Mission Locale Picardie Maritime

What Mission Locale Picardie Maritime does

Mission Locale Picardie Maritime (MLPM) is a French non-profit association operating as a public employment service dedicated to the professional and social integration of young people aged 16 to 26 in the Picardie Maritime territory of the Hauts-de-France region. Headquartered in Abbeville with a second reception site in Friville-Escarbotin, the organisation serves a territory of 162 communes through in-person reception, regular municipal permanences, and active neighborhood outreach in priority urban areas (Quartiers Prioritaires de la Politique de la Ville). Its core offering is a one-stop-shop 'Service Jeunes' combining individualized diagnostic assessment, contractualized accompaniment pathways (PACEA, Contrat d'Engagement Jeune), job matching, mentoring (Parrainage), entrepreneurship support (S'ENTREPRENDRE, Initiative Jeune), and connections to specialized partners for housing, health, mobility, and citizenship needs. Complementary services include Service Entreprises (employer-facing matching via Dispositif Matching and a CVthèque of 478 profiles), Service PLIE for vulnerable job seekers, and Proch'Info-Formation training guidance.

The organisation's technology stack is explicitly non-proprietary: a standard WordPress CMS with standard office productivity tools and no API, SDK, or AI integrations disclosed. Operational scale includes 2,000+ young people accompanied annually, 650 new receptions, 470 job offers processed in 2023, and a Club Entreprises network of 45+ member companies. MLPM also participates in multiple European-funded cooperation projects (Interreg ASPIRE 2019-2023 and Terremplo 2024-2025; Erasmus+ InternshipConnect, EURYS, Terrinov; FSE+ InterAgir, Job#Exploration, Ruralité#Opportunités, QPV+).

MLPM's business model is wholly non-commercial: all services to young people are provided free of charge, and operating revenue is derived exclusively from public funding streams - European (FSE+, Erasmus+, Interreg NWE), French national government, Région Hauts-de-France, and Conseil Départemental de la Somme - alongside in-kind partnerships with France Travail and member companies of Club Entreprises. Governance is led by a small disclosed team including Wojciech Kondrat as Directeur Général and Pascal Demarthe as legal representative. The organisation is not an investment-target in the traditional PE/VC sense, but functions as a publicly-funded territorial employment intermediary.

Name

Mission Locale Picardie Maritime

Legal name

Mission Locale de la Picardie Maritime

Website

https://mlpm.org

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Youth Employment Services

NAICS

Employment Placement Agencies (561311), Vocational Rehabilitation Services (62431)

SIC

Services-Employment Agencies (7361)

akta.pro primary industry

Workforce & Job-Seeker Services (Community-Based) (EDAAAFAM)

akta.pro secondary industry

Local & Regional Generalist Staffing Agencies (BPACACAH)

Keywords

• Youth employment services
• Professional integration support
• Career guidance
• Vocational training
• Employer matching

Headquarters

HQ city

Abbeville, Hauts-de-France

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Public Funding - European: European structural funding including FSE+ (Fonds Social Européen +), Interreg programmes, and Erasmus+ that finance specific youth integration and employment projects.
2. Public Funding - National/Regional: Funding from French national government, Region Hauts-de-France, and Conseil Départemental de la Somme to support core operations and youth integration services.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Mission Locale Picardie Maritime provides free public employment and social integration services to young people aged 16-26 across the Picardie Maritime territory (162 communes). Its core service, Service Jeunes, accompanies young people through individualized diagnostics, contractualized pathways (PACEA, CEJ), career orientation, mentoring, entrepreneurship support, and connections to housing, health, mobility, and training partners. The complementary Service Entreprises operates an employer-candidate Matching system, a CVthèque, and the Club Entreprises network of 45+ local businesses to facilitate job placements, processing approximately 470 job offers per year.

Product overview

Mission Locale Picardie Maritime operates as a public employment service offering a unified platform of youth integration services. The core Service Jeunes provides comprehensive support for 16-26 year olds through programs including Contrat d'Engagement Jeune (CEJ), PACEA, Orientation, Living'Lab, Parrainage, and S'ENTREPRENDRE. Complementary business services include Service Entreprises with its Dispositif Matching and CVthèque for employer-candidate matching, plus the Club Entreprises network. The organization also manages the PLIE service with Facilitateur Accompagnateur de Parcours, Mentorat, and Clause Insertion programs. Additional offerings span training information (Proch'Info-Formation), innovative projects (InterAgir, Job#Exploration, Ruralité#Opportunités, QPV+), and European mobility programs (Erasmus+ including InternshipConnect and Terrinov, Interreg NWE with ASPIRE and Terremplo). Funded by FSE+, the organization serves Abbeville and Friville-Escarbotin locations across 162 communes.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Service Jeunes Core youth support service accompanying 16-26 year olds in their social and professional integration journey, covering employment, training, housing, mobility, health, and citizenship.
• Contrat d'Engagement Jeune (CEJ) Personalized 6-12 month program offering intensive support with a dedicated advisor, 15-20 hours weekly of activities, and financial aid up to 500 euros/month for eligible youth.
• PACEA Contractualized pathway toward employment and autonomy, providing phases of accompaniment, training periods, professional situations, and financial allocation for engaged youth.
• Orientation Professional orientation service offering individual interviews, training actions, and company immersion periods to help youth validate their career project.
• Living'Lab Innovation laboratory enabling experimentation and testing of new approaches for youth professional integration.
• Parrainage Mentoring program connecting young people with professional sponsors to support their career integration.
• S'ENTREPRENDRE Entrepreneurship support program helping young people develop and launch their own business projects.
• Service Entreprises Business service facilitating job market matching between employers and young job seekers through specialized offer processing and CV database management.
• Dispositif Matching Matching system processing job offers and sourcing candidates, featuring a CVthèque with 478 young job seeker profiles for efficient placement.
• CVthèque Digital CV database aggregating profiles of young job seekers to facilitate employer matching and recruitment processes.
• Club Entreprises Business network club bringing together 45+ companies to share best practices and collaboratively develop cooperative employment access approaches.
• Service PLIE Plan Local pour l'Insertion et l'Emploi service coordinating local interventions to facilitate employment access for people facing serious social and professional integration difficulties.
• Facilitateur Accompagnateur de Parcours (FAP) Pathway facilitator service supporting PLIE participants in job or training searches through participatory 'Doing with' approach promoting learning and autonomy development.
• Mentorat PLIE Picardie Maritime Mentoring program within PLIE providing individualized support for vulnerable job seekers in their professional integration journey.
• Clause Insertion Public procurement social clause program reserving work hours for people facing employment difficulties, creating job opportunities through public contracts.
• Proch'Info-Formation Regional training information service providing personalized guidance on careers, training offers, access conditions, and employment perspectives across Hauts-de-France.
• Service Maison de l'Emploi et de la Formation Employment and Training House service animating and coordinating information and programs to facilitate professional insertion, employment, and training on the territory.
• Initiative Jeune Youth cooperative initiative encouraging young people to discover entrepreneurship through a collective, learning-based approach to business creation.

