What Association Ecovéto does

Association Ecouvéto is a French nonprofit association (Loi 1901) founded on October 26, 2015, headquartered in Faverges, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, that convenes the French veterinary profession around ecological transition in clinical practice. Its membership comprises 200+ veterinary professionals who collectively develop, validate, and disseminate tools — including AFVAC-validated posters, educational flyers, the QuePaPreV self-assessment questionnaire, and the La Fresque de la Clinique Vétérinaire workshop — designed to help companion-animal clinics measure and reduce their environmental footprint. The association operates as a community-led convening platform rather than a software or services vendor, with its outputs co-produced through partnerships with AFVAC (content validation), CNOV and SNVEL (institutional endorsement), La Fresque Vétérinaire (workshop franchise alignment), pharmaceutical laboratoires, and French veterinary schools.

Revenue mechanics are driven primarily by individual membership dues collected through the Hello Asso donation-and-membership platform, supplemented by any income generated through facilitation of the La Fresque workshops and potential sponsorship from partenaire laboratoires. There is no disclosed funding round, grant program, or enterprise contract structure. Operational scale is small — approximately five employees supported by a 13-person board — consistent with a community-association operating model rather than a venture-backed or commercially scaled entity.

The association's strategic posture is best characterized as a sector-wide thought-leadership and convening body: it does not own a proprietary technology platform, does not employ AI or ML systems in its product surface, and competes (if at all) not on commercial differentiation but on institutional credibility, peer endorsement, and the network density of its practitioner community. For an investment audience, the entity is not a conventional equity target; its relevance is as an indicator of demand-side momentum in veterinary sustainability and as a potential distribution or content partner for commercial players entering the segment.

Name

Association Ecovéto

Legal name

Association Eco Veto

Website

https://ecoveto.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2015

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Association Ecouvéto is a French nonprofit association founded in 2015 that convenes 200+ veterinary professionals around ecological transition in companion-animal clinical practice, producing AFVAC-validated tools and the La Fresque de la Clinique Vétérinaire workshop.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Veterinary Professional Association Services

NAICS

Environment, Conservation and Wildlife Organizations (813312)

SIC

Services-Membership Organizations (8600)

akta.pro primary industry

Advocacy, Policy & Public Awareness (Animal Welfare) (BPAGAIAJ)

akta.pro secondary industry

Biodiversity & Habitat Conservation (BPAGAGAA)

Keywords

• Veterinary sustainability education
• Eco-responsible veterinary practice
• Veterinary professional association
• Environmental workshop training
• Veterinary climate transition

Headquarters

HQ city

Faverges

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Membership dues: The association generates revenue through membership fees paid by veterinary professionals who join to support the association's mission and gain access to exclusive resources, network, forum, and working group participation. Members can join via Hello Asso platform.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Association Ecovéto is an independent nonprofit association that informs, trains, and federates French veterinary professionals around eco-responsible veterinary practice. It delivers the "La Fresque de la Clinique Vétérinaire" collaborative workshop, AFVAC-validated educational posters and flyers, member-only practical sheets, replays, an online forum, working groups (cercles de travail), and the QuePaPreV stakeholder questionnaire used to assess laboratories' sustainability actions.

Product overview

Association Ecovéto is a non-profit organization (Association loi 1901) founded in 2015, offering a portfolio of educational and collaborative products and services focused on ecological sustainability in veterinary practices. The core offering is 'La Fresque de la Clinique Vétérinaire', a collaborative workshop launched in 2024. The association provides member-exclusive resources including practical fact sheets, replay recordings, and an online forum. Additional offerings include QuePaPreV, a stakeholder questionnaire co-produced with laboratories to assess sustainability actions, and various educational materials (AFVAC-validated posters and downloadable flyers) covering topics such as carbon impact, waste management, eco-responsible practices, and soft mobility. Members can also participate in working groups (cercles de travail) to actively contribute to the association's initiatives.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• La Fresque de la Clinique Vétérinaire Collaborative 3-4 hour workshop enabling veterinary teams to understand the environmental impacts of their activities; delivered to veterinary clinics as the association's flagship educational offering since 2024.
• Adhésion EcoVeto (Membership) Annual membership for veterinary professionals that includes access to practical fact sheets (fiches pratiques), replays of lunch sessions (replay des déjeuners), the member forum, working groups (cercles de travail), and the professional network of the association; subscription and payment handled via Hello Asso.
• QuePaPreV (Questionnaire Parties Prenantes Vétérinaires) Stakeholder questionnaire co-produced by the association to inquire about laboratories' sustainability actions for 2024, available under a CC-by-NC-SA license and intended for veterinary stakeholders engaging with pharmaceutical laboratories.
• Posters AFVAC (Impact Carbone, Isoflurane, Déchets, API, APE, Hygiène) Set of six AFVAC-validated educational posters covering carbon impact, isoflurane, waste management, APIs, APEs, and hygiene in veterinary practices, available as free open-source downloads from the Eco Veto website.
• Flyers Éco-responsables (10 Gestes, APE, Mobilité Douce) Downloadable flyers designed to be printed and displayed in veterinary clinics, covering "10 eco-responsible gestures", APE recommendations, and a soft mobility (mobilité douce) poster, distributed as open-source material.

