Assistance and coaching

Coaching for business creation and development

To ensure that your idea matures into a project, you can seek the following forms of help and advice:

• Prior study of innovative projects and project "coaching"; technical and economic support and advice
• Economic, technological and competitive intelligence (Internet watch, SVP services, economic and financial databases, APCE website)
• Contacts with key players from research, industry...

And to help your project mature into an industrial and commercial reality:

• Assistance in formalising your development plans: segmentation, environment analysis, competitive dynamics, strategic choices and operational planning (Cap Alpha business plan software)
• Support in creating well-structured teams
Financial assessment of associated scenarios
Optimisation of financial resources (preparation of applications for public support, bank financing and loans on trust, Business Angels, NormandInnoV)

Getting you off to the best possible start:

Business incubators offer your business preferential conditions and the opportunity to launch your project in direct contact with other entrepreneurs. Synergia and the BIC (uropean Business and Innovation Centre) are there to offer you active help and advice.
Synergia can also help you to find land or premises, for sale or for lease.
Synergia's team is there to guide you, to advise you and to facilitate groundwork with Caen la Mer's many economic partners (the public-private company Normandie Aménagement, Calvados Stratégie, Normandie Développement, Oséo, Normandie Incubation...).

A project to set up, develop, transfer or expand your business:

The agency will join you to determine the most appropriate solutions for your business needs, and will accompany you throughout your project's progress:
• In your quest for information
• In identifying potential sites and organising visits
• In initiating possible private and/or public funding
• In monitoring your project throughout its development
• In supporting your promotion and communication.
For further information, please refer to the Setting up Business pages

Entrepreneurial training

Synergia's EBIC is actively involved in the University Diploma in Business Creation and the Master's Degree in Entrepreneurial Studies, together with related training and action plans in partnership with business incubators.
The EBIC team is a member of the "RDT" (Technology Development Network) relying regularly on external resources (consultancies, university and engineering school valorisation and industrial relations units...).

For further information
Laurent Jossier – laurent.jossier@synergia.fr
Nicolas Pouchain – nicolas.pouchain@synergia.fr