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Business park dedicated to the ecoconstruction sector Communauté d'agglomération des deux rives de la Seine Ile-de-France 31 €1,405,099 ERDF 2010 The Communaute d'agglomeration des Deux Rives de la Seine (CA2RS - the Seine shores urban community) has undertaken a huge action plan aimed positioning the 2 Rives de Seine area as a flagship for the new centre of excellence for ecoconstruction launched via the Seine Aval Integrated Urban project. The CA2RS is keen to inject dynamism into the future Ecopôle, which will be a business area devoted to industrial ecoconstruction activities directly connected to the waterway. With this in mind, a business park specially devoted to the economic stakeholders in this industry has been created. Baptised «Fabrique 21», this eco-construction business park meets a number of important requirements. Firstly, making this a key location for know-how, a place where you can «get things done» when it comes to enhancing the standing of and providing access to all sustainable housing trades and services. Secondly, it makes it possible to clearly demonstrate that it is possible to carry out a construction project for a combined business park incorporating as many environmental aspects as possible. Finally, this park also makes it possible to create a locality unique of its kind in the Paris region, bringing together on the same site companies involved in building or renovating housing with a focus on sustainable development. More generally, this operation seeks to remedy the structural difficulties encountered in the area, to boost employment and to improve the attractiveness of the area for companies while also encouraging the development of specific sectors (eco-industries, eco-construction and energy efficiency, mechatronics, etc.) and service sector activities related to the industry, to the knowledge economy and to the IT sector. In addition to this theme, the European cohesion policy for 2007-2013 included a specific urban aspect aimed at supporting districts experiencing difficulties, by acting at a conurbation-wide level : * With reference to article 8 of the ERDF rules, the strategic national reference framework for the programmes covered by the European economic and social cohesion policy included a chapter specifically devoted to urban areas, and in particular those most in difficulty. It invited the regional prefects to finance projects put forward by the urban areas or towns and cities having entered into urban social cohesion contracts (contrats urbain de cohesion sociale or CUCS), giving priority to participative initiatives and based on a comprehensive strategy fully incorporating the districts in difficulty and their local environments as part of the overall dynamic regional development process. The managing authorities were invited to carry out this selection by means of project tenders, the schedule of conditions for which were drafted at a regional level by the SGAR working closely with the regional councils. * In addition to the noteworthy urban aspects of the programmes, these feature thematic intervention priorities which may also contribute to the integration of districts within towns in the fields of sustainable urban transport, energy efficiency, support for small businesses or the regeneration of industrial wasteland. Mobilo'web, a system for developing the use of multimedia resources Integrated urban project (Grenoble) Grenoble Alpes Métropole € 40 000 per annum ERDF Mobilo'web is a multimedia project put forward by Grenoble Alpes Métropole. Operational since 2006 in the districts of Grenoble, Seyssinet-Pariset, Pont-de-Claix, Echirolles, Fontaine and Saint-Martin-le-Vinoux, it has today been extended to all priority districts throughout the urban area. 3 2

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Thematic Overview 2007-2013 of The ERDF-ESF Programming

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Summary
Improving institutional capacities at a national, regional and local level
Reducing costs hindering the development of outermost regions (OMR)
Technical assistance
Research, technological development and entrepreneurial spirit
The information Society
Transport
Energy
Environment and risk prevention
Tourism
Culture
Urban/rural regeneration
Improving the capacities of workers, companies and company managers
Improving access to employment and sustainability
Improving the social inclusion of disadvantaged persons
Development of human capital
Investments in social infrastructure
Promoting reforms in the fields of employment and social inclusion

Thematic Overview 2007-2013 of The ERDF-ESF Programming