So Toulouse

1. Jean-Claude DARDELET
Vice President – Toulouse Metropolis
Vice President – Cité de l’Espace

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SUMMARY
 TOULOUSE, CAPITAL OF A NEW ATTRACTIVE REGION
 TOULOUSE, YOUR GATEWAY TO AN OUTSTANDING LAND
 TOULOUSE, LAND OF INNOVATION / SCIENCE CITY
 TOULOUSE, FRIENDLY AND ATTRACTIVE CITY

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TOULOUSE, CAPITAL OF A NEW ATTRACTIVE REGION
TOULOUSE CAPITAL
 Capital of the 2nd French largest Region
 Similar to Ireland, Austria and the Benelux
 Twice the size of the Netherlands, Switzerland and
Belgium
 5th most populated region
 6 000 000 inhabitants .
 + 50 000 inhabitants pa
 Cultural heritage
 8 UNESCO world heritage sites
 Nature : 2 national parks, 1 marine park and 6
regional natural parks
 Sea access : 215 km of coastline
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TOULOUSE, YOUR GATEWAY TO AN OUTSTANDING LAND OF OPPORTUNITIES

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AN UNRIVALED LEADERSHIP - KEY FIGURES
 4th largest French metropolis
 1,2 million inhabitants in the urban area
 First in Research Investments
 3,6% of GDP (€5bio/year)
 First in Public Investments
 €4 billion from 2014 to 2020
 Supporting 3 new economic hubs, new exhibition
park, 3rd metro line, etc.
 First in economic growth (GDP)
 CAGR over the last 10 years : 2,9%
 First in demographic growth
 +20,000 pa
 First in private jobs creation
 Most attractive for students and investors
 Most attractive for real-estate investors

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TOULOUSE, GATEWAY TO EUROPE AND BEYOND
 International airport: 7,6 million pax
 Close to City and economic hubs
 Tramway connections
 > 100 daily flights, 40 daily to Paris
 1 Railway station: 8,8 million pax
 4 million individual journeys daily
 500 000 more in the last 10 years
 500 000 more forecasted in the 10 years
to come
 Toulouse is the first National Public investor
in transports (beside Paris)

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TOULOUSE, LAND OF INNOVATION / SCIENCE CITY
The Birth Place of Civil Aviation

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GLOBAL INDUSTRY LEADERS
AERONAUTICS SPACE
EMBEDDED
SYSTEMS
HEALTH DIGITAL

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WORLD CAPITAL OF AERONAUTICS
85,000 jobs in 600
companies
25% of the French
aeronautics and
space research
130 aeronautics
degrees
600 planes per year
delivered from
Toulouse
Design Final assembly Flight test
Two main aeronautics areas :
 Aéroconstellation: the largest aerospace
manufacturing site in Europe (e.g. A380 &
350 assembly lines)
 Montaudran: aerospace research campus
Airbus Group
Headquarters
22,000 employees
KEY MANUFACTURING STEPS

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EUROPEAN CAPITAL OF SPACE
25% of European
workforce
12,000 jobs
in 400 companies
French National Space
Agency
Satellites design &
manufacturing :
10,000m² of clean
rooms
Exploration of Mars,
International Space
Station, Rosetta ,
Galileo…
Capital of the European
 Satellite imagery
 Meteorology
 Oceanography
 Telecommunication
 Satellite Navigation

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3) CLOSE MARKETS & NEW TECHNOLOGIES
FRENCH TECH CITY
38,000 jobs in the IT field
15 public and private business accelerators
3,000 companies in the ICT sector
100,000 sqm² for digital start-ups
Internet of things
Big Data
Fin Tech
Big groups
Internet
Incubators

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MAJOR INVESTMENTS IN PROGRESS
Oncopole
Montaudran Aerospace
Toulouse Euro Sud Ouest
PEx Exhibition Park
MONTAUDRAN
AEROSPACE
ONCOPOLE
TOULOUSE EURO
SUD OUEST
EXHIBITION PARK

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3) CLOSE MARKETS & NEW TECHNOLOGIES
ONCOPOLE CANCER CAMPUS
Bio park + Compounds
Library
Regenerative medecine
Biotech Incubator
Cancer research instituteDrug discovery
Pharma industry
Cancer hospital
 540 acres (220 hectares)
 1,2 billion euros public and private investment
 300.000 sqm real estate capacities

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WORLD CLASS EDUCATION AND RESEARCH
 Jean Tirole, Nobel price in Economics
 + 22 000 researchers
 120 000 students
 15 000 foreign students (15%)
 1500 agreements in 110 countries
 Most renowned Engineers Schools in
Aeronautics and Space
 European city of Science in 2018

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TOULOUSE, FRIENDLY AND ATTRACTIVE CITY

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TOULOUSE, THE ART OF LIVING
 Second largest city center in France after
Paris
 The world-largest open air Mall
 Best sports infrastructure in France, 760
kilometers of cycle lanes
 Most favored French student city
(L’Etudiant, 2015)
 1 600 shops & >1000 restaurants
 100 festivals – 25 auditoriums – 40
cinemas – 18 theatres.
 More than 2000 hours of sun yearly
 1000 hectares of parks

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TOULOUSE, CULTURE AND HERITAGE
 2 000 years of history
 UNESCO: 3 world heritage sites:
 Canal du Midi: Atlantic
Ocean/Mediterranean Sea
 Basilica Saint-Sernin: biggest roman
church in Europe
 l’Hôtel-Dieu Saint-Jacques
 51 classified historic monuments
 + 100 annual international festivals
 Asian festivals
 Carnival of Toulouse
 Rio Loco Festival
© Gilles Martin

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TOULOUSE, MAJOR TOURIST DESTINATION
TOULOUSE, A TOURIST CITY
 5 million annual visitors
 70/30% business/leisure tourism
 45% international guests
 200 hotels, 14 500 rooms
 2,5 million annual overnight stays
MOST POPULAR SITES
Number of visitors per year:
 + 300 000 Cité de l’Espace
 + 250 000 Museum de Toulouse
 + 230 000 Basilica Saint-Sernin
 + 220 000 Aeroscopia

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TOULOUSE, YOUR HOST CITY
A CONGRESS CITY
 59th in the European ICCA (International congress
and conventions association) ranking
 1 exhibition center – 40,000m2 – 8 halls
 2 congress centers
 A major investment: Exhibition Park scheduled for
2018
MAJOR UPCOMING EVENTS
 FabLab Festival 2016
 EmTech France 2016
 ESOF (Euroscience Open Forum) 2018 –
European sciences meeting
 IPS (International Planetarium Society) 2018 -
Global astronauts congress
 Presidency of the Ariane Cities Community

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GREAT LOCATIONS NEARBY
 Montauban: « Ville d’Arts & d’Histoire »,
4th most beautiful square in France 2016
 Albi: Sainte-Cécile Cathedral - Museum
Toulouse-Lautrec - UNESCO World
Heritage
 Carcassonne: Medieval UNESCO world
heritage village
 The Pyrenees
 Mediterranean sea and the Atlantic ocean

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outings and tours! Toulouse, a
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has some wonderful surprises for
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