Focus on social impact and on the basics of entrepreneurship
NGO pre-incubator, created in 1982, nonprofit, focus in the general sector (not high-tech).
Mixed public/private sponsor and/or partners. CBE is mainly funded by public funds and public local administration.
They act in different sectors of activity and cooperate with networks from all economic fields, with partner networks of the Social and Solidarity Economy and the entrepreneurship in Provence (west-PACA).
Also has experience of community programs through the Synergie Entreprendre approach (FSE fund), the ICS-Med project (FEDER), and the creation of the Medcoop association of which it is a founding member.
Their market and resources focused on local and national territory.
Non-scalable or lifestyle businesses, more agricultural, food, self-entrepreneurship.
They focus on social impact and offer the basics of entrepreneurship workshops to develop the idea/concept for new businesses.
They are developing nowadays a lab related to informatics and IT technologies to offer a weekly formation seminar and a lab for welcoming people.