Learning Braille through play, a real lever for inclusion
Jean MASSOU
Chairman and founder of Handi Exceller
Supporting learning for people with disabilities
Many visually impaired or blind people fail to learn Braille. The strength of this project is that it offers a fun and easy-to-use solution.
Nancy (Meurthe-et-Moselle)
Supporting learning for people with disabilities
Nearly 60% of learners abandon Braille (according to the French HOMÈRE study on visual impairment 2022 by the national association of parents of blind children and its partners). The reason for this is the great difficulty of this writing system and the lack of tools to make it easier to learn. It was this problem that Jean Massou set out to tackle at secondary school. ‘It all started with a meeting. I was looking for a subject for my final year project. When I bumped into my neighbour Christine, who is visually impaired, I had the idea of asking her what she was missing. She immediately told me about Braille and how it’s so complicated, which puts a lot of visually impaired people off.https://vimeo.com/1069546162
Two key areas: games and inclusion
Jean came up with Br’EYE (pronounced like ‘braille’), a console for learning braille independently, with games accessible to all.
The project went from strength to strength, attracting attention and awards. At the Engineering Science Olympiads, Jean, still a secondary school student, won the regional and then the national competitions. As an undergraduate, he took part in the ‘ Entrepreneurship for Learning’ programme, which enabled him to embark on the beginnings of an entrepreneurial adventure. Here too, the national prize was up for grabs. ‘Until then, I’d been pursuing the project in ‘garage mode’, alongside my engineering studies. But at this stage, I started to get in touch with companies and with the Lorraine Incubator. That’s when I felt we could gear up and create a company to promote Br’EYE more widely.
It has to be said that the tool has three strong points. Firstly, it meets a real unmet need for visually impaired people: no competing solution exists on the market. Secondly, it is resolutely inclusive: ‘Everyone can use it: the visually impaired person, but also their teachers, relatives, etc. Because it’s all based on games. It’s an excellent way of getting as much Braille as possible on a regular basis without losing motivation. Finally, he is banking on autonomy, which represents a real access to information.
Consistent deployment
To structure his approach, Jean founded Handi Exceller in 2021. Three years later, the Nancy-based company has eight employees and has raised €1 million to roll out Br’EYE throughout France and, in recent months, internationally. As part of its ongoing drive for inclusivity, the range has also been expanded with the creation of Marble, which enables learners to play games on their computers, without the need for a special device.
The young entrepreneur also highlights the contribution made by France Active. ‘Their support has been very useful on three levels. Firstly, in networking with players in the Social and Solidarity Economy. Secondly, in defining our funding strategy. I’d say that they helped me to better understand the dynamics of this financial intelligence. Finally, by providing a bank guarantee, which was reassuring for our loan’, he sums up.
And of course, the young entrepreneur has no intention of stopping there. ‘Once we have finalised the deployment of our tools in the field of visual impairment, we would like to explore other aspects of disability, such as autistic disorders. Learning through games opens up enormous potential!
Benefited from the creation offer
with a guarantee of
40 000€
Supported by
France Active Lorraine
In 2023
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A sibling group of young entrepreneurs with plenty of energy!
Ananth PURUSHOTHAMAN
Co-founder of Shape Eat
Balanced meals available in gyms
Not forgetting that our aim is to democratise healthy, balanced food at low prices in our area.
Aulnay-sous-Bois (Seine-Saint-Denis)
Balanced meals available in gyms
The concept of Shape Eat is simple and effective: to provide access to healthy, tasty, affordable meals via connected dispensers installed in the heart of gyms.
The idea was the brainchild of two brothers, Ananth and Magesh Purushothaman, who didn’t wait long to develop their entrepreneurial spirit. They were in their twenties when they embarked on their adventure. Ananth was studying for a master’s degree at a business school and Magesh was an aerospace engineer. “Personally, I’ve wanted to be an entrepreneur since I was a child,’ confirms Ananth. I was 11 when we arrived in France. We learnt French on the spot. Right away, I wanted to understand how a company worked, the management, what had to be done to make it work?”
