CRES Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

What CRES Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur does

CRES Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (Comité Régional d'Éducation pour la Santé) is a non-profit association founded in 1975 under French law (loi 1901), headquartered in Marseille. It serves as the official regional health education resource center for the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region, operating with 22 employees and funded primarily by ARS PACA, Santé publique France, and the Conseil Régional (Région Sud). The organization provides professional training, methodological support, pedagogical tools, and coordinates regional prevention campaigns for healthcare professionals, social workers, educators, local elected officials, and patient organizations across the PACA region.

The organization's technology infrastructure centers on a web-based platform ecosystem comprising multiple specialized products: the OSCARS database for tracking regional health actions, the Bib-Bop bibliographic and pedagogical databases (containing 20,000 and 5,000 references respectively), the vaccination e-learning platform (5 modules, 27 video sequences, 5,000+ registered healthcare professionals), and the CELESTER platform for environmental health projects. Additional proprietary tools include the Mallette PLANETE physical toolkit, COMETE psychosocial competency tool, ETP en scène film collection, and Talkspirit-based communities of practice. These products are accessible primarily through the cres-paca.org website and supporting subdomains.

CRES operates on a freemium model with most resources provided at no cost — website content, database access, e-learning registration, and key pedagogical kits are free, with some training sessions and additional toolkit copies available at cost. Revenue derives almost entirely from public institutional grants and co-financing arrangements rather than commercial transactions. The organization has recently expanded into new thematic areas including mental health first aid (PSSM), mindfulness-based interventions, environmental health, and leadership mental health, while maintaining its core mission of therapeutic patient education and health promotion.

Name

CRES Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

Legal name

CRES PACA (Comité Régional d'Éducation pour la Santé Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur)

Website

https://cres-paca.org

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

CRES PACA is a non-profit regional health education resource center founded in 1975, serving healthcare professionals, social workers, educators, and local officials across Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur with training, databases, and pedagogical tools for prevention and therapeutic patient education.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Public Health Education and Promotion Services

NAICS

Voluntary Health Organizations (813212), Scientific Research and Development Services (5417)

akta.pro primary industry

Community Health, Health Promotion & Behavior Change (SBCC) (BPADAIAL)

akta.pro secondary industry

Social & Behavior Change Communication (SBCC) for Nutrition (BPADAJAK)

Keywords

• Health education services
• Public health prevention
• Therapeutic patient education
• Professional training programs
• Pedagogical resource databases

Headquarters

HQ city

Marseille

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Pricing tiers

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

CRES PACA is a regional health education resource center that delivers professional training, methodological support, and pedagogical tools to healthcare, social, and educational professionals in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Its core offerings include training programs in therapeutic patient education and health promotion, the OSCARS and Bib-Bop databases, e-learning modules, and physical and digital toolkits such as Mallette PLANETE and COMETE. The organization is funded primarily by ARS PACA, Santé publique France, and the Conseil régional to coordinate regional prevention campaigns and capacity-building.

