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Wallonia has many strengths and intends to exploit them fully. Its ideal position in the heart of Europe, its immediate links with its capitals, its exceptional communication networks, its internationally renowned universities and research centres , its productive workforce famed for its quality, its hospitality and its protected environment make it a particularly open and attractive region. It possesses a cultural heritage dating back a thousand years but is also a powerhouse of energy and creativity resolutely focused on the future: Wallonia is filled with renewed dynamism.
The Wallonia-Brussels French Community supports the creativity of the people of Wallonia and Brussels. Theatre, dance, plastic arts: the explosion of talent is evident everywhere. Multiculturalism is clear for all to see, particularly in Brussels, a cosmopolitan and international city where this cultural wealth goes hand in hand with a knowledge of foreign languages which, according to the OECD, is among the most advanced anywhere in the world.
The quality of higher education reaches beyond the borders of Wallonia and Brussels. Its universities are remarkably well integrated in the landscape of high-level European research. Numerous laboratories are members of European networks of excellence in many fields such as life sciences, nanotechnology, information technology, etc. Moreover, international surveys confirm the quality of their work at an international level.