Pays Et Quartiers De Nouvelle-aquitaine (pqn-a)

What Pays Et Quartiers De Nouvelle-aquitaine (pqn-a) does

Pays et Quartiers de Nouvelle-Aquitaine (PQN-A) is a French public interest group (Groupement d'Intérêt Public, GIP) founded in 2002 by the French State and Région Nouvelle-Aquitaine to operate as the regional resource center on territorial development. Headquartered at the Darwin Ecosystem in Bordeaux (87 quai de Queyries), PQN-A is part of the national Réseau National des Centres de Ressources Politique de la Ville (RNCRPV) and is mandated to support local authorities, elected officials, development professionals, and associations across the 12 départements of Nouvelle-Aquitaine — covering 26 EPCI, 46 communes, 83 priority neighborhoods (QPV, ~226,000 inhabitants), 53 contracting territories, and 96 CRTE contracts.

The organization's core products are not commercial software but a curated knowledge and convening platform: thematic resources (articles, analyses, guides and tools, experience sheets, territory profiles) across seven themes (territorial development, urban policy, digital inclusion, food systems, employment dynamics, town-center revitalization, ecological transitions); the Annuaire du réseau PQN-A professional directory; a monthly newsletter via kiosque.pqn-a.fr; an events calendar of webinars, regional meetings, and working groups; the Hublot QPV data platform for priority-neighborhood analytics; and targeted accompaniment programs (Politique de la Ville, Revitalisation, Territoires et Transitions). Underlying technology is intentionally lightweight — a CMS-driven website, Matomo for analytics, Google for Non-Profit hosting — reflecting a knowledge-broker rather than technology-vendor model.

PQN-A's business model is mission-funded rather than revenue-generating. All services are delivered free of charge to beneficiaries. Funding flows from institutional members and partners — the French State, Région Nouvelle-Aquitaine, ANCT, ADEME, ARS Nouvelle-Aquitaine, and EU programs — with the public-interest-group structure ensuring that surpluses are reinvested in mission delivery. Go-to-market is community-led: PQN-A reaches its audience through content publishing, monthly newsletters, LinkedIn, webinars, regional forums (notably the Forum des développeurs territoriaux), and deep partnerships with ADENA, UNADEL, La 27e Région, Cerema, Gérontopole, La Coopération Agricole, and ARB. The 1-10 person team executes a high-trust, high-touch engagement model across the region.

Name

Pays Et Quartiers De Nouvelle-aquitaine (pqn-a)

Legal name

Pays et Quartiers de Nouvelle-Aquitaine (PQN-A)

Website

https://pqn-a.fr

Company type

Private

Founded year

2002

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Pays et Quartiers de Nouvelle-Aquitaine (PQN-A) is a French public interest group that operates as the regional resource center on territorial development for Nouvelle-Aquitaine, serving local authorities, elected officials, and development professionals with knowledge resources, training, and convening services.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Public Policy Resource Center

NAICS

Public Administration (92), Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development (9251)

akta.pro primary industry

Q&A and Knowledge Discovery Platforms (BPAMAAAF)

Keywords

• Territorial development resources
• Urban policy support
• Regional resource center
• Territorial revitalization
• Public policy advisory

Headquarters

HQ city

Bordeaux

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Public institutional funding: PQN-A operates as a Groupement d'Intérêt Public (GIP) primarily funded by government and regional institutions. The organization receives financial and technical support from the State, Région Nouvelle-Aquitaine, and other public partners to carry out its mission as a territorial development resource center.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

PQN-A is a public-interest resource center providing knowledge, tools, and support on territorial development and urban policy to local authorities, elected officials, and development professionals in Nouvelle-Aquitaine. It curates a thematic content library (articles, analyses, methodological guides, experience sheets, territory profiles), maintains an actor directory, organizes regional events and webinars, and runs targeted accompaniment programs covering urban policy, town center revitalization, ecological transitions, digital inclusion, food systems, and employment dynamics.

Product overview

PQN-A operates as a unified digital resource center — not a modular software platform — providing thematic resources, actor networking, and territorial accompaniment. Its core offerings consist of a curated content library (Articles, Analyses, Guides et outils, Fiches expériences, Fiches territoires) organized across thematic areas (Revitalization, Urban Policy, Digital Inclusion, Food Systems, Employment, Transitions), complemented by a professional actor directory (Annuaire), a monthly newsletter subscription service (Kiosque), an events calendar (Agenda), and targeted accompaniment programs for urban policy and territorial transitions. The Hublot data platform provides QPV analytics capability. All services are delivered through the pqn-a.fr web platform, with no standalone software product.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Ressources Platform (Articles, Analyses, Guides et outils, Fiches expériences, Fiches territoires) A digital knowledge platform providing thematic resources including articles, analytical reports, methodological guides and tools, experience sheets, and territory profiles covering territorial development, urban policy, digital inclusion, food systems, employment, and transitions in Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
• Annuaire du réseau PQN-A

Quantifiable outcome

• 3,762 people reached in 2025 (+32% vs 2024)
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers7 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration2 records

Partnerships

Nine partnerships are on record, tiered core, major and notable.

