2024-01-28 18:30:00
On January 8, the government confirmed the labeling of the Aqua-Valley cluster as a competitiveness cluster for the period 2024-2026. Present in the Occitanie and South Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur Regions, the cluster has been participating since 2010 in “the development of innovative solutions for adapting territories to the effects of global warming on the management of water resources”.
Aqua-Valley currently has 250 members with an average of more than ten years of membership, and is aiming for at least 285 members in 2026. It brings together large companies (Veolia, Suez, Saint-Gobain PAM pipeline, EDF, etc.) , fast-growing mid-sized companies (Biotope, Phytocontrol) and structuring companies (Compagnie du Bas Rhône Languedoc, Société du canal de Provence, Compagnie d’Aménagement des Côteaux de Gascogne) and innovative SMEs (Bio-UV Group, Irrifrance, Altereo, Ecofilae , etc.). It also has leading academic and scientific establishments (University of Montpellier with the Montpellier Institute of Water and the Environment, the University of Toulouse, etc.), totaling more than 1,200 researchers and 500 doctoral students on the water subjects. Aqua-Valley works in partnership with the Éa eco-enterprises cluster, which brings together 162 eco-enterprises working on the subjects of water and ecological and energy transitions in the South Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region.
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