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The French R&D Institute dedicated to the energetic and ecological transition of cities

50% of our experts and researchers come from public and private organisations that are experts in energy, the environment and the city.

Created in 2014

Member of FIT (French Institutes of Technology)

Over 300 partners and customers

We bring together the 3 major stakeholders in urban innovation: companies / public research / territories

€6 M/year, of which 40% to 50% is subsidies from France 2030 (PIA -Investments for the Future)

10 years working to decarbonise cities

Efficacity was created in 2014 on the initiative of the General Secretariat for Investment (SGPI) and is placed under interministerial supervision composed of the Ministry of Ecological Transition, the Ministry of Research and the Ministry of Finance.
Efficacity is a unique R&D partnership centre in France bringing together some thirty public and private actors.
The institute unites many researchers and experts from all walks of life, working together to develop and implement innovative solutions to build the city of tomorrow: energy-efficient and massively decarbonised.

Our Vision

Our mission is to provide field actors with new tools, methods and operational solutions that will allow them to rapidly improve the energy and carbon performance of cities.

Our approach to meeting this goal is based on 4 main principles:

A change of scale: moving from the building scale to the city scale
A systemic approach: understanding a project in all its complexity
User consideration: the real uses of the territory as it currently operates and in its possible developments
Analysing stakeholder relationships: finding new synergies between the actors involved in the energy transition, exploring new economic models and legal frameworks, with the aim of limiting or sharing risks, ultimately creating a guarantee of performance at the urban level and thus accelerating investments

Efficacity wants to embody this new, highly-inclusive dynamic, with the firm conviction that the complexity of the urban environment requires innovation not on a single front, but on several complementary fronts:

scientific and technical advances,
considering the operational constraints faced by economic and legal actors,
relevancy to the evolution of the city and its uses.
Finally, as far as method, Efficacity systematises field experimentation according to an agile “Research & Action” approach that involves the three major actors of urban innovation: companies, public research, territories.

About us

10 years working to decarbonise cities

Our Vision

Presentation with the Managing Director