Grants and funding for social organisations

Support communities in defining and implementing their architectural, urban planning, development, public spaces, engineering structures, and financial projects

France · Centre-Val de Loire

Who can apply Commune · Intercommunalité / Pays · Département

The ADAC 37 team consists of architects, landscape designers, urban planners, lawyers, energy project managers, and a public finance specialist. It also co-produces with other public partners (historical monuments, sanitation, housing, etc.) Our areas of intervention: Architecture, landscape, urban planning, energy Realization on behalf of member communities within the framework of public building projects, public space development, subdivisions, village halls, etc.: outline schemes, development guidelines, programs and costings Public finances Intervention through: analysis of community budgets, carrying out financial foresight and retrospect loan simulation Law Drafting: public procurement documents (restoration, historical monuments, sanitation, etc.) service concession, synthesis notes relating to questions of urban planning law and local authorities

Create a hedge management plan

France · Normandie

Who can apply Commune · Intercommunalité / Pays

In line with aid schemes for hedgerows and the wood energy sector, the Department is committed to promoting Hedge Management Plans (PGH). At the scale of a farm or even communal or inter-communal territories, PGHs aim to establish a multi-year program for the enhancement of hedgerows combining profitability and production constraints with sustainable and reasoned hedge management. Objectives of the hedge management plan: estimation of sustainable wood energy production capacity diagnosis of hedge types, their state of conservation and their interest in terms of wood energy, erosion control, biodiversity or landscape Importance of aid: 70% of the ex-tax amount of the study; for individual projects: annual ceiling of eligible expenses of 1,500 euros ex-tax per beneficiary; for community projects: ceiling of eligible expenses of 6,000 euros ex-tax per year (aid cumulative with aid for wood-energy sector animation if the study is carried out by a service provider). To be processed for the current year's budget, the file must be complete before October 31.

Promoting hedge planting

France · Normandie

Who can apply Commune · Intercommunalité / Pays

The The Department of Calvados facilitates the creation or restoration of hedges through aid to local authorities, farmers, associations and individuals. Essential elements of our Norman landscapes, hedges protect crops from the wind, reduce soil erosion and regulate water systems. They are also very useful for preserving the fauna and flora of our territories.

Develop and equip musical and cultural cafes

France · FR

Who can apply Commune · Intercommunalité / Pays · Département

This support scheme is aimed at cafes located in Île-de-France, offering musical and cultural programming, who wish to carry out development work or equipment acquisitions. Establishments located in the greater Paris region or in rural or peri-urban areas, or in towns with fewer than 20,000 inhabitants, will be given priority support. Aid rate and amount: The aid takes the form of an investment grant. The region can intervene up to 70% of your investment budget, within the limit of €50,000 of eligible expenses.

Innovate in rural areas on the following themes: economic development, consumption of local products, preservation of agro-environmental heritage and tourism

France · FR

Who can apply Commune · Intercommunalité / Pays · Département · Etablissement public dont services de l'Etat

For the 2014-2020 programming period, the Local Action Group (LAG), composed of elected officials and local actors, chose to focus LEADER intervention in the following 4 areas: Economy Environment Agriculture and fish farming Tourism To implement this strategy, the LAG has an initial budget of €1,995,800 distributed among the following 4 action sheets available for download on this page Opens a new window .

Offer vacant premises in stations to project leaders

France · FR

Who can apply Commune · Intercommunalité / Pays · Département · Région · Collectivité d’outre-mer à statut particulier · Etablissement public dont services de l'Etat · Entreprise publique locale (Sem, Spl, SemOp)

Participate in the economic dynamism of our territories by proposing innovative and useful projects within small and medium-sized French stations. Across the network, nearly a thousand stations currently have vacant premises in extremely varied contexts: rural communes, medium-sized towns, peri-urban areas. Place de la Gare, supported by the Organizing Authorities and local authorities, as a tool for the financial balance of stations and the opening up of territories, aims to boost this network of stations and make them an anchor point for local shops and public services, as close as possible to everyone. You have a project, we have the square meters and teams to support you! Express yourself on https://placedelagare.sncf/ Opens a new window

Provide public engineering and decision support

France · Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

Who can apply Commune · Intercommunalité / Pays · Etablissement public dont services de l'Etat

In the sense of article L 5511-1 of the General Code of Local Authorities, Cantal Ingénierie & Territoires is a public establishment called a departmental agency. It is responsible for providing, to local authorities and intermunicipal public establishments in the department that request it, technical, legal or financial assistance.

