The mayor of Nice calls on the Ministers of Health and Higher Education to support the project of creating a pharmacy faculty within the University of Nice Côte d’Azur.
“Currently, Nice, one of the 12 largest cities in France, is an exception in the national territory for not having a pharmacy faculty within University Côte d’Azur, which otherwise has all major medical and paramedical courses,” laments Christian Estrosi while also pointing out a lack of pharmaceutical staff and research pharmacists on the Côte d’Azur.
In a letter dated October 12, the mayor of Nice, in his role as President of the Supervisory Board of the CHU, seeks the support of Sylvie Retailleau, Minister of Higher Education and Research, and Aurélien Rousseau, Minister of Health and Research, to obtain the right to create a pharmacy faculty.
In these letters, it is revealed that Christian Estrosi and the Nice Côte d’Azur Metropolis have already submitted an application to open this pharmacy department. The project, supported by the Regional Rectorate, has already received an initial “favorable opinion” from the Ministry of Higher Education.
A first cohort as early as the 2024 academic year
This Pharmacy department would be part of the future health campus of Saint-Jean-d’Angély in eastern Nice, which aims to consolidate all medical and paramedical courses currently scattered across several districts. A project costing 32 million euros has already been approved by the State and the South Region and aims to be completed by 2027.
The University of Nice Côte d’Azur will not wait until then and proposes “to launch a first cohort as early as the 2024 academic year, with 40 places not taken from the numerus clausus of the Pharmacy Faculty at Aix-Marseille University.”
“The creation of this pharmacy department in Nice will enhance the research and innovation dynamic in health and will provide our young people with professional training in line with the proven needs of pharmacists, institutions, and businesses, as well as the local population of the Azur region,” assures Christian Estrosi.
