With aid and financing programmes, toolboxes, resources and networking, we help you transform your company and make a successful ecological and social transition. Let’s build the economy of the future, together: an economy that’s low-carbon, responsible, resource-efficient and respectful of the environment, and that will create sustainable, local jobs that can’t be relocated.
Contents
- Our expertise
- Leading the sectors
- Leading the local areas
- Leading the strategic companies
- Financing opportunities
- Financing new industrial projects (private equity)
- Financing ecological initiatives
- Toolboxes, theme networks and resources
- A Practical Guide for Companies
- Measuring impacts on the local area
- Mobility at work
- Energy transition
- Social and inclusive entrepreneurship
- Circular economy
- Purchasing
- Digital technologies
- Sustainable development
Leverage our expertise to transform your company and the local economy
We help local companies transition towards a more responsible and sustainable business model.
Leading the sectors
Thanks to the close connections we have with our partners, such as competitiveness clusters, federations and other socioeconomic stakeholders, we facilitate the transformation of companies and the realisation of projects that will affect the local area’s structure and have positive impacts on its strategic sectors, whether they’re historic or emerging.
For each one, our Sector Experts lead groups that represent you and/or assist you directly.
- Guiding the transition of strategic sectors in our local area
- Guiding the restructuring of sectors to foster solutions with positive impacts
- Leading socioeconomic groups
- Facilitating new methods of public/private action and collaboration
- Facilitating contact between the socioeconomic stakeholders of the local area and our technical departments, to ensure that they can grow sustainably in our local area
To accelerate your projects in areas of common interest (in connection with our public policies) and get to know the local offerings, the communities and our Sector Expert:
See the page dedicated to your business sector, trade or issue
Leading the local areas
With our partners and the local players involved in transition processes, we guide the transformation of our local areas and facilitate responsible local economic projects.
For each local area, our local specialists guide and support you.
- Guide the economic players and foster their involvement in metropolitan public policies
- Coordinate between towns, business associations and local stakeholders regarding economic issues
- Contribute to cross-cutting local projects
- Steer the local economic development strategy of the Lyon metropolitan area and implement its key measures
- Enable local stakeholders and economic projects to be taken into account in the public policies of Métropole de Lyon
To get to know the local areas and offerings, communities, projects and your local contact person:
Leading the strategic companies of the local area
Our Key Accounts Expert for the Lyon metropolitan area leads the community of local strategic companies and
Your dedicated specialist
Key Accounts and Strategic Companies Project Manager
Lyon Métropole
Key Accounts and Strategic Companies Project Manager
Lyon Métropole
Our financing opportunities
Greater Lyon has lots of solutions to help you take an important step in transforming your company or making your ecological transition: see our toolbox for guidance.
Focus on one of the financing mechanisms.
Financing your new industrial projects (private equity)
Need significant financing to develop new industrial projects?
We invest private equity capital to finance your new industrial projects, thanks to our Industrial Seed Fund with a focus on environmental and social impacts.
Our fund enables your company to navigate the industrial scale-up process with a strong, strategic local partnership and to stand with us and face the challenges of the industrial transformation of our local area.
Who provides funding?
- A private equity firm with €80 to €100 million over a 12-year period
- Public investors (Métropole de Lyon, Métropole de Saint-Étienne, Caisse des dépôts) and private investors (manufacturers, banks, insurance companies, mutual insurance companies, etc.)
What?
- An entrepreneurial project with a social and/or environmental impact involving the creation of an industrial unit in the metropolitan areas of Lyon and/or Saint-Étienne (pilot phase).
For whom?
- Industrial startups (criteria involving specific socioeconomic and environmental impacts must be met)
How much?
- Between €500,000 and €5 million:
- €500,000 in seed capital
- €1.5 million in preproduction
- €5 million in industrial scale-up
- Term of investment: 5 years
How do you apply?
- The fund is managed by the Demeter company.
- To apply, contact our partner directly.
