Call to experiment #2025

**An 18-month programme to test your project in the urban environment and accelerate your change of scale!

The "Quartiers Métropolitains d'Innovation "** programme is the only one of its kind in France, offering entrepreneurs the opportunity to test their solutions in the towns and cities of the Greater Paris region. The programme includes 18 months' coaching to help you test your solutions in real-life conditions, a tailor-made assessment, enhanced visibility and reach out to key players in the urban fabric.
The objective? To accelerate your development in Greater Paris if the trial phase is a success!

Who should apply?

For any entrepreneur wishing to test a system that needs to be tested in the field before being marketed and scaled up.

• The project must be at the experimental stage. Most often we are talking about an initial prototype that has already been established.
• It can be a product or a service
• The organisation can be French or foreign
• There are no size or status requirements: start-up, association, self-employed company, SME, large group, school, laboratory, consortium, etc.

Support services

• 70 hours of individual support over 18 months.
• A dedicated Paris&Co project manager to coach you.
• Support in finding funding
• Support in finding and deploying sites
• Connections with our partners - key accounts, local authorities, experts in urban innovation.
• A visibility boost for your project: access to trade fairs and networking events.
• Evaluation of your project: an expert team dedicated to monitoring your experimental protocol and formalising your results.

Fields of experimentation

For this call for experimentation, 3 communes are ready to host your innovative solution. In all, 10 towns in the metropolitan area make up this vast open-air experimental laboratory.

• Argenteuil (95)** Supporting the renewal and calming of the district
• Issy-les-Moulineaux (92)** Bringing life to the neighbourhood and deploying hydrogen solutions
• Sucy-en-Brie (94**) Opening up the district to the city and asserting its identity

Selection criteria

• Propose a solution with a strong social & environmental impact
• Responding to the challenges and strategic issues facing local authorities and our partners
• The experimental and innovative nature of the solution in relation to the state of the art and current practices
• The financial, technical and organisational feasibility of the project
• Quality and complementarity of the team
• The solution's reproducibility and scalability potential

Che content of your presentation (a 15-slide document)

• A image of your solution and a logo of your organisation
• The problem addressed, then the description of your solution and how it works
• What benefits would your solution bring in terms of ecological and social transition? Have you estimated them?
• Why is your experimentation necessary? What stage of development are you at exactly?
• What are the implementation conditions required for your project (type of land sought, timetable, forecast, etc.)?
• How much do you estimate the cost of your experiment to be? What funding have you already secured? Do you still have other needs?
• A presentation of your team and your stakeholders (current and desired)
• Project yourself in one of the Metropolitan Innovation Districts by imagining local case studies (Argenteuil, Issy-Les-Moulineaux, Sucy-En-Brie)**.