À Bordeaux, Bruno Bonnell veut fédérer les acteurs locaux autour de France 2030
Passing through Bordeaux for the first France 2030 monitoring committee in the New Aquitaine region, the Secretary General for Investment Bruno Bonnell recalled the “territorial” philosophy of this plan with a budget of 54 billion euros. , and underlined the role that local authorities should play in its implementation.
Entrepreneur in video games, then robotics, before joining the National Assembly in 2017, Bruno Bonnell has held the position of Secretary General for Investment (SGPI) for four months. Attached to Matignon, he is in charge of the implementation of the France 2030 plan, which plans to mobilize 54 billion euros to transform the French economy along two axes: decarbonization and support for innovation. There remains one question, regularly raised by local political actors since the announcement of the plan last October: what role will the regions and inter-municipalities, whose competence includes economic development, play in its implementation?
” We have established and decided that we assume a France 2030 follow-up committee in each region, under the co-chairmanship of myself and the regional prefect or prefectindicates the secretary general, met on Wednesday at the end of the first of these annual committees in New Aquitaine, organized in the presence of the services of the prefecture and the region in the premises of the University of Bordeaux. This plan is specifically oriented towards the territories. I insist, unlike some more sovereign plans, the idea is to give ambitious objectives for France but to count on the territories so that the projects emerge and go up “.
“Projects before budgets”
Although part of the continuity of the France Relance plan, France 2030 indeed claims an approach that is both more selective and less budgetary. ” We are not in a counter plan. The ambition is to bring out the best of the territories, with a field of intervention that goes from fundamental research to the installation of factories », Illustrates Bruno Bonnell.
The plan is organized according to five poles which are prevention-health, ecological and energy transition, knowledge, digital sovereignty and the “new frontiers” of space conquest or exploration of the seabed, with roadmaps very big. ” In each of these poles, we launch calls for projects, for which the envelopes are not concerned either by region or by sector of activity. The relevance of the projects is then assigned by an international jury. It’s more of a competition than a simple file review. We are therefore waiting for the regions to come up with ideas to meet the stated objectives. “says Bruno Bonnel, who recalls that the law provides that 50% of the plan should be directed towards players (VSEs, SMEs, SMIs) or emerging territories.
He thus invites the latter not to miss the boat, while promising simplified procedures by September. ” Today, what we want is to generate a lot of applications. But not to say “I’m going to buy another machine”, innovation must really be at the heart of the project “. Research centers and other higher education establishments are also called upon to apply. ” The plan provides for the training of one million people in the professions of the future, in addition to what already exists. For example, there is a deficit of 30,000 people in the bio-production professions, or 6,000 specialized welders. For example, we have just financed the tripling of training in data scientists in seven French universities “, he adds.
The regionalized part of the plan remains to be signed
The France 2030 dynamic is already well received, with 5.2 billion euros committed at the last count of the SGPI. At the regional level, however, the signing of the agreement for the regionalized PIA/France 2030 section remains to be finalized, which should make it possible to mobilize 88 million euros, equally between the State and the Region, for projects of local innovations, with joint management provided by the prefect Fabienne Buccio and the regional president Alain Rousset, who regularly reminds us that he aspires for the State to delegate more broadly the financing of the economy to the regions. ” President Rousset is a member of the supervisory board of SGPI, which means that he is a member of my governance. If he accepted it, it’s because he respects the institution that is the SGPI, it’s important and I thank him for that, just as I respect his political line, even if it’s not for the moment, the clear line of the current government, but it will assess. I remind you that there is a law on decentralization which could not be passed in the middle of the Covidemphasizes Bruno Bonnell, saluting the spectacular energy of the regional president before slipping into a smile: We will find a moment, Nouvelle-Aquitaine will not be the last region of France to sign “.