Integration through economic activity

Clermont Auvergne Métropole’s Employment Integration Solidarity Department does all it can to support economic activity in the territory by fostering integration and employment. It helps companies to set up and supports them with the inclusion of social integration clauses in public procurement contracts managed by the Cellule Emploi Grands Chantiers (Major Project Employment Unit).

Clermont Auvergne Métropole’s Employment Integration Solidarity Department:

  • helps you to search for premises and funding related to investment projects
  • puts you in touch with local authority specialist services (taxation, urban planning, transport, highways and waste management)
  • guides you to the world of research / innovation
  • integrates you into specialist networks at local and international level
  • helps you to increase your visibility (organization of seminars and business conventions)
  • guides you in putting your business creation project together and suggesting incubators and business nurseries

PLIE

This is one of the tools offered by Clermont Auvergne Métropole’s Employment Integration Solidarity Department aimed at facilitating the match between supply and demand of jobs, encouraging business creation and giving advice about measures for employment and qualifications.
Further info : the PLIE to support jobseekers

Employment & Diversity

An initiative for companies and inhabitants of priority neighborhoods in the urban area comprised of some ten events per year:

  • innovative job forums
  • visits to companies and business parks
  • jobseeker clubs
  • facilitating a company network

“Ouvre-Boîte” scheme

Every year, Clermont Auvergne Métropole sets up the “Ouvre-Boîte” awards to promote entrepreneurs located in the urban area’s priority neighborhoods, or within the scope of the Social and Solidarity Economy throughout the year. This initiative is managed in the field by Auvergne Active which enables prizewinners to land a €1,500 subsidy.
Prizewinners are singled out according to two categories:

  • creators from priority neighborhoods
  • the Social and Solidarity Economy

Contact : Auvergne Active . Tel.: +33 (0)4 73 34 22 63 . contact@franceactive-auvergne.org

Five welfare-to-work programs in the Métropole

Workshops and welfare-to-work programs (ACI – Ateliers et chantiers d’insertion) offer support and a professional activity to unemployed people encountering specific social and professional problems.

  • Welfare-to-work program “Autour du livre” (Based on books), given to the association Inserfac, nine employees concerned
    Run with Clermont Auvergne Métropole’s Culture Department. This welfare-to-work program’s main medium is part of the equipment for library collections.
  • Welfare-to-work program “Autour du costume” (Based on costumes), given to the association Inserfac, nine employees concerned
    Run with Clermont Auvergne Métropole’s Culture Department and Regional Conservatoire “Emmanuel Chabrier”. This program, which started in January 2017, is located in Chamalières, which pays for part of the rent for the premises. Its aim is to organize the management of 30,000 costumes from the ballet school’s sewing workshop but also the costumes and accessories from the drama class designed for dancers, actors and musicians.
  • Welfare-to-work program “Entretien des rivières” (Keeping rivers clean), given to the association Détours, eight employees concerned
    Run with Clermont Auvergne Métropole’s Water Cycle Department. This program involves work on maintaining the territory’s rivers.
  • Welfare-to-work program “Entretien des sentiers de randonnée” (Maintaining hiking paths), given to Régie de territoire structure “Des deux rives”, eight employees concerned
    Run with Clermont Auvergne Métropole’s Sustainable Development and Energy Department, this program involves the maintenance of hiking paths in the Métropole’s jurisdiction.
  • Welfare-to-work program “Vélo” (Cycle), given to the association Job Agglo, eight employees concerned
    Run with the SMTC Public Transport Authority and Clermont Auvergne Métropole’s RCM (Meetings with Citizens on Mobility) projects Department, the creation of another welfare-to-work program in the Métropole has been put forward for 2019. This project is consistent with the Métropole’s bicycle scheme and the Government’s cycle plan. In close cooperation with Vélogik, the company running C-Velos (Clermont’s cycle hire system), this latest welfare-to-work program for eight employees could be implemented by the Job Agglo Group and will be located in the city’s northern districts. This program is to carry out some of the tasks needed to run C-Vélo properly (maintaining urban furniture, having the right number of bikes per docking station, etc.) in response to the recent increase in the cycle hire.