The projects proposed must meet the following criteria:

Critères de qualification

The projects must fall within Fondation RTE’s sector of intervention.

• They are socially beneficial: they are of general interest (goals of collective interest) and non profit-making. They meet an identified need, which is not or very little satisfied by the sector or the public publics. They lead to concrete and quantifiable results (objectives to be clearly described and indicators that allow results to be assessed).
• As a priority, they are located in rural environments in the national metropolitan territory.

Assessment criteria

A project is examined by analysing the various criteria, which allows it to be assessed in its entirety and, where necessary, to decide between the various projects.

• Sustainable character: the financial initiatives with Fondation RTE’s support must be part of a process of sustainable improvement
• co-financing and networking: the Foundation particularly welcomes, on the one hand, the relevance of the project’s budget construction and other research in terms of finance and partnership (diversity of sources of finance: public assistance, private support, own resources...) and, on the other, experience of leading projects, expertise and cooperation between the various players.
• Project beneficiaries, notably whether or not the project includes and/or associates with fragile people in terms of their social or economic situation. Their involvement in constructing and/or implementing the project brings them social recognition.
• Enhancing the value of rural assets
• Environmental considerations
• The economic impact (maintaining or creating jobs)
• The innovative, or reproducible, character is examined in detail
• The involvement of RTE employees. The Foundation wants to provide more than financial support: it favours projects identified by its employees, which are liable to motivate them to accompany project leaders or take part on the ground as volunteers in certain joint operations.

• Associations, inclusion companies, cooperatives... and, more generally, non-profit-making or disinterested management bodies.
• Beneficiaries must reside in metropolitan France.
• Fondation RTE does not support associations of a political or religious nature, in accordance with the policies of Fondation de France.

Fondation RTE provides assistance in the form of annual or pluriannual subsidies, the amount of which is determined according to the project’s needs. As a priority, it is reserved for
tangible or intangible investment expenses. The Foundation examines every request whatever its size and co-finances projects.

• One-off events (exhibitions, colloquia, events, festivals...);
• Sponsoring operation (sportive, cultural)
• Humanitarian projects;
• Organisation’s regular operating costs (charges, salaries, transport costs;
• The entire project; in fact, looking for co-financing is a requirement to ensure durability;
• Transport vehicle (on principle)
• Projects outside French metropolitan territory;
• Personal projects;
• Projects that form an integral part of missions that can be financed by public policies and, in general, projects from legal obligations.
• Projects linked to RTE’s activities