Créa-IUT

What Créa-IUT does

Créa-IUT (Association CREA-IUT, SIREN 512 714 577) is a French non-profit association declared under the loi du 1er juillet 1901 on May 21, 2002, legally seated at IUT Clermont-Ferrand, 5 Avenue Blaise Pascal, 63170 Aubière. The association is dedicated to supporting IUT (Institut Universitaire de Technologie) teachers in delivering entrepreneurship education to BUT (Bachelor Universitaire de Technologie) students across France. It functions as a teacher community network with more than 20 years of continuous operation, currently present in over one-third of French IUTs, and governed by a volunteer board of elected teacher-members.

Its core offerings include CréaSim by Antikera (a customizable serious-game simulation for business management), the annual Concours Créa IUT pitch competition for BUT students, Opérations Créa IUT (real-project engagement with external project carriers and local-ecosystem challenges), and a library of pedagogical resources including SAÉ (Situations d'Apprentissage et d'Évaluation) materials aligned with the BUT "entreprendre" competence, supplemented by teacher training seminars. The organization maintains strategic partnerships with Pépite France, UNPIUT, ADIUT, the Centrale Pédagogique des IUT, the Académie de l'Entrepreneuriat et de l'Innovation, Antikera, Le Sphinx, and RCA.

The business model is a recurring membership model: IUT teachers join via annual adhesion bulletins, paying membership dues (pricing not publicly disclosed) to access resources, seminars, competitions, and preferential partner tools. Revenue is membership-fee based only, there are no disclosed funding rounds, no parent company, and no equity structure given its non-profit association status. The association is active and operating, with documented quarterly newsletters through 2025 and a refreshed 2026 competition cycle.

Name

Créa-IUT

Legal name

Association CREA-IUT

Website

https://crea-iut.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2002

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Créa-IUT is a French non-profit association supporting IUT teachers in delivering entrepreneurship education across France, offering pedagogical resources, the CréaSim serious game, training seminars, and the annual Concours Créa IUT student competition to a network spanning over one-third of French IUTs.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Clermont-Ferrand

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Membership fees (Adhésion): Annual membership fees from IUT teachers who join the association. Members receive access to pedagogical resources, training seminars, preferential access to tools like CréaSim, and the ability to propose student projects and competitions.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Créa-IUT is a national non-profit association that supports IUT (Institut Universitaire de Technologie) teachers in teaching entrepreneurship through pedagogical resources, training seminars, and networking opportunities. Its core offerings include the CréaSim serious game by Antikera, the annual Créa IUT student pitch competition, Operations Créa IUT (real-world student projects), and customizable SAÉ (Situations d'Apprentissage et d'Évaluation) resources. Members access these through annual membership fees from IUT teachers across France.

Product overview

Créa IUT is an educational association providing a suite of entrepreneurship education tools and programs for IUT teachers and students. The core offerings include CréaSim by Antikera (an immersive serious game for business simulation), the annual Créa IUT Competition (student pitch competition), Operations Créa IUT (real-world project engagement programs), and pedagogical resources including SAÉ materials and teacher training seminars. These offerings work together to provide a comprehensive approach to teaching entrepreneurship skills in French higher education.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Concours Créa IUT: Annual competition promoting entrepreneurial spirit, creativity, and innovation among BUT students.
• CréaSim

Products and services

• CréaSim by Antikera (serious game) A comprehensive serious game tool with resources for a customizable, ready-to-use entrepreneurship simulation, allowing students to experiment with business management in an immersive environment. Offered with preferential access to Créa-IUT member teachers.
• Concours Créa IUT (annual competition) Annual entrepreneurship competition where BUT students pitch their business projects before a jury of experts, promoting entrepreneurial spirit, creativity, and innovation.
• Opérations Créa IUT Programs where students work on real projects with project holders and participate in challenges linked to the local ecosystem, providing professionalizing experience.
• Pedagogical resources and seminars (incl. SAÉ) Practical teaching tools adapted for entrepreneurship education across different BUT programs, including SAÉ (Situations d'Apprentissage et d'Évaluation) and training seminars for teachers.

Quantifiable outcome

• Over 20 years of continuous operation supporting entrepreneurship education in IUTs

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

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Feature1 record

Partnerships

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Pépite FrancecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPépite France is a national network promoting student entrepreneurship in France. Créa-IUT displays their logo indicating collaboration in supporting student entrepreneurship initiatives.
• UNPIUTcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerNational union of IUT pedagogical departments. Partnership supports coordination and representation of IUT educational interests.
• ADIUTcoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorAssociation representing IUT directors, facilitating institutional connections and support for entrepreneurship teaching across the IUT network.
• AntikeracoreTechnology or IntegrationAntikera provides CréaSim, a comprehensive serious game tool with customizable resources for entrepreneurship education. This is a preferred tool offered to Créa-IUT members with preferential access.
• RCAminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner organization shown in Créa-IUT's network of complementary partners providing resources to member teachers.
• Centrale Pédagogique des IUTminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPedagogical resource center for IUTs, partnership supports knowledge sharing and educational best practices.
• Académie de l'Entrepreneuriat et de l'InnovationminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerAcademy focused on entrepreneurship and innovation education, collaboration supports academic credibility and knowledge exchange.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• R\u00e9seau Entreprendre: National non-profit network supporting entrepreneurs through volunteer mentors and local chapters. Comparable as a French non-profit association that builds community and capacity for entrepreneurship, though it targets entrepreneurs themselves rather than teachers.
• Moovjee: Association supporting young and student entrepreneurs in France through mentoring, events, and programs. Similar target audience (student-age entrepreneurs) and association-driven, partnership-funded model.
• 100 000 Entrepreneurs: Association mobilizing entrepreneurs to share their experience in schools and universities. Comparable in mission (bringing entrepreneurship into education) and in non-profit association structure targeting educators.
• P\u00e9pite France: National network promoting student entrepreneurship across French higher education. Closely aligned mandate (student entrepreneurship support) and overlapping institutional reach, making it the most direct peer in the French ecosystem.
• Entreprendre Pour Apprendre (EPA): Non-profit association running entrepreneurship-education mini-enterprise programs in French schools and universities. Shares the association-based, education-mission model and competition/pedagogy-driven GTM.

Broad incumbents

• La French Tech: National government-backed ecosystem supporting French tech startups and entrepreneurship. Operates at much larger scale and broader scope than Cr\u00e9a-IUT, with overlapping interest in fostering student entrepreneurship but a fundamentally different mandate.
• Bpifrance: France's public investment bank funding and supporting entrepreneurship and innovation nationally. Tangentially comparable as a large institution backing French entrepreneurship ecosystems, but operates at a vastly different scale and with a financing rather than education focus.

Others

• ADIUT (Association des Directeurs d'IUT): Association representing IUT directors at the institutional level. Complementary ecosystem participant rather than competitor; both organizations serve the IUT community but ADIUT represents institutions while Cr\u00e9a-IUT represents teachers.
• Antikera: Technology partner that builds Cr\u00e9aSim, the serious-game tool distributed through Cr\u00e9a-IUT membership. Enabling/adjacent — comparable in that it serves entrepreneurship-education customers, but its product is the underlying tool, not the network.

Emerging players

• Live for Good: Social enterprise supporting youth entrepreneurship in France. Mission-adjacent (youth entrepreneurship enablement) but operates with a more focused, programmatic model rather than a teacher-network model.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/school/cr%C3%A9a-iut

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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