Project submission

Societe Generale The Future Is You Foundation primarily helps young people realise their potential.

More concretely, this involves projects that promote:

Education through :

• The consolidation of fundamental knowledge
• Academic perseverance and the fight to help young people stay in school
• The development of innovative educational methods
• School guidance and exposure to the professional environment
• Education through sport 

Professional integration through : 

• Mentoring 
• Development of “Soft skills” and professional conduct
• Professional training particularly in jobs of tomorrow and linked to the ecological transition
• Access and support to one's first job

Entrepreneurship access projects are supported by the Foundation via a collective led by the Fondation Entreprendre, and will not be examined within the framework of this call for projects.

To be admissible, the project must be supported by a public interest organisation that has existed for at least one year in accounting terms and must meet five conditions:
- Compatibility: the initiative corresponds to the scopes of the Societe Generale Foundation
- Public: the people supported are primarily young people experiencing economic and/or socio-cultural hardship
- Geography: the project is located in France or on the African continent, in a country where the Société Générale Group operates.
- Budget: the project is co-funded by public or private partners and the amount requested does not exceed 30% of the project budget. For organisations whose project merges with the corporate purpose, the budget communicated is that of the organisation
- Impact: the project addresses a social issue. The objectives set are concrete and the results measurable

The various projects will be assessed on their ability to:

• propose an innovative approach in the ecosystem;
• offer long-term support and follow-up to young people in the medium to long term;
• be a factor of sustainable change for the beneficiaries, with monitoring indicators designed with this in mind;
• promote as much as possible the coalition of several players, who are thus properly integrated into the ecosystem;
• be duplicated and/or scaled up.

Duration of support: 

• You have never been supported by the Foundation: you can apply to us for a period of one year. We favour new or experimental projects. Within this framework, the grants awarded will be proportional to the budget of your project, up to a limit of €50,000.
• You have already been supported by the Foundation: you can apply to us for a period of one year for a new project or for a period of three years for the project already supported.

The Societe Generale The Future is You Foundation does not finance:

• one-off projects or events;
• personal projects;
• projects carried out by a religious, denominational or political structure;
• non-contract schools;
• support through scholarship schemes;
• traditional gender mainstreaming and equal opportunities programmes.

Within its “Education & Integration” scope, Societe Generale Foundation organises several calls for projects every year for France and the African continent.