Student/researcher

 
Key numbers from Higher Education in Castres-Mazamet for 2007-2008:
  • 1,300 students
  • 15 institutions
  • 37 programs including 12 related to health, among which are the ISIS IT and IS Engineering program for the health sector, the Quality degree for Agri-food and Bio-industries, the DUT in Chemistry, Formulation Engineering, Packaging Engineering, the Chemistry, Analysis and Quality degree, and the post-secondary “Technical and Composite Textile Materials ” program…

The main private industrial and research center between Toulouse, Montpellier and Barcelona, Castres-Mazamet has all the elements required for academic and applied research development:

  • The proximity of research and training laboratories
  • The ISIS research team (ISIS engineering program approved by the Engineering Accreditation Commission in 2006) with a Humanities and Social Sciences program
  • The involvement of researchers in companies. For example, the national telehealth day organized by CATEL...
  • Support for the promotion of research projects. For example: corporate meetings, the “Health Materials and Technologies” cluster, collaborative platform projects…
  • An R&D zone in the context of the AESE and Cancer-Bio-Health competitiveness clusters: business tax exemption in favor of structures implanted in the research and development zone of the AESE and Cancer-Bio-Health competitiveness clusters that belong to companies participating in a research and development project approved by said clusters.