A new concept for gyms
Ananth and Magesh are young, but not hot-headed. Ananth decided to devote all his time to the project, while his brother concentrated on developing the technical aspects while continuing his professional career.
The project is being built up step by step: training in the health and hygiene standards that are essential for any catering business, recruitment of a chef, creation of recipes, hire of a kitchen, and so on. A sports coach, Corine Lecolas, is also joining the venture. Her strong point: her excellent knowledge of sports hall networks and customer relations.
This led to a partnership with Fitness Park, which installed dispensers in six gyms in Seine-Saint-Denis: Villepinte, Les Pavillons-sous-Bois, Villemomble, Courbevoie and Roissy-en-France. ‘The sports halls have been convinced by the approach. What Shape Eat offers doesn’t yet exist. And yet many sportsmen and women are looking for solutions to ensure that their diet meets their targeted nutritional needs (weight loss, muscle mass gain, increased performance, etc.). Our connected dispensers help them by displaying all this information’, explains Ananth. ‘
It’s also worth noting that Shape Eat can give them visibility, because the dispensers are accessible not only to their members, but also to anyone living in the area’.
An entry-point in the Seine-Saint-Denis county
Shape Eat’s founders are particularly keen to establish a local presence. ‘We come from Aulnay-sous-Bois and our business is based in Seine-Saint-Denis, with the aim of creating jobs in the county. We train and recruit people who are being reintegrated into the workplace, or those on youth employment schemes, into our kitchen. Not forgetting that our aim is to democratise healthy, balanced food at low prices in our area’, explains Ananth.
Struck by the team’s determination and commitment, France Active Métropole (which operates in the Hauts-de-Seine, Seine-Saint-Denis and Val-de-Marne départements) decided to support the project with a Young Entrepreneur grant, an interest-free loan and an Égalité Territoires guarantee. Thanks to the Accès + programme dedicated to new entrepreneurs from disadvantaged areas. Ananth was also able to attend workshops on digitalising his business. ‘This support gave us a solid start and the cash flow we needed to get going,’ he confirms. Today, just a few months after setting up Shape Eat, the signs are green: ‘sales are up and the concept is winning over the network of sports halls in the region. In the future, we’re looking to expand nationally, and why not across Europe? There’s nothing to stop us from having that ambition,’ concludes Ananth.
Focus on the Inclusion through Self-Employment programme:
In March 2021, France Active is responding to a call for projects launched by the Ministry of Labour, Employment and Integration. On this occasion, France Active is enhancing its Creation offer with new support modules for the most vulnerable entrepreneurs, focusing on 4 themes:
- financial education (managing cash flow, managing relations with bankers, dashboards and management tools, crowdfunding and financial analysis and management),
- protection and security (risk prevention, social and legal protection, civil liability, cyber-risks)
- digital awareness (for prospecting, brand awareness, etc.),
- awareness of impact
And for young people aged between 18 and 30, a €1,000 grant
Has benefited
from guarantees of
102 000€
from two bonus of
6 000€
Was supported by
France Active Métropole
In 2022 and 2023
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Event: a new look at solidarity-based savings
When savers get involved in transforming our economy.
On 5 December last year, France Active invited financial players to change the way they look at solidarity-based savings on the 1st anniversary of Actifs Solidaires, an initiative aimed at making investment accessible to voluntary sector managers and Social Economy companies. The aim of the event is to demonstrate how citizen savings respond to local social and ecological challenges through socially responsible investment. Discover the programme and replay of this evening event, which took place at the Maison de la Conversation in Paris.
>> From savings to solidarity-based investment :
In recent years, social and environmental needs have become increasingly pressing. At the same time, the economic models of associations and Social Economy companies have come under pressure (increasing number of beneficiaries, inflation, falling subsidies, public calls for projects, etc.). Against this backdrop, France Active has launched a programme to encourage these structures to invest in order to bounce back, cross thresholds and further develop their social utility. This initiative, called Actifs Solidaires, is celebrating its 1st year.
