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