Formed in October 2020, Udice is the voice of ten research-intensive French universities, working for research excellence, higher education performance and the development of attractive innovation ecosystems: Aix-Marseille Université, Sorbonne Université, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Université Côte d'Azur, Université de Bordeaux, Université de Paris Cité, Université de Strasbourg, Université Grenoble Alpes, Université Paris-Saclay, Université Paris Sciences et Lettres. Christine Clerici, former President of Université Paris Cité, was the first President.

Nathalie Drach-Temam, President of Sorbonne University, has just succeeded her: "I would like to thank Michel Deneken, President of Udice, and all its member-Presidents, for the confidence they have placed in me to continue making our universities voices heard in the French and international arena. As vice-president, I will be committed to strengthening the cross-functional relationship with our ESRI partners, in particular France Universités, in order to carry out even more expressive and lobbying actions on behalf of research-intensive universities. To do this, I want to inject a forward-looking dimension into our various think tanks, to put forward proposals that will enable us to rethink the landscape of higher education, research and innovation in a dynamic and agile way, over the long term. Because our world needs meaning and science, we need to build a global ESRI strategy together, making universities the pillars of tomorrow's major societal transformations."