Toulouse, at the heart of technology
Known for its innovations in aeronautics, Toulouse is one of the largest cities in France with almost 500,000 inhabitants. But why do we often hear about it?
When you hear Toulouse, you asking sometimes why it is called the pink city? Let’s take a look to his history! At the time of the Romans, they settled in Toulouse and used a special brick which gave this pink colour and then over the centuries, Toulouse wanted to build buildings using the roman brick.
We forget the fact that Toulouse has a campus that exists and is mainly based on the fight against cancer, the Oncopole. This brings together health care centers, pharmaceutical industries such as Sanofi and research laboratories. Their aim is to apply techniques to find a cure for cancer. One of the techniques, “proton therapy”, consists of better targeting tumours while keeping the healthy tissue of the patients. However, this requires a very high precision!
We often innovate in Toulouse, but there is a building who’s reserved for this, the B612, the Toulouse Aerospace Innovation Centre. The name obviously refers to the emblematic book of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The little prince published in 1943. For them, it allows for the strengthening of innovations between public and private laboratories. Particularly in the field of aeronautics and space. They being financed by the European Union and being committed to the Occitanie - Midi Pyrénées Region with the ERDF (European Regional Development Fund), it tries to welcome actors of research and technological development in the field of aeronautics. After having seen the technological innovations in aeronautics, we are going to move towards a future masterpiece but also technological masterpiece