more than 300 events each year. With its 27,000 m², it is the biggest infrastructure of that type in northwestern France.
As the home of the Community Plant Variety Office, Angers is the hub of the plant breeders' rights system in the European Community.
Angers provides 45,7% of the Maine-et-Loire job positions. It is the 22nd national job provider and the 3rd one in northwestern France after Nantes and Rennes. Its unemployment rate, 9.9% in 2009, is close to the national rate. 21.4% of the people working in Angers have graduate or post-graduate qualifications
