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njoying a leading economic position in Europe with more than 500,000 firms, 29 Fortune Global 500 company headquarters, and 150,000 researchers, Paris Region, also called in France “Region EÎle-de-France” ranks among the most competitive regions for research and development, innovation, and entrepreneurship.

This exceptional R&D potential goes hand in hand with a remarkable higher education system, praised for its quality and opening. Seventeen universities among the most prestigious in the world, like the Sorbonne, along with more than 300 engineering, health, management, architecture, and art schools in Ile-de- Valérie PÉCRESSE France offer a internationally renowned education, President providing each and everyone with the best adapted of the Ile-de-France Region training curriculum. With one student out of four being trained in Paris Region, university life also benefits from a rich and effusive offer in terms of culture and entertainment.

Paris Region also stands on the highest step of the podium of the most visited destinations worldwide. Each year, 49 million tourists stay in the region to enjoy its exceptional concentration of cultural and architectural treasures, with four of them being listed as UNESCO World Heritage: the Banks of the Seine, the castle of Fontainebleau, the castle of Versailles, and the medieval city of Provins…

Paris Region relies on high-quality infrastructures, whether it be care facilities, educational institutions, or cultural equipments. Already among the vastest in the world, the public transport network shall be completed by 2030 with 205km of new subway lines – that is the size of the current network of the RATP – and 72 new stations.

“ Everything is done to welcome you, to allow you to fulfill your hopes, achieve your goals, and live well! ” 04 > 05 PARIS REGION Oise KEY FIGURES Eure 6 million jobs ise ’O VALD’OISE L salaried and Pontoise non-salaried Cergy Sarcelles Aisne Mantes- la-Jolie e Argenteuil Meaux La Sein St-Denis 640,000 Bobigny Nanterre La Marne St-Germain-en-Laye Le Raincy students

Boulogne-Billancourt TorcyTorcy Nogent-sur-Marne 1 024 000 L’Haÿ-les-Roses Créteil companies Versailles Antony 1,048,000 sites Office space SEINEETMARNE Marne 2 YVELINES Palaiseau 142,000 companies creations 52,6 million m

Rambouillet Evry GDP e €642B rg Provins Eure- ’O L GDP per capita: et-Loir ESSONNE €53,617 Melun Aube PARIS Étampes La Seine 155,000 JOBS HAUTSDESEINE Fontainebleau SEINESAINTDENIS g 1st R&D european oin VALDEMARNE L concentration Le KM Air traffic Yonne 96 million THE PARIS REGION Loiret passengers TERRITORY MILLION INHABITANTS 19 million 18% passengers Urban Wooded areas, Agricultural 7 high-speed Water space natural world space of the French train stations 1% population 21% 28% 2% 50% 49 MILLION TOURISTS of the surface of the French territory The world’s leading tourist destination

PARIS REGION IC I L A RÉG ION L’ESSENTIEL | PARIS REGION Oise KEY FIGURES Eure 6 million jobs ise ’O VALD’OISE L salaried and Pontoise non-salaried Cergy Sarcelles Aisne Mantes- la-Jolie e Argenteuil Meaux La Sein St-Denis 640,000 Bobigny Nanterre La Marne St-Germain-en-Laye Le Raincy students

PARISIC I L REGIONA RÉG ION L’ESSENTIEL | 06 > 07 HOW DOES THE REGIONAL ASSEMBLY THE ILE-DE-FRANCE Meets in plenary session and standing committee about once a month. REGIONAL COUNCIL Votes the major decisions engaging the ﬁnancial future of the Region. CD UDI WORK? 13 elected 26 elected RCDE members members The Regional Council consists of an executive The Gathering LRI elected board, a regional assembly, and an administration 11 elected 81 members members implementing the decisions made. AES 21 elected THE EXECUTIVE BOARD members Prepares and executes the regional assembly’s deliberations, and manages the regional administration E-IDF 25 elected members

FN elected FdG 12 President members 1Valérie Pécresse 9 elected members 209 NA 11 elected member

FdG : Group Front de Gauche, French Communist Party, E-IDF : Together - Ile-de-France vice-presidents AES : Social and Environnementalist Alternative Group Marie-Carole Ciuntu 8 Vice-president for Highschools RCDE - The Gathering : Group Radical Citoyen Démocrate and in charge of the General Administration Écologiste and related Agnès Evren EELVA : Group Europe Écologie Les Verts and related Vice-president for Culture, Heritage and Creation Stéphanie Von Euw CD : Group of the Centre and Democrats Vice-president for European Affairs Faten Hidri UDI : Group Union des Démocrates et Indépendants Vice-president for Higher Education and Research LRI : Group Les Républicains and Indépendants Farida Adlani Vice-president for Social Action, Health and Family FN : Group FN – IDF Bleu Marine Alexandra Dublanche Vice-president for Economic Development, NA : Non-attached Agriculture and Rurality Béatrice de Lavalette Vice-president for Social Dialogue Hamida Rezeg Vice-president for Tourism THE REGIONAL ADMINISTRATION Implements and enforce the decisions taken by the Assembly and Executive board

