[Automatic translation follows] The ministry is organized into four technical directorates (food, education and research, economic and environmental performance of companies, fishing and aquaculture) whose action is coordinated by a general secretariat which ensures the management of human resources, financial affairs, organization of services, information and communication, agricultural statistics and forecasting, legal affairs and pilots the ministry's modernization policy The decentralized services relay the action of the central administration in the regions and departments. The ministry has nearly 36,000 agents, half of whom work in the agricultural education and training sector. Food, Agriculture, Forestry, Agri-food, and Fishing

[Automatic translation follows] The Pays de la Loire region brings together 5 departments: Loire-Atlantique, Maine-et-Loire, Mayenne, Sarthe and Vendée. It has 3.7 million inhabitants spread across 1,357 municipalities. It is a territory balanced between rural areas and urban areas, organized around 7 large urban areas (Nantes, Saint-Nazaire, Angers, Cholet, Le Mans, Laval and La-Roche-sur-Yon) and 1,108 municipalities of less than 1,000 inhabitants. Bordered by 450 km of coastline and crisscrossed by the Loire, the region has the first port on the Atlantic coast. Its economic dynamism is a real strength which allows it to have the lowest unemployment rate in …

Sectors: National and local authorities

[Automatic translation follows] Facilitator of Maritime Innovation in Brittany and Pays de La Loire Created in 2005 to provide new responses to increasingly pressing global competition, the competitiveness clusters' primary purpose is to propose a new industrial policy. Competitiveness clusters aim to boost the innovation capacity of businesses and develop growth and employment in promising markets. An essential lever Competitiveness clusters thus promote the development of collaborative research and development projects, they support the growth of their member companies in particular by marketing new products, services or processes resulting from research work. Thanks to the clusters, the companies involved can …

Sectors: French Cluster Public business cluster