About sixty new territorial projects must be labeled in the coming weeks.
The objective set by the government to grant the local Manufacture label to 100 third-places in 2021 and 2022, shared workspaces dedicated to production providing services to a community, is on the way to being achieved. While 39 projects have already been labeled, 61 new ones will be selected by the National Agency for Territorial Cohesion after a new call for projects unveiled in the coming days. Funding of 30 million euros, from France Relance, is devoted to the development of these sites with an average envelope of 250,0000 euros per third location.
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“The label allows each project leader to enter an incubation program and it is only at the end that the first amounts will be paid. It is a question of investing public money as well as possible and of preventing a promising idea on paper from proving to be unsustainable.underlines Patrick Levy-Waitz, president of France tiers-lieux and of the Foundation for working differently, who presented…