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01Grants for craft manufacturing and production
A manufacturing or production craftsperson can fund their investment through local and regional grants. If your activity relates to wood, arts and crafts, or metalworking, dedicated pages list more precisely targeted grants. This page lists the other schemes currently validated for this trade, with their funder and maximum amount where known.
02Grants for audiovisual and TV production
An audiovisual or TV production company can fund its activity through the selective and automatic grants of the Centre National du Cinéma (CNC, the French film and TV agency) and several Régions. This page lists the schemes currently validated for this trade, with their funder and maximum amount where known.
03Grants for furnished tourist accommodation and guest rooms
An owner of furnished tourist accommodation or guest rooms can fund their start-up or investment through regional and local-authority grants. This page lists the schemes currently validated for this trade, with their funder and maximum amount where known.
04Grants for feature film production
A feature film production company can fund its activity through the selective and automatic grants of the Centre National du Cinéma (CNC), regional subsidies, and film tax credits. This page lists the schemes currently validated for this trade, with their funder and maximum amount where known.
05Grants for farming and livestock
A farming or livestock business can fund its investment and modernisation through the Plan de Compétitivité et d'Adaptation des Exploitations Agricoles (PCAE, co-funded by the EU's FEADER rural development fund) and regional grants. This page lists the schemes currently validated for this trade, with their funder and maximum amount where known.
06Grants for rated hotels
A rated hotel can fund its creation, takeover or investment through Bpifrance's Prêt Hôtellerie (Hotel Loan) and regional and local-authority grants. This page lists the schemes currently validated for this trade, with their funder and maximum amount where known.
07Grants for book publishing
A publishing house can fund its promotion strategy, author support or publications through grants from the Centre National du Livre (CNL, the French book agency) and from Régions. This page lists the schemes currently validated for this trade, with their funder and maximum amount where known.
08Grants for software and SaaS publishing
Despite its name, this trade lists no scheme specific to software or SaaS publishing: it is mostly made up of local digital-transformation grants, video game grants, and tax statuses open to any innovative company (CIR, CII, JEI). This page lists them honestly, with their funder and maximum amount where known, and points you to the more precise need pages.
09Grants for non-food retail
A non-food retailer can fund its investment or modernisation through local and local-authority grants. If you run a bookshop or a record shop, dedicated pages list more precisely targeted grants for those activities. This page lists the other schemes currently validated for this trade, with their funder and maximum amount where known.
10Grants for digital and tech services
The grants listed under this trade actually cover three fairly different families: video games, digital creation supported by cultural bodies (CNM, CNL), and a company's general digital transformation. This page lists them with their funder and maximum amount where known, and points you to the more precise need pages for each.
11Grants for artificial intelligence and data companies
A company specialised in artificial intelligence and data can fund its activity through Bpifrance grants (including France 2030) and grants from Régions. This page lists the schemes currently validated for this trade, with their funder and maximum amount where known.
12Grants for independent bookshops
An independent bookshop can fund its investment, the promotion of its stock, or its creation through grants from the Centre National du Livre (CNL) and several Régions. This page lists the schemes currently validated for this trade, with their funder and maximum amount where known.
13Grants for independent record shops
An independent record shop can fund the creation, takeover or development of its activity through two dedicated grants from the Centre national de la musique (CNM, the French music agency). This page lists the schemes currently validated for this trade, with their funder and maximum amount where known.
14Grants for sawmills and primary wood processing
A sawmill or primary wood-processing business can fund its investment, growth or transfer through regional grants, some co-funded by the EU's FEADER rural development fund. This page lists the schemes currently validated for this trade, with their funder and maximum amount where known.
15Grants for arts and crafts and jewellery
An arts-and-crafts or jewellery artisan can fund their activity through the Crédit d'Impôt en faveur des Métiers d'Art (CIMA, a tax credit for arts and crafts), Ateliers d'Art de France schemes, and regional grants. This page lists the schemes currently validated for this trade, with their funder and maximum amount where known.
