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    The Région Grand Est, key player and leader in the economy, has implemented its Be EST strategy to serve business prosperity, employment and the attractiveness of its region through a set of concrete, pragmatic and innovative actions. Economic development and innovation mobilise its energy on a daily basis. For the companies constituting the core target of its strategy, it has set up suitable tools to boost their competitiveness and build a region that is modern, ambitious and open to the world.

    Figures :

    • Overall area size: 57,433 km2 (twice the size of Belgium).
    • Regional GDP €150.3 billion – More than the GDP of some European countries such as the Czech Republic, Romania or Hungary
    • 2nd industrial region of France
    • 1st region in volume of export per capita
    • 2nd region by its agricultural GDP
    • Champagne sales in 2017: record turnover of 4.9 billion euros with 307.3 million bottles
    • 1st region in the number of frontier workers
    • 11,000 researchers and 30 leading Grands Ecoles engineering schools
    • 3 Nobel Prizes in Chemistry. (3 active Nobel prize winners).

    The structuring strategic sectors :

    • The bioeconomy and industry that make up the regional DNA
    • The 6 sectors of excellence related to innovation strategies :
    • Materials, processes, production technologies
    • Agro-resources
    • Health
    • Sustainable buildings
    • Sustainable mobility, intermodality, logistics and transport
    • Water
    • 15 CRITT or similar structures
    • 6 competitiveness clusters