The EDF Group Foundation acts as a priority in environmental areas, education and inclusion. Represented in the region by the regional delegations of the EDF group, it favors projects that have a positive impact on local communities.
It is within this framework that the Overseas Territories and Corsica call for projects has been launched., particularly in Reunion. It will reward innovative projects or experiments in the three fields of intervention of the EDF Group Foundation. : the environment, education and inclusion. In the field of the environment, The EDF Group Foundation supports initiatives and programs in favor of the fight against climate change and the preservation of biodiversity. To promote inclusion, it supports projects to combat poverty with a direct impact on beneficiaries. As for education, it is considered an essential factor in human development, of economic growth and a means of combating all forms of exclusion.
The terms of the call for projects
The call for projects is open until June 30, 2022, deadline for complete submission of files. To compete, the structures supporting the project must submit their application on the website of the EDF Group Foundation for the territory of Reunion Island (https://projetsfondation.edf.com/fr/) To submit a project, structures must be eligible for sponsorship (articles 200 and 238bis of the General Tax Code). They must have been in existence for at least two years and annual resources greater than 100,000 euros (several structures can come together to meet this criterion). The project must be deployed in Reunion. The project must be co-financed by the structure supporting the project itself or by another financier. The projects will be examined by the EDF Group Foundation in July 2022. The results will be announced during August 2022 for support which will be implemented before the end of the year.
The EDF Group Foundation
Founded over 30 years ago, the EDF Group Foundation is today supported by EDF SA, EDF Renewables, Enedis (electricity distribution network manager), Dalcia (company specializing in decentralized energy production, developing alternative renewable energies in particular) and Citelus (subsidiary of the EDF Group in the public lighting and urban electrical equipment sector). It supports associative projects having a positive local impact on society and territories., while encouraging the commitment of the Group’s employees. Its actions fall within its three preferred areas of intervention in France, but also internationally, with priority actions in favor of future generations and the most vulnerable people. The Foundation also has in Paris, in a former redeveloped electrical substation, a clean exhibition space (the EDF Foundation Space) whose cultural programming articulates artistic and educational approaches on societal and environmental subjects.
