Internationally recognised in the field of Information and Communication Science and Technology, Loria has close links with many French and foreign laboratories. Loria, the Lorraine Laboratory for Research in Informatics and its Applications, is a joint research unit (UMR 7503) shared between several institutions: CNRS, the University of Lorraine and Inria. Loria’s mission since its creation in 1997 has been to conduct fundamental and applied research in computer science. Loria is a member of the Charles Hermite Federation, which brings together the three main research laboratories in mathematics and ICST (information and communication science and technology) in Lorraine. The laboratory is part of the AM2I (Automation, Mathematics, Informatics and their Interactions) science cluster at the University of Lorraine. Scientific work is carried out in 28 teams across five departments, 15 of which are shared with Inria, representing a total of more than 400 people. Loria is one of the largest laboratories in the Lorraine region.