Operator OSEOAmount committed EUR 1 billion

The Interdepartmental Committee on future investments validated Monday 3 may first ten conventions past with various public operators responsible for selecting projects and to fund. They represent investments of EUR 6.85 billion on a total of 35 billion projected in the programme adopted in March to the Parliament. The first funds could be released as early as June. Details of the first 10 agreements:

Operator: National Agency for research (ANR)

Amount committed: EUR 1 billion

Type of intervention: grants and capital interventions

Beneficiaries: higher education and research organizations.

Calendar: first call for projects launched early June for a selection in November 2010

Objective: To fund a hundred equipment of excellence for many years the scientific community and industry.

Operator: National Agency for research (ANR)

Amount committed: EUR 1.55 billion

Type of intervention: grants and capital interventions for

Beneficiaries: higher education and research organizations.

Calendar: first call for projects launched early June for a selection in November 2010

Objective: to fund large cohorts for the health research and initiate programmes of research in the fields of biotechnology, agronomy, Bioinformatics and the nanobiotechnology.

Operator: Agency for the environment and energy (management Ademe)

Amount committed: EUR 1.35 billion. Amount forecast with the leverage: 3.375 billion EUR

Type of intervention: grants, participation, repayable advances, royalties

Beneficiaries: companies and research institutions.

Calendar: first call for projects in the summer 2010, December 2010 selection

Illustration: support phases of demonstration of these new technologies to mature so that they can be viable in the market, and secondly to create collaborative platforms to test and validate these technologies in the context of diversification of energy sources.

Operator: Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations (CDC)

Amount committed: EUR 400 million. Amount forecast with the leverage: EUR 550 million

Type of intervention: equity

Beneficiaries: companies in the boot phase

Calendar: implementation task of the national fund of boot in the second half 2010

Objective: tasked the Caisse des Dépôts set up a national seed fund, managed by CDC enterprises, to strengthen investment funds involved to boot, to improve the funding capital of innovative small and medium-sized enterprises, including those in technological areas of priority defined by the national strategy for research and innovation : health, food and biotechnology, information, communication and nanotechnology, the environmental emergency and environmental technologies. The national seed funds may invest in seed funds 20, each of these funds can support ten projects of companies, or of the order of 200 companies in total.

Operator: OSEO

Amount committed: EUR 1 billion. Amount forecast with the leverage: EUR 2 billion

Type of intervention: refinancing

Beneficiaries: SMEs and independent ETI

Calendar: June 2010

Objective: Oseo's mission is to fund and support SMEs in the most decisive phase of their existence. Its refinancing will be used to the redeployment of participatory development contracts in the amount of EUR 1 billion over two years.

Operator: OSEO

Amount committed: EUR 500 million. Amount forecast with the leverage: EUR 2.6 billion

Type of intervention: subsidised loans secured loans

Beneficiaries: SMEs and midsize enterprises

Calendar: distribution of the first loans from June 2010

Objective: To "green loans" amount of 50,000 to 3 million euros will be awarded to support competitive investment projects meeting a goal of taking account of environmental protection issues and promote the placing on the market of products conducive to environmental protection.

Operator: OSEO

Amount committed: EUR 200 million. Estimated total amount with the leverage: EUR 400 million

Type of intervention: repayable advances

Beneficiaries: companies under 5,000 people

Calendar: June 2010

Objective: The device aims to help companies less of 5,000 people to make their productive investment in France, through repayable advances, integrating objective criteria of comparative advantages of different geographical areas. This will facilitate the revitalization of territories in difficulty, considering that the establishment of industrial investment generates peripheral media activities.

Operator: Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations

Amount committed: EUR 100 million. Total amount with the co-financing: EUR 190 million

Type of intervention: quasi-equity

Beneficiaries: business social and solidarity

Calendar: call for proposals to select financial partners launched in June, first funding in September 2010

Objective: To support more than 2,000 companies and create or consolidate more than 60,000 jobs for persons remote from employment for a long time.

Operator: National Agency for habitat (Anah)

Amount committed: EUR 500 million. Total amount with the co-financing: EUR 3 350 million

Type of intervention: grant

Beneficiaries: modest homeowner

Calendar: Opening of the scheme in September at the conclusion of the negotiation with local communities

Objective: To fund the thermal refurbishment of 300,000 units of modest homeowner in high energy precarious situation, including in rural areas.

Operator: Office of Atomic Energy (CEA)

Amount committed: EUR 250 million. Total amount with the co-financing: EUR 709 million

Type of intervention: grant

Beneficiaries: ECA

Calendar: start of construction in 2010, commissioning in 2016

Objective: The "reactor Jules Horowitz" will offer an experimental irradiation of high performance capability to study the behaviour of the materials and fuels, by reproducing conditions as near as possible to existing and future power reactors. The objective of the program is to allow its early implementation and to seek ways of upgrading both in the areas of health than in other industrial sectors.