Pôle d'équilibre territorial et rural (PETR) du Pays Thur Doller

Name

Pôle d'équilibre territorial et rural (PETR) du Pays Thur Doller

Legal name

Pôle d'Équilibre Territorial et Rural du Pays Thur Doller

Website

https://pays-thur-doller.fr

Company type

Private

Founded year

2002

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Public Territorial Planning Services

NAICS

Other Services to Buildings and Dwellings (56179)

SIC

Services-To Dwellings & Other Buildings (7340)

akta.pro primary industry

Association Maintenance, Vendor & Capital Project Management (BPAJAHAM)

Keywords

• Public territorial planning
• Climate energy advisory
• Intercommunal coordination
• Energy renovation advisory
• Rural development services

Headquarters

HQ city

Vieux-Thann

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Others

Revenue model

1. Public funding and membership contributions: The PETR du Pays Thur Doller is a public territorial structure financed by membership contributions from its 3 member communautés de communes (Vallée de la Doller, Vallée de Saint-Amarin, Thann-Cernay), supplemented by public subsidies (ADEME, ANCT, ANAH, Collectivité Européenne d'Alsace, Region Grand Est) and European funds (LEADER, Green Fund / Fonds vert). No commercial revenue is generated. Services are provided free of charge to citizens and local authorities.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

The PETR du Pays Thur Doller is a public territorial coordination body that delivers free public-interest services across 46 communes in southern Alsace, spanning climate-energy planning (Plan Climat), energy renovation advisory (France Rénov'), alternative mobility (V-LOC e-bike rental, AVELO 2), local food systems (Projet Alimentaire Territorial), circular economy (Ecologie Industrielle Territoriale), preventive health (Contrat Local de Santé, M ta Santé mobile unit), sustainable tourism (Avenir Montagnes), spatial planning (SCoT), and EU rural development fund management (LEADER). It acts as a transversal coordination platform for its 3 member communautés de communes with no commercial offerings.

Product overview

The PETR du Pays Thur Doller is a public territorial structure grouping 3 communautés de communes (Vallée de la Doller, Vallée de Saint-Amarin, and Thann-Cernay) and does not offer a single software product but rather a portfolio of public interest services. The core offerings include the V-LOC long-term e-bike rental service, the France Rénov' energy renovation advisory space, the Plan Climat territorial climate-energy program, the AVELO 2 cycling culture program, the Avenir Montagnes sustainable tourism program, the Ecologie Industrielle Territoriale (EIT) circular economy initiative, the Projet Alimentaire Territorial (PAT) local food system, the Contrat Local de Santé (CLS) including the M ta Santé mobile health unit, the LEADER rural development fund, the SCoT spatial planning scheme, the shared energy advisor service, the Auto-Rénovation Accompagnée (ARA) self-renovation program, and the Conseil de Développement citizen participation body. The organization also runs thematic campaigns such as the radon measurement campaign and seasonal events like Le Printemps des Transitions.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• V-LOC Long-term electric bike (VAE) rental service operated by the three communautés de communes of the Pays Thur Doller and the PETR, enabling residents to test e-bikes before personal purchase. Managed by association Médiacycles with models including NEOMOUV ELAIA 2 and Douze Cycles cargo bikes, with pick-up points at Pôle EnR Cernay, Masevaux, Thann, and Wesserling.
• France Rénov' (Espace Conseil) Free energy renovation advisory service providing personalized support for households on renovation work eligibility, financial assistance (MaPrimeRénov', eco-loans, CEE/Coup de Pouce), energy audits, and referrals to certified RGE professionals and MonAccompagnateurRénov' (MAR) advisors.
• Plan Climat Air Energie Territorial Territorial climate-energy action plan coordinating greenhouse gas reduction, renewable energy, and adaptation initiatives across the 46 communes of the territory, building on over a decade of climate action since the first Plan Climat launched in 2007.
• AVELO 2 / Tous à vélo en Thur Doller ADEME-funded cycling promotion program creating bike services (purchase, long-term rental, repair workshop), organizing cycling animations (recycling training, balance exercises), and funding a mobility cycling coordinator for the territory.
• Contrat Local de Santé (CLS) Local Health Contract coordinating health access, prevention, and screening initiatives for the Pays Thur Doller territory, including the M ta Santé mobile health unit offering consultations, mammography, and a prevention village.
• M ta Santé Mobile health unit equipped with two consultation rooms, a waiting area, and a fixed mammograph that travels across the Pays Thur Doller for 5 days per stop, offering cancer screening, prevention interviews, and a prevention village with partner associations.
• Ecologie Industrielle Territoriale (EIT) Territorial industrial ecology initiative facilitating synergies (substitution, mutualization, reuse) between businesses, collectives, and ESS structures to reduce waste, share infrastructure, and recover materials and heat energy, with an animated network managed by a dedicated coordinator.
• Avenir Montagnes State-funded mountain tourism transition program (ANCT) supporting the development of sustainable, diversified tourism through engineering support, a dedicated project manager, and co-construction of a tourism transition strategy with local stakeholders.
• Projet Alimentaire Territorial (PAT) Territorial Food Project promoting local food systems through short supply chains, producer-consumer links, sustainable farming support, and food literacy initiatives, co-financed by European LEADER funds.
• Programme LEADER EU-funded rural development program (LEADER) providing financial support for innovative territorial projects across the Pays Thur Doller, with current programming covering 2014-2022 and a new application for 2022-2027.
• Schéma de Cohérence Territoriale (SCoT) Territorial coherence scheme defining spatial planning, land use, and development guidelines for the Pays Thur Doller, authored by the PETR as the competent authority for its elaboration and implementation.
• Conseiller en Energie Partagé (CEP) Shared energy advisor service providing free energy audits and advice to local authorities on their buildings, infrastructure, and energy consumption reduction strategies.
• Campagne Radon Radon awareness and measurement campaign distributing dosimeters to households in radon-prone areas (32 of 46 communes rated elevated risk by IRSN), conducted in partnership with ATMO Grand Est and ARS Grand Est.
• Auto-Rénovation Accompagnée (ARA) Self-guided assisted renovation program (coordinated by Collectivité Européenne d'Alsace and Alter Alsace Energies) combining free training workshops, professional on-site guidance, and financial aid to help residents perform energy renovation work themselves.
• Conseil de Développement Citizen participation body established in 2002, composed of representatives from economic, social, cultural, educational, scientific, and associative sectors, tasked with contributing to the territorial project, emitting opinions on planning documents, and promoting sustainable development.
• Le Printemps des Transitions Annual events series (March 20 to June 20) organized by the PETR and member municipalities to raise awareness and inform residents about ecological transitions, energy sobriety, and climate change adaptation at the territorial level.

