Project identity card
- OBJECTIVE: TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE EMERGENCE OF INNOVATIVE, SOLIDARITY-BASED PROJECTS ADDRESSING SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES IN THE FIELDS OF EDUCATION, SOLIDARITY, ECOLOGY, HEALTH AND CITIZENSHIP
- COUNTRY: France
- DATE: 2023-2024
- FOR PEOPLE: integration through employment and the fight against precariousness
15 winners
40 finalists in the 2024 competition
The project
Created in March 2017, La France s’engage Foundation, recognized as a public utility, is an extension of the La France s’engage social innovation support program initiated by the French government in 2014. It is chaired by François Hollande.
The Foundation’s aim is to promote the involvement of civil society in initiatives that benefit the greatest number of people. In this way, it fosters community life around local services and sustainable regional development.
Each year, it identifies and rewards the most innovative projects in all areas of sustainable development. Approved projects are accelerated by the Foundation, which provides them with funding and support over a three-year period to enable them to scale up and spread.
The role of the ENGIE Foundation
The ENGIE Foundation will support the accomplishment of the Foundation’s social missions and the implementation of the following projects:
- Identifying and selecting Laureates of France s’engage
- Financial support for the winners
- Support for the scaling-up and spin-off of award-winners
- Promoting the Laureates and the Foundation
- Leading the France s’engage community
- Territorial development of the Foundation