[Automatic translation follows] Decentralized administration of the ministries in charge of national education, youth and sports and higher education, the Orléans-Tours academy was created on January 2, 1962 and bears the names of its two university cities. It coincides with the territory of the Centre-Val de Loire region (2,567,000 inhabitants) and brings together six departments (Cher (18), Eure-et-Loir (28), Indre (36), Indre-et-Loire (37), Loir-et-Cher (41) and Loiret (45)). At the start of the 2022 school year, 441,770 students are enrolled there, in the 2,495 schools and establishments. It has 39,046 public sector staff, including 28,676 teachers and 10,370 non-teaching staff. …

Our mission is to promote regional policies that will improve the well-being of people in the Sahel & West Africa. The Sahel and West Africa Club (SWAC) is an independent, international platform. Its Secretariat is hosted at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Its mission is to promote regional policies that will improve the economic and social well-being of people in the Sahel and West Africa. Its objectives are to: •Improve the regional governance of food and nutrition security; •Improve the understanding of ongoing transformations in the region and their policy implications through regional, spatial and forward-looking analyses. …

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