Grants and funding for social organisations

Support for local artistic and cultural initiatives

France · FR

Who can apply Commune · Intercommunalité / Pays · Département · Région · Entreprise publique locale (Sem, Spl, SemOp)

Aid "Support for local artistic and cultural initiatives" Objective: Through this scheme, the Grand Est Region decides to contribute to the cultural development of the territories. In accordance with the priority objectives of regional cultural policy, this scheme aims to: support one-off cultural projects in the territories, support initiatives enriching the cultural offer in the territories, support cultural dissemination projects and participate in a territorial irrigation approach involving amateur practitioners supervised by professional artists and technicians, support associative initiatives carrying a project falling within an artistic and cultural approach promoting citizens' access to different forms of art. Beneficiaries: Cultural associations or those carrying a cultural project headquartered in the Grand Est region, local authorities and public or private law structures established in the Grand Est region. Nature of the aid: The aid takes the form of an operating subsidy. The project must be carried out during the calendar year for which the aid is granted. Aid application: The files so…

Period: Jun 18, 2019 – —

Develop photovoltaics

France · FR

Who can apply Commune · Intercommunalité / Pays · Département · Région · Entreprise publique locale (Sem, Spl, SemOp)

Objectives Contribute to achieving the objectives of the Regional Climate Air Energy Schemes (SRCAE), Substitute fossil fuels, Reduce greenhouse gas emissions, Support renewable energy production, Improve air quality, Create economic activity, Improve the economic profitability of projects, Help project leaders secure their energy costs by encouraging them to install a constant-cost electricity production system, Enable the development of skills in the field of self-consumption. Beneficiaries of the aid Are eligible: Local authorities, their groups and their delegates, Associations, Companies, including agricultural holdings, liberal professions, large retailers, tourism professionals, Social landlords, Condominiums, Participatory and citizen projects. Are not eligible: individuals, real estate development, the State, the De…

Period: Jan 20, 2017 – —

Benefit from monitoring communal engineering structures

France · Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Who can apply Commune · Intercommunalité / Pays · Département

Created in 2014, ATD16, the Charente Technical Agency, provides support and engineering to elected officials in Charente to successfully carry out their community's projects. Regarding communal engineering structures, ATD16 has taken up the subject in close collaboration with the Charente Departmental Council and in complementarity with the offer proposed by CEREMA as part of the recovery plan. The objective is simple: to set up a complementary duo to serve the communes of Charente. The Department for the high level of engineering available in this area and ATD16 as a local expert and multiplication tool.

Benefit from support in the implementation of the GDPR

France · Nouvelle-Aquitaine

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

Created in 2014, ATD16, the Charente Technical Agency, provides support and engineering to elected officials in Charente to successfully carry out their community's projects. The agency also assists you in the implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation within your community and supports you in monitoring practices.

Benefit from IT park maintenance

France · Nouvelle-Aquitaine

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

Created in 2014, ATD16, the Charente Technical Agency, provides support and engineering to elected officials in Charente to successfully carry out their community projects. In 2018, it merged with the Charente IT union to expand its scope of action in digital and IT matters. In terms of digital and IT, the agency supports you with IT maintenance and offers you a purchasing center at cost price .

Support communities in defining and implementing their urban planning, development, sanitation, water, road, and civil engineering projects

France · Grand Est

Who can apply Commune · Intercommunalité / Pays · Département · Région

Technical, administrative, and financial assistance to communities for defining their needs, and designing and implementing projects in the areas of development, urban planning, water, roads, and civil engineering.

Funding for reuse, repair and recycling equipment

France · FR

Who can apply Commune · Intercommunalité / Pays · Département · Entreprise publique locale (Sem, Spl, SemOp)

Aid - "Funding for reuse, repair and recycling equipment", set up by ADEME Objective: Do you want to invest to ensure the protective collection, reconditioning or repair of objects/materials for reuse/reutilization or to valorize non-food unsold items? ADEME can help you finance the necessary premises and equipment Beneficiaries: Structures involved in the circular economy and waste prevention: local authorities and businesses (including their national or regional federations), social and solidarity economy structures, associations, chambers of commerce and crafts... Support: Maximum aid rate of 55% of eligible expenditure. Equipment dedicated to protective collection in waste disposal centers welcoming household and similar waste can receive a lump sum aid of up to 30,000 €.