Reduce the impact of light pollution and enable the creation of the dark network

France · FR

Who can apply Commune · Intercommunalité / Pays

The Region wishes to reduce the impact of light pollution and enable the creation of the dark network. This scheme is eligible for the ecological participatory budget of the Île-de-France Region .

Period: Dec 31, 2022 – —

Support communities in their investment projects contributing to the coherent and sustainable development and equipment of the territory

France · FR

Who can apply Commune · Intercommunalité / Pays

The Region supports Île-de-France communities in their investment projects contributing to the coherent and sustainable development and equipment of the territory.

Period: Jun 30, 2026 – —

Support for innovative projects in favor of books and reading

France · FR

Who can apply Commune · Intercommunalité / Pays · Département

The Region supports, through specific aid, innovative projects in favor of books and reading in the Ile-de-France territories. Recurring aid: application deadlines: before December 15, March 15 or June 30. The project must not have started on the date of its presentation to the Commission, which takes place approximately 4 months after the submission deadline. Expenses must not be incurred before the date of the Commission. Aid rate and amount The specific regional aid is calculated on an eligible HT subsidy base to which a variable maximum rate of 50% of the eligible expenditure applies, within the limit of a ceiling set at 50,000€.

Advise and support volunteers of sports associations in their administrative procedures and projects

France · Bourgogne-Franche-Comté

Who can apply Commune · Intercommunalité / Pays · Département · Région · Etablissement public dont services de l'Etat

The Departmental Olympic and Sports Committee of Côte-d'Or, through the Resource and Information Center for Volunteers in the sports field, is at the service of the associative movement in Côte-d'Or for: Advise and support volunteers in their administrative procedures and projects (operations, funding, taxation, accounting, employment, etc.) Provide clear and adapted legal advice (associative life, evolution of regulations, etc.); Support and connect with a network of partners (CoSMoS, DIRECCTE, URSSAF, Departmental Committees, Departmental Council, EPCI, AMF, etc.).

Benefit from the expertise of a locally based territorial economic development advisor

France · FR

Who can apply Commune · Intercommunalité / Pays · Département · Région · Etablissement public dont services de l'Etat

You wish to benefit from the human support of an expert advisor in your territory, to develop and implement a strategy to support economic, industrial, and commercial activities located in your municipality or inter-municipality. You wish to be able to access this human support more easily by pooling its financial cost with other communities in your department or living area. The CCI network offers to provide you with the expertise of an advisor specializing in economic development. This CCI project manager, in conjunction with all CCI services and its partners, identifies with you the most suitable support solution for your engineering needs. The CCI project manager can, for example, carry out a diagnosis of the economic/industrial/commercial situation of your territory (action-study) or specific tailor-made studies. At the end of the diagnosis, they will share their recommendations with you and propose an action plan. They can also support the implementation of your actions in very varied fields: maintaining activity and helping companies in difficulty, revitalizing downtown commerce, supporting businesses/traders in their transformations (digital and ecological in particular), commercial establishment, combating vacancy, creation and takeover…

Know the aids and solutions for economic recovery

France · FR

Who can apply Commune · Intercommunalité / Pays · Département · Région · Etablissement public dont services de l'Etat

You want to stay in touch with your businesses and give them the keys to develop. You want to have all useful and up-to-date information to better support the economic actors in your territory and quickly access information on the aid available at national, regional and local levels. The CCI network offers elected officials and directors of communities to: Participate in information meetings or seminars on: - the key success factors of a commercial centrality; - tools to manage the development of its commercial centrality (Regulatory tools, tools related to urban planning, animation and communication tools, professionalization tools); - major trends in consumption and the impact of the crisis on purchasing behavior; - the impact of the crisis on the commercial fabric. And find all the information on: - aid available nationally and locally for your businesses; - support offered by the CCI to help you strengthen your support for traders and independents (study – action on the situation of trade in the city center, the city, or the intercommunality, implementation of digital solutions for traders, ecological transition, sou…

Carry out a diagnosis of your territory's commercial apparatus

France · FR

Who can apply Commune · Intercommunalité / Pays · Département · Région · Etablissement public dont services de l'Etat

