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Sunday 12 January 2025

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The university celebrated its fortieth anniversary

The University of Reunion celebrated its fortieth anniversary at the beginning of October. Since its official birth in 1982, its numbers increased from 2,000 to 19,200 students. It now has seven training sites and 22 research units., and offers 200 training courses. In four decades, le nombre de ses enseignants a été multiplié par six et celui des diplômes...

Eight out of ten residents of Reunion were born there

La population vivant à La Réunion est composée en très large majorité de personnes qui y sont nées, according to the latest figures from INSEE (ceux de 2018). On a dénombré cette année-là 706 000 natives et natifs de l'île, soit 82.5 % des habitants. La Réunion est la deuxième région de France où la part de natifs parmi ses...

39% of Reunion Islanders go on vacation

In 2019, 258 000 habitants de La Réunion de 15 ans ou plus ont déclaré être partis en vacances au cours des douze derniers mois, soit 39 % des 15 ans ou plus, selon une enquête de l’Insee. C’est nettement moins que les habitants de l’Hexagone (66 %). At the same time, 47 % des Réunionnais de 15 ans ou...

Traffic down at Port Réunion

Port Réunion handled 3,7 million tonnes of goods during the first eight months of 2022, figure down 9% compared to the same period in 2021, record year. “The current context, marqué par la crise sanitaire qui désorganise le transport maritime et par la guerre en Ukraine qui ajoute aux tensions préexistantes...

PROXIDON, a platform against food insecurity

The Mascarene Food Bank is developing an internet platform, Proxidon, which allows local food businesses to donate their surplus and unsold unmarketable but still consumable items. The business that wishes to make a donation registers it on the platform ; les associations de proximité sont informées en temps réel de ce don disponible et peuvent effectuer...

FRENCH TECH RISE : Siva selected for the final

La start-up SIVA Industrie (Solutions Innovantes de Valorisation Agricole) a été sélectionnée le 12 octobre par le jury réunionnais de French Tech Rise pour présenter son projet devant des fonds d’investissement, le 2 décembre prochain à Paris. French Tech Rise est une initiative du gouvernement visant à identifier des pépites dans toutes les régions de France et à les...

More than 200,000 tourists in six months

According to Reunion Island Tourism, 202,542 foreign tourists visited Reunion in the first half of 2022. The figure is still 13 lower,6% compared to 2019, before the health crisis, but much higher than that of 2021 (80,000 arrivals over the same period, when travel was still subject to many restrictions, alors que de nombreuses...

PIERREFONDS : a pelicandrome for the Dash 8

The pelicandrom at Pierrefonds airport was officially inaugurated on October 14, in the presence of prefect Jérôme Filippini and André Thien Ah Koon, president of the Pierrefonds Mixed Union. The pelicandrome consists of a filling area and a system for manufacturing the retardant product, comprenant un mécanisme de dosage entre la citerne à eau et celle contenant...

AIR AUSTRAL expands its flight program

Air Austral recently unveiled its flight schedule for the next IATA season, which runs from October 30, 2022 to March 25, 2023. The company continues to reopen all of its regional destinations and strengthens its long-haul offering. On the regional, Air Austral relaunches its service to Rodrigues Island from November 2, à raison d’une...

University of Reunion : 19,000 students expected

Even if registrations remain possible until the end of September, the University of Reunion already has a precise idea of ​​the number of students it will welcome this year : environ 19 000. We could expect a decline in this figure, after the “Covid effect” which pushed many young people from Reunion to give up pursuing their studies abroad in 2020 and 2021,...
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