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PSE Platform Ambassador highlight: Métropole du Grand Paris

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12 March 2025

PSE Platform Ambassador highlight: Métropole du Grand Paris

Urban and Rural Wellbeing

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This article is part of a series of introductory pieces for the Ambassadors of the EU Proximity and Social Economy Platform. Ambassadors play a pivotal role in bridging connections among the ecosystem’s stakeholders. Today, we introduce Greater Paris Metropolis.

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Academic/Research and VET Institutions

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Company with 250 or more employees

Consumer / tourist organisation

Cultural and Heritage Organisations

Destination Management & Marketing Organisations

EU institutions

Financial Institutions and Investors

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Trade Unions

  • Thematic area

    • Urban and Rural Wellbeing

  • Interlinkages with other sectors

    • Proximity and social economy

    • Agri-food

    • Construction

    • Cultural and creative industries

    • Digital

    • Electronics

    • Energy intensive industries

    • Energy-renewables

    • Health

    • Mobility, transport, automotive

    • Retail

    • Textile

    • Tourism

    • Aerospace and defence

  • Action areas and keywords

    • 15-minute city

    • Access to Finance

    • Access to technology

    • Addressing capacity and skills gap

    • Advancing gender equality and safety at work

    • Blue Economy

    • Boosting digital skills by - and in the social economy

    • Buy social

    • Certification, labelling and self-regulation

    • Circular Economy

    • Clusters (including Cluster of social and ecological innovation)

    • Corporate social responsibility (CSR)

    • Creating financial incentives and supportive regulation for green and circular social economy business models

    • Data Maturity and data driven business models

    • Data sharing, Data management & Code of Conduct

    • Digital Platforms

    • Digital social innovation

    • Economic democracy

    • Education

    • Future workplaces

    • Greening infrastructures and business operations

    • Housing

    • ICP rights & workers involvement

    • Industrial relation and social dialogue

    • Innovation

    • Innovation as enabler for green transition and business development in the social economy

    • Internationalisation

    • Local employment

    • Local Green Deals, green business communities and citizens’ initiatives

    • Local Markets

    • Micro mobility

    • New business models

    • New business models – the platform economy

    • New European Bauhaus

    • Other action area

    • Public and private tech partnerships and support

    • Reinforcing Business to Business collaboration for greener and circular value chains

    • Responsible (Public) Procurement

    • Smart mobility

    • Social Finance

    • Socially oriented territorial regeneration

    • Strategy for Data

    • Supporting Digital Social Innovation & Tech for Good entrepreneurship

    • Sustainable Finance

    • Tech for Good

  • Ecosystem focus

    • Proximity economy

  • Scope of activity

    • International

    • Local/neighbourhood

    • National

    • Regional

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The Greater Paris Metropolis (Métropole du Grand Paris) is a public authority that represents Paris and 129 surrounding cities. Its main responsibilities include economic, social, and cultural development, environmental protection, housing and urban planning, managing aquatic environments, and flood prevention.

City centre policy requires holistic thinking, and our goal is to provide expertise that highlights the interconnectedness of sectors related to city centre revitalisation, particularly when it comes to evaluation methods and policy indicators.

Métropole du Grand Paris

As part of the proximity economy, the Greater Paris Metropolis leads the URBACT IV action planning network Cities@Heart. Since 2018, it has successfully run the "Lively Downtowns" programme, which now includes 101 cities focused on revitalising city centres.

The Metropolis has also initiated various programmes related to the proximity and social economy. These cover areas such as circular construction, third spaces, sustainable logistics, and urban innovation, providing a platform for inspiration and knowledge exchange.

We hope to share knowledge relevant to the French and Parisian metropolitan context with other European organisations benchmarking effective town centre management policies. We are looking for inspiration across Europe to improve our policies, focusing on the theme of ‘urban and rural well-being’

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