Université Paris Lumières is an association of universities and higher education institutions (ComUE). Along with its core-members, the CNRS and the two founding Universities Paris 8 and Paris 10 it currently regroups thirteen other associates as well as eight cultural and heritage institutions and museums : the Archives nationales, the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the CEDIAS-Musée social, the Centre national d’art et de culture Georges-Pompidou, the Institut national de l’audiovisuel (Ina), the Maison des Cultures du Monde, the Musée de l’Histoire de l’immigration, the Musée du Quai Branly and the Pôle Sup’93, all of which makes the UPL stand out among local and national institutions. The UPL integrates itself into a large and important area characterized by density and diversity. This area forms an arc around the North of Paris.