How are these socially useful projects financed? Through socially responsible citizen savings! To help finance projects run by associations and Social Economy companies, France Active invests French people’s solidarity savings. These savings are little-known (France Active-Fair survey by OpinionWay), even though the French are the biggest savers in Europe. Yet this survey shows that if they knew about solidarity-based savings, they would be in favour of it, because it meets their expectations, both in terms of its social and ecological impact and its level of profitability over the medium and long term.
>> Event of the 5th December in Paris
At this event, France Active looked again at the concerns of savers to demonstrate how solidarity-based savings responds to them and how it helps to finance associations and companies in the Social Economy.
- How does solidarity-based savings transform the economy?
- How does it help to support sustainable projects with strong potential for social innovation?
- How does solidarity financing provide a strong territorial base and a collective dimension to the development of these territories?
These will be the 3 themes addressed during the evening.
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>> Programme:
17:00 – Opening by Pierre-René Lemas, Chairman of France Active
Talkshow with investment players:
- Laurence Laplane-Rigal, Amundi
- and Cédric Renaud, Caisse d’Épargne
Entrepreneurs:
- The directors of Protectus, Les Alchimistes
- and Jardins de la voie romaine
Social Economy and solidarity-based savings players:
- Marion Le Cam, Fédération Nationale de l’Offre de services de la MSA
- and Éric Larpin, Label Finansol
Talkshow hosted by Sébastien Borgnat, former LCI morning show journalist.
To close the event, Pierre-René Lemas called for solidarity-based savings schemes to be made universally available, giving employees of SMEs and large groups alike access to this type of savings. This will enable the associations and Social Economy companies that benefit from them to expand their activities.
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2025, a socially committed year
Pierre-René LEMAS
Président of France Active
Bold, resilient, militant and socially committed, the entrepreneurs we support inspire us. In the new year, they will show us just how necessary it is to mobilise if we want to move our society towards greater inclusion, greater ecology and greater solidarity.
Despite all the economic, social and political uncertainties we are experiencing, and to combat the inward-looking attitudes that could take hold of us all, we must act at every level to put back at the heart of all our exchanges the great principles of solidarity that underpin our way of living together. Transforming our economy, an ambition that we have held dear since the beginning of our history, is one of the possible responses to the various crises we are experiencing. In the New Year, I hope that financial players, public decision-makers and businesses will become more involved in this long-awaited transformation. I also hope that citizens will regain the power to act on the major challenges we face.
More and more entrepreneurs will be able to put the issues of employment, social cohesion, ecology and democratic governance at the heart of their projects throughout the world.
A very happy and socially committed year to you all.
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Car-sharing makes its mark in Greater Toulouse
Alexandre JOUAVILLE
Managing Director of the Citiz Occitanie cooperative
Car-sharing
As a partner, France Active is strengthening the Social and Solidarity Economy ecosystem by giving credibility to projects like ours.
Toulouse and greater area
Car-sharing
By pooling vehicles and reducing car dependency, carsharing is an innovative and virtuous mobility solution that helps to meet environmental challenges and contributes to better urban living. More than 20 years ago, the Citiz network was born, and today it is present in 200 towns and cities, with a fleet of more than 2,000 cars available 24 hours a day. In Occitanie, Citiz offers cars in 45 stations throughout the region (to avoid focusing on the metropolis). France Active has been supporting the structures of this pioneering car-sharing network for many years. https://vimeo.com/1026460093
Alexandre JOUAVILLE, could you briefly describe your organisation?
Citiz is a cooperative offering a fleet of self-service cars in local areas. As a pioneer of car-sharing in France, we promote a vision of mobility that is an alternative to private car ownership. By providing easy access to a car on an occasional basis, Citiz replaces 8 private cars and frees up 3 on-street parking spaces. Our ambition is to develop stations linked to all the sustainable mobility and public transport infrastructures in the region.
How is commitment at the heart of Citiz’s project?
