Giant fresco, surge in shared accommodation, vote for Château Laurens… the essential news in the region

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Relaunching citizen dialogue

#POLITICS – During the Plenary Assembly of this Thursday, July 11, 2024, regional elected officials recorded the establishment of the Regional Citizen Dialogue Committee. This is "fostering and encouraging citizen participation by as many people as possible, by deploying innovative mechanisms for participatory democracy", assured the regional majority. Presented as "unique in France", this structure should allow "involve residents in the development of public policies to restore their confidence in institutions and reinvigorate democracy".

In Toulouse, the astonishing fresco by an Aude artist

#ART –A surface area of ​​1,800 square meters, a length of 200 meters, two layers of water-based paint for each of the eight shades, this is the artist's astonishing fresco audoise Valérie du Chéné to discover now in Toulouse. Every year, since 2022, the Saint-Pierre Bridge has been transformed into a space reserved for pedestrians throughout the summer, notably hosting ephemeral works. Thus, a multi-colored fresco has recently covered the bridge. Entitled Half-Closed Eyes, the work is surprising in more than one way. Passing by the crowd while blinking his eyes, it is both a reference to the sun and to walking.

Shared accommodation: Montpellier, very expensive city

#REAL ESTATE – With its large student population, Montpellier is the most expensive city in Occitanie for shared accommodation, according to the barometer published by the online rental management company Oqoro. The analysis, based on a sample of 100,000 apartments offered for shared accommodation and 150,000 people looking for a room across France, reveals that the average price of a shared room in Montpellier is 505 euros per month, compared to 483 euros in Nîmes or 465 euros in Toulouse. The barometer indicates that shared accommodation rent is on average 13% cheaper than a studio and 35% less than a T2. Regarding expenses, the gap is around 30%. Oqoro also specifies that the average number of applications received for a shared room in Montpellier is 8.1, which makes it the sixth most tense urban area in France. The barometer indicates that at the end of the summer, 96% of Montpellier rooms are occupied.

Today's figure: 85.6%

#EDUCATION –This is the success rate for the national patent diploma tests in the Montpellier academy. During the 2024 session, 29,119 candidates were admitted, i.e. a rate of 85.6%, down 2.6 points compared to 2023. It was Lozère which won the palme d’or with a success rate of 91.9%, followed by Hérault with 86.8% and the Pyrénées-Orientales with 85.9%. On the baccalaureate side, the success rate in the academy is 92.8%, up 1.3 points compared to 2023.

Vote Château Laurens!

#AGDE – Château Laurens, in Agde, will participate in the final of the show The favorite monument of the French hosted by Stéphane Bern on France 2, in September 2024. Great news for the Hérault town, especially since the work of Emmanuel Laurens had a lot to contend with in the face of the Padirac chasm, the other site who represented the Occitanie region. But the public, following a voting phase on the France Télévisions website, decided and sent Château Laurens to the final. This second phase of votes to elect “The favorite monument of the French” 2024 runs until Wednesday July 24, 11:59 p.m., on the France Télévisions website.

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