The future of aeronautics is uncertain and Toulouse must take this into account.
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Dmitry Feoktistov - TASS - Sipa
Personalities, qualified, including the Nobel Prize Jean Tirole, worked on the economic future of the Pink City, weighed down by its "Airbus-dependence".
Experts are banking on satellite applications and medical biotechnologies.
They also recommend better training and retraining of employees.
And they put forward the quirky idea of creating "a Puy du Fou Occitan".
When Airbus coughs, all of Toulouse catches a cold.
The formula is worn out but resurfaces with acuity at the turn of the health crisis, while aeronautics is one of the sectors most strongly and lastingly affected.
This certainty of a shock wave even stronger than elsewhere, of a spiral that could become infernal, the elected officials felt at the time of deconfinement.
This is why Carole Delga (PS), the president of Occitanie, and Jean-Luc Moudenc (LR), mayor and president of Toulouse metropolis entrusted in July a prospective mission called "Toulouse, territory of the future" to twelve experts from high flight.
Among these personalities sponsored by the Nobel Prize for Economics Jean Tirole, we find academics, a three-star chef, Marion Guillou, member of the High Council for the Climate, the astronaut Claudie Haigneré, or Perrine Laffont, champion of mogul skiing. .
And for this volunteer areopagus, the time has come to return the copy.
"The crisis is global but the solutions are local (...) We must plant where the soil is fertile", assured Jean Tirole by presenting Tuesday, before a thick report "which swarms with ideas and useful advice", eleven first tracks.
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retained four, technical or more down to earth.
Transfer to other specialties
Experts want to make the European capital of aeronautics a champion of a “cousin” specialty: what they call “New space” and “Climate-Space applications” bringing together the possibilities opened up by “manufacturing processes. miniature satellites and analysis of satellite data ”.
They are adding the carbon-free transport sector, such as the green, hydrogen-powered airplane, promised by Airbus for 2035. They are finally focusing on biotechnologies "with applications in agriculture, food and cosmetics" but also and above all in the "health of the future".
Better train or retrain employees
The commission suggests revolutionizing training by creating specialized “industry campuses” welcoming “students” of all levels.
They would acquire profiles which would stick exactly to the proposed positions and which one struggles to be able to.
For example, the “aeronautical campus” could work to retrain Airbus employees towards the more promising sectors mentioned above but also train boilermakers, still too rare.
The report also draws the attention of employers to an unrecognized but useful possibility as long-term partial unemployment takes hold: the loan of employees between companies.
High protein agriculture
Soybeans, peas, bean lupine, alfalfa… The idea is to encourage farmers "to switch to agroecological practices".
With these legumes which have the property of fixing atmospheric nitrogen and therefore requiring less nitrogen fertilizers to be spread in the soil.
"The resulting increase in the quantities of vegetable proteins available for human and animal consumption could also reduce" imported deforestation "", that of the Amazon for example for soybeans fed to animals, underlines the report.
A "Puy du Fou Occitan" and an international festival
The "wise" also have sexier proposals, such as placing even more emphasis on "better living" and "healthy eating" in Occitania to strengthen the tourist industry.
It may be anecdotal, but they also advise universities and grandes écoles to organize graduation ceremonies, in order to bring together the families of 130,000 students for a few days in Toulouse.
Finally, the commission recommends making Toulouse more visible on the European cultural scene with a major festival.
She advances the very different tracks of street art or classical music.
The icing on the tourist cake would be the creation of "large, very visible projects" such as a rugby museum and, above all, a kind of "Occitan Puy du Fou" in honor of local customs.
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