Your territorial revitalization operations are constrained by various factors such as the rise of peripheral commercial zones, the decrease in city center population, or the increase in commercial vacancy. You must maintain the attractiveness of your territory, your city centers, your town centers, and develop it to ensure their future. Your projects to revitalize a city center, or a wider territory, require first analyzing the situation of businesses and the balance of commercial zones. Your diagnosis of the local commercial apparatus is the prerequisite that then allows you to develop or adapt your territory's development strategy. Your CCI can carry out the diagnosis of your commercial apparatus : Demand analysis: Definition of the catchment area; Quantification and qualification of potential customers (residential, professional, passing tourists); Market evaluation; Analysis of local consumption practices and the attractiveness of the hub; Insights into major consumption trends and recent developments; <…

Consult business leaders in your area

France · FR

Who can apply Commune · Intercommunalité / Pays · Département · Région · Etablissement public dont services de l'Etat

By involving the entrepreneurs and traders of your territory in your orientations, by gathering their feelings, their doubts, their reflections on economic development subjects, you initiate and maintain a close relationship with your local economic fabric. This new insight allows you to secure your decision-making that will have an impact on your territory. It is by counting them as stakeholders and thanks to their testimonies that you will be able to successfully carry out your economic revitalization and territorial attractiveness projects. Your CCI facilitates the collection of opinions and expectations from local economic actors, by offering to set up a tailor-made survey , designed to be administered on an ad hoc basis. Depending on your needs, this survey (flash at a given moment or regularly updated) can be carried out according to several modalities: FIELD SURVEY: Meetings between a CCI advisor and a business leader. They can be carried out, for example, within a precise geographical area (to gather the opinion of business leaders concerned by works, equipment, ...). ONLINE SURVEY: As an alternative to the field survey, the survey questionnaire can be administered either: - By phone; - Online, …

Animating businesses in your area

France · FR

Who can apply Commune · Intercommunalité / Pays · Département · Région · Etablissement public dont services de l'Etat

You want to bring your city center to life, revitalize the local economy. You want to develop the management of your city center, particularly for the implementation of local e-commerce platforms and/or short-circuit logistics. You want to network businesses and shops in your area, encourage sector or value chain approaches. You want to relay your events to businesses in your area. You want to develop links between businesses and other local stakeholders (local authorities, training centers, research laboratories, technology centers, third places, etc.). Your CCI offers you to: Benefit from the expertise of your CCI advisor in animating businesses and shops in the area; Share the financial cost of using this animation expertise with other communities in your area. Animating businesses in the area can take the following forms: Company visits carried out by a CCI advisor; Facilitation of workshops on topics of interest to business leaders, which can be held in your community; Creation of business clubs, with external speakers; Creation e…

Supporting businesses in their development

France · FR

Who can apply Commune · Intercommunalité / Pays · Département · Région · Etablissement public dont services de l'Etat · Entreprise publique locale (Sem, Spl, SemOp)

You want to boost the development of VSEs and businesses in your area, encourage business creation, or support your local businesses in their ecological and digital transformations, among others. You want to stimulate the economic development of your municipality or inter-municipality by fostering exchanges between stakeholders. You want to help your local entrepreneurs realize their development or business transfer projects, to preserve and stimulate skills in your area. Your CCI supports your local entrepreneurs to maintain local economic activity. Its offer of products and services is divided into 8 themes: entrepreneurship: creating, taking over, transferring a business; financing: securing the financial management of the company and accessing funding; international: developing export market shares; sustainable development: creating value through ecological and energy transition and managing risks; commercial development: accelerating growth; digital: digitizing the company; competitiveness: increasing performance; HR skills: capitalizing on human capital. Your businesses are committed…

Promoting the establishment of entrepreneurs in your territory

France · FR

Who can apply Commune · Intercommunalité / Pays · Département · Région · Etablissement public dont services de l'Etat · Entreprise publique locale (Sem, Spl, SemOp)

You wish to promote economic development and employment in your territory, by enabling businesses to grow and recruit the skills they need, and by offering young people and active workers more local training opportunities. You wish to strengthen your overall attractiveness policy (reception, territorial marketing). You wish to guarantee businesses access to a "bundle of services" necessary for their development. Your CCI can be by your side for: Setting up a policy for welcoming new businesses and employees to the territory: help with finding accommodation, spouse's employment, integration of new residents into local networks; Developing territorial marketing and promoting local businesses, strategic and innovative sectors, exceptional trades and know-how, to make them ambassadors of your territory; Organizing reception and information sessions for creators and business leaders, including in the community's premises; Creating and managing reception and accommodation facilities for businesses, such as incubators, business hotels, third places, co-working spaces…