First of all, we are a Scic, a cooperative society of collective interest where all the stakeholders take decisions together. Citiz is also an ambitious project in the general interest, working to improve the quality of life of our fellow citizens by limiting the number of cars and the amount of parking space in town. Our project also aims to reduce its environmental impact by offering cars with the lowest possible emissions. We also want to give certain households access to a means of individual transport at a lower cost, thanks to a transparent and incentive-based pricing policy (cost of hire per hour, per kilometre, etc.).
Has benefited
from a guarantee of
84 000€
from investments of
395 000€
from a bonus of
8 000€
Were supported by
France Active MPA Occitanie
Depuis 2021
France Active’s perspective
Hélène GAUTHIER
Funding coordinator at France Active MPA Occitanie
How did you identify the Citiz project?
Citiz benefited from the ISO fund (Investir Solidaire en Occitanie). This fund was co-constructed by MPA Occitanie and other local financiers, notably the Union régionale des Scop and IES (Initiative pour une Économie Solidaire). We work closely with these partner networks, which enable us to identify many committed projects like Citiz.
How does Citiz’s approach fit in with France Active’s vision of commitment?
The Citiz project is strong on all the pillars of commitment: employment, social, territorial, ecological and governance. Citiz has a shared governance model, a large number of members and employs around ten people in Occitanie. Their offer frees up public space, encourages modal shift and reduces pollution. Last but not least, they have a strong coverage of the region, with a presence beyond the major metropolises, giving people access to mobility by car at a lower cost. In fact, we’re very proud to use Citiz to transport our advisers throughout the region.
How do you help entrepreneurs to make their projects more socially useful?
We pay close attention to questions of commitment during annual monitoring campaigns or during refinancing phases. For example, when a major player in the Sociale Economy sector recently raised funds, we didn’t hesitate to ask them about their vision of employment in the context of significant growth.
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A programme to encourage committed projects
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.
Women entrepreneurs take centre stage!
Over the past 5 years, 62 meetings have been attended by more than 250 projects. In total, over €4 million in grants have been awarded, with an average grant of around €17,000. Nearly 70% of the projects are run by women, over 31% are located in disadvantaged areas and 10% are run by long-term jobseekers. Over the next few years, the programme will be redesigned to involve partners more closely in the choice of entrepreneurs that will be supported, and to make it easier for them to be selected locally. Over the past 5 years, 62 meetings have been attended by more than 250 projects. In total, over €4 million in grants have been awarded, with an average grant of around €17,000. Nearly 70% of the projects are run by women, over 31% are located in disadvantaged areas and 10% are run by long-term jobseekers. Over the next few years, the programme will be redesigned to involve partners more closely in the choice of entrepreneurs that will be supported, and to make it easier for them to be selected locally.
Examples of winners
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.
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Beautiful work for a noble essence
Claire LESTAVEL
Administrative manager at Ambiance Bois
Working differently
France Active has been with us since Ambiance Bois was set up 35 years ago. When we started out, it was a question of guaranteeing a loan that enabled us to set up. France Active Nouvelle-Aquitaine remains at our side to finance our development phases, as it was the case for the purchase of a shredding line that enabled us to recycle our waste.
Faux-la-Montagne (Creuse)
Working differently
Claire Lestavel is the administrative manager of a sawmill and planermill nestling in Faux-la-Montagne in the Creuse region of France. When asked about Ambiance Bois, she doesn’t talk about herself or her career, but about a team. In fact, she was chosen by lottery and is ‘only’ the spokesperson for a company with an original way of working. She talks about the resources, organisation and values of a company set up in 1988 by a group of scouts who wanted to work differently. https://vimeo.com/1019466284
In the forest
Ambiance Bois is based on the Millevaches plateau. The founders chose a rural setting and succeeded in breathing life into the area through economic activity and employment.
Today, Faux-la-Montagne has fewer than 400 inhabitants. Despite this, and thanks to the investment of the Ambiance Bois team, the commune has managed to preserve essential facilities and shops: a nursery, a school, a grocery-bakery, a pharmacy, etc.
