Find the most suitable venue to test your company project or activity
Verified 20 February 2024 - Directorate for Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)
You are future entrepreneur or at the very beginning of your young company. You can use accompanying structures that allow you to test your activity. We help you to choose the structure and theaccompaniment best personalized suitable to your project.
What applies to you ?
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It's useful to test your activity if you want to:
- Be reassured on the chances of success of your project
- Wrap up your business plan and your market study
- Train yourself at the management (billing, social statements, etc.)
- Receive a coaching customized from experienced entrepreneurs
- Find financial support if your project is innovative (start-up type)
- Earn from time to expand your business by delegating administrative and accounting tasks
- Making savings at startup on your fixed charges (offices, materials, accounting, management, etc.)
To test your activity without building your company and with employee status, you can join one of the 2 organizations below:
- salary carry-over business
- Cooperative activity and employment (EAC)
salary carry-over business
What's this about?
Wage portage is a contractual relationship tripartite.
The salaried worker porter concludes a employment contract with a carry company pay and perform a service on behalf of a client company.
The employee must negotiate the conditions of performance of his service and fix the price with the client company.
The choice of the company of salary carry-over is his.
What are the conditions to access it?
The employed person must have a professional qualification of Level 5 (Tray +2) minimum or a experience significant professional 3 years in the same industry.
FYI
You can consult our page: salary carry-over business.
Activity and employment cooperative (CAE)
What's this about?
The EAC: titleContent of companies is a full-scale test of your project.
You are a "test contractor".
You sign a contract with the EAC and become salaried worker during the test period.
What are the conditions to access it?
It is for you if you are in any of the following situations:
- You are job seeker who has been compensated
- You have an income social minima (RSA: titleContent, SSA: titleContent, etc.)
- You are part-time employee
FYI
You can consult our page: “ Coopérative d'activities et d'emploi (CAE): testing his activity with the status of employee ”.
Your company doesn't exist yet
Different choices are possible depending on who you are currently in any of the following 4 situations:
Full-time employee
The accompanying structures are different depending on the following 2 situations:
- You want to create a type company start-up : your activity must have a character innovative
- You want to create a company other than a start-up : your project does not fall within the official definition of an activity called " innovative ”
Start-up, "innovative" project
You can then integrate the following structure: Company incubator
What is an incubator?
The incubator is a structure that allows:
- whether your project is viable,
- ripening it,
- and give it opportunities to grow rapidly.
Your project must be innovative.
Innovation is defined by its innovative character and to high potential economic development. We often talk about start-up andstart-up incubator.
Example :
For example, it may be a field of activity innovative (digital, digital, ecological, artificial intelligence, etc.) or technical process non-existent. The incubator is often located within a university or of a research.
FYI
You can consult our page “ Company incubator: test your project or activity ”.
Any non-start-up project
There is no test structure if you are a full-time employee and your company project is not identified as a innovative project (in its official definition).
However, you can be with your company creation project.
Part-time employee
The accompanying structures are different depending on the following 2 situations:
- You want to create a type company start-up : your activity must have a character innovative
- You want to create a company other than a start-up : your project does not fall within the definition of an activity called " innovative ”
Start-up, "innovative" project
You can integrate one of the following structures:
- Incubator
- Incubator
What is an incubator?
The incubator is a structure that allows:
- whether your project is viable,
- ripening it,
- and give it opportunities to grow rapidly.
Your project must be innovative.
Innovation is defined by its innovative character and to high potential economic development. We often talk about start-up andstart-up incubator.
Example :
For example, it may be a field of activity innovative (digital, digital, ecological, artificial intelligence, etc.) or technical process non-existent. The incubator is often located within a university or of a research.
To learn more about incubators, you can consult our page “ Company incubator: test your project or activity ”.
What is a company incubator?
The company incubator is a full-scale test of your project.
Your project must be at the idea stage.
The incubator is speaking to you only if you are in one of the following situations:
- You are job seeker who has been compensated
- You're getting a social minima (RSA, SSA, etc.)
- You are part-time employee
By integrating an incubator, you must sign a Cape contract. You agree to follow a creative program, company recovery or management.
To learn more about company incubators, you can consult our page: Company incubator: test your project or activity.
Any non-start-up project
You can integrate the following support structure: Incubator
What is a company incubator?
The company incubator is a full-scale test of your project.
Your project must be at the idea stage.
The incubator is speaking to you only if you are in one of the following situations:
- You are job seeker who has been compensated
- You're getting a social minima (RSA, SSA, etc.)
- You are part-time employee
By integrating an incubator, you must sign a Cape contract. You agree to follow a creative program, company recovery or management.
FYI
You can consult our page: Company incubator: test your project or activity.
Job-seeker
The accompanying structures are different depending on the following 2 situations:
- You want to create a type company start-up : your activity must have a character innovative
- You want to create a company other than a start-up : your project does not fall within the definition of an activity called " innovative ”
Start-up, "innovative" project
You can integrate one of the following structures:
- Incubator
- Incubator
What is a company incubator?