Your dedicated specialist
Manager of the Industrial Seed Fund with a focus on environmental and social impacts
Demeter
Manager of the Industrial Seed Fund with a focus on environmental and social impacts
Demeter
Financing ecological initiatives
Need to finance your ecological initiatives?
With our “Ecological Transition for Companies” call for projects, we offer financial support for the deployment of your individual or collective initiatives, and assistance to make your ecological transition more accessible.
We regularly publish calls for projects on the theme of “Ecological transition for companies”, to fund your desires to act: bring your ecological projects to life and support their deployment and sustainability.
Who provides funding?
What?
- Projects with an impact on the ecological transition for your company and the Lyon metropolitan area.
- Projects at an advanced state of maturity: in the implementation or consolidation phase.
- Projects that are expected to be effectively completed in the next 12 months.
For whom?
- SMEs and VSEs, groups of companies and groups of employees from SMEs and VSEs located in the Lyon metropolitan area.
How much?
- Up to 50% of the funding costs of your project, a maximum of €50,000 of support.
- Investment spending.
How do you apply?
- To obtain funding, you must respond to our calls for projects. The current calls for projects are listed below:
Your dedicated specialist
Project Manager, Business Ecological Transition
Lyon Métropole
Our toolbox, resources and theme networks facilitate the transformation of your company and of the local area
Our Business Transformation and Ecological Transition Experts have created many tools and resources to facilitate your project and enable you to join us in these efforts. We also share our networks with you and guide you towards the structures that will assist you with your process, directly.
A Practical Guide for Companies
Want to get your industrial company involved in the ecological transition?
We publish a very practical guide for VSEs and SMEs that want to get involved in the ecological transition. The guide identifies all of the solutions that will support and guide your company: clear, locally available measures, streamlined procedures and qualified contacts.
A real toolbox, this guide is updated regularly!
Measuring impacts on the local area: the Kelimpact platform
Assess the impact of your company on the local area and identify areas for improvement!
We provide you with a local-area impact measurement web-based platform to initiate or continue the process of improving your impacts on the local area of Métropole de Lyon.
This tool is structured around 4 impact areas: “Inclusion and Social Justice”, “Economic Sustainability”, “Environmental Viability” and “Health and Wellbeing in the Workplace” and 2 levers: “Governance and Cooperation” and “Impact Activities”.
Thanks to this solution, you’ll be able to:
- measure your performance in each impact area and lever
- identify areas for improvement
- rapidly identify concrete, personalised solutions
- monitor your progress over time.
This online platform is free and suitable for companies of every size. Your data and the results obtained are not shared with third parties.
Don’t wait! Go to kelimpact.grandlyon.com to measure your impact!
Kelimpact, measuring local impacts in the Lyon metropolitan area
Your dedicated specialist
Project Manager, Impacts and Sustainable Innovation
Lyon Métropole
Mobility at work
Want to take action and find out more about sustainable mobility at work?
Our “Mobility at Work” website keeps you informed and helps you take measures and steps to achieve cleaner and more community-oriented mobility.
In particular, this resource platform presents: the local area’s range of transport options, such as active modes, public transport, car sharing and carpooling, working from home, alternative forms of motorised mobility, parking and delivery, etc.); the many programmes available to assist you with your mobility needs, whether you’re an employee or an employer; and the steps you can take to develop an employer mobility plan.
You’ll also find tools to take action: practical information sheets, including employer mobility plans and joint employer mobility plans, lines of action and potential measures that can be implemented; a directory of mobility stakeholders who can assist you; solutions for access to the various economic areas (business parks, industrial districts, etc.) and a route planner.
Your dedicated specialist
Project Manager, Mobility Management
Lyon Métropole
Project Manager, Mobility Management
Lyon Métropole
Climate, Air & Energy
Want to find out more about the climate plan and energy, and get involved to improve the local area’s carbon footprint?
