The vocation of the ADVANCITY Competitiveness Cluster is to allow businesses and research organisations to cooperate and to engender collaborative projects with a view to developing projects, processes and services that are marketable in the medium term, generate economic activity and create employment. Three scientific councils have been created, in line with the cluster’s three orientations: urban and spatial planning and development; housing and construction; and mobility and transport. 

Do you have a project? 
 
Are you the initiator or sponsor of an innovative project corresponding to one of the cluster’s orientations, in association with one or several partners?  If you are established in the Ile-de-France, and if you need support to develop your R&I project, contact ADVANCITY.

Once the first contact has been established, a summarised memo formalises our understanding of your project, mentioning its innovative characteristics, the partners involved, and the short-, medium-, and long-term objectives.  
 
The cluster then supplies assistance for the purpose of positioning the project on the target value chain, reinforcing and creating partnerships, and selecting innovation orientations.   
 
Thus presented, the project is subjected to scrutiny by the scientific council, which rules on its eligibility as a collaborative project corresponding to the thematic scope of the eco-technologies and sustainable cites cluster. 
 
The scientific council reports on its decision to the ADVANCITY board of directors who accredit the project in order to maximise its chances of succeeding in being examined by a financing body.  
 
An overview of the projects

The projects proposed to the cluster represent an overall budget of € 200 M, those accredited by ADVANCITY represent € 150 M, and those that have been subsidised represent an overall sum of € 100 M.

                                     Number of projects 2006  2007  TOTAL 

                                     Projects listed      75     60     135  

Projects submitted to the Board of Directors  64     47     111 

Projects accredited by the Board of Directors 55     45     100

Projects subsidised                                     32     14      46

                                        Amounts in € M     2006  2007  TOTAL

                                     Projects listed    100    100      200 (*)

Projects accredited by the Board of Directors 70      80      150

                                Projects subsidised    45      55      100

                                Amount of subsidies   17      28       45

 *Approximate value (dossiers abandoned or still undergoing specification) 

Below is a list of the projects accredited by ADVANCITY (sustainable cities and mobility) cluster between 2005 and mid-2007 and which obtained financing from the ANR (French national research agency), the FCE, and the ADEME (Energy Efficiency and Environment Agency) or from the State/Region.