📋 Tender Overview
Prime Minister Jean Castex presented the main features and objectives of the fourth future investment program Program dinvestissements davenir - PIA 4. With a budget of 20 billion euros for the years 2021-2025 PIA 4 is entirely dedicated to higher education Dedicated to research and innovation. A large part of this financial framework is earmarked for sectors with a promising future and strategic sectors for France some of which have yet to be determined in the course of consultations.The future investment program Program dinvestissements davenir was launched in 2010 against the backdrop of the global economic crisis with the aim of providing France with a long-term investment capacity that will enable it to promote sustainable growth strengthen research and industry and create jobs in future-relevant sectors such as health education digital technologies and to create renewable energies. The aim of this program is to accompany and promote innovations over the entire innovation cycle - from the emergence of an idea in a research laboratory or university through its technological development to its dissemination in the form of a product or service. In addition the program is intended to strengthen the research and innovation system and promote technology transfer.Since 2010 the program has already had 3 funding periods with a total funding volume of 57 billion.Euro. The specific aim of the current 4th edition of the program is to maintain Frances technological independence and competitiveness and thus to promote employment and to continue the ecological change that has already started. At least one third of the investments made within the framework of the program should benefit the promotion of ecological innovations including environmentally efficient transformations in agriculture and or cities decarbonisation of industry etc.. Another characteristic of the program is its territorial dimension the French regions are involved in the formulation of national strategies to accelerate innovation and so-called territorial demonstrators are set up to test the effectiveness of the innovations developed.Von 2021 bis 2025 sollen insgesamt 20 Mrd. Euro Frdergelder flieen. Davon sollen 75 Mrd. Euro zur Strkung der Hochschulbildung Forschungsuniversitten Exzellenzlabore sowie von Forschungs- und Innovationseinrichtungen Universittskliniken technologische Forschungsinstitute eingesetzt werden. Hiermit soll eine nachhaltige und vorhersehbare Strukturfinanzierung fr die Organisationen des Forschungs- und Innovationssystems gewhrleistet werden und somit die Attraktivitt Frankreichs fr Studierende Lehrende Forscherinnen und Forscher sowie Unternehmer zu steigern.With a total funding amount of 12.5 billion euros the development and implementation of national strategies to accelerate research and innovation in selected strategic future-relevant areas represents the largest financial item within the PIA4.Four strategic areas in which such national strategies to accelerate research and innovation are to be implemented have been identified as part of the work on the productivity pact and the corresponding strategies have already been initiatedHydrogen Promotion of a competitive hydrogen industry and thus climate-neutral innovations particularly in those branches of the economy in which electrification is not possible.Cybersecurity Promoting cybersecurity capacities in order to guarantee data sovereignty and the protection of citizens and their data.Quantum Technology Promoting innovation in the field of quantum technologies in view of the expected technological breakthroughs in the next 5-10 years.Digital Education The experiences during the spring 2020 lockdown demonstrated the need for a strategy for digital education from preschool to university.For 11 other strategic areas the government has initiated a consultation process to further define potential strategies for accelerating research and innovationTo eat healthy foodSustainable farming systems and equipment that contribute to ecological changeRecycling and reuse of recycled materialsSolutions for sustainable and resilient citiesDecarbonisation of industryFrench cultural and creative industriesDigitization and decarbonization of mobilityDigital healthBiotherapy and bioproduction of innovative therapiesBio-based products and industrial biotechnologies - sustainable fuels5G and future telecommunications network technologies.