Quantifiable outcome

• 2.5 TeCO2 saved annually through the PETR's electric vehicle (Renault Zoé) covering 14,000 km/year
• +5 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

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Partnerships

15 partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• CPTS Thur Doller (Communauté Professionnelle Territoriale de Santé)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2025The CPTS Thur Doller partners with the PETR within the Contrat Local de Santé (CLS) to operate the M'Ta Santé mobile health unit, providing cancer screenings and preventive consultations across the territory. The CPTS coordinates healthcare professionals and refers patients for mammography and cytology appointments.
• CPAM (Caisse Primaire d'Assurance Maladie)coreOthersCPAM sends invitations for organized cancer screening (breast cancer, cervical cancer) to eligible women. The M'Ta Santé mobile unit performs mammographies and frottis for referred patients on behalf of CPAM screening programs.
• ATMO Grand EstminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerATMO Grand Est is an approved air quality monitoring association that partnered with the PETR and ARS for the 2025 radon awareness campaign, providing dosimeters and measurement support to households.
• Collectivité Européenne d'Alsace (CeA)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe CeA co-funds and co-develops the Auto-Rénovation Accompagnée (ARA) program with the PETR, providing financing and policy framework. CeA also supports the PETR through general operating subsidies and specific program co-funding.
• Alter Alsace EnergiescoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAlter Alsace Energies is the operational partner for the ARA program, providing personalized project support, free training workshops, artisan guidance during self-renovation work, and administrative support through MAR (MonAccompagnateurRénov').
• Lycée Gustave Eiffel de CernayminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe vocational high school provides its Praxibat-certified technical platform (45 m²) for ARA training sessions on energy renovation, combining theory and practice with real building simulation. The program is supported by the European LEADER fund.
• MédiacyclescoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorMédiacycles is an association providing social inclusion through professional integration that manages the V-LOC long-term electric bike rental service on behalf of the PETR across 46 communes. It operates maintenance and pick-up points from mid-March to mid-October. Médiacycles has managed Mulhouse Alsace agglomération's bike rental service since 2017.
• CPIE des Hautes VosgesminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe CPIE des Hautes Vosges co-develops and delivers climate and energy education programs for primary school students on the territory, providing pedagogical expertise and animators for the 4-5 session school programs.
• TRONOX and VYNOVAminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerChemical industry companies on the Thann-Vieux-Thann platform that partnered with the EIT animator for a heat recovery study (2020-2022), financed by ADEME, to identify waste heat gisements and common decarbonization solutions.
• VELCOREX and CLIPSOminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerTextile companies whose production waste (velour and canvas offcuts) is recovered through the EIT program and redistributed to ESS textile workshops and craftspersons, with 6,432 kg of CLIPSO canvas and 13,255 kg of VELCOREX velour recovered between 2020-2022.
• HYDRA / Banque Alimentaire du Haut-Rhin / ESAT St AndréminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerEIT-facilitated partnership where HYDRA redirected non-commercializable hygiene products to the Banque Alimentaire for distribution (7,000 packs), with repackaging done by ESAT St André workers, and all transport done via backhaul logistics.
• ADIRAminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerADIRA is the Alsatian development and industry association that partnered with the PETR's EIT to host a webinar on circular economy in June 2024, featuring the EIT animator Frédéric Hall.
• Pays Rhin Vignoble Grand BallonminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerNeighboring PETR that partnered with the Pays Thur Doller on a LEADER Cooperation-funded study on cardboard mandrel valorization (2020-2021), involving 30 companies and exploring solutions like cardboard shredding for agricultural mulch.
• Parc Naturel Régional des Ballons des VosgescoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe PNR des Ballons des Vosges is a key tourism and environment partner, collaborating on the Avenir Montagnes program, mountain tourism study, hiking itinerary development (Hautes Vosges Randonnées), and Jour de la Nuit events.
• SCETminorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerSCET is a public-sector consulting firm that conducted the tourist mobility study (2022-2023) in cooperation with the PETR of Remiremont et ses Vallées, consulting over 80 actors and producing a diagnostic and action plan for sustainable tourist mobility.