Funding for anti-waste equipment

France · FR

Who can apply Commune · Intercommunalité / Pays · Département · Région

Aid - "Anti-waste equipment", set up by ADEME Objective: Do you have a diagnosis or a study for an anti-waste project in your area, and do you want to invest to implement it? ADEME can provide you with assistance. Beneficiaries: public or private actors for equipment reducing waste at several stages of the chain. Support: maximum aid rate: 55% of eligible expenses.

Funding studies related to the implementation or definition of heating or cooling networks

France · FR

Who can apply Commune · Intercommunalité / Pays · Département · Région · Entreprise publique locale (Sem, Spl, SemOp)

Aid - "Heating and Cooling Network Studies", set up by ADEME Objective: To build or extend a heating and/or cooling network linking heat production means to buildings and powered by renewable or recovered energy, ADEME supports you. Beneficiaries: Local authority, Company, Association. Benefit from funding for your studies related to the implementation or definition of heating or cooling networks You have a heating or cooling network project between several buildings. You wish to define a master plan for networks for your community. These heating or cooling networks will be powered by renewable or recovered energy. Depending on the regions, ADEME relies on certain relays to promote renewable energies. As such, advice, opportunity notes and pre-feasibility studies can be provided free of charge. Investment aid for a heating or cooling network is conditional on the production of a feasibility study for network creation or a master plan…

Carry out a diagnosis of the potential for hydrogen deployment in your territory

France · FR

Who can apply Commune · Intercommunalité / Pays · Département · Entreprise publique locale (Sem, Spl, SemOp)

Aid - "Carry out a diagnosis of the potential for hydrogen deployment in your territory", set up by ADEME Objective: A subsidy may be granted for carrying out a preliminary study for the deployment of a "territorial hydrogen ecosystem", combining hydrogen production, distribution and uses for industry and mobility. Beneficiaries: Community, Company, Association, Group. Support: The preliminary study that you subcontract to a service provider will be subsidized up to 70% of eligible expenses. The basis of eligible expenses is capped at 100 000 € for a complete preliminary study including a diagnostic phase and a feasibility study phase, The basis of eligible expenses for the diagnostic phase alone cannot exceed 50 000 €.

Financing geothermal heat and cold production facilities

France · FR

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

Aid - "Financing geothermal heat and cold production facilities", set up by ADEME Objective: Realization of heat and cold production facilities using geothermal energy, in the public building, collective housing, tertiary, industrial and agricultural sectors, thanks to the financial support of ADEME's Fonds Chaleur. Beneficiaries: Local authority, Company, Public institution, Association Support: the aid is based on MWh EnR depending on the technology implemented: from 5 to 40 € per MWh EnR.

Support for the creation of Shared Energy Advisor (CEP) positions

France · FR

Who can apply Commune

Aid - "Support scheme for the creation of Shared Energy Advisor (CEP) positions", set up by ADEME Objective: The Shared Energy Advisory scheme aims to provide energy skills to municipalities that do not have the size and sufficient means to employ a specialized technician, in order to enable them to make choices regarding energy performance and consumable management of their assets. Beneficiaries: the target of the CEP scheme are municipalities with fewer than 10,000 inhabitants. Eligible actions: support for the creation of one (or more) CEP position(s) and a service organization consistent with this mission, for a maximum of 3 years Support: Funding for the implementation/extension of the service, i.e. the first 3 years, Maximum basic flat rate: 30 k€ /FTE/year, Equipment expenses related to job creation: 15 k€ /FTE maximum, External Communication expenses...: 60 k€ over 3 years maximum. Attention! The aid amounts may vary depending on the regional context: regional priorities, co-financing from partners, budgetary availability, etc...

Funding a feasibility study for waste heat recovery

France · FR

Who can apply Commune · Intercommunalité / Pays · Département · Entreprise publique locale (Sem, Spl, SemOp)

Aid - "Funding a feasibility study for waste heat recovery", set up by ADEME Objective: before investing in a waste heat recovery installation, ADEME supports you by financing your feasibility study. Beneficiaries: Local authority, Company, Association. Eligible actions: Benefit from professional support to make decisions or monitor the work of your renewable heat production or recovery installation project. If you think you have lost heat but don't know how to recover it, ADEME or its local relays can advise you. Depending on the regions, ADEME relies on certain relays to promote renewable and recovery energies. As such, advice, opportunity notes and pre-feasibility studies can be provided free of charge. The feasibility study will allow you to: verify the technical and economic feasibility of the waste heat recovery project, propose technical solutions adapted to the context and possibilities…

