On Thursday, September 10th, UGA comes alive to welcome you and answer all your questions! Whether you're taking your first steps on the Grenoble campus or you're already a seasoned student, this is THE event to kick-start YOUR academic year. Come get all the information you need, meet the services and associations that will support you throughout the year, pick up YOUR welcome gift, and most importantly… Come party!
To make sure you don't miss anything from the program or the day's highlights
Go to the Start UGA app
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The day's lineup
The Village of services, associations and partners, The Experience & The Central Facility and The Musical Stages!
Create your personalized journey
Create your own personalized itinerary to explore the hundred or so exhibitors at Le Village. The Start UGA app will guide you throughout the event.
12pm - 5pm • The Village • Associations – Services – Partners
MUSE, 80 Ampère Alley / Free Access
Come and discover
The VillageThe essential event to immerse yourself in campus life and experience the university in a new way. In one place, services, student associations, and partners come together to inform you, guide you, and open doors to all the opportunities that support you throughout your studies at UGA.
Ask your questions, interact with members of the university community, meet other students, try new activities, and explore everything the campus has to offer. Whether you're interested in international and intercultural experiences, getting involved in the ecological transition or civic life, participating in sports or cultural activities, or learning about your well-being and rights, Le Village is the ideal starting point for your university journey.
Take on the Start UGA app challenge to discover your back-to-school gift!
12pm - 7pm • UGA 360 • Activities – Campus Express – Student Stage
Between visits on a miniature train, discoveries in the laboratory, glittery challenges, escape games, discussions about the richness of the world present at UGA and sports initiations, every moment is an opportunity to explore the university differently and to let yourself be surprised.
10:30 am - 7:00 pm • Campus Express Relay • Tram Station University Libraries
10:30 am first departure - 7:00 pm last departure
The campus express bus takes you from one end of the campus to the other. It runs every 30 minutes at each stop. Hop on and off as you please, choose your stop!
12pm - 5pm • The Village Student Stage • MUSE
Give your day rhythm with a program imagined by and for students: music, theatre, choir, brass band… so many moments to make the campus vibrate, highlight student talents and share a friendly and festive time.
12pm - 5pm • The Grand Cercle district Grenoble INP – UGA • MUSE - The Village Meadow
Activities, open to all students, to increase opportunities for interaction and to continue discovering the campus in a different way.
5pm - 12:30am • Music Stages & Food Court
Student Life Area & Place du Torrent / Controlled Access
5pm - 12:30am • The Food Court
A festive and convivial end to the day, fueled by student energy and initiative. The refreshment stand, run by the Student Life Center and the IAGA association, will kick things off alongside street food offered by student associations from Grenoble INP – UGA and the Grand Cercle. Food from the Crous Grenoble Alpes will also be available in the Diderot university restaurant, while open-air café areas will invite everyone to meet up, chat, and fully enjoy the atmosphere.
5pm - 11pm • The Agora Student Stage
Early evening entertainment and activities between concerts at the Torrent Stage will be provided, with a program designed by and for students. A highlight of the evening will be a projection mapping display on the Louis Weil Amphitheater, a remarkable concrete polyhedron, which will enhance the site and offer a spectacular visual experience, created by the student association Krapuls.
7 p.m. - 12:30 a.m. • La Scène Torrent
Discover the best of the new music scene
>> 7:00 PM – SOALO / Rap
SOALO opens the main stage with a sunny and unifying musical offering, designed to launch the evening in an immediate atmosphere of sharing and energy.
>> 9:15 PM – LMZG / Electro Brass & Brass Swing
A veritable whirlwind of energy, LMZG hits the mark every time! The audience discovers a "Cotton Club" like a digital cabaret where swing samples, saxophone, trumpet, synths blend around a powerful and incendiary electro/house sound!
>> 11:05 p.m. – Bëtises / Electro
Bëtises closes the evening and this Start day with an offbeat set through colourful, deep, and explosive sounds, let yourself be guided without control, in the heart of a storm of energies.
>> 12:30 a.m. – Curfew
8pm - 9pm • The Central Experience
Central square / Free access
EXIT – Inextremist Circus
With its 3,400 m³ airship, the Inextremiste Circus takes you into an extraordinary universe.
A group of "lovable lunatics" attempt to escape a world with implacable rules. Between heaven and earth, carried by a hot air balloon, they deliver a breathtaking aerial performance.
A powerful and poetic show, on the border between art and madness, to share with your loved ones.
Invite your parents, grandparents, brothers and sisters, cousins...
9 p.m. - 12:30 a.m. • The Central Installation
Central square / Free access
True / False
What if our eyes deceived us? True / False is an immersive digital installation by artist Romain Tardy and the LDA Productions collective. The work questions our perception of truth in the age of disinformation, through an optical illusion and a light and sound installation. A sensory experience presented in partnership with Hexagone Scène nationale de Meylan.
