CIAS Environment
IAS is located at Toulouse (South West of France), the European Aeronautics and Space capital.
Toulouse, 4th city of France after Paris, Marseille and Lyon, is also the capital of Midi-Pyrénées region, the largest region of France.
Surely the only city of the world where aeronautics and space activities are both at a such level.
Facts and figures about Toulouse :
- n° 1 in Europe for Aeronautics
- n° 1 in Europe for Space
- 3rd University town in France with more than 90.000 students
- Concentration of leading educational institutions for Aerospace such as ENAC, ISAE (SUPAERO & ENSICA), Toulouse Business School, ENSHEEIHT, Universities.
- Exceptional centre for Engineering Research (10.000 researchers, 400 research teams)
Renowned as high tech city, Toulouse is considered to be one of the most attractive in France with more than 16.000 new habitants per year. Located at 150 km from Mediterranean Sea, 250 km from Atlantic Ocean and 110 km from Pyrenees mountains Toulouse is in full harmony between history and future, with an exceptional quality of life.
Toulouse is also the head office of Aerospace Valley, world competitiveness cluster in Aeronautics, Space and Embedded Systems of Midi Pyrenees and Aquitaine region, leading employment pool in Europe in the field of aeronautics, space and embedded systems :94.000 jobs, 1300 establishments.
(Aerospace Valley offices are located inside IAS campus facilities)
To fulfill its mission, IAS owns in the south-east of Toulouse, a campus of 23.000 m² with 12.500 m² of buildings.
