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Les Castors : a crèche with a difference Association Nantaise d'Aide Familiale Pays de la Loire 31 €334,000 ESF 2011-2013 The Castors crèche was set up in 2011 by the ANAF (Association Nantaise d'Aide Familiale) and operates in three priority districts of Rezé (Pont-Rousseau, Château and Ragon). It provides families in difficulty (single-parent families, families on benefits or on part-time contracts) with a child-minding solution while at the same time helping them to achieve social and professional integration. The crèche has 10 places proposed for renewable periods of three months at a time. If the timeslots (from Monday to Friday from 7:30 AM to 8 PM) are insufficient, an individual home-based child-minding service can be proposed too. At the same time, an integration advisor assists each parent with their search for a job or training, while finding a long-term child-minding solutions for the children. « Here at the crèche, parents find a temporary child-minding solution for their children and I'm there to assist them with their future plans » Sylvie Segaud, ANAF integration advisor. THE «COMPETITIVENESS» AND «CONVERGENCE» OBJECTIVES 1% € 73.8 M 13 % € 206.1 M Percentage of the total ERDF programming for the competitiveness objective devoted to the theme of "Investments in social infrastructure" Percentage of the total ERDF programming for the convergence objective devoted to the theme of "Investments in social infrastructure" Over the 2007-2013 period, the «investments in social infrastructure» theme accounted for 1% of the total ERDF programming in metropolitan France, i.e. €73.8 million. Many regions did not deploy their credits for this theme, preferring instead to focus on investments in other themes meeting the specific needs of their areas. In the outermost regions, the theme accounted for 13% of the total ERDF budgetary envelope assigned to these regions, i.e. €206 million. More than half of this budgetary envelope was used to finance educational infrastructure (including higher education and research, encompassing the agricultural, artistic and sporting fields, engineering schools and Success-in-Education boarding establishments) totalling €157 million. The ERDF supported 341 projects in France in the field of social infrastructure, for an average of €800,000 ERDF funding. In metropolitan France, numerous projects focused on the early childhood sector (83 projects) although very few projects concerned educational infrastructure (7 projects). In the outermost regions the opposite applied, with most of the projects targeting educational infrastructure, for an average amount of €2.4 million per project. 3 2

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Thematic Overview 2007-2013 of The ERDF-ESF Programming

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Summary
Improving institutional capacities at a national, regional and local level
Reducing costs hindering the development of outermost regions (OMR)
Technical assistance
Research, technological development and entrepreneurial spirit
The information Society
Transport
Energy
Environment and risk prevention
Tourism
Culture
Urban/rural regeneration
Improving the capacities of workers, companies and company managers
Improving access to employment and sustainability
Improving the social inclusion of disadvantaged persons
Development of human capital
Investments in social infrastructure
Promoting reforms in the fields of employment and social inclusion

Thematic Overview 2007-2013 of The ERDF-ESF Programming