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De la création de produits originaux aux nouvelles technologies de l’information et la communication, les entreprises azuréennes sont un véritable atout de la région. Economie, banque, immobilier, urbanisme, architecture… cette rubrique se place au plus près des initiatives et transformations de nos villes. Ici, le concours ArchiCOTE vient également tous les ans récompenser les projets d’architectes les plus engagés et inscrits dans leur territoire.

May 2015

COTE Invent’

Spotlighting Riviera excellence

"The idea of organising this competition in partnership with a quality publication such as COTE Magazine attracted us immediately," says Julien Riera, general manager of the UPE 06* business federation. "Spotlighting local firms in a magazine of this calibre is right in line with UPE 06's mission of helping businesses develop." Claude Henri Menu, COTE Magazine's founder, explains: "For us it's also an opportunity to publicise our involvement in local life. Two years ago
we started the ArchiCOTE contemporary architecture competition in association with the SACA**. Now we have set up something similar to promote local firms' inventiveness and initiative, which represent real wealth feeding into the Côte d'Azur's global image and reputation. Through it we are pursuing our vocation of promoting Riviera excellence." The competition received some 30 entries. Inventions had to have been developed in the Alpes-Maritimes and finalised between 31 December 2013 and 31 December 2014; they could be finished products, smartphone apps, concepts or similar. Entrants could submit only one invention per category, which could have been featured previously in the press but not have won any awards. Five categories were chosen for this first competition: Green Tech, Project, Industry, Trade & Services and ICT (information and communication technology), with a Social Innovation prize also awarded. Entrants will benefit from the publicity organised by UPE 06 and COTE Magazine and from press coverage of the competition.

The trophies, designed by Anne Lechaczynski, chair of La Verrerie de Biot glassworks, will be presented at a gala night on 18 June at La Bastide Saint-Antoine in Grasse.

UPE 06 (Union Pour l'Entreprise des Alpes-Maritimes) is an interprofessional organisation grouping the MEDEF 06 and CGPME 06 federations of employers and small- and medium-sized businesses respectively. It has been supporting Alpes-Maritimes business
for 42 years.

Les EditionsCOTE, started 26 years ago by Claude Henri Menu, COTE La Revue d'Azur is the Riviera's leading lifestyle magazine and France's first city hospitality magazine for residents and tourists with high spending power.

*Union Pour les Entreprises des Alpes-Maritimes - **Syndicat des Architectes de la Côte d'Azur

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