H "Toulouse, France: Toulouse Oncopole"
2013
24p.
Urban development best practices
Devastated by an industrial explosion in 2001, 220 hectares of an old industrial neighbourhood on the southern edge of Toulouse are benefitting from an ambitious regeneration plan. Unique in Europe, the Toulouse Oncopole brings together on a single site all stakeholders involved in cancer treatment: clinicians, public and private researchers and others. The neighbourhood community groups are members of the managing umbrella organisation. The project, although strongly developed through industrial and scientific governance, offered the Metropolitan Council a test bed for setting up local employment initiatives linked to health and care, in partnership with the Public Employment Services and training organisations. By 2014, around 4 000 persons will be working on the site, and half of them will be in newly-created jobs, mostly in the service sector (nursing, caring, catering, transport, etc.). Case study
DEVELOPMENT POLICY: SUSTAINABLE & TERRITORIAL DEVELOPMENT, European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), urban development, healthcare, local development
European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), urban development, healthcare, local development