Agence pour la Promotion Internationnale de Lille Metropole

 

• 150,000 students in 3 public universities, 1 Catholic Institute and 18 top-ranking 'Grandes Ecoles' (management, engineering, journalism)
• More than 3000 teachers-researchers
• 250 laboratories integrated within European networks of excellence
• Presence of major national research institutions such as : INRIA, CNRS,
  Pasteur Institute of Lille, INRA, INRETS, INSERM…

RESEARCH AND INNOVATION AT THE HEART OF FIVE CLUSTERS

 

• I-TRANS : the railway industry at the heart of innovative transport systems
• UP-TEX : the High Performance Textile Pole in Nord-Pas de Calais
• Nutrition / Santé / Longévité (Nutrition, Health, Longevity) : its primary objective is to make Nord-Pas de Calais Europe's leading region for innovative territories in Nutrition & Health
• MAUD : M atériel A U sage D omestique (Equipment for Domestic Use) : chemistry and performance materials for nutrition and tableware.
• Industries du commerce (Trade Industries) : Lille is France's 1 ^st distribution area. This Pole invents and experiments the trade of the future.

 

TWO MAIN RESEARCH TOPICS AT LILLE METROPOLE

 

Biology - Health
- Pharmaceutical development
- Blood products and their derivatives
- Biomedical engineering
- 'STIC-santé' (Health-ICTSs) database
- 'Genopole'
- 'Canceropole'
- Predictive medicine and Therapeutic Research Institute

 

Information and Communication Technologies & Sciences (ICTSs)
- Micro-electronics and nanotechnologies
- IT, communication and multimedia
- Broadband telecommunications and networks