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On a mission to enhance the economic development of an excellence field, the Pôle Image Magelis encourages local business creation/relocation by offering relevant tools for entrepreneurs from the animation, video game, edition and audiovisual production industries.
An ambitious real estate policy
These tools mainly rest on a 75,000 m2 real building stock, the management of the company creation incentive from the Charente Department, the creation of a public and private teaching offer and of efficient services.
A business incubator welcomes around ten young, innovative and creative companies in a 1,500 m² building on the banks of the Charente river. Working with the Chamber of commerce and industry (CCI), the incubator offers premises at a low, price, domiciliation and reception services, pooled services (mail, meeting room, fiber broadband…) and, on demand, a support by technical agents on management, administration, research and development.
Since its opening in 2004, 25 companies from the image sector – with some businesses created by alumni from the Campus de l’Image’s schools – benefited from seasoned industry experts in order to make their projects grow, to join a professional network and to make their creative vision come to life.
A selection committee selects laureates based on a variety of criteria to, then, support them in their creation endeavours.
The Pôle Image Magelis carries out an ambitious real estate policy by rehabilitating old buildings – based on the Architecte des Bâtiments de France’s advice – as the image industry local area is part of a protected urban space.
The purpose of these buildings is to welcome schools and businesses within the same area (the Nil, formerly used for paper industry) in order to create a hub made for exchanges, knowledge sharing and collaboration between the 1,200 students and the professionals of the image industry.
They meet the latest building regulations (HQE-BBC), are environmentally-friendly and benefit from the latest equipments (optic fiber, high-capacity electrical equipment for greater modularity…).
A dynamic territory
GrandAngoulême’s economic department mobilizes its resources for evaluating – with entrepreneurs – the solutions adapted to their needs and for supporting them in carrying their projects out. GrandAngoulême is the preferred contact of businesses, offering a complete range of services:
- Creation, development and innovation support
- Administration, legal support…
- Helping concubine job search for people who recently moved locally for a long-term contract
Premises within a 3,000 m² incubator – Krysalide – located next to Angoulême in Girac which can be accessed thanks to the new High Level Service Bus.</li/>
Pépinière d’entreprise de GrandAngoulême
EUREKATECH
GrandAngoulême initiated the creation of the EUREKATECH technology hub. Its goal is to gather all the territory’s actors and strengthen their collaboration.
GrandAngoulême invests for innovation and offers a call for proposals named “Produits du futur” (Future products) aimed at entrepreneurs in order to encourage company creation and stimulate innovation. The fund can make up to 50% of eligible expenses (wages, software and equipments, outsourcing, consumables, marketing…) and can reach a maximum of €50,000.
Another call for proposals is opened to students, employees, new businesses… and business owners. The total budget for this is €135,000 – perfect to help your ideas take off! Up to €25,000 can be given to any individual project – or even up to €30,000 for circular economy projects!
GrandAngoulême also offers interest-free loans (“prêts d’honneur”) to help businesses grow faster.
- Additional information is available on the Eurekatech website
CréaLAB
Angoulême’s CréaLab is an open space where digitally-managed equipment can be used by anyone to create all types of product, thus encouraging idea sharing and file modifications.
On the 31st of january 2019, the CREALAB team moved from the Cité Internationale de la Bande Dessinée and refocused its activity to collaborate with the EUREKATECH technology hub in the KRYSALIDE incubator.
In march 2019, the CREALAB will be organizing subscription-only workshops to discover its new usage policy. Activities for companies and partners will be offered in collaboration with the technology hub.
In 2020, depending on project results and on actors’ needs, the expansion of Consumer services offering will be brought to question when the CREALAB return to Angoulême’s town centre.
Check out Créalab news on its website and on its Facebook page.
FAB®ICC
One of the University of Poitiers’s initiative. It comprises a team of researchers from various fields (economy, management, communication, digital arts, digital rights, intellectual property, computing sciences and computer technology) in Angoulême at the CEPE. The FAB®ICC connects actors of the cultural and creative industries, university labs and Year 2 Master specialist students. It is supported financially by the European Union (FEDER INSECT & NUMERIC), by the government, the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region and GrandAngoulême (CPER INSECT & NUMERIC).
ADI
The “Agence de Développement et d’Innovation” from the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region supports companies and territories from the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region. It participates in business transformation, emerging industry consolidation, making the area more attractive, helping business set up locally and animation of the regional innovation network. It manages the “Festival de l’Innovation” (Innovation festival) in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region.
ADIE
This major national association is located in Charente. It believes and defends that anyone can become an entrepreneur – even without seed money or degrees – if people have access to credit and to a professional, custom support based on trust, solidarity and responsibility. It provides financial support for all types of professional endeavours up to €10,000. Angoulême contact: Aurélien Linard.
La chambre de commerce et de l’industrie
The Charente’s chamber of commerce and industry participates in companies development and helps businesses being set up.
It brings a technical support through counseling, custom support and collective operations.
It provides support for entrepreneurs on international prospection and facilitates networking on a departmental level thanks to its regional and national network.
Cognac and the charentaises!
Charente is known throughout the world for cognac (more than 140 million bottles sold in 155 countries!) but it is also a territory of entrepreneurs and innovation, with a strong digital, electrical equipment, mecatronics and packaging activity as well as the modern industry making the famous Charentaise shoe!
An ideal location
At the heart of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, the biggest region of France and the most demographically dynamic, Angoulême offers an ideal location for entrepreneurs being at the crossroads of great economical and educational hubs of the territory, less than an hour from Bordeaux, Poitiers, La Rochelle, Niort, Limoges and Périgueux.
Apart from its first-class agriculture and viticulture industries, the region is full of resources related to tourism, aeronautics, the space industry and to the “Usine du futur” program which makes talents gravitate around innovation, particularly from the digital image industry found in Angoulême.
A strong and wide network
In 20 years, the Pôle Image Magelis has created a strong network with local and national organizations which can support the development of businesses from the image industry.
Joining the Magelis ecosystem,
is joining this network.
Thus, Magelis manages a network of talents and entrepreneurs who can also benefit from custom services, like specific premises (meeting rooms, projection rooms, production offices…), the participation to fairs in France and abroad (Mifa, GemCo Paris, GamesCom Cologne, Quai des Bulles, Fibd, Le Start, Virtuality Paris…), getting indexed on Magelis’ website, mobile apps and social media.
Magelis also brings a strong and rich network to business owners with other local, national and international industry players.
Local partners
National partners
International partners
The Pôle Image Magelis also maintains relationships with multiple areas around the world to facilitate sharing and cooperation between actors of all these creative territories
- The Lazio region in Italy
- The Jilin Animation Institute in China
- The Zapopan State in Mexico
