Jean-Claude DARDELETVice President – Toulouse MetropolisVice 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

Toulouse.

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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 SPACEEMBEDDED

SYSTEMSHEALTH 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 jobsin 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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