Ambition, Research and Development 2020

The Centre-Val de Loire Region supports research and development clusters of international scope capable of driving regional socio-economic development. In 2012, it launched the "Ambition, Research and Development (ARD) 2020" call for expressions of interest.

Several large-scale research programmes were launched in 2013, providing an opportunity to bring together research and regional economic development.

The University of Tours has two programmes:

• Biomedicine

• Heritage intelligence - IPat

The university is also a partner in two programmes:

• Cosmetosciences

• Lavoisier