What will the Metropolis look like in 2050? Far from financial constraints, far from electoral considerations, the Orléans Métropole development council has imagined the territory of tomorrow. Health, energy, metropolitan station or even university, the 89 members of the structure have projected themselves in twenty-five years.
“On these subjects, we must tackle them now, it is not in 2045 that we will have to work on them. The elected officials are in an emergency, but not us, nuance Claire Delande, the co-president of the development council. You have to be in the vision, continues Benoît Lonceint, co-president. Ideas are meant to be taken up. We have to get things going. »
A metropolis with 40,000 students
The attractiveness of a metropolis inevitably depends on its university. What if it welcomed 40,000 students (23,000 today) in 2050? How to achieve this? “We need to expand the student population to different generations. Alongside young people enrolled in traditional courses, there will be more adults undergoing professional retraining or continuing education,” projects the development council, which is banking on “individualized paths allowing each student to compose their training according to their needs. its professional objectives and more collaboration with local businesses. »
-The campus would be eco-responsible and would benefit from “advanced technologies (AI, collaborative spaces) to optimize learning and daily life. »
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