Plan France Ruralités & Green Fund

Get your constituents to finance their mobility

One in three French people live in rural areas, where public transport is often non-existent. Thanks to the Plan France Ruralités, a financing opportunity is available to those who want to offer their fellow citizens an alternative to the car.

Here's how the Green Fund can financially support your initiatives.

What is the Green Fund?

The Green Fund, at the heart of the France Ruralités Plan, provides for an investment of 90 million euros between 2024 and 2026. This financial scheme encourages local, sustainable mobility projects, such as :

Requiring or having a mobility strategy.
Including the provision of services or infrastructure.
Enabling feeder services to flow-generating hubs or multimodal interchange hubs (PEM).

The good news is that DRT is eligible for the Green Fund as a sustainable mobility project.

Is your area affected?

The territories covered by this plan include :

Metropolitan France (rural EPCIs, those classified as intermediate density and those in the Île-de-France region).
Eligible overseas departments/regions (DROM).

For a list of eligible territories, please turn to page 11 of this document.

Who can apply for funding?

The France Ruralités plan identifies eligible project sponsors. These include :

Mobility organizing authorities (AOM).
Organizations with delegated authority.

Note that even in the absence of competence, the elected representatives of a sparsely populated area can propose a mobility project, provided it is supported by a regional AOM, as a "second-tier" delegation.

How can you give your application the best chance of success?

For a mobility project to be selected, it must be :

Contributing to the ecological transition in rural areas.
Complies with the types of expenditure eligible under the Green Fund (such as investment and operating costs).
To be submitted before the end of 2024.
In other words, achievable in less than 3 years.

How do you prepare your application?

To apply for a Green Fund grant, you must complete an online form containing :

A note presenting your mobility project.
AOM approval.
A provisional financing plan and other documents relating to the project owner (e.g. bank details).

You can call on France Mobilités, CEREMA andADEME to help you prepare your application.

What's next?

Once you've finished preparing your application, you can submit it on the Aides-territoires platform or on Démarches simplifiées. Finally, your application will be examined by the prefect of your department. If it is accepted, your project will be awarded a grant of up to 50% of your investment and operating costs for the first two years of the service.

This grant can be combined with other regional, state or European grants.

Got a project in mind?

Padam Mobility can help you. Since 2014, we have been developing dynamic and intelligent Demand-Responsive Transport (DRT and Paratransit) solutions based on proven algorithms. The transport consulting team can offer you a feasibility study of DRT in your territory, eligible for the Green Fund.

Discover on this case study how 5 territories have improved the mobility of their peri-urban and rural areas thanks to Demand-Responsive Transport.