Vendée Green Tech Territory

Access

Access to the TGV (high-speed train) network is excellent. From anywhere in the county, a TGV station is just 30 minutes away.
The Nantes Atlantique International Airport connects you to major French and European cities.

• Motorways A83, Nantes-Bordeaux / A87, La Roche sur Yon-Paris
• TGV (high-speed train) stations in Nantes, Angers, Niort, La Rochelle, La Roche sur  Yon and Les Sables d'Olonne
• Nantes Atlantique Airport
• Saint Nazaire and La Rochelle commercial harbours

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Available real estate and land

The Vendée Green Tech Territory is investing heavily in the creation of infrastructure capable of meeting the new needs expressed by companies in terms of local services, communication networks and compliance with environmental standards:

• The "Vendéopôles": 15 business parks, connected to expressways, featuring high-quality facilities (heavy-duty road systems, suitable signage etc.) developed with environmental protection in mind (30% of the surface area is reserved for green spaces)
• Business incubators and publicly-owned temporary business sites: across the entire territory there is a dense network of infrastructure dedicated to new companies and start-ups.

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Financial aid

Vendée Expansion acts in the field to implement county economic policy for economic development, encouraging new entrepreneurs and supporting companies.

To achieve this, Vendée Expansion:

• Manages the public aid packages designed to support initiatives by companies and coordinate their distribution
• Networks with all the public and private players specialising in the support and financing of projects.

Special programmes initiated by the County Council encourage green tech companies and aim to facilitate innovative pilot investments in the areas of renewable energies and sustainable construction.

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Training, research, human resources

The Vendée County Council aims to set the example in terms of the environment and in the field of renewable energies and sustainable development, thanks to an ambitious plan focusing especially on training in construction and sustainable development.

• Founding of the Institute of Sustainable Development and creation of a degree in green tech consulting (3-year post-baccalaureate)
• Opening of a continuing education centre in partnership with the CAPEB, the FFB and the chambers of commerce, with the aim of training craftsmen in the techniques required for sustainable construction
• The creation of the "Vendélium": a 5-hectare space dedicated to demonstrating, training, and raising awareness in the field of new energies and the materials and techniques required for sustainable construction.

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Flagship companies

The economic fabric of Vendée features many examples of small businesses that have grown, in the space of one or two generations, into prominent companies recognised both in France and abroad. For several years now, these key players of local industry have been joined by other major French and international companies that have set up for business in the county:

• Bénéteau (shipbuilding)
• Sodeb'O (agri-food)
• Cougnaud (construction of modular buildings)
• Louis Vuitton (leather goods/luxury)
• Ponroy Santé (pharmaceutical company)
• Selden Mast (manufacture of masts and fittings)

Several of these companies have developed investment projects involving sustainable construction, and in particular Bénéteau, which is launching a wood framework house construction business in 2009, as well as CAVAC, which is creating a production facility for natural insulating materials based on flax and hemp for construction.

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Find out more :

 Brochure: Setting up for Business in Vendée (5 Mb)

All the Green Tech Territories of France:

Aveyron

Aquitaine

Seine et Marne

Loire

Haute-Vienne

Vosges

Creusot Montceau

Somme - Picardie Maritime

Vendée.