The sawmill site was not chosen at random. The natural resource is abundantly available in the surrounding massifs. The company’s work is therefore carried out in a short circuit, with no intermediaries: those involved in harvesting Douglas pine or larch are also the sellers of these processed species, of which they are proud.
What is SAPO?
The foundations have been laid in terms of dynamism and ethics. All that remains is to tick off the social and community dimension. Ambiance Bois is a SAPO (a limited company with workers’participation), a very rare form of company. This model was chosen by the founders because they felt that the relationship with the workforce was just as important as the quality of the finished product.
The SAPO status allows for self-management: decisions are taken collectively. Employees have a say on prices, schedules, recruitment and other matters that primarily concern them.
Salaries are the same for everyone, regardless of seniority in the company, level of education or skills. In exchange, a degree of flexibility and versatility, where possible, is expected. Of course, responsibilities are shared.
In this unusual venture, the day-to-day activity is as important as the capital invested: dividends are shared equally between labour and capital shareholders. France Active provided financial support for Ambiance Bois when it was first set up, and throughout its development, particularly for the purchase of equipment. This has enabled the sawmill and planermill to continue to evolve and adapt to new needs, without losing any of what makes it unique.
Has benefited
from guarantees of
64 000€
from investments of
253 000€
Was supported by
France Active Nouvelle Aquitaine
Since 2013
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In Guadeloupe, when sustainable agriculture goes hand in hand with job integration
Natacha KANCEL
Head of the Drain’ailes project
Job integration into sustainable agriculture field
When we were putting together the financing for our project, it became clear that we needed substantial working capital to maintain and develop our business. This loan gave us the stability we needed to move forward.
Sainte-Rose – Guadeloupe
Job integration into sustainable agriculture field
Drain’ailes is the first association in Guadeloupe to benefit from a free loan from France Active Guadeloupe. Thanks to this financial support, it is consolidating its economic base. It will also enable it to write a new page for its rural territory, with its high unemployment rate, and for the dozen or so women who work there in sustainable agriculture.
Natacha Kancel has set up her Drain’ailes back-to-work workshop in Sainte-Rose, a town in the north of Basse-Terre in Guadeloupe. Since the end of 2023, she has been employing a dozen women on the farm, working in three areas: agroforestry (cocoa, vanilla, coffee, etc.), permaculture organic farming (market gardening, fruit trees, etc.) and agro-processing (sauces, seasonings, juices, etc.).
A culinary and agricultural heritage
In creating Drain’ailes, Natacha Kancel had one aim: to pass on the island’s natural heritage. First and foremost to the younger generation: “Many young people are turning away from local produce in favour of processed and imported foods, which are often unhealthy,” she explains. “So my aim is to introduce them to local products, such as our fruit syrups and jams, which have the double advantage of being 100% Guadeloupean and much less sweet”.
This tradition is also passed on by women. Natacha Kancel drew her inspiration from her grandmother and mother who, like many at the time, had a small piece of garden that they cultivated themselves. “My aim is to reintroduce local women to the skills that enable them to increase their purchasing power and regain pride in providing for themselves and their families with the fruits of their labour. At Drain’elles, most of the women in the integration programme are single mothers. Ultimately, with the association, our aim is to develop food self-sufficiency, the economy and education, but also to give a positive image to Sainte-Rose, often cited unfortunately for its unemployment and delinquency rate”, she adds.
So when the regional programme for enterprises that aim to re-integrate people through work (Dispositif régional d’accompagnement des Structures d’insertion par l’activité économique), which supports the project, redirected it to the newly-created France Active Guadeloupe, supported by the European Social Fund (ESF+), the latter had no hesitation in backing the project.
“Drain’ailes meets all the points of France Active’s commitment,” confirms Magali Lacambra, Director of France Active Guadeloupe. Namely: participative governance, action in the social and employment sectors, at the heart of a territory with strong needs and in response to the challenges of sustainable transition.
Unprecedented support for associations
Drain’ailes is the first association to benefit from a free loan – i.e. a zero-interest loan – granted by France Active Guadeloupe (amounting to 21,000 euros). “When we were putting together the financial package for our project, it became clear that we needed a lot of working capital to be able to sustain and develop our business. This loan gave us the stability we needed to move forward”, confirms Natacha Kancel.
