Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne was created in 1548, thanks to the Cardinal de Lorraine who made the papacy turn it into one of the main cathedral schools in Europe in the Middle Ages. It was closed down in 1793 and was reborn in the 1960s as a multidisciplinary university. With 22,000 students, 1,557 teachers and teacher-researchers it holds/has a geostrategic position favouring European and international exchanges; 350 such co-operations with 38 countries are currently active. The laboratory CIRLEP "Centre interdisciplinaire de recherches sur les langues et la pensée" develops three research axes, including one on “Intercompréhension et didactique du plurilinguisme”.