The Education Valley
Who are we?
The Education Valley is the association of the principal higher education organizations located in the Touraine Loire Valley, France:
- the Université François-Rabelais Tours
- the ESCEM
- the Institut de Touraine
- the Ecole d’esthétique-cosmétique de Tours
- the Groupe IMT pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries
- the Ecole Brassart
- The CROUS
Location
The Education Valley centre is in the city of Tours, situated in the Touraine Loire Valley area of France.
The city of Tours is only 56 minutes away from Paris, and 1 hour 50 minutes away from Roissy Charles de Gaulle airport (direct by train).
The city of Tours is directly linked to London (1 hour 50 minutes from London-Stansted airport to Tours airport).
For further information about Tours and the area >> Live
Our mission
In 2009, we created our association to develop, promote, and offer very specific training on the international level. We share our training resources (speakers, infrastructures and equipment) in our individual and complementary areas of expertise.
The Education Valley also aims at easing the stay of foreign students and professionals coming for training in Touraine.
To whom our training offer is for?
Our training offer is for:
- Students: we offer them trainings leading to diplomas in our fields of expertise. These training programs in our specific fields of expertise bring added value to their training path and help them reach their professional objectives.
- Universities: we offer student exchange opportunities in trainings leading to diplomas in our fields of expertise.
We also offer universities to create specific student exchange and training programs in our fields of expertise, so they can offer unique and high quality training programs to their students.
And for :
- Professionals: we offer continuous training programs leading to diplomas or certificates in our specific fields of expertise.
- Companies, company clusters and professional representatives: we offer great professional exchange opportunities in trainings and/or seminars/conferences programs.
We create these programs in relationship with companies we work with and companies clusters we are members of (Cosmetic Valley, S2E2, Polepharma, PharmaValley, …).
Our partners
To drive this local development project, we benefit from the support of:
- The Conseil Départemental d’Indre et Loire - www.cg37.fr
- The Communauté d’Agglomération of Tour(s)plus and the city of Tours - www.tours.fr & www.agglo-tours.fr
- The Touraine Chambre of Commerce and Industry – www.touraine.cci.fr
- The Fondation Rabelais - http://www.fondation-rabelais.fr/

- The bank Société Générale - htpp://www.societegenerale.com
- Residences for students Les Estudines - http://www.estudines.com/uk/
- Tourist Office of Tours - www.tours-tourisme.fr

- Le Château de Villandry - www.chateauvillandry.com
- Le Lycée Professionnel Agricole & Viticole d'Amboise - www.epl-amboisechambray.fr
- The association in Tours International Friends of touraine - https://www.facebook.com/groups/InternationalFriendsofTouraine/