Scale indicators9 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• PETR du Pays Rhin Vignoble Grand Ballon: Neighboring French PETR in the Haut-Rhin/Alsace region with the same public territorial coordination mandate (climate, mobility, food, tourism, EU LEADER programs). Already partnered with Pays Thur Doller on the LEADER Cooperation cardboard-mandrel study (2020-2021), confirming direct operational and structural comparability.
• PETR du Pays de Remiremont et ses Vallées: Vosges-side French PETR with a similar mountainous rural-territory mandate. Co-operated the 2022-2023 tourist mobility study with the PETR du Pays Thur Doller, demonstrating matched scope (tourism, mobility, territorial coordination) and identical institutional form.

Others

• Agence Nationale de la Cohésion des Territoires (ANCT): National-level funder that co-finances the PETR's Avenir Montagnes Ingénierie program. Not a peer in the operational sense, but the closest national-level analog for territorial engineering and policy coordination that the PETR depends on.
• ADIRA (Association pour le Développement Industriel et Economique Régional d'Alsace): Alsatian economic-development association that co-hosted the PETR's 2024 circular-economy webinar. Thematically aligned on industrial ecology and territorial economic development, though ADIRA operates as an industry-facing body rather than a territorial coordinator.

Regional players

• Pôle d'Equilibre Territorial et Rural du Pays de l'Aube: PETR operating in a different Grand Est department with the same statutory framework and multi-commune coordination role across climate, food, mobility, and LEADER programs. Comparable institutional peer for structural rather than geographic similarity.
• PETR du Pays de Saverne Plaine et Plateau: Alsace-region PETR (Bas-Rhin) sharing the same intercommunal cooperation structure, LEADER programming, and thematic vertical coverage (climate, mobility, food, tourism). Useful peer for benchmarking program design and funding outcomes in a comparable rural territory.
• PETR du Pays de Sarrebourg: Lorraine-side French PETR with the same EPT/public territorial cooperation status, running analogous programs (LEADER, Plan Climat, France Rénov', PAT). Comparable as a structural and functional peer though it serves a different Grand Est sub-region.

Broad incumbents

• Syndicat Mixte du Parc Naturel Régional des Ballons des Vosges: Regional public body already partnered with the PETR on Avenir Montagnes and Jour de la Nuit. Operates a wider portfolio across the broader Vosges massif (tourism, environment, biodiversity) but shares overlapping missions in mountain tourism transition and ecological awareness.
• Collectivité Européenne d'Alsace (CeA): Department-level public authority that co-funds the ARA program and provides general operating subsidies to the PETR. Functions as a higher-tier funder/coordinator rather than a direct peer, but its programs (Praxibat, ARA) intersect operationally with PETR initiatives.

Emerging players

• Alter Alsace Energies: Alsace-region energy-transition association that is the operational partner for the PETR's ARA program and provides MAR advisors. A specialized, mission-aligned player whose energy-renovation focus overlaps directly with the PETR's France Rénov' and CEP offerings.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

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