The Department and the Region Reparlent
After the confrontation around the financing of the project Condorcet, calm returns. Valérie Pécresse, Minister for Higher Education, and Isabelle This-Saint-Jean, Vice President of the Ile de France in charge of this sector will re-open discussions. Last week was a dispute between the two leaders on the type of financing the new campus Condorcet must be born in the north of Paris and Aubervilliers in the coming years.
“The minister has formally requested the regional prefect, Daniel Canepa, opening new talks with the Ile-de-France on the basis of the project Condorcet,” says one in the entourage of the minister. “We just want to have guarantees of funding for maintenance and long-term maintenance of new buildings coming out of the ground. With the public-private partnership, we have this guarantee. If we go for funding differential must one has guarantees and a clear timetable on the funding of maintenance, maintenance and renovation of thirty years. We must not repeat past mistakes. ” Clearly, the Ile-de-France will fund the library, the future heart of the project Condorcet, through project management public (MOP), the traditional method of financing used by the region. Continue reading