GRAINE Provence Alpes Côte d'Azur

What GRAINE Provence Alpes Côte d'Azur does

GRAINE Provence Alpes Côte d'Azur is a French regional non-profit association (loi 1901) founded in 1991 and headquartered in Aix-en-Provence, France. Its mission is to promote and develop environmental education and sustainable development education (EEDD) across the six departments of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. The association functions as a member-based network connecting environmental education associations, schools, agricultural lycées, local authorities, businesses, and individuals under a signed network charter, and serves as the de facto regional coordinator for publicly funded EEDD initiatives.

The organization's core offerings center on the Espace Ressources platform (an online pedagogical toolkit including tool catalogues, resource booklets, and the Act'Envir' journal), the co-coordinated Réseau régional EDUC'Alim for sustainable food education (with CRES, funded by DRAAF), the ambrosia awareness campaign delivered through six departmental partner associations, the Marseille school sustainability project (with Ville de Marseille and ARS PACA), the ALIMED 2025 program targeting tourism-hospitality teachers (with Caisse des Dépôts/France 2030), professional development training sessions, and regional events such as the Rencontres Régionales Sortir!. No proprietary software, AI/ML, or API platform is offered — the "technology" is a digital content library plus relational coordination infrastructure (newsletter, forum, partner network).

Revenue is generated through two streams: recurring membership fees from signatories across categories (associations, schools, collectivités, businesses, individuals), and project-based grants from DRAAF, ARS, DREETS, ADEME, Ville de Marseille, and Caisse des Dépôts (France 2030). The association employs 13 staff and is governed as a charte-based member network rather than a commercial entity, with no commercial pricing, no equity funding, and no disclosed financial figures.

Name

GRAINE Provence Alpes Côte d'Azur

Legal name

GRAINE Provence Alpes Côte d'Azur

Website

https://grainepaca.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1991

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Founded in 1991, GRAINE Provence Alpes Côte d'Azur is a regional non-profit network (loi 1901) coordinating environmental and sustainable development education (EEDD) across all six departments of PACA, France, via member associations, schools, local authorities, and project-funded programs in sustainable food and health-environment education.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Environmental Education Services

NAICS

All Other Schools and Instruction (61169), Educational Support Services (611710), Business Associations (813910)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200), Services-Membership Organizations (8600)

akta.pro primary industry

Outdoor & Wilderness Education Schools (Field-Based Learning) (THAAAOAA)

akta.pro secondary industry

Outdoor & Survival Skills Lessons (Bushcraft, Navigation, Foraging) (THAJAKAM)

Keywords

• Environmental education
• Sustainable development education
• Regional network association
• Pedagogical resource platform
• Professional training EEDD

Headquarters

HQ city

Aix-en-Provence

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: The association generates revenue through membership fees from various categories including associations, schools, local authorities, businesses, and individuals who sign the network charter.
2. Project funding: GRAINE receives funding for specific projects from government bodies including DRAAF, ARS, DREETS, ADEME, and Ville de Marseille, as well as through programs like France 2030 and the 'Mieux manger pour tous' initiative.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

GRAINE Provence Alpes Côte d'Azur is a regional non-profit association that networks, trains, and resources environmental education and sustainable development education (EEDD) actors across the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. It coordinates programs such as the Réseau EDUC'Alim (sustainable food education) and the Ambrosia awareness campaign, and maintains an online resource platform (Espace Ressources) with pedagogical tools, the Act'Envir' journal, and resource booklets for member associations, schools, local authorities, businesses, and individuals.

Product overview

GRAINE Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur is a regional networking association founded in 1991 that promotes and develops environmental and sustainable development education (EEDD). The organization operates as a unified association providing networking services, professional training, and resource sharing. Its core offerings include the Espace Ressources platform (with pedagogical tools catalogue, Act'Envir' journals, and resource booklets), the regional EDUC'Alim network for sustainable food education, specialized awareness programs (ambroisie campaign, sustainable food in schools), and professional development training. These programs are delivered through partnerships with CRES, DRAAF, ARS, and local environmental education structures.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Espace Ressources (Boîte à outils) Online resource platform providing pedagogical tools, educational reviews (Revues Act'Envir'), resource booklets (Livrets Ressources), and a catalogue of pedagogical tools for environmental education practitioners and member associations.
• Réseau régional EDUC'Alim Regional network for education in sustainable food and taste, co-coordinated with CRES and funded by DRAAF. Includes annual colloquia, webinars, professional development sessions, and an actor directory for environmental education actors.
• Sensibilisation à l'ambroisie (Ambrosia Awareness Campaign) Environmental health education campaign targeting children and agricultural students about the risks of ragweed (ambroisie), including interventions in schools, pedagogical resources, and scientific mediator training for environmental educators.
• Sensibilisation alimentation durable écoles marseillaises Project to sensitize Marseille school CM1-CM2 students and canteen staff to sustainable food and ecological transition, including 8 classroom animations, canteen sessions, and 8 farm visits, with 12 canteen staff trained.
• Formations professionnelles Professional development and training programs (formations professionnelles) for environmental education actors, including professional development sessions linked to sustainable food and EEDD professionalization.
• Revues Act'Envir' Environmental education journal publication covering EEDD topics such as ecological corridors (trames écologiques) and other regional environmental issues.
• ALIMED 2025 Training and awareness project for tourism-hotel-restoration teachers on sustainable food, deployed in partnership with CRES, CoDES Alpes-Maritimes, and Le Loubatas, as part of the ALIMED 2025 program.

