The Ministry of Economy announced on Monday the launch of an aid system endowed with 100 million euros to “support the territories in the face of changes in the automotive sector.”
This call for expressions of interest called “Industrial Rebound” foresees, on the one hand, the deployment of “support engineering” for intermunicipalities, for three months, up to a total of 10 million euros.
It must “facilitate the identification and implementation of new industrial projects (…) and the development of a roadmap for industrial reactivation in the medium term.”
Grants and reimbursable advances of up to 90 million euros will then support “industrial projects detected and considered a priority, in particular projects that generate employment and contribute to the ecological transition of the territory.”
“Identify and accelerate new projects”
Operated by the Banque des Territoires for its engineering component and by Bpifrance for its financing component, this system should support around ten territories per year until 2026.
“To support the territories most exposed to changes in the value chains of certain sectors, in particular in the automotive sector, we have chosen to rely on a concentrated, simplified and integrated intervention that makes new means available to local actors” said Roland Lescure. , Delegate Minister for Industry, in a press release.
“We have already given massive support by launching a diesel plan to support the reconversion of the sector and employees,” explained the Minister of the Economy, Bruno Le Maire.
“We have launched an automotive plan as part of France Relance. Now we have the third stage of the rocket: the France 2030 plan announced by the President of the Republic with the goal of 2 million electric vehicles in France in 2030,” he said. the Minister of Economy.
Source: BFM TV