16Grants for metalworking and metallurgy
A metalworking or metallurgy company can fund occupational risk prevention (welding fume extraction, for instance) or an innovative project through CARSAT Rhône-Alpes, Cnam (the French health insurance fund) and Grenoble-Alpes Métropole. This page lists the schemes currently validated for this trade, with their funder and maximum amount where known.
17Grants for artisan bakeries and pâtisseries
An artisan baker or pastry chef can fund the prevention of risks specific to their trade — flour dust exposure, workstation ergonomics — through grants from Cnam and regional CARSAT bodies. This page lists the schemes currently validated for this trade, with their funder and maximum amount where known.
18Grants for textile and clothing manufacturing
A textile manufacturing or clothing company can fund its ecological transition, product innovation or business development through sector-specific schemes, in particular those of DEFI (the French clothing industry development committee). This page lists the schemes currently validated for this trade, with their funder and maximum amount where known.
19Grants for sea and river transport
A sea or river transport company can fund the decarbonisation of its vessels or benefit from fuel tax exemptions, with most schemes specific to overseas territories. This page lists the schemes currently validated for this trade, with their funder where known.
20Grants for machinery and equipment manufacturing
A machinery or equipment manufacturing company can access dedicated Bpifrance accelerators (capital goods, mechanical industries, industrial start-ups) or grants for industrial set-up. This page lists the schemes currently validated for this trade, with their funder and maximum amount where known.
21Grants for fishing and aquaculture
A fishing or aquaculture business can fund the modernisation of its vessels or the development of an aquaculture activity through FEAMPA (the EU's fund for maritime affairs, fisheries and aquaculture). This page lists the schemes currently validated for this trade, with their funder and maximum amount where known.
22Grants for medical devices and health equipment
A medical device or health equipment company can fund its innovation through dedicated Bpifrance schemes (Diagnostic Dispositif Médical, France 2030) and research and innovation tax credits (CIR, CII, JEI). This page lists the schemes currently validated for this trade, with their funder and maximum amount where known.
23Grants for sound recording production
A sound recording production company can fund its activity through grants from the Centre national de la musique (CNM) and the tax credit for sound recording production expenses. This page lists the schemes currently validated for this trade, with their funder and maximum amount where known.
24Grants for music publishing
A music publisher can fund its activity through grants from the Centre national de la musique (CNM), the tax credit for music publishing expenses, and CNC creation grants. This page lists the schemes currently validated for this trade, with their funder and maximum amount where known.
25Grants for building and construction trades
A building tradesperson can fund the prevention of occupational risks specific to construction (falls from height, product exposure), their RGE qualification, or water management on their sites. This page lists the schemes currently validated for this trade, with their funder and maximum amount where known.
26Grants for RGE-certified renovation tradespeople
An RGE-certified tradesperson does not receive any of these grants directly: they are paid to their client (an individual or a company) to fund the energy-renovation work — insulation, heat pumps — that the tradesperson carries out. Knowing about them helps advise clients better and supports their purchase decision. This page lists the schemes currently validated, with their funder and maximum amount where known.
27Grants for training centres
A training centre does not receive any of these grants directly: they fund the company or employee taking the training, via their sector OPCO or their personal training account (Compte Personnel de Formation). Knowing about them helps support your clients' purchase decisions. This page lists the schemes currently validated, with their funder and maximum amount where known.
28Grants for solar installers
A solar installer does not receive any of these grants directly: they fund the client (an individual, local authority or company) carrying out a solar self-consumption project. Knowing about them helps support clients through their application and their purchase decision. This page lists the schemes currently validated, with their funder and maximum amount where known.
29Grants for engineering consultancies
An engineering consultancy does not receive any of these grants directly: they fund the client commissioning a feasibility or opportunity study — geothermal, solar thermal, industrial decarbonisation, multi-renewable energy. Most are run by ADEME. This page lists the schemes currently validated, with their funder and maximum amount where known.
30Grants for strategy consultancies
A strategy consultancy does not receive any of these grants directly: they fund the client company carrying out a Bpifrance diagnostic (growth, Europe, design, intellectual property). For some of these diagnostics, the consultancy itself must be referenced or approved by Bpifrance to deliver them. This page lists the schemes currently validated, with their funder and maximum amount where known.
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