• RNCRPV (Réseau National des Centres de Ressources Politique de la Ville)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPQN-A participates in the National Network of Urban Policy Resource Centers, which facilitates knowledge sharing, produces national resources, and coordinates urban policy initiatives across French regions.
• CeremamajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCerema and PQN-A co-developed the 'Guide - La stratégie de revitalisation, de la conception à l'action' methodology guide for territorial revitalization. Cerema provides technical engineering and expertise support.
• ADENA (Association des Agents de Développement de Nouvelle-Aquitaine)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerADENA is a key partner for joint events like the Forum des développeurs territoriaux. The association represents development professionals in Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
• UNADEL (Union Nationale des Acteurs du Développement Local)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerUNADEL is a national union of local development actors that partners with PQN-A for forums and professional development initiatives for territorial developers.
• La 27e RégionnotableStrategic or Co-development PartnerLa 27e Région is an association of French regions that conducts experiments and participatory action research. It contributes to PQN-A's transition qualification cycles, notably on elected official training.
• ARS Nouvelle-Aquitaine (Agence Régionale de Santé)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerARS Nouvelle-Aquitaine mandates PQN-A to run a 2026 cycle supporting local governments in nutrition and health promotion actions (food, physical activity, sedentary lifestyle prevention).
• Gérontopole Nouvelle-AquitainenotableStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaborates with PQN-A on digital inclusion in health and aging well topics, organizing regional meetings on digital inclusion in health.
• La Coopération Agricole Nouvelle-AquitainenotableStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartners with PQN-A on food-related topics, including organizing Coop'Inspiration days on food waste reduction, linking agricultural cooperatives with territorial food projects.
• ARB Nouvelle-Aquitaine (Agence Régionale Biodiversité)notableStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaborates with PQN-A on ecological transition topics, including site visits and webinars on biodiversity preservation in territorial projects.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves8 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Cerema: Public expertise center for risks, environment, mobility, and planning that co-developed territorial revitalization methodology guides with PQN-A. It is a much larger public technical body offering comparable expertise to territorial actors across France.
• ANRU (Agence Nationale pour la Rénovation Urbaine): National agency for urban renewal implementing the NPNRU program that targets many of the same QPV neighborhoods PQN-A supports. It is a key institutional peer operating the largest funding programs in PQN-A's thematic scope.
• ANCT (Agence Nationale pour la Cohésion des Territoires): France's national agency for territorial cohesion that funds and coordinates urban policy programs (Cités Éducatives, Programme de Réussite Éducative) which PQN-A supports regionally. It is both a core funder of PQN-A and a broader-incumbent peer operating at national scale on the same territorial development mandate.
• AdCF / Intercommunalités de France: National association representing France's intercommunalities (EPCI), which form PQN-A's primary customer base. It advocates for the same constituency and shapes the contractual frameworks (CRTE, contrats de ville) that PQN-A helps territories implement.

Direct peers

• ADENA (Association des Agents de Développement de Nouvelle-Aquitaine): Regional association representing territorial development professionals in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, co-organizing flagship events like the Forum des développeurs with PQN-A. It is the closest professional association peer serving the same regional talent pool.
• UNADEL (Union Nationale des Acteurs et des Structures du Développement Local): National union of local development actors and structures, partnering with PQN-A on professional forums (e.g., Forum des développeurs) and acting as a peer convener for the same population of territorial development professionals.
• Centre de Ressources Politique de la Ville Île-de-France: The Île-de-France regional resource center for urban policy, operating as a direct counterpart within the same national RN CRPV network. It executes the same mission (knowledge capitalization, networking, support to local authorities on QPV and city contracts) in a different region.
• La 27e Région: An association of French regions running experimental labs and participatory research on territorial innovation. It contributes to PQN-A's transition qualification cycles and serves a comparable constituency of elected officials and development practitioners at national level.

Regional players

• ARB Nouvelle-Aquitaine (Agence Régionale de la Biodiversité): Regional biodiversity agency collaborating with PQN-A on ecological transition webinars, site visits, and biodiversity-themed territorial projects. It operates in the same regional scope on an adjacent thematic axis (transitions/ecology).
• ARS Nouvelle-Aquitaine (Agence Régionale de Santé): Regional health agency that has mandated PQN-A to run a 2026 qualification cycle on local health/nutrition actions. It is a public counterpart operating in the same region with overlapping territorial-coordination capabilities.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles10 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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