Quantifiable outcome

• 686 children sensitized in 2022-2023, 649 in 2023-2024, 903 in 2024-2025 through ambrosia awareness campaign
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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Partnerships

Ten partnerships are on record, tiered core and secondary.

• CRES (Comité Régional d'Éducation pour la Santé) Provence-Alpes-Côte d'AzurcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 July 2025Collaborates on Marseille school sustainability project (2024-2025) alongside CODEPS Bouches-du-Rhône, Académie Aix-Marseille, and Le Loubatas. Provides health education expertise.
• CRES (Comité Régional d'Éducation pour la Santé) Provence-Alpes-Côte d'AzurcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 November 2021Co-coordinator of the regional sustainable food education network (Réseau EDUC'Alim). CRES and GRAINE jointly coordinate Phase 1 (Nov 2021 - June 2023) with 14 associative and 3 public structures, and Phase 2 (Dec 2023 - 2026). They organize annual colloquia, webinars, professional development sessions, and publish an actors directory.
• DRAAF Provence-Alpes-Côte d'AzurcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 November 2021Primary funder of the Réseau EDUC'Alim (regional sustainable food education network). Provides financing and strategic direction for the 3-year Phase 2 (2023-2026). Co-contact for the network along with CRES and GRAINE.
• CODEPS Bouches-du-Rhône (Comité Départemental d'éducation et de promotion de la santé)secondaryStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner in Marseille school sustainability project, providing departmental health education coordination.
• Académie Aix-MarseillesecondaryStrategic or Co-development PartnerEducational authority partner in Marseille school sustainability initiative, enabling school engagement.
• Le LoubatassecondaryStrategic or Co-development PartnerEnvironmental education structure providing pedagogical expertise and farm visits for the Marseille school project.
• FREDON France and FREDON Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'AzursecondaryStrategic or Co-development PartnerProvides scientific mediator training for the ambrosia awareness campaign using pedagogical tools.
• Six environmental education structurescoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorField partners implementing ambrosia awareness: L'Université Populaire du Ventoux – Naturoptère (Vaucluse), Gap Sciences Animation 05 (Hautes-Alpes), Planète Sciences Méditerranée (Bouches-du-Rhône), Terre de Vie et de Nature 83 (Var), Les Petits Débrouillards (Alpes maritimes), Les Petits Débrouillards (Alpes de Haute Provence)
• CMQe TIH (Campus des Métiers et des Qualifications d'Excellence Tourisme Hôtellerie Restauration)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerLead coordinator of ALIMED 2025 project. GRAINE partnered with CRES to coordinate sustainable food training for tourism/hotel/restaurant teachers.
• CoDES Alpes maritimes (Comité Départemental d'éducation pour la santé)secondaryStrategic or Co-development PartnerMobilized for field deployment of sustainable food training in Nice as part of ALIMED 2025.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• LPO France (Ligue pour la Protection des Oiseaux): Major France-wide environmental NGO running school and public education programs on biodiversity. LPO draws from similar public funding pools (ADEME, regional councils) for outreach work, making it a relevant comparison for education-program scale and structure.
• FRENE (Fédération des Réseaux d'Éducation à la Nature et à l'Environnement): National umbrella federation aggregating French EEDD networks including the GRAINE chapters. As GRAINE's meta-network, FRENE shapes funding frameworks and policy positioning — relevant peer for understanding the broader EEDD ecosystem in which GRAINE operates.
• FNE (France Nature Environnement): National federation of French environmental protection associations with substantial education and public-awareness programming. FNE is a much larger umbrella touching similar funding sources (ADEME, regional authorities) and overlapping on environmental awareness themes.
• CPIE (Centres Permanents d'Initiatives pour l'Environnement): National federation of local environmental education centers delivering field-based awareness and pedagogical programs across France. CPIE structures overlap heavily with GRAINE's mission but operate as a broader physical-site network rather than a member-network coordinator.

Direct peers

• GRAINE Nouvelle-Aquitaine: Regional EEDD association in Nouvelle-Aquitaine structured as a GRAINE chapter with analogous member network governance and project-based funding — same mission, complementary geography.
• GRAINE Bretagne: Regional EEDD network in Brittany operating under the same GRAINE charter model with similar public-funder mix (DRAAF, regional councils) — comparable for peer benchmarking on member engagement and pedagogical resource development.
• GRAINE Île-de-France: Ile-de-France regional GRAINE network coordinating environmental education actors around Paris — same charter model but in a denser, more urbanized region, useful comparison for funding base mix.
• GRAINE Occitanie: Another GRAINE regional network serving Occitanie with the same loi 1901 association structure, member network model, and government-funded project portfolio — directly comparable peer for benchmarking program design and funding strategy.
• GRAINE Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes: Sister GRAINE regional network covering Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes with the same EEDD (Éducation à l'Environnement et au Développement Durable) coordination mandate, member-based association charter, and pedagogical resource library model — virtually identical operating template in a different French region.

Others

• Académie Aix-Marseille: Regional public education authority that is itself a strategic partner of GRAINE on the Marseille school sustainability project, but as the formal K-12 education institution it also represents the demand-side counterpart that procures and validates environmental education initiatives — relevant for understanding GRAINE's institutional buyers.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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