Research

Cosmetic Valley research support

Cosmetic Valley serves to facilitate and accelerate research projects.
It provides individualised support, project feasibility studies, contacts with companies that may join up around a common theme and with research laboratories with the requisite skills and studies financial packages.

To be eligible for the competitiveness fund and to benefit from state aid, a project must be collaborative and involve at least two companies and one public research laboratory.

The project must be innovative, feature economic returns and create jobs.

It must then receive two approvals from Cosmetic Valley:

:: A technical approval by the Cosmetic Valley scientific council
:: A strategic approval by the Cosmetic Valley steering committee

Once the approvals are obtained, the project is referred to the finance committee which includes various partners such as the ministry of industry, research ministry, OSEO, local authorities and private partners.
The committee decides on the most appropriate source of financing.