Promote and encourage the development of internationalization and commercial relations between Italian and French companies. This is the objective of the second edition ofFranco-Italian accelerator, supported by Cassa Depositi e Prestiti (CDP), Bpifrance, the French investment bank, ELITE– Euronext e Group Team France Export, which includes Business France, Bpifrance and the CCI France Italie (French Chamber of Commerce in Italy).
Growth paths and bilateral meetings
Il program, which lasts one year, offers selected companies growth opportunities through training and bilateral business matching meetings. The initiative facilitates the discovery of opportunities sustainable development in Italy and France for companies in both countries. The program renewal, following the success of the first edition, demonstrates the effective collaboration between CDP, Bpifrance, ELITE Euronext Group and Team France Export in accelerating business growth.
27 companies in various industrial and service sectors were involved
The program involves 27 companies active in various industrial and service sectors with focus on exports. The Accelerator consists of six sessions which will take place in France and Italy alternately. Each session lasts two days, with the first day dedicated to training held by the SDA Bocconi School of Management and Sciences Po, focused on corporate strategies and leadership. Businesses will have access to one learning platform online with courses, workshops and conferences from Bpifrance Université and SDA Bocconi School. Additionally, they use ELITE's ELITE Digital Compass to assess their business strengths and set growth priorities.
Companies will have the opportunity to participate in targeted bilateral business meetings to support development in their reference markets and create transalpine partnerships, as well as participate in networking events to encourage cross-border investments.
" second edition of the Franco-Italian Accelerator aims to support and prepare French companies to develop their business in Italy. This acceleration program allows entrepreneurs to change their perspective and think bigger,” he explained Guillaume Mortelier, Executive Director of Bpifrance Responsible for the Support Department. “Made up of both French and Italian companies, this edition successfully brings together the two ecosystems with the aim of becoming more efficient together.”
"With this joint initiative between Italy and France, which sees top-level institutional partners in the field, we aim to encourage the growth of companies in the two countries by strengthening cooperation and synergies. From this perspective, the new edition of the Franco-Italian Accelerator will offer further impetus to the dynamism demonstrated in recent months by Italian companies in their projection towards foreign markets and will allow the generation of new development opportunities, acting specifically on the strengthening of managerial skills, technical and financial” he commented Andrew Nuzzi, Head of Businesses and Financial Institutions at CDP.
“A big welcome to the companies that join the second edition of the Franco-Italian Accelerator and that represent the quality of the entrepreneurial fabric of the two countries. This initiative creates unique and concrete synergies of internationalization and growth, capable of transforming the corporate vision into strategic plans and real results for the companies participating in the program. Skills, relationships and capital at the service of the real economy, the true driving force of growth at an international level” he declared Martha Texts, Chief Executive Officer of Elite.
" entrepreneurial synergy between Italian and French companies represents today more than ever a unique opportunity to affirm the growth of the economies and the creation of value for our two countries", he said Denis Delespaul, Chairman of the CCI France Italy. “The Accelerator presents itself as a further and important tool to multiply business opportunities and to develop cooperation between companies in Italy and France, favoring new and unexplored opportunities for expansion and, consequently, the creation of jobs” .
