The "Maison de l'Emploi" of the Nantes metropolis was created on October 17th, 2005. This initiative allows to make employment more accessible and also to act against the discriminations in the districts where the unemployment rate is the highest.
There are around 50 000 students in Nantes Metropole among which 32 000 students in the University of Nantes, the third multi-disciplinary university in France.
The city supports the research in the excellent domains of the town with 2 200 researchers and 200 research laboratories.
And 15 Elite Schools.