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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
Toulouse
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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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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, 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, 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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