The single inter-ministeries fund dedicated to Research and Development projects developped by the competitiveness clusters selected the 5 following Media & Networks projects:
Previous to the project launch, a financial and technical fine-tuning needs to take place prior to the contract signing between finders and project partners. This fine-tuning needs to take into account the level of participation offered by local gorvernments for these projects. To this date, local governments have vowed to participate up to 4,5 M€.
IN complement to this local government participation,the French state will fund these projects for a maximum of 9,3 M€.
Source: Letter from the French Ministry of Economy, Finance & Industry, march 22nd 07.