Your dedicated specialist
Project Manager, Business Ecological Transition
Lyon Métropole
Social and inclusive entrepreneurship
Want to be a responsible entrepreneur in—and for—our local areas?
We facilitate your responsible entrepreneurship projects, by fostering social innovation and the social and inclusive economy in Greater Lyon. We support companies that put the principles of solidarity and social utility at the centre of their business models and the structures that guide them.
Discover the local ecosystem and the structures that can guide you
All companies can take action to reduce their environmental footprint and that of our local area, which represented 19 tons per inhabitant per year in 2018, whereas the sustainability threshold is considered to be between 3 and 6 tons per inhabitant per year in 2050.
How? By working on your core business to offer eco-designed products and services and by developing responsible purchasing policies.
In the Lyon metropolitan area, we are providing assistance more specifically to:
- companies in the sectors of food, construction and textiles;
- companies in the industrial sector;
- shops, through our partners: the Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the Chamber of Trades and Crafts and associations for the management of the city centre;
- companies that are using this new model to start up, with:
- a specific support programme, Les Boucles,
- assistance with processes such as submitting calls for proposals, searching for temporary or permanent premises, finding raw materials, etc.).
Your dedicated specialists
Project Manager, Circular economy
Lyon Métropole
Policy Officer, Circular economy
Lyon Métropole
Purchasing
Purchasing is a major lever for action that drives the social and ecological transition of the economy in our local area and in neighbouring areas. This is why we support the networks, initiatives, systems and encounters that contribute to the development and competitiveness of the local economic fabric of the Lyon metropolitan area.
Lyon Pacte PME
Lyon Pacte PME brings together key accounts and the companies of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region on the theme of purchasing.
Lyon Pacte PME is a partnership-based initiative launched in 2015 in Greater Lyon. It is brought to you by:
- Métropole de Lyon,
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Region,
- Lyon-Rhône MEDEF (union of employers),
- Rhône Confederation of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (CPME),
- Rhône Chamber of Trades and Crafts,
- University of Lyon,
- the national Pacte PME association and
- Lyon Métropole Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
- Organising networking events for public and private key accounts and the companies of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Region.
- Sourcing from companies of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Region corresponding to the needs of a public or private key account.
- Communicating about news, invitations to tender and calls for skills from public or private key accounts.
- Leading ‘Cercle HA’, a community of public and private key account buyers, which shares good procurement practices.
This service is free for the economic stakeholders of the Lyon metropolitan area.
Receive updates about Lyon Pacte PME on lyonpactepme.fr.
Innovative and responsible procurement by Métropole de Lyon
“Buying better, together”
With a budget of €600 million per year, the public purchasing power of Métropole de Lyon represents ample economic opportunities for the companies of our local area.
In collaboration with the people of Greater Lyon and the economic stakeholders of the local area, we are building a Model for Responsible Procurement (SPAR) to improve the public procurement policies of Métropole de Lyon and its 58 towns.
Interested in this programme? To find out more and participate, go to www.grandlyon.com.
“Motivational Mornings” of Métropole de Lyon
For its own purchases, Métropole de Lyon is keenly interested in the solutions, products and services offered by the economic stakeholders of the local area.
On a regular basis, we organise “Motivational Mornings” on various themes in order to meet with the local players who are capable of delivering innovative solutions.
Your dedicated specialist
Project Manager, Digital industry and sustainable digital industry
Lyon Métropole
Project Manager, Digital industry and sustainable digital industry
Lyon Métropole
Digital technologies
We guide the digital transformation of companies operating in the Lyon metropolitan area in collaboration with our partner: l’ENE.
ENE helps you with the digital transformation of your company
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Sustainable development
Our Greater Lyon sustainable development website showcases initiatives by the stakeholders of the Lyon metropolitan area for development that combines economic efficiency, environmental protection and social equity.
Find all the news about sustainable development in the local area, the players who are committed to the cause, the collective actions and processes, useful documents and featured articles!