Le labo des médias de proximité Invent tomorrow's digital & local media Ouest Médialab is a European Living Lab that regroups most of the private, public and associative media, territorial authorities, and ICT research laboratories of the French western regions (Brittany and the Pays de la Loire). The objective is to represent, mutualize and cooperate in order to build and lead ambitious projects and to invent tomorrow’s digital & local media. Médias, Communication, Contenus numériques, and Information locale

[Automatic translation follows] The Pays de la Loire region includes 5 departments: Loire-Atlantique, Maine-et-Loire, Mayenne, Sarthe and Vendée. It has 3.7 million inhabitants spread across 1,357 municipalities. It is a territory balanced between rural and urban areas, organized around 7 large urban areas (Nantes, Saint-Nazaire, Angers, Cholet, Le Mans, Laval and La-Roche-sur-Yon) and 1,108 municipalities with fewer than 1,000 inhabitants. Bordered by 450 km of coastline and crisscrossed by the Loire, the region has the leading port on the Atlantic coast. Its economic dynamism is a real strength that allows it to have the lowest unemployment rate in France (8.5%). …

Sectors: National and local authorities