Adie Microfranchising aims to finance and support unemployed people who wish to create a business but find it hard to secure a standard bank loan. It is an innovative model of supporting unemployed people in creating their own business through a franchise, along with training, counselling, financing and other business support. The target clients are people on low income, including those in receipt of welfare benefits and people with low educational attainment. The scheme facilitates creation of businesses with a lower level of risk, utilising a ‘turn-key’ business model that has already been tested.

The FGIF’s major objective is to facilitate access to bank loans of women entrepreneurs to finance business creation, take-over, or scaling-up.

The French Law on the Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) was adopted in 2014. The Law primarily intends to respond to traditional SSE actors’ aspirations, within the framework of the European Social Business Initiative, by recognising their contribution to economic and social cohesion. It intends to be the first “inclusive” law that sets a common framework encompassing multiple organisations with diverse legal forms.

Alter’Incub is the first regional incubator dedicated to social enterprises in France. This multi-stakeholder structure was launched in 2007 by the Regional Union of Co-operative Companies of Languedoc-Roussillon (URScop-LR) in partnership with the Regional Council of Languedoc-Roussillon. Its main mission is to assist entrepreneurs and offer them legal, financial and commercial support to create socially innovative enterprises at the end of the incubation period. The overarching goal is to take advantage of all possible synergies to transfer social innovation from the theoretical to the economic sphere in sectors such as housing, environment and consumption.