Product overview

CRES Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur operates as a regional health education resource center offering a portfolio of interconnected services: online databases (OSCARS for regional health action tracking, Bib-Bop for bibliographic resources), e-learning and training platforms for healthcare professionals, and diverse pedagogical tools and publications. The core offering consists of training programs in therapeutic patient education, health promotion, and prevention methodologies, complemented by educational toolkits (Mallette PLANETE, COMETE, ETP en scène, Magnet Santé), webinar series, and information platforms (Mon-ETP.fr, CELESTER). These products work together to support health professionals, territorial collectivities, and institutions in developing health promotion and prevention actions throughout the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region, with financing from ARS PACA, Santé publique France, and the Regional Council.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• OSCARS (Observation et Suivi Cartographique des Actions Régionales de Santé) Online database of health actions, actors, and intervention tools in prevention and public health, covering the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Targeted at healthcare professionals, social workers, and local authorities seeking to map and coordinate regional health interventions.
• Bib-Bop database Bib is the bibliographic database of health-education documents (20,000 references of articles, books, reports); Bop is the database of pedagogical tools available for field practitioners (5,000 references). Both are aimed at health and education practitioners conducting prevention or patient-education work.
• Vaccination E-learning Platform Online training platform for healthcare professionals (general practitioners, nurses, pharmacists, midwives) on vaccination topics, comprising 5 modules with 27 video sequences and evaluation quizzes, approximately 10 hours of content. Used by more than 5,000 registered healthcare professionals.
• Mallette PLANETE (Promouvoir L'Activité physique eN Education ThérapeutiquE) Physical and digital pedagogical toolkit for healthcare teams to promote physical activity in therapeutic patient education programs, containing 18 instruction cards, 11 card games, game boards, and supporting materials. Financed by ARS PACA and provided free to ETP programs declared to ARS in the region; additional copies available at cost price.
• COMETE pedagogical tool Tool designed to help care teams better address the psychosocial dimension in patient education by developing patients' psychosocial competencies. Targeted at healthcare teams running therapeutic patient education programs.
• ETP en scène film collection Collection of 9 support films for intervening in patient education, providing visual resources for healthcare professionals delivering therapeutic patient education.
• Mon-ETP.fr program locator Online platform to help patients find therapeutic education programs near their location in the PACA region. Targeted at patients with chronic conditions and patient organizations.
• CELESTER web platform Online platform to support territorial collectivities in developing environmental health projects, showcasing inspiring regional projects covering water, air, habitat, noise, vector risks, and sustainable food. Targeted at local authorities and territorial health actors.
• Professional training programs Extensive range of training modules for health, education, social, and environmental professionals covering therapeutic patient education, project methodology, motivational interviewing, mental health first aid (PSSM standard and youth), mindfulness meditation, and rehabilitation psychosociale orientée rétablissement. Delivered in-person and virtually across the PACA region.
• Webinar series Series of web-based seminars on health topics including vaccination, environmental health, tobacco prevention, and health promotion, with replays available. Targets healthcare professionals, social workers, and local authorities.
• Priorités Santé bulletin Regular bulletin publication providing thematic health information and updates on regional health activities in the PACA region. Distributed to healthcare and prevention professionals.
• Rallye Mouskit educational game Pedagogical game for sensitizing children to tiger mosquito prevention, featuring 6 investigation, pursuit, experience, and manipulation challenges. Available for download, rental, and sale to schools and community programs.
• Synthep thematic fact sheets Series of thematic fact sheets synthesizing knowledge on patient education topics such as patient partners, psychocorporal practices, caregiver roles, and empowerment. Targeted at healthcare professionals and ETP program teams.

Quantifiable outcome

• Over 5000 healthcare professionals trained through vaccination e-learning
• +1 more outcomes

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered major.

• ORS PACAmajorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2014Regional health observatory that collaborated with CRES and ARS PACA to develop the vaccination e-learning platform in 2014.
• Aix-Marseille UniversitémajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration on the CU/DU 'Patients experts-maladies chroniques' program. CRES's patient resource center works with the university committee to track the careers of expert patients trained through the program.
• DRAAFmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerRegional directorate for food, agriculture, and forestry that co-organized the Educ'Alim colloquium on sustainable food with CRES.
• GRAINEmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerRegional network for environmental education that co-organized the Educ'Alim colloquium with CRES on sustainable food education.
• Chaire UNESCO ÉducationS et santémajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerUNESCO chair on education and health with which CRES has an established partnership for health education research and practice.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Santé publique France: National public health agency that funds and coordinates CRES's prevention campaigns; operates at national scale on overlapping themes (vaccination, Mois Sans Tabac, nutrition) and sets the strategic agenda CRES executes regionally.
• ARS Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur: Regional health agency and primary funder; overlaps on health promotion strategy and may directly commission competing training or communication deliverables from other providers in the region.

Emerging players

• Doctolib: National digital health platform with the audience scale to deliver training content and prevention resources to French healthcare professionals, increasingly competing for the same professional engagement that CRES captures via its e-learning platform.
• Aix-Marseille Université - Université des Patients: Academic partner running the CU/DU Patients experts program with CRES; represents a model where university structures could absorb ETP training activities, partially overlapping CRES's therapeutic patient education offering.

Direct peers

• CRES Île-de-France (Instance Régionale d'Éducation et de Promotion de la Santé Île-de-France): Parallel regional health education resource center in another French region, performing identical training, tool development, and database functions for its territory.
• IREPS Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes: Another French regional health promotion and education structure with comparable training programs, documentation databases, and pedagogical tool development for local professionals.
• FNES (Fédération Nationale d'Éducation et de Promotion de la Santé): National federation of regional IREPS/CRES structures including CRES PACA; directly comparable as the umbrella body for the same regional health education and promotion mission.
• ORS PACA (Observatoire Régional de la Santé Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur): Regional health observatory in the same PACA territory; co-developed CRES's vaccination e-learning platform in 2014 and shares the regional public health data and analytics mandate.
• Codes 13 - Comité Départemental d'Éducation pour la Santé des Bouches-du-Rhône: Departmental health education committee within PACA, performing comparable prevention, health education, and pedagogical support functions at a sub-regional level.

Others

• GRAINE (Réseau régional d'éducation à l'environnement en PACA): Regional environmental education network that co-organizes the Educ'Alim colloquium with CRES; adjacent enabler for CRES's growing environmental health (santé environnement) programming.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UCIetq4cGHPLZZPt72Gsci0w
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/cres-provence-alpes-c%C3%B4te-d-azur

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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M&A

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