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The Franco-Italian Accelerator program: promoting Franco-Italian business relationships
In December 2021, Bpifrance, the Team France Export and the and Elite launched the first Franco-Italian Accelerator for SMEs and midcaps. It aims to develop cross-border synergies through innovative solutions.
Read More4 indicators that speak for France’s international outreach in 2022
2022 had its share of uncertainties but some sectors were able to bring light on France’s economy. From Global growth to reindustrialization, let’s look back on some key figures of the past year and welcome 2023 with the same French panache.
Read MoreThe Industrial Startups and SMEs Plan, the plan for France’s reindustrialization
Announced on January 19th 2022, the and Industrial Startups and SMEs Plan was later launched with the objective of creating 100 new industrial sites per year by 2025, in hopes to give a lasting impetus to French reindustrialization.
Read MoreCybersecurity: Bpifrance supports French companies in the fight against cybercrime
With the digital transition’s acceleration in companies, cybercrime keeps increasing as well. Companies being more and more exposed to cyber-attacks, Bpifrance has made cybersecurity as one of its top priority to help entrepreneurs prepare themselves against them.
Read MoreAfrica-France cooperation: How Choiseul Africa Business Forum highlights African and European leaders on the international stage
Held on October 19th and 20th, 2022 in Casablanca, held for the first time abroad, the Choiseul Africa Business Forum gathered among the most influential African and European decision makers and economic leaders to discuss Africa’s big economic challenges.
Read MoreAfrica-France Entrepreneurs, the new EuroQuity community to promote co-entrepreneurship and co-innovation
After the Africa-France Summit in 2021, Bpifrance along with several other partners created the Africa-France Entrepreneurs community. Developed on the EuroQuity digital platform, it promotes and facilitates partnerships between African and French companies in a peer-to-peer logic. Today the community gathers about 200 members, and it continues to grow.
Read MoreStop Loss: Bpifrance’s new foreign exchange trade insurance supports entrepreneurs in their will to export
In conducting over-the-counter trades, a buyer sometimes imposes an offer in a foreign currency to sign the contract. This foreign exchange trade insurance allows the company to set the forward rate of the currency in order to stabilize proceeds in that currency. The insurance thus neutralizes foreign exchange risk for French companies.
Read MoreBIG 2022: Relive The Best Moments Of This 8th Edition
This new edition of Bpifrance Inno Generation, hosted at the Accor Arena venue in Paris on October 6th, focused on Metamorphosis. Don’t miss the best-of!
Read MoreRenewable Energies: French Solutions Blooming On The International Market To Boost Transition
As the world faces an accelerated energy crisis sparked by the war in Ukraine, French startups were already busy developing disruptive technologies to expand access to stabilized power from renewable sources.
Read MoreFoodTech industry in Europe: 2021 summed up in three numbers
In 2021, investments in the FoodTech sector have been multiplied by three according to the DigitalFoodLab, as shown in their annual report on the growth of FoodTech in Europe.
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