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ince 1998, the Aquitaine region has favoured intelligence and innovation with pro-active policies taking on three challenges: research, employment in industry and equal opportunities. With 9% of its budget, it stands as the leading region in France for the financing of research, post-graduate studies and technology transfer.
This dynamics is certainly partly responsible for the “Towards a New University Model” project to have made it in the final 10 in the national Campus operation.
In 2007, the structuring of universities and research led to the setting up of a Research and Post-graduate Studies Pole, the “University of Bordeaux PRES”, thanks to the combined efforts of its eight founding members, four Bordeaux universities and four engineering schools.
It is precisely by encouraging a campus spirit that the University of Bordeaux aims to strengthen its position in Aquitaine, to develop interactions between Sciences and Society, and finally to increase its exposure both nationally and internationally.
A dynamic regional policy and the reorganisation of research in specialised sectors and centres of excellence have turned Aquitaine into an attractive location for scientific and technological development, as the arrivals of both INRIA and Sup Optique on the Bordeaux Campus bear witness.
These portraits illustrate the wealth and diversity of scientific projects developed in our region and reveal the unending creativity of these devoted researchers, all leaders in their field. Alain Rousset, president of the Regional Council