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Every month for the past 5 years, Place de l’émergence has been helping entrepreneurs to turn their socially useful projects into reality. Advice, funding and networking: the France Active triptych is at the heart of this programme. And to strengthen the support and funding, the association is surrounded by expert and funding partners.
In the delicate ideation phase for projects with a social and ecological dimension, it is difficult to find guidance and support. This is why France Active has mobilised a number of public and private partners to create a programme dedicated to the emergence of new businesses.
Called the ‘Fonds de confiance’ when it was launched in 2005, this programme has undergone significant development and is known as ‘Place de l’émergence’ since 2019. To celebrate the Place’s 5th anniversary, France Active brought together all the stakeholders in the programme last February. It was a great opportunity to celebrate the successes and to look ahead to the future of this initiative, which forms part of the various actions to support incubation and emergence carried out by local associations.
In 2021, the association Les Valoristes came into being thanks to the support from the Emergence Ile-de-France scheme. This enabled the project to be structured over a 4-month period, and to be challenged in terms of its impact, the products and services it offered, its objectives, and so on.) This feedback was very valuable to the association. Les Valoristes then obtained funding under the Place de l’émergence scheme. In 2022, the association received its integration site agreement. In 2023, it focused on responding to calls for tender and developing the structure. 2024 will be a year of structuring around 3 offers: the wood factory, the lab for electronic waste and the campus to raise public awareness of the circular economy and inclusion.
In 2022, Place de l’émergence supported the La Remise association. This is a project that works to disseminate and promote re-use in the construction sector in the Grand Est region through a digital platform. This project, supported by the Banque des Territoires, the Banque de France and the Macif Foundation, is now continuing to develop.
Thank you to all those involved, without whom this scheme would not exist.
What impact has this programme had?
Since the launch of Place de l’émergence in 2019, €3.85M in grants have been paid to participants, with an average amount of €17,000 per grants paid.
67% are female project owners, with an average age of 44. 10% are long-term jobseekers (more than 12 months) and 31.5% of projects are in fragile areas
France Active’s main prescribers are other support networks (62%).
540 jobs! This is the number of jobs created by the structures surveyed, or 5 jobs per structure financed.
And today, 64% of the projects are in the development or consolidation phase. Only 5% of projects have been abandoned.
