The French Government has announced funding of 73 R&D projects from 52 competitiveness clusters for funding by the State € 63 million. These projects were selected after the 10th call for projects of Single Inter-Ministry Fund. The mobilization of local authorities and EU funds (ERDF) on most of these projects complete this funding around € 60 million.
All calls for projects of clusters have supported 886 projects since 2005. These projects represent an amount of R&D of around 4.6 billion euros, 15,000 researchers and government funding of over 1.7 billion euros, with over 1.1 billion euros by the State.