François Garnier, Bishop of Luçon, became the institutional head of the establishment with the responsibility of maintaining its ecclesiastical membership.
ICES has a main building, designed by the French architect Denis Laming, that was built between 1990 and 1994.
[4] A student residence was established in the abandoned convent of the Sisters of the Christian Schools of Mercy in 2000.
In May 2019, students from the university were part of a group of young people who carried out an attack on a Vendee LGBT Centre stand in La Roche-sur-Yonon on the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia.
[5] The university's president Eric de Labarre condemned the attack: "We are poisoned by this minority [which is] radicalized, very politicized".