de techniques avancées de Bretagne (ENSTA Bretagne, formerly ENSIETA) 
  Institut supérieur de l'électronique et du numérique de Brest (ISEN Brest) 
  Brest Business School (ESC Bretagne Brest) 
  École Navale (French Naval Academy) (in Lanvéoc next to Brest) 
  To be noted that Brest is one of the hosts for the Indiana University Honors Foreign Language Program
  Brest has several research organisations:
  the largest Ifremer (French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea) centre (in Plouzané next to Brest); about 1000 people work there.
  Le Cedre (Centre of Documentation, Research and Experimentation on Accidental Water Pollution)
  the French Polar Institute (in Plouzané next to Brest)
  The Naval Hydrographic and Oceanographic Service (SHOM)
caption: Université de Bretagne Occidentale (University of Western Brittany)
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