CRESS PACA is a business movement bringing together associations, cooperatives, foundations, mutual societies, social enterprises and employers' unions.
CRESS Provence-Alpes Côte d'Azur provides solutions to the needs of companies in the Social Economy via its various actions :
1. REPRESENTATION | The primary mission of the regional chamber is to represent social economy companies in dealings with the public authorities and to defend their interests >> All CRESS actions
2. ACCOMPANYING | To enable social economy actors companies to access individual or collective support solutions.
3. ANIMATE | CRESS organises events and offers entrepreneurs economic activities in the territories. Numerous professional meetings to develop business relationships, gain expertise or join a network of local businesses.
4. INFORM & PROMOTE | CRESS promotes the actions of social economy companies via its communication media. It deciphers social economy news and identifies economic opportunities for entrepreneurs and their businesses
5. WATCH | One of the Observatory's latest missions is to contribute to the collection, processing and dissemination of economic and social data relating to companies in the social economy
CRESS PACA is involved in various european projects such as Erasmus+ (KA1 and KA2) and interested to be part of COSME or Horizon Europe project in the future.