As part of the recovery plan, the Ministry of the Economy, Finance and Recovery is launching a call for projects to promote the autonomy and resilience of French industry. The specifications were published on 12 August 2020. Applications may be submitted from 31 August 2020.
The call for projects is open until 17 November 2020, à 12H00.
With a budget of €100m, it will provide subsidies for the following sectors:
- health production of priority, mature or innovative healthcare products, such as medicines of major therapeutic interest (MITMs) and the active ingredients or intermediates used in their formulation, as well as medical devices (MDs) or in vitro diagnostic medical devices (IVDMDs), and their strategic components, including those linked to Covid-19. Projects that create flexible production capacity, or make existing production capacity more flexible, will be promoted.
- agri-food Investment projects designed to strengthen the autonomy, resilience and future of the French sector (diversification of supplies, creation, maintenance or redeployment of production capacity). This call for projects is in line with the French President's recent announcements on food sovereignty and the development and securing of national and European food chains, with a view to environmental sustainability.
- electronics Projects that help to reduce the dependence of French and European electronics manufacturing on third countries, as well as the development of forward-looking sectors that guarantee the location of production capacity in France. Projects that strengthen the ability of companies to deal with crisis situations and speed up the time-to-market for innovative products, particularly through the use of rapid prototyping resources, will also be promoted.
- sectors supplying essential inputs to industry (chemicals, metals and raw materials) investments in the production of 'upstream' industrial products (metals and alloys, industrial raw materials, intermediate products, chemicals) which, in the event of a supply disruption, could have a domino effect on the national or European industrial fabric.
Investment projects applying for the call for projects may take the form of :
- the creation of new production units;
- investment in existing production units, to increase and modernise their production capacity or make them more productive and flexible;
- the development and industrial-scale implementation of innovative technological processes.