Skills
To choose to develop your project in the Bordeaux region is to benefit from the synergy surrounding the existing competitiveness clusters and from the environment, facilities and services you need to grow.
- One of the 3 French universities with “Campus d’Excellence” accreditation
- Over 80,000 students in higher education
- 4,200 students in engineering schools (+70% in 10 years), 14 engineering schools
- 2 schools in the international rankings (Shanghai, Leiden…)
- 11,600 scientists in (public and private) research
- 3,000 PhD students. 700 theses presented each year
- 11 centres of excellence in specialised laboratories specific to the industrial activities of the region
- 110 research units and the presence of major national research organisations: CEA/CESTA, CNRS, INRA, INRIA, INSERM.....
Today, with over 20 projects selected for the national “Investissements d’avenir” (Investing in the Future) programme , the region boasts one of the highest success rates in the calls for projects in this nationwide programme. Themes of the projects cover all different disciplines: materials, neurosciences, the environment, archaeology, imaging, cardiology, public health, sustainable building, health and society, lasers and ICT.
The vocational and technology training system has also been developed in recent years with the creation of new diploma courses adapted directly to the needs of industry, notably in the fields of composites and wind energy, aeronautics maintenance, lasers, eco-construction and health IT.
Such is the case, for example, of the Laser training platform (PYLA) dedicated to vocational training, the only one of its kind in the whole of the south of France, or Europe’s only training centre in manufacturing over-sized composite parts: Composite Technotraining (C2T).
The pass rate in the Baccalauréat school-leaving examination is higher than the national average, especially in the vocational and technological Baccalauréats.
Today, one young person in four in vocational training at all different levels has chosen an apprenticeship: 87 vocational secondary schools with 30,000 students, 5th region in France for the number of apprentices (18,664 apprentices).
Set up in Bordeaux
News
Lasea France sets up at the Cité de la Photonique
21/01/2012 - LASEA announces the creation of its latest French subsidiary LASEA FRANCE, based in the Cité de la Photonique in Bordeaux, and is mainly (...)
SAIPOL invests in its Gironde site
20/01/2012 - French leader in oilseed crushing, a subsidiary of Sofiprotéol, the company Saipol (Société agro-industrielle de patrimoine), is going to (...)
Publications
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