Quantifiable outcome

• Over 2,000 young people supported annually with 650 new receptions
• +2 more outcomes

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

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Partnerships

Ten partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Centre IFAPME Liège-Huy-Verviers ASBLcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2024Belgian vocational training center partner in Terremplo project, hosting hub meetings and contributing expertise in work-linked training and youth integration.
• SARL LeCube (Le Cube Consultants)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2024French consulting firm leading the Terremplo project's Pays de la Loire hub, conducting field surveys and coordinating local activities.
• Health and Europe CentrecoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 October 2019Lead partner of the ASPIRE Interreg V project focused on reducing employability inequalities through health and nutrition interventions. Project duration October 2019 to February 2023.
• Kent County CouncilcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 October 2019English local authority partner in ASPIRE project, contributing to cross-border cooperation on youth employability in the France-Channel-England region.
• Bournemouth UniversitycoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 October 2019Academic partner responsible for ASPIRE project evaluation. Conducted evaluation report published July 2023.
• Kent Community Health NHS Foundation TrustminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 October 2019Health sector partner in ASPIRE project contributing expertise on health-based approaches to employability.
• C3 Collaborating for HealthminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 October 2019International health organization contributing to ASPIRE project's approach to improving employability through health improvements.
• Ballymun Job CentrecoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 October 2019Lead partner of Terremplo Interreg NWE project (January 2024 - June 2025). Irish organization focused on youth employment services that initiated the cross-border cooperation.
• France Travail (formerly Pôle Emploi)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerNational employment service collaborating on job seeker support, CEJ (Contrat d'Engagement Jeune) implementation, and labor market integration.
• Club Entreprises (45+ member companies)coreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorNetwork of over 45 companies across all sectors collaborating with MLPM on job dating events, company visits, and employment integration for young people.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• France Travail (formerly Pôle Emploi): The French national employment agency is the largest incumbent in the same space; MLPM is explicitly listed as a delivery partner for CEJ implementation. Overlap is in job-seeker placement and employer matching, but France Travail operates nationally with a much broader mandate and digital infrastructure.

Others

• Conseil Départemental de la Somme: One of MLPM's core public funders and a parallel provider of social insertion services in the Somme department. Not a competitor per se, but a peer in the broader territorial insertion ecosystem that shapes funding priorities and referral flows.
• Région Hauts-de-France (Proch'Info-Formation): Regional authority funding MLPM's Proch'Info-Formation service and operating broader regional training-information programs with overlapping audiences. Functions as both funder and ecosystem peer in the Hauts-de-France training/employment landscape.
• Bournemouth University (ASPIRE evaluator): Academic partner responsible for ASPIRE project evaluation. Functions as a research/knowledge peer in evidence-based youth-employment practice rather than a direct service competitor; relevant for benchmarking methodologies and outcomes reporting.

Direct peers

• Ballymun Job Centre: Irish community-based youth employment organization listed as the lead partner of the Terremplo Interreg NWE project alongside MLPM. Same target audience (NEET youth), same community-led GTM model, same EU project funding logic — making it a structural and operational peer.
• Union Nationale des Missions Locales (UNML): National federation representing the network of ~450 Missions Locales in France. MLPM is one of its member associations; same service model, same target population (16-26 NEET), same public-funded framework, with UNML providing coordination, advocacy, and shared tooling across the network.
• IFAPME (Centre IFAPME Liège-Huy-Verviers): Belgian vocational training and youth integration partner in the Terremplo Interreg project. Comparable mandate (work-linked training, apprenticeship, youth insertion), comparable public-funding mix, and direct co-development relationship with MLPM within the same EU-funded project.
• PLIE (Plan Local pour l'Insertion et l'Emploi) — Picardie Maritime: MLPM itself operates its local PLIE, but the broader PLIE network across France consists of territorially-defined insertion programs with the same target populations and EU funding base, making them direct functional peers with comparable KPIs and funding mechanisms.

Regional players

• Kent County Council Employment Programs: English local authority partner in the ASPIRE Interreg France-Channel-England project. Comparable in serving a defined territory with a focus on employability barriers and cross-border youth cooperation, though operating under a different national policy framework.

Emerging players

• Cap Emploi: France-wide network specialized in employment support for people with disabilities. Partial overlap with MLPM's vulnerable-youth and PLIE insertion mandate; operates a similar publicly-funded specialist-agency model for a more narrowly defined population.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

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