The incubator is a structure that allows:
- whether your project is viable,
- ripening it,
- and give it opportunities to grow rapidly.
Your project must be innovative.
Innovation is defined by its innovative character and to high potential economic development. We often talk about start-up andstart-up incubator.
Example :
For example, it may be a field of activity innovative (digital, digital, ecological, artificial intelligence, etc.) or technical process non-existent. The incubator is often located within a university or of a research.
To learn more about incubators, you can consult our page “ Company incubator: test your project or activity ”.
What is a company incubator?
The company incubator is a full-scale test of your project.
Your project must be at the idea stage.
The incubator is speaking to you only if you are in one of the following situations:
- You are job seeker who has been compensated
- You're getting a social minima (RSA, SSA, etc.)
- You are part-time employee
By integrating an incubator, you must sign a Cape contract. You agree to follow a creative program, company recovery or management.
To learn more about company incubators, you can consult our page: Test your activity and the viability of your company project by integrating an incubator.
Any non-start-up project
You can integrate the following support structure: Incubator
What is a company incubator?
The company incubator is a full-scale test of your project.
Your project must be at the idea stage.
The incubator is speaking to you only if you are in one of the following situations:
- You are job seeker who has been compensated
- You're touching a social minima (RSA, SSA, etc.)
- You are part-time employee
By integrating an incubator, you must sign a Cape contract. You agree to follow a creative program, company recovery or management.
To learn more about company incubators, you can consult our page: Test your activity and the viability of your company project by integrating an incubator.
SSA or SSA Recipient
The accompanying structures are different depending on the following 2 situations:
- You want to create a type company start-up : your activity must have a character innovative
- You want to create a company other than a start-up : your project does not fall within the definition of an activity called " innovative ”
Start-up, "innovative" project
You can integrate one of the following structures:
- Incubator
- Incubator
- Company nursery
What is a company incubator?
The incubator is a structure that allows:
- whether your project is viable,
- ripening it,
- and give it opportunities to grow rapidly.
Your project must be innovative.
Innovation is defined by its innovative character and to high potential economic development. We often talk about start-up andstart-up incubator.
Example :
For example, it may be a field of activity innovative (digital, digital, ecological, artificial intelligence, etc.) or technical process non-existent. The incubator is often located within a university or of a research.
To learn more about incubators, you can consult our page “ Company incubator: test your project or activity ”.
What is a company incubator?
The company incubator is a full-scale test of your project.
Your project must be at the idea stage.
The incubator is speaking to you only if you are in one of the following situations:
- You are job seeker who has been compensated
- You're touching a social minima (RSA, SSA, etc.)
- You are part-time employee
By integrating an incubator, you must sign a Cape contract. You agree to follow a creative program, company recovery or management.
To learn more about company incubators, you can consult our page: Company incubator: test your project or activity.
What is a company nursery?
The company nursery is ancollective support which allows you to test your business with other entrepreneurs.
Your company should be recent.
Regardless of your status and the nature of your project, you can apply for to integrate a nursery.
To learn more, you can consult our page: “ Company incubator: testing its activity ”.
Any non-start-up project
You can integrate one of the following structures:
- Incubator
- Company nursery
What is a company incubator?
The company incubator is a full-scale test of your project.
Your project must be at the idea stage.
The incubator is speaking to you only if you are in one of the following situations:
- You are job seeker who has been compensated
- You're touching a social minima (RSA, SSA, etc.)
- You are part-time employee
By integrating an incubator, you must sign a Cape contract. You agree to follow a creative program, company recovery or management.
To learn more about company incubators, you can consult our page: Company incubator: test your project or activity.
What is a company nursery?
The company nursery is ancollective support which allows you to test your business with other entrepreneurs.
Your company should be recent.
Regardless of your status and the nature of your project, you can apply for to integrate a nursery.
To learn more, you can consult our page: “ Company incubator: testing its activity ”.
Your company already exists
Your company is recent, that is to say that it has existed since less than one year.
The accompanying structures are different depending on whether you have created one of the following companies:
- Start-up or project innovative
- Any non-start-up project
Start-up, "innovative" project
You can embed a accelerator or a company nursery.
What is an accelerator?
The accelerator allows you toaccelerate profitability of your young innovative company.
The accelerator is an accompaniment close to that offered in nurseries.
For example, it helps you internationalize your business; it also offers peer mentoring.
What is a company nursery?
The company nursery is ancollective support which allows you to test your business with other entrepreneurs.
Your company should be recent.
Regardless of your status and the nature of your project, you can apply for to integrate a nursery.
FYI
You can consult our page: “ Company incubator: testing its activity ”.
Any non-start-up project
You can integrate a company nursery.
What is a company nursery?
The company nursery is ancollective support which allows you to test your business with other entrepreneurs.
Your company should be recent.
Regardless of your status and the nature of your project, you can apply for to integrate a nursery.
FYI
You can consult our page: “ Company incubator: testing its activity ”.
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