The free loan offered by France Active Guadeloupe, with funding from the Banque des Territoires, the Region and the Department, is an innovative product. “This free loan is an accessible solution and a real lever for associations that often have difficulty accessing bank loans,” explains Magali Lacambra. “We can co-finance up to 70% of their needs. This opens the door to new financial solutions for associations.”
With this support, Drain’ailes can now look to the future by multiplying its projects and has the means to increase its financial autonomy: extending the workshop to accommodate around ten extra people (in particular to offer essential oils or floral waters), or improving the vanilla processing. “In 2-3 years’ time, our ambition is to present our vanilla at the Concours Général, which will be an additional lever for promoting the work of the women who produce it”, concludes Natacha Kancel.
The France Active Guadeloupe offer is being structured
With the aim of making its offer available in all regions, France Active created France Active Guadeloupe in 2023, after two years of experimentation. “Financing via France Active Investissement, particularly equity loans, already existed in Guadeloupe. With the creation of the France Active Guadeloupe association, we are now in a position to offer free loans to associations. We play the role of investor in conjunction with other co-financiers, to provide a unique tool for organisations that are setting up, relaunching or experiencing difficulties. Our range of support services is expanding”, explains Marie Chauvin, head of the Services and Advice Department.
Has benefited
from an investment of
21 000€
Was supported by
France Active Guadeloupe
In 2024
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Pierre-René Lemas re-elected Chairman of France Active
On July 4, Pierre-René Lemas was re-elected Chairman of France Active. This senior civil servant has devoted his entire career to the public interest, notably as a regional prefect, General Secretary of the Elysée Palace and Director of the Caisse des Dépôts Group.
In 2018, he was elected to succeed Christian Sautter as president of the France Active association movement. This will now be his 3rd mandate, enabling him to continue developing the work of the network’s 35 regional associations.
Pierre-René Lemas reiterated his ambition to pursue the development of the movement and to contribute to making entrepreneurship a powerful ally in the economic and social development of territories. He will lead reflection on the new 2025/2030 strategic project, with a focus on supporting projects that are ever more socially and environmentally committed.
Pierre-René LEMAS
Chairman of France Active
France Active plays an essential role in the French economic landscape. Our associative movement meets a dual need: to develop socially useful structures in our regions (associations and social enterprises) and to support all entrepreneurs who have difficulty accessing bank credit, due to their personal or geographical situation, by offering them a guarantee that reassures the bank.
We will continue to foster cooperation between socially committed entrepreneurs in the regions. We intend to mobilize even more citizens, entrepreneurs as well as public and private players who share our vision of transforming the economy. In keeping with the vision of our founder, the humanist and resistance fighter Claude Alphandéry, we must bring together and develop all the initiatives that will enable us to meet the social and ecological challenges we face.
Renewed governance for France Active
The re-election of Pierre-René Lemas also went with a renewal of France Active’s governance.
On May 30, the Annual General Meeting approved the appointment of three new directors to the Board of Qualified Personalities: Catherine Husson-Traoré, Managing Director of Novethic and Elisabeth Rivière, lawyer, Claire Thoury, President of Mouvement Associatif, and two new directors to the Board of Economic Partners: Anne-Claire Roux, Managing Director of Fondation Mirova and Yves Pellicier, Chairman of Groupe Maif.
France Active, the movement of committed entrepreneurs
France Active enables every entrepreneur to get involved in a project with a positive impact. Setting up a business and getting involved in your region, giving meaning to your project and transforming society: that’s the challenge facing socially committed entrepreneurs. France Active and its 35 regional associations are there to advise them on their financing projects and give them access to a unique network of economic and social players.
With its 2 finance companies, France Active supports more than 36,440 entrepreneurs. The movement mobilized 485 million euros in 2023. Every day, France Active works to develop a more inclusive and sustainable economy. Last year, businesses supported by France Active created or consolidated more than 67,080 jobs.
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