Fund project management assistance for a biomass boiler

France · FR

Who can apply Commune · Intercommunalité / Pays · Département · Entreprise publique locale (Sem, Spl, SemOp)

Aid - "Funding for project management assistance for a biomass boiler", implemented by ADEME Objective: ADEME, with the Fonds Chaleur, helps you carry out your biomass boiler project by providing you with a framework for the project management assistance specifications and by providing financial aid. Beneficiaries: Local authority, Company, Association. The project management assistance missions will allow you to: ensure the quality of the project through a global vision and in coordination with the different project stakeholders, implement the different stages of the project and draw up the specifications if necessary, ensure the regulatory and technical compliance of the installation, ensure the proper functioning of the installation and maintenance procedures. Support : aid can go up to 70% for a small business or in the context of a non-economic activity.

Aid for the installation of biomass/wood heat production

France · FR

Who can apply Commune · Intercommunalité / Pays · Département · Entreprise publique locale (Sem, Spl, SemOp)

Aid - "Biomass/wood heat production installation", set up by ADEME ADEME provides financial assistance for the realization of heat production installations from biomass/wood, in the sectors of public buildings, collective housing, tertiary, industry and agriculture, Beneficiaries: Community, Company, Association. There are several good reasons to switch from fossil to renewable energy thanks to biomass energy: have visibility on heat costs, access high environmental performance, benefit from proven technologies with high energy efficiency, take advantage of an available local resource (wood energy, agricultural or industrial by-products...), in a circular economy approach, act with the support of the Fonds Chaleur. Support: High-power installations in the business sector (industry, agriculture, tertiary) are supported within the framework of the AAP BCIAT (production > 12,000 MWh/year). Low-power biomass installations…

Funding actions to change mindsets in favor of ecological transition (one-off action or recruitment)

France · FR

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

Aid - "Actions in favor of ecological transition", set up by ADEME Objective: support for projects that enable the evolution of mindsets, behaviors and purchasing acts, in all areas of ADEME's intervention. Recruit a project manager position or set up a one-off animation, communication and/or training action Beneficiaries: public or private legal entity (excluding individuals or state services). Support: Aid for relays: flat rate for personnel expenses and between 50 and 100% for other expenses, Aid for one-off actions: up to 70% depending on the type of action

Funding for preliminary studies of an industrial and territorial ecology approach

France · FR

Who can apply Commune · Intercommunalité / Pays · Département · Entreprise publique locale (Sem, Spl, SemOp)

Aid - "Preliminary study of an industrial and territorial ecology approach", implemented by ADEME Are you a private actor, a group of private actors, or a public entity that wishes to engage in an industrial and territorial ecology approach? ADEME can co-finance your preliminary study. Objective: Industrial and territorial ecology aims to optimize resources at the territorial level, whether through substitution or mutualization synergies. ADEME supports communities and business groups wishing to embark on an EIT approach by co-financing a preliminary study to determine the conditions for carrying out the approach. The objective of this preliminary study is to clearly define the issues and characteristics of the territory, by identifying the different actors present and by analyzing strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities. Beneficiaries: 1/ You are an actor or a group of private actors such as: an inter-company body, a business club, an Economic Interest Group (GIE), a Public Interest Group (GIP), a Public Establishment with a specific character…

Support for the investment and/or implementation of pay-as-you-throw waste collection services

France · FR

Who can apply Commune · Intercommunalité / Pays

Support - "investment and/or implementation of pay-as-you-throw", established by ADEME Objective: Local authority, have you conducted a preliminary study showing the benefits of pay-as-you-throw waste collection services for your territory? Your project can benefit from support. You operate under the REOM, TEOM, or general budget system. You wish to implement pay-as-you-throw, extend pay-as-you-throw, or implement individual information on its use. Beneficiaries : Local authorities with waste collection responsibilities. Support : Implementation of individual information on usage: flat-rate support of €5 per DGF inhabitant, Implementation of pay-as-you-throw: flat-rate support of €10 per DGF inhabitant, Support for investments in equipment enabling the individualization of service usage monitoring: maximum rate of 55%.

Support for projects related to reuse, reduction, and substitution of packaging and containers, especially single-use plastic

France · FR

Who can apply Commune

Aid - "Reuse, reduction, and substitution of packaging and containers, especially single-use plastic", implemented by ADEME Objective: The AGEC law has set several ambitious goals in terms of substituting single-use plastic packaging and reusing packaging. ADEME supports you in your approach. Beneficiaries: The aid is aimed at businesses. Local authorities responsible for catering activities are also eligible.

