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Organization
Assignments
- Saint-Etienne - The Cité du Design
Economic Development
A key component in the effectiveness and attractiveness of the local area, with goals enable the establishment of a genuinely spontaneous policy for assisting and welcoming companies.
Land Settlement and Travel
Saint-Etienne Métropole is devising a land settlement strategy based on an ambitious housing policy, a large-scale infrastructure development related to travel and economic growth, the recapture of the landscape and communication centred on tourist attractions.
Higher Education
Saint-Etienne Métropole is devising coherent links between higher education and industrial and research centres through the creation of new training courses and the improvement of student living conditions.
Environment / Lifestyle
Saint-Etienne Métropole's aim is to create a pleasant living environment by working harder in the areas of waste management, river conservation, air protection, etc., while at the same time incorporating sustainable development policies.
- Geoffroy Guichard stadium
Sporting and Cultural Facilities
Saint-Etienne Métropole is responsible for the running of sporting and cultural facilities of interest to the whole community – such as the Geoffroy Guichard stadium and the Museum of Modern Art – and maintains its own distinctive local identity. This can be seen today in ambitious projects such as the construction of the "Cité du Design" (design center), the Zénith (show and music hall) and the promotion of the region's Le Corbusier heritage.
Key figures
- 43 communes
- 391,612 inhabitants
- 11,000 companies: France's largest network of SMEs and SMIs
- 18,000 students, 5 universities, 5 higher education institutes, 6 high schools
- France's leading collection of Modern Art outside Paris at the Musée d'Art Moderne
- the Musée d'Art et d'Industrie (art and industry museum) and the Musée de la Mine (mining museum)
- a National Drama Centre
- a hundred-year-old tramway
- a water sports centre 14km from the town centre
- a downhill skiing facility 18km from the town centre
- an 18-hole golf course within the town itself
- the Geoffroy Guichard stadium
Saint-Etienne Métropole - 35, rue Ponchardier Bp 23 - 42009 Saint-Etienne - Tél. : 04 77 49 21 49 - Fax : 04 77 49 21 40 - accueil[at]agglo-st-etienne.fr
