Lille Métropole
A metropolis with a dynamic economy
A TOP-QUALITY HIGHER EDUCATION
The Lille school district ranks 2nd in France with over 100,000 students.
Top-ranking schools called 'Grandes écoles' (Centrale Lille, Science Po Lille…) and major Business Schools (EDHEC, ESC Lille, IESEG…) are well represented.
Unparalleled and specialist training schemes are offered by TELECOM Lille 1 (Engineering School for Telecommunications), by ISEN (Nord Higher Institute of Electronics), by IAE Lille (Company Management Institute with its Master's degree in direct marketing), by ESJ (Higher School of Journalism), at the Fresnoy National Studio…
The metropolitan area also houses international schools (EABJM), a bilingual / trilingual school and a Japanese school.
RENOWNED HERITAGE AND CULTURE
The enormous success Lille achieved as European City of Culture in 2004, with 9 million visitors, led the city to organise every two years a new cultural event of international standing, called Lille3000. In 2006, Lille3000 chose India as its theme and this event attracted about 1 million participants. The 2008 event will be dedicated to Eastern Europe.
www.lille3000.com
Lille Metropole is also home to:
- 20 museums, of which 6 heritage-listed, such as the Lille Fine Arts Museum (1st museum of France except Paris), the Lille Metropole Contemporary Art Museum (4th museum in France in 2005, according to Le Journal des Arts), or 'La Piscine' – the Art and Industry Museum of Roubaix
www.lilletourisme.com - Heritage-listed monuments such as Hospice Comtesse, the Vauban citadel, the Vieille Bourse, the Hospice d’Havré, etc.
www.lilletourisme.com - The ONL (Lille National Orchestra), that has become one of the most prestigious orchestras in the world and a real ambassador of both the Lille area and the French culture on 4 continents and almost 30 countries
www.onlille.com - Some twenty festivals each year, of which the Tourcoing Jazz Festival
www.tourcoing-jazz-festival.com - Mosaïc, a 'garden of cultures' located in Houplin-Ancoisne that enables visitors to discover the great diversity of the region's inhabitants
www.enm-lille.fr - The Braderie de Lille, which attracts every year more than 2 million people during the first week-end of September
www.mairie-lille.fr
www.lillemetropole.fr
You may also visit the following sites:
www.grand-lille.cci.fr
www.lilletourism.com/agenda-lille.htm
