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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
- Alsace Biovalley : for life sciences and health
- Fibres Energivie : dedicated to building materials
- Hydreos : for the sustainable improvement of water in all its forms
- Industries and Agro-resources (IAR) Cluster : dedicated to the bioeconomy
- Materalia : specialist in structuring materials and implementation processes
- Véhicule du futur : solutions for vehicles and mobility of the future