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As part of France 2030 and the 4th Programme d’investissements d’avenir (PIA), the Ministry of Housing, the Ministry of Territorial Cohesion and Relations with Local and Regional Authorities, the General Secretariat for Investment and the Banque des Territoires, in partnership with the National Agency for Urban Renewal (ANRU) for projects located in priority areas of urban renewal policy, launched in May 2021 the call for expressions of interest (AMI) ‘Demonstrators of the sustainable city’, endowed with EUR 305 million. Its objective is to identify territorial projects that provide answers to the four challenges of sustainable cities: resilience, inclusion, sobriety and urban productivity. Part of France 2030 and more specifically of the "Inhabiting the France of Tomorrow" approach, the CEI "Demonstrators of the sustainable city" intends to contribute to the country's economic recovery, promote the emergence of sober, resilient, inclusive and productive cities, and thus accelerate the ecological transition. Concretely, this CEI aims to create a national network of demonstrators, at the level of islands or neighbourhoods, illustrating the diversity of ecological and social transition issues in French territories. It is, of course, a question of financing projects but also of: • support project leaders and their stakeholder ecosystems in the definition and implementation of their demonstrator; • support the emergence of innovative tools and methods, particularly digital ones, enabling a sustainable transformation of the sectors involved in the design, construction and management of urban spaces; • foster the emergence of innovations and economic actors capable of creating value in France and internationally, with the sustainable city constituting a considerable testing ground and a potential market. The Banque des Territoires is leading this call for expressions of interest (AMI), which was implemented in three waves. The 9 winners of the first wave were announced on 10 January 2022 and the 30 winners of the second wave were announced on 18 March 2022 by the government. The 39 winning projects of the two waves illustrate the diversity of urban areas and contexts – metropolises, small towns and rural towns, peri-urban municipalities, urban policy priority areas – and contain technological innovations as well as innovations in uses or processes, on buildings, public spaces or networks. A third round of selection will be launched by early 2023, in light of the lessons learned from the work carried out by the first winners to complete the network of urban demonstrators. What is a sustainable city demonstrator? A sustainable city demonstrator is an integrated, transformative project with a high level of social and environmental ambition mobilising innovative solutions (technical, technological, process, etc.). It must meet three criteria: • be led by a local authority and a consortium bringing together all the actors concerned: industrialists, associations, researchers, academics, etc.; • be carried out as part of a transformation operation on the scale of an island, group of islands or neighbourhood included in a development operation; • be replicable in other territories. The call for expressions of interest (AMI) ‘Demonstrators of the sustainable city’ aims to create a national network of demonstrators, at island or neighbourhood level, illustrating the diversity of the challenges of ecological transition and sustainable development of French urban spaces. The winners receive support from the Banque des Territoires, from the incubation period until they reach maturity. Support for the incubation of projects Winners benefit from an incubation period ranging from 24 to 36 months maximum supported financially and technically by the State through the intervention of the Banque des Territoires. They receive up to €500,000 in grants for engineering and study funding. Winners also benefit from networking and expert advice to carry out the actions necessary for the development of their project. Post-incubation support Once mature, each demonstrator will be able to receive financial support of up to €10 million (including incubation) for a period of 10 years. Particular attention will be paid to actions with a sustainable, replicable economic model and to the innovation assessment approach implemented.

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