Jérômevice-presidents Chartier 7 Vice-president for Institutional Strategy and International Relationships Stéphane Salini 1,800 8,500 Vice-president for Finance and Evaluation of public policies administrative officers in the colleges Stéphane Beaudet Vice-president for Transport and Sustainable Mobility Georoy Didier Vice-president for A ractiveness, Housing and Urban Renovation The regional ombudsman, a new function created in April 2013 Patrick Karam Vice-president for Sports, Leisures, Youth, Citizenship and Community Life An alternative, amicable, and free means of resolution for disputes Frédéric Péchenard Vice-president for Security and Victim Support between the regional services and the citizens. Jean-Philippe Dugoin-Clément Vice-president for Ecology and Sustainable Development HOW DOES THE REGIONAL ASSEMBLY THE ILE-DE-FRANCE Meets in plenary session and standing committee about once a month. REGIONAL COUNCIL Votes the major decisions engaging the ﬁnancial future of the Region. CD UDI WORK? 13 elected 26 elected RCDE members members The Regional Council consists of an executive The Gathering LRI board, a regional assembly, and an administration 11 elected 81 elected members members implementing the decisions made. AES 21 elected THE EXECUTIVE BOARD members Prepares and executes the regional assembly’s deliberations, and manages the regional administration E-IDF 25 elected members R -IDF N elected FdG 12 President members 1Valérie Pécresse 9 elected members 209 NA 11 elected member

FdG : Group Front de Gauche, French Communist Party, E-IDF : Together - Ile-de-France vice-presidents AES : Social and Environnementalist Alternative Group Marie-Carole Ciuntu 8 Vice-president for Highschools RCDE - The Gathering : Group Radical Citoyen Démocrate Écologiste and in charge of the General Administration and related Agnès Evren CD : Group of the Centre and Democrats Vice-president for Culture, Heritage and Creation Stéphanie Von Euw UDI : Group Union des Démocrates et Indépendants Vice-president for European Affairs Faten Hidri LRI : Group Les Républicains and Indépendants Vice-president for Higher Education and Research RN -IDF : Group Rassemblement National Île-de-France Farida Adlani Vice-president for Social Action, Health and Family NA : Non-attached Alexandra Dublanche Vice-president for Economic Development, Agriculture and Rurality Béatrice de Lavalette Vice-president for Social Dialogue Hamida Rezeg Vice-president for Tourism THE REGIONAL ADMINISTRATION Implements and enforce the decisions taken by the Assembly and Executive board

THE REGION’S POWERS TRANSPORT In a region with 12 million always more mobile residents, the modernization and upgrade of the public transport network is an imperative. This is why the Region is massively investing in its public transport infrastructures (comfort, security, accessibility…). The Region presides and funds the Ile-de-France Transport Authority (Île-de- France Mobilités), endowed with a 7.715 billion euro annual budget. The Region supports the development of new modes of mobility like carsharing or biking, while also fighting against the congestion of the road network.

Map of the Greater Paris Express

With its 125 miles of extra subway lines and 72 new stations, the network of the regional Super-Subway will be doubling its size by 2030, thus changing the face of Paris Region. The Greater Paris Express means four new lines (15, 16, 17 and 18), and the extension of four existing ones (4, 11, 12 et 14). The Region is to complete it by creating tram and bus lines on separate lanes to connect it with the existing network.

PARIS REGION ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT A ND I N NOVATION EMPLOYMENT Paris Region counts on the creativity, energy, and The Region is on the front line in the battle diversity of its businesses, the spearheads of growth against unemployment: it bets on youth and innovation. It accompanies their development, apprenticeship by funding new pathways, promotes the emergence of a new generation of equipping and overhauling training entrepreneurs, and supports firms going through centers, and encouraging businesses difficulties. The Region also strengthens and to work with apprentices. It takes the simplifies its innovation aid system; it backs necessary measures to foster the vocational several projects of sites dedicated to innovation integration of young people, as well as like the Station F, Europe’s biggest incubator, but the development of the job seekers’ and also the “Futur en Seine” festival. With the first AI employees’ qualifications. Challenge Paris Region intends to play a major role in the development of new technology based on artificial intelligence.

INTERNATIONAL The Region’s European and international action is based on developing the attractiveness of the territory. It manages 540 million euro of European structural funds for the 2014-2020 period, and provides Paris Region project leaders with an access to other European financings. Its international action focuses on promoting the Region amongst foreign investors, supporting Ile-de- France companies wishing to export, and maintaining actions of solidarity and development assistance.

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CULTURE-SPORT-LEISURE Cinema, books, live entertainment… The Region promotes the emergence of new talents and fosters their HEALTH-SOCIAL discovery. It finances performance sites, venues, and Increased support to the health-care media libraries… With its 12 outdoor activities centers, it and social training centers, better also provides access to a wide range of sport and leisure allowance for disability, struggle against activities. medical wastelands, and development of the treatment offer: these are the core elements of the regional project to take better care of Paris Region residents.

HOUSING – SPATIAL PLANNING By fostering the construction of housing, converting 100 new innovating and ecological quarters, improving the proportion and distribution of public housing through the territory, and encouraging home ownership, the Region is striving to provide the Ile-de-France territory with a new face.

PARIS REGION EDUCATION To ensure that school is a place of social advancement, aspiration and success, Paris Region is pursuing an ambitious policy and devoting more than a billion euro to secondary education. It builds, maintains, and renovates all 465 schools of Ile-de- France. Thanks to new aids, it promotes further learning in higher education, where it funds the premises and academic libraries.

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT Reducing the ecological footprint of Ile-de-France is a regional priority. The Region therefore implements actions for a better waste handling, an improved air quality and the preservation of its biodiversity, and promotes the use of renewable energies.

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