Named customers1 record

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

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Partnerships

Eight partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• CNOV (Conseil National de l'Ordre des Vétérinaires)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerEco Veto aims to create a partnership with CNOV as part of its mission to engage with different actors of the veterinary profession in ecological transition.
• SNVEL (Syndicat National des Vétérinaires d'Exercice Libéral)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerEco Veto seeks to partner with SNVEL to foster eco-responsible practices within the veterinary profession.
• Laboratoires (Pharmaceutical laboratories)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe association aims to collaborate with pharmaceutical laboratories to promote sustainability in veterinary pharmaceutical products and practices.
• Ecoles vétérinaires (Veterinary schools)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership objective with veterinary schools to integrate sustainability education into veterinary training programs.
• Instituts de formation vétérinaire (Veterinary training institutes)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration with veterinary training institutes to advance eco-responsible veterinary education.
• Centrales d'achat (Purchasing cooperatives)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnering with purchasing cooperatives to promote sustainable procurement in veterinary practices.
• AFVAC (Association Française Vétérinaire pour Animaux de Compagnie)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAFVAC has validated Eco Veto's educational posters on environmental topics including carbon impact, isoflurane, waste management, APIs, APEs, and hygiene. These posters are available for download on Eco Veto's website.
• La fresque兽医inairecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSince 2024, Eco Veto has been animating 'La fresque de la clinique兽医aire' (The Fresque of the Veterinary Clinic), a collaborative workshop format adapted for the veterinary profession.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Vet Sustain: UK-based veterinary sustainability community and charity promoting environmental responsibility within the veterinary profession. Highly comparable to EcoVeto in mission, membership model and educational resource focus, but operating in the UK rather than France.
• Practice Greenhealth: US membership organization providing environmental sustainability resources, training and recognition programs for healthcare facilities. Closest US analogue to EcoVeto's clinic-focused educational and community model, but at significantly larger scale.
• Centre for Sustainable Healthcare: UK charity dedicated to sustainable healthcare practice through education, training and resources. Directly comparable membership-plus-content-plus-workshop model, applied to the broader healthcare sector rather than veterinary specifically.

Others

• La Fresque du Climat: French-origin collaborative climate-awareness workshop organization whose format EcoVeto has adapted into 'La Fresque de la Clinique Vétérinaire'. EcoVeto is essentially a sectoral licensee/franchise of this parent workshop methodology.
• SNVEL (Syndicat National des Vétérinaires d'Exercice Libéral): French trade union representing self-employed veterinarians and a stated EcoVeto partnership target. Represents the practitioner constituency EcoVeto serves, but is broader in mandate and not focused on sustainability.
• CNOV (Conseil National de l'Ordre des Vétérinaires): French national regulatory body for the veterinary profession and a stated EcoVeto partnership target. Provides regulatory legitimacy and reach into all French veterinarians but is not itself a sustainability-focused peer.
• AFVAC (Association Française Vétérinaire pour Animaux de Compagnie): Leading French companion-animal veterinary association and EcoVeto's core endorsing partner. A broader professional body rather than a direct peer, but operates in the same veterinary ecosystem and has formally validated EcoVeto's educational posters.

Broad incumbents

• Health Care Without Harm: Global nonprofit advancing environmentally responsible healthcare worldwide. Comparable in advocacy and policy focus, but operates across the entire healthcare sector with significantly greater resources and broader scope than EcoVeto's veterinary niche.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/eco.veto
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/association-%C3%A9cov%C3%A9to
• Instagraminstagram.com/ecoveto_official

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Number of profiles

Profiles17 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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M&A

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