Funding for territorial diagnostics and preliminary studies for reuse, repair and recycling investments

France · FR

Who can apply Commune · Intercommunalité / Pays · Département · Région · Collectivité d’outre-mer à statut particulier · Etablissement public dont services de l'Etat

Aid - "Territorial diagnostic or preliminary study for a reuse, repair and recycling investment", set up by ADEME Objective: You want to know the potential of a reuse, repair and recycling sector in your territory or study the feasibility of a facility for collecting, reconditioning or repairing objects or materials. Beneficiaries: Structure involved in the circular economy: Local authorities and businesses (including national or regional federations), Social and solidarity economy structures, Associations, Chambers of commerce and crafts... Support: Maximum aid rates can vary from 50% to 70%, Ceiling for eligible expenditure: €50,000 to €100,000.

Support Ardennes communities in the realization of their project

France · Grand Est

Who can apply Commune · Intercommunalité / Pays

On the Ardennes territory, communities can use the ARDENNES INGENIERIE system created and managed by the Department. The Departmental Council has implemented a simple, easily accessible and free system for advising and supporting communes and groups of communes in the exercise of their powers and the realization of their projects. The Ardennes Ingénierie system has been operational since July 1, 2020. Applicants can consult the service offer of the Department and its partners and submit a request for advice via the Ardennes Ingénierie digital platform and its online form. The areas of intervention are currently the following: planning, roads and infrastructure, housing and public equipment, water and sanitation, water analysis, energy savings, tourism, agricultural land development, public reading/library, cultural project, archives, archaeology, legal information and public markets, digital and dematerialization. Support is divided into three levels: level 1: first-level advice to beneficiaries; level 2: support for project management (support for project definition and implementation); level 3: specific support for identified services. Ardennes In…

Raise awareness and support energy savings in ZNI

France · FR

Who can apply Commune · Intercommunalité / Pays · Département · Région · Collectivité d’outre-mer à statut particulier · Entreprise publique locale (Sem, Spl, SemOp)

The SEIZE program is a support system for energy savings dedicated to businesses and local authorities in Corsica, Guadeloupe, Guyana, Martinique, and Reunion. 100% funded under the Energy Savings Certificates (CEE) scheme and led by Eco CO2, the program offers support for energy demand management through various actions: Energy saving awareness workshops Provision of a measurement kit and monitoring of energy consumption Support towards available aid schemes in each territory Energy visit of professional premises A platform allows everyone to get information, monitor their consumption, and take action to go further in the process: www.seize-maitrise-energie.fr Opens a new window .

Period: Apr 1, 2021 – —

Support projects connecting with nature and conserving nature and species

France · FR

Who can apply Commune

The Major Committees support flagship and experimental projects, co-constructed with associations, addressing significant biodiversity challenges for one and active nature-based education for the other. Each is composed of a jury of civil society experts (scientists, educators, specialists in their field) and Nature & Découvertes naturalists and passionate employees. Each annual committee examines between 10 and 20 pre-selected proposals by the Foundation team, which will be funded from €6,000 up to €15,000 for national projects. The "Active nature-based education" committee supports reference projects in connecting with nature. It meets in June to vote on grants. The "Biodiversity" committee supports reference projects in nature and species conservation. It meets in October to select the winners. The "Helping Hand" Committee supports initiatives for the protection, awareness, and education of ordinary or remarkable nature by targeting local field projects, with a strong volunteer component, to carry out concrete actions. It is composed of a rotating jury of 20 nature-loving employees from the Nature & Découvertes teams, accompanied by experts. They meet throughout the seasons…

Reduce the impact of human activities on the environment

France · FR

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

The UEM Foundation supports local and regional projects but can also support projects dealing with broader issues, within a national scope. It provides support for concrete actions whose purpose is to reduce the impact of human activities on the environment. This commitment translates into the fight against pollution and nuisances, the prevention of natural and technological risks, and the preservation of natural balances (fauna, flora, natural sites and environments). The Foundation's priority is to contribute to reducing climate change and preserving biodiversity by all possible means. This support can be financial but can also consist of ensuring better visibility for your project through better communication around it, by informing and raising public awareness about the environmental issues raised by your initiative.