Enhance natural heritage and promote actions in terms of EESD and awareness of heritage preservation

France · FR

Who can apply Commune · Intercommunalité / Pays · Collectivité d’outre-mer à statut particulier · Etablissement public dont services de l'Etat · Entreprise publique locale (Sem, Spl, SemOp)

LEADER aid is funding for projects that develop the LAG territory. It also consists of supporting project leaders in preparing their LEADER funding application. Its aim is to "Enhance natural heritage and promote actions in terms of EESD and awareness of heritage preservation." The expected impacts on the territory are: Direct effects: Improvement of outdoor activity offerings Enhancement of natural sites, their fauna and flora Improvement of knowledge of natural heritage Indirect effects: Increased public awareness of environmental issues Increased visitation to natural sites

Enhance and preserve Mayotte's cultural heritage

France · FR

Who can apply Commune · Intercommunalité / Pays · Collectivité d’outre-mer à statut particulier · Etablissement public dont services de l'Etat · Entreprise publique locale (Sem, Spl, SemOp)

The LEADER aid is a funding for projects that develop the GAL territory. It also consists of supporting project leaders in preparing the LEADER funding application file. Its objectives are to "Enhance and preserve cultural heritage and increase cultural offerings". The expected impacts on the territory are: Direct effects: Protection and enhancement of cultural heritage and traditions Development of cultural offerings Increased attendance at historical sites Indirect effect: Improved access to culture for all Intergenerational transmission

Promoting agritourism and ecotourism

France · FR

Who can apply Commune · Intercommunalité / Pays · Département · Région · Collectivité d’outre-mer à statut particulier · Etablissement public dont services de l'Etat · Entreprise publique locale (Sem, Spl, SemOp)

LEADER aid is funding for projects that develop the GAL territory. It also consists of supporting project leaders in setting up the LEADER funding application file. Its objectives are to: Promote ecotourism as a driver of economic development, and of the enhancement and preservation of natural and cultural heritage. The expected impacts on the territory are: Direct effects: Creation/improvement of the offer in terms of ecotourism structures (rural gites, bed and breakfasts, restaurants based on local products, etc.) Development of activities for discovering agritourism heritage (educational farm, agro-tourism circuit with farm visits, workshops, etc.) Upskilling of ecotourism and agritourism actors Indirect effects: Development of the Tourism sector Increase in tourist numbers in rural areas Creation and sustainability of jobs

Strengthening agricultural sectors and developing short supply chains

France · FR

Who can apply Commune · Intercommunalité / Pays · Collectivité d’outre-mer à statut particulier · Etablissement public dont services de l'Etat · Entreprise publique locale (Sem, Spl, SemOp)

LEADER aid is funding for projects that develop the LAG territory. It also consists of supporting project leaders in preparing their LEADER funding application. Its objectives are to: Strengthen agricultural and fisheries sectors downstream of production; Develop short food supply chains for local products. The expected impacts on the territory are: Direct impacts: Establishment of activities for collecting, processing, and marketing local products Creation and consolidation of sales and processing points for local products Implementation of tools for promoting local products Upskilling of stakeholders Indirect effects: Improvement of economic conditions for producers and producer groups Increase in the supply of local products available to consumers Creation and sustainability of jobs

Create, maintain or develop a local service

France · Occitanie

Who can apply Commune · Intercommunalité / Pays

The objective of this aid is to ensure the creation, maintenance or development of a service necessary for the satisfaction of the rural population, when private initiative is failing or insufficient. The activities concerned are the following services: food trade, grocery store, multi-services, bar-cafe, gas station, restaurants and bank ATMs when most of their services are aimed at the local population.

Funding thermal renewable energy projects from biomass with the best environmental, energy, and economic performance.

France · FR

Who can apply Commune · Intercommunalité / Pays

This scheme aims to finance thermal renewable energy projects from biomass that demonstrate the best environmental, energy, and economic performance. The construction of biomass boiler rooms, regardless of their power, The construction of biomass storage platforms. The eligibility criteria for biomass boiler projects are defined in the joint ADEME/Region call for projects regulations, regardless of the boiler's power. The Region's aid differs according to the size of the projects (threshold of 1,200 MWh/year).

Period: Jul 27, 2021 – —