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A PROJECT IN THE SOUTH OF FRANCE?

Launched in 2018, the Territoires d'Industrie program is a national initiative to support industry in France as a way to strengthen the industrial landscape. It has resulted in the 189 areas of the country being given the official "Territoires d’Industries” status that makes them eligible for support through the program. Thus far, €8.2 billion in public and private investment has been mobilized for the development of industrial projects across the country. Following the success of the first phase of the program (2018-2022), the second phase (2023-2027) should enable the positive momentum to be maintained and amplified.

In the South of France, eight areas have been given official Territoires d’Industrie certification: 

• Aix-Marseille Provence (Bouches-du-Rhône),
• Dracénie and the Pays de Fayence (Var),
• Grasse, Cannes, and Sophia-Antipolis (Alpes-Maritimes),
• Hautes-Alpes,
• Nice Côte d’Azur metro area and the Riviera Française agglomeration (Alpes-Maritimes),
• Toulon Provence Méditerranée (Var),
• Val de Durance (Alpes de Haute-Provence)
• The Avignon area (Vaucluse)

The Région Sud, the DREETS economy and labor directorate, the ANCT territorial agency, the Banque des Territoires public investment bank, and risingSUD have joined forces to create a unique version of the national program: Sud Territoires d'Industrie. The goal is to help stakeholders and companies in the eight certified Territories d’Industrie zones in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur to identify the best planning and financing solutions to meet their needs.

Today, any public- or private-sector stakeholder located in one of these territories can benefit from dedicated services to accelerate their development: project engineering, financing, preferential rates for certain support packages, and much more.

These services are designed to strengthen local industry and there are four primary objectives:

If you are:

• a public entity, an association, or a company 
• located in one of the official Territoires d’Industrie in the South of France
• And you have an industrial development project that requires financing or structural support (regulatory requirements, real estate or land issues, sector-based consulting, market positioning, etc.).

Fill in the form below with all the information you have available.

We'll get back to you within 15 days of the receipt of a complete project application.

The program also calls for the appointment of a project manager for each official Territoire d'Industrie with coordination provided by the Région Sud.

Project managers are responsible for:

• identifying and accelerating support for projects in their territory
• monitoring and updating their Territoires d'Industrie strategic plan
• communicating the program to all stakeholders and partners

To this end, all requests for support received via this platform will be submitted to the relevant Territoire d'Industrie project manager for approval.

The Region Sud has identified eight key sectors of activity in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region and has launched the OIR strategic sector program to give them competitive advantages and boost their innovation, growth, and job creation potential. An elected regional official and a business leader co-chair each of the eight strategic sector programs. They bring together public and private stakeholders who work together to identify and support high-impact companies and projects for the sector.

risingSUD plays a vital role in the strategic sector program and provides customized support to the selected companies and projects.

Within the framework of the OIR strategic sector program, risingSUD's experts provide customized engineering services to strengthen all aspects of a project: legal structuring, economic modeling, business plans, etc. This expertise has already facilitated the acceleration of 162 major projects across the Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur region.

Do you represent a local government, a company, or an economic stakeholder with a major project for the region that will impact one of our eight strategic sectors? If so, this program is for you! This program is for you!

• Gain access to regional and sector-specific expertise 

• Benefit from specialist advice to carry out technical, commercial, and legal assessments

• Receive support from an integrated team, in partnership with EY

Every year, risingSUD organizes two special financing committees on behalf of Region Sud. These comittees are meant to connect companies active in the region’s strategic sectors with both public and private investors (banks, business angels, foundations, investment funds) so they can move ahead with major projects or expansions.

 
These day long events are called “CoFIs” and they include:

1. A "project" sequence where leaders from companies with major  projects for the region’s strategic sectors make pitches to both local and national financial backers.
2. A "business" sequence where representatives of regional companies in the process of raising funds present their business plans to private investors to convince them to invest.

Are you a project leader or a company manager raising funds for a major project or expansion? We help you to: 

• identify and leverage public and private financing

• structure your project’s economic documentation

• accelerate the closing of financing deals for your project

Are you a financer? The CoFIs are an opportunity to: 

• enjoy access to high-potential projects

• receive insights into the companies and major projects that will shape the region’s strategic sectors 

• to participate in a collective engineering project uniting financial backers from the public and private sectors