Newsletter > Letter n°3

Midi-Pyrénées Regional council, a very prestigious place, will welcome NBE for this next edition...Time to focus one of our main partner...

Source of personal development, citizenship, economic performance and territories emergence: knowledge is at the crossroads of vital issues, both for individuals and for society at large. Today, higher education, research and technology transfer are the subject of a global competition. Emerging countries, in Asia to start with, are investing heavily in this field. To face this race to excellence, the European Union has made of a “smart growth” the priority of its “Europe 2020” strategy.

In Midi-Pyrénées, we have assets, both with training and research facilities and at the industrial level. Our region multiplies initiatives to develop this potential, including the adoption of a regional scheme of higher education and research. A unique initiative in France by its ambition and its unifying dimension.

To embody this goal, every university has agreed to develop a local contract that includes shared objectives and mobilized resources to ensure students success and high-quality lessons and research. Another initiative: the establishment of a regional innovation strategy able to bring together all stakeholders in this field. Objective: to spread the culture of innovation and to promote Midi-Pyrénées as one of the most advanced Regions of Europe. Today, it is more necessary than ever to make our universities, our laboratories and our businesses well-known. It is the path on which we have chosen work on. The massive national investments called "French stimulus initiative" will also contribute to do so. Ultimately, our goal is to build a federative university for Toulouse and Midi-Pyrénées, a university recognized at the national and international level.

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