Our mission is to promote regional policies that will improve the well-being of people in the Sahel & West Africa. The Sahel and West Africa Club (SWAC) is an independent, international platform. Its Secretariat is hosted at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Its mission is to promote regional policies that will improve the economic and social well-being of people in the Sahel and West Africa. Its objectives are to: •Improve the regional governance of food and nutrition security; •Improve the understanding of ongoing transformations in the region and their policy implications through regional, spatial and forward-looking analyses. …

Sectors: International development

[Automatic translation follows] The Agency for Ecological Transition! ADEME in brief The Agency for Ecological Transition participates in the implementation of public policies in the areas of the environment, energy and sustainable development. It provides its expertise and consulting capabilities to businesses, local authorities, public authorities and the general public, in order to enable them to progress in their environmental approach. The Agency also helps to finance projects, from research to implementation, in the following areas: waste management, soil preservation, energy efficiency and renewable energies, savings on raw materials, air quality, noise control, the transition to the circular economy and …

Sectors: National and local authorities

[Automatic translation follows] Tech & Innovation Expertise Center: ANTICIPATE CHANGES, ACT TODAY, SUCCEED TOMORROW Thésame is the expert center for innovation professions: -Technical expertise in the fields of Robotics Mechatronics Digital -Expertise in the professions of product/service, process, organizational and managerial innovation In practice, Thésame's 20 experts and 300 partner consultants support companies in innovation management, industrial performance and digital/mechatronics/robotics. TWO LEVERS ARE AT THE SERVICE OF COMPANIES -Think tanks to anticipate changes: "The Lab" Experimentation - prototyping and implementation of new practices -Tools to act today: "The Booster" Support, training, club, events, information THE OBJECTIVE: Identify and bring out …

Sectors: Public business cluster Research

[Automatic translation follows] A mutualist model serving customers and employees. A mutualist banking network made up of 2,124 local banks, Crédit Mutuel is made up of 18 regional federations, covering the entire French territory. A partnership and not a capital company, Crédit Mutuel is not listed on the stock exchange. Its strategy is thus freed from the search for short-term profitability alone, in favor of long-term development. Its central objective: to provide a quality service at the fairest cost to all its members. Its decentralized organization thus promotes quality of service to customers and responsiveness, through short decision-making circuits. Recognized …

Sectors: Bank

Construisons dans un monde qui bouge. CIC is the fourth largest banking group in France, consisting of seven regional banks which operate across France through a network of 1,844 branches employing 24,000 staff. CIC's customer base includes 2.7 million retail clients. One in eleven self-employed professionals is a CIC group client and nearly one in three companies banks with CIC Group. Banque de détail, Banque de financement, Activités de marchés, Banque privée, Capital-développement, Crédit, Assurance, Mobile, Automobile, and Télésurveillance

Sectors: Bank

[Automatic translation follows] We accelerate social impact entrepreneurship in Italy, we are a MISE certified incubator SocialFare is the first Center for Social Innovation in Italy, entirely dedicated to innovation with a strong social impact: through research, capacity building and co-design it develops innovative solutions to pressing contemporary social challenges, generating new economy. Established in 2013 in Turin, since 2017 it has been registered in the register of incubators certified by the MISE. It offers acceleration programs, support and expert advice to startups, social enterprises, Third Sector organizations, public bodies, schools, informal teams and citizens interested in designing and developing …

Bringing you news and information from the European Commission The Commission represents and upholds the interests of the EU as a whole, and is independent of national governments. The European Commission prepares legislation for adoption by the Council (representing the member countries) and the Parliament (representing the citizens). It administers the budget and the policy programmes (agriculture, fisheries, research etc.) in cooperation with authorities in the member countries. Visit http://www.europa.eu/ if you want to learn more about the EU, or call the free service number 00 800 6789 10 11 from anywhere in the EU, they speak all 24 official …

Sectors: European Union

[Automatic translation follows] Give your innovation project every chance, get support! The Brest-Iroise Technopole supports project leaders who want to develop an activity around an innovative concept in northern Finistère. Leading collective actions, promoting complementarities between partners, strengthening links between research stakeholders and the business world to support the development of the territory through innovation, this has been our vocation for 30 years. With this objective, the Technopole runs the French Tech Brest + label and the Campus Mondial de la Mer community. Formed as an Association under the 1901 Law, the Brest-Iroise Technopole brings together a network of more …

Multi-energy company. We produce and market oil and biofuels, natural gas and green gases, renewables and electricity. Have you ever thought of offering your skills and expertise to a multinational company? Give your best to better energy and make the commitment with TotalEnergies. With over 500-plus professions in 130 countries, we offer high safety and environmental standards, strong ethical values, an innovation culture and wide-ranging career development. Be part of the global team whose mission is already shared by 105,000 employees : to be a world-class player in the energy transition Oil & Gas - Exploration & Production, Upstream, Refining, …

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[Automatic translation follows] RETIS is the French network of innovation professionals serving innovative businesses and territories with the following missions: - Professionalization of members through the qualification of employees and the certification of organizations - Lobbying and network animation - Experimentation of pilot projects dedicated to innovative entrepreneurship at national and international level Complementary links in the same network innovation chain, the members of the RETIS network support the creation and development of innovative businesses in the territories on a daily basis with two complementary missions and professions - Support for these innovative businesses - Animation of their territory and …

Funding a green future for Europe #CINEA_EU #EUGreenDeal The European Climate, Environment and Infrastructure Executive Agency (CINEA) is the successor organisation of the Innovation and Networks Executive Agency (INEA). Officially established on 15 February 2021, it has started its activities on 1 April 2021 in order to implement parts of certain EU programmes: (a) Innovation Fund; (b) Connecting Europe Facility: Transport and Energy; (c) Horizon Europe: Pillar II, cluster 5: Climate, energy and mobility; (d) LIFE: Nature and biodiversity; Circular economy and quality of life; Climate change mitigation and adaptation; Clean energy transition; (e) Renewable Energy Financing Mechanism; (f) Public …

[Automatic translation follows] As a player in the executive employment market, Apec supports and advises executives throughout their career path to anticipate and prepare for their development, as well as young people from higher education to prepare for their first job search. It offers companies services to optimize their recruitment and internal skills management. As an observatory of the executive employment market, Apec provides analysis and benchmarks on major trends. Apec supports and advises executives throughout their career path Executives, whether they are monitoring or reflecting, in a process of development or mobility, internal or external, find at Apec all …

Sectors: Human ressources

[Automatic translation follows] Nantes Métropole, a territory of inspiration! Nantes and its metropolis have the ambition to invent a new development model to respond to the democratic, ecological, digital transitions... of our time. They rely on the strengths of a united, collaborative, bold, creative and "completely Western" territory! The social networks of Nantes Métropole are spaces open to all and aim to keep you informed of the news of the Nantes metropolis. Nantes Métropole reserves the right to delete all publications that are abusive, contrary to public order or morality, violent, racist, revisionist, advocating war crimes, insulting or crude, contrary …

Sectors: French metropolis

[Automatic translation follows] The Pays de la Loire region includes 5 departments: Loire-Atlantique, Maine-et-Loire, Mayenne, Sarthe and Vendée. It has 3.7 million inhabitants spread across 1,357 municipalities. It is a territory balanced between rural and urban areas, organized around 7 large urban areas (Nantes, Saint-Nazaire, Angers, Cholet, Le Mans, Laval and La-Roche-sur-Yon) and 1,108 municipalities with fewer than 1,000 inhabitants. Bordered by 450 km of coastline and crisscrossed by the Loire, the region has the leading port on the Atlantic coast. Its economic dynamism is a real strength that allows it to have the lowest unemployment rate in France (8.5%). …

Sectors: National and local authorities

[Automatic translation follows] The largest startup support structure in Marseille! 🚀 Marseille Innovation, growth accelerator! Created in 1996, Marseille Innovation is one of the first European Business and Innovation Centers in Paca. It helps create and develop innovative companies. Marseille Innovation has three business incubators to host and support 80 companies focused in particular on engineering sciences, multimedia, optics and photonics at the Technopôle de Château-Gombert and at the Pôle Média de la Belle de Mai. Marseille Innovation is the main tool for creating and developing companies in the Marseille Provence Métropole area.

[Automatic translation follows] Innovate & Succeed Technopole, Incubator, CEEI, EUBIC labeled. Association law 1901, Laval Mayenne Technopole (LMT) is the reference for innovation in Mayenne and contributes to the economic development of the territory through innovation. To drive this innovation dynamic, Laval Mayenne Technopole: • Animates, networks and facilitates the cooperation of skills present in Mayenne • Initiates and supports innovative project leaders and entrepreneurs at all stages of development through its support tools for: startups (Idenergie, UP! the incubator, nursery), Mayenne SMEs (Skills Challenge, APOLLO Program, SélanC), Major Accounts (Exploration Mission), all companies: support for setting up collaborative projects …

[Automatic translation follows] EMC2, the European Manufacturing Technology Cluster EMC2, a competitiveness cluster certified by the State in 2005, has its roots in a historical culture of transformation and implementation of materials in Pays de la Loire. Its missions now converge towards a major objective: French industrial competitiveness. Our association brings together, around key markets and technologies, all the players in innovation. Small and large companies, research organizations, training centers participate in the emergence of collaborative R&D projects. In the service of French industrial competitiveness, a main objective drives us: to strengthen the territorial ecosystem of innovation and growth, by …

Sectors: French Cluster Public business cluster

EuraMaterials is the North-European cluster that acts as a cornerstone in the new processing material industries. Born from the merger of Matikem and UP-tex, EuraMaterials is the North-European cluster that acts as a cornerstone in the new processing material industries. Since innovation has its origin more and more in multi cross-expertise and the diversity of materials, EuraMaterials eases networking, meetings andexchanges between stakeholders in the fields of textile, paper/cardboard, plastics, glass, composites, ceramics, wood, metal... matériaux, entreprises, recherche, performance, solutions, innovation, développement, textile, papier-carton, plastique, verre, composites, céramique, bois, métal, économie circulaire, industrie 4.0, procédés, entrepreneuriat, and international

Sectors: French Cluster Public business cluster

[Automatic translation follows] Development & promotion of the Sustainable City Excellence Center, Cité Descartes. #DescartesIncubator #DescartesFablab Descartes Development & Innovation is the information, promotion and networking structure of the Sustainable City Excellence Center at the heart of Cité Descartes, a rapidly developing innovation area. The Sustainable City refers to a model of city or urban unit that respects the principles of sustainable development and ecological urban planning. It simultaneously takes into account the social, economic, environmental and cultural issues of urban planning for and with residents: HQE architecture, sober working and transport methods, efficiency in terms of energy consumption and …

[Automatic translation follows] Supports innovation with a societal impact in Europe and Africa. Bond’innov is an innovation accelerator that supports innovation with a strong economic and social impact in Europe and Africa using tools and methodologies that have been proven for over 10 years. Through its offices in France (Bond’innov Europe), Senegal (Bond’innov Africa) and Morocco (Bond’innov Méditerranée) and its network of country experts, Bond’innov deploys its activities through 4 hubs, to strengthen start-ups (incubation, acceleration), strengthen ecosystems (incubator networks, public-private partnerships), finance and train in financing (honorary loans, preparation for financing), and create links with research. Support, Financing, Structuring, …

[Automatic translation follows] At your side to innovate! Technopole of the economic and university basin of Nantes Atlantique, equipped with a European Center of Enterprises and Innovation, carrier of the regional Incubator of Pays de la Loire, pilot and/or partner of several competitiveness clusters. Atlanpole is at the service of: • Innovative project leaders (industrialists, researchers, academics, students, private individuals, etc.) • Innovative companies and laboratories • Actors in economic, scientific and technological development Atlanpole's scope of action is broad and concerns many sectors of activity: • Biotechnologies / Health • ICT / Electronics / IT • Environment / New …

Une capitale French Tech à l'écoute des start-up deeptech de Paris-Saclay « La French Tech » : c’est le mouvement français des startups. Un écosystème unique qui réunit des startups (donc), mais aussi des investisseurs, des décideurs et des community builders. La French Tech Paris-Saclay Capitale labélisée en IdF au côté de la capitale French Tech Grand Paris.

Sectors: French Tech

Incubateur des start-up tech et deeptech du cluster Paris-Saclay Accompagnement de projets de création d'entreprises technologiques innovants Entrepreneurship, Consulting, Technology, Public R&D, Innovation, and Investment

Business France is the national agency for the internationalization of the French economy. It is responsible for the international development of companies and their exports, as well as prospecting for and welcoming international investments in France. It promotes the attractiveness and business image of France, its companies and its territories. It manages and develops the V.I.E (Volontariat International en Entreprise). Created on January 1, 2015, Business France is a merger of UBIFRANCE and the AFII (French Agency for International Investments). Business France has 1,500 employees located in France and in 70 countries. It relies on a network of public and …

Sectors: National and local authorities

[Automatic translation follows] ANCES, the National Association of CEEI - European Centres for Business and Innovation - Spanish, was established in 1994 with a national scope of action. It is a non-profit association with its own legal personality that arose with the idea of ​​promoting economic and industrial development through CEEI, contributing its experience in the creation of new SMEs, based on innovative elements with development potential.

Sectors: Environment

"The world's biggest technology event" - POLITICO. Join us in Lisbon, Doha, Rio de Janeiro and Vancouver #WebSummit In the years since 2009, Web Summit has grown from a 150-person conference in Dublin to a global event series gathering more than 140,000 attendees every year from all over the world. We build incredible things, from technology and stages to relationships and experiences. Since 2009, we've grown our team to more than 340 people. At our headquarters in Dublin, Ireland – and in Portugal, Canada, Qatar, Brazil and many more locations around the world – incredible engineers, developers, producers, designers, marketers …

Queremos hacer el mundo más humano conectando la vida de las personas Telefónica is today one of the largest telecommunications companies in the world in terms of market capitalisation and number of customers. We have the best infrastructure, as well as an innovative range of digital and data services; therefore, we are favorably positioned to meet the needs of our customers and capture growth in new businesses. We are sensitive to the new challenges demanded by society today and, therefore, we provide the means to facilitate communication between people, providing them with the most secure and cutting-edge technology. Our vision …

Sectors: Startup accelerator & VC

Join our global network of 110+ Impact Hubs accelerating inclusive and sustainable innovation at scale. What we do Our world is facing complex challenges. Challenges that will only be tackled through collaboration. At Impact Hub, we make collaboration happen by designing impactful solutions, building business for good and (re)imagining the future. Who we are We are a global network made up of 120+ Impact Hubs worldwide with 25,000+ people driving change in 60+ countries across 5 continents. Our community is a colourful bunch of impact-driven entrepreneurs, creators, innovators and intrapreneurs who are all taking action to create a better tomorrow …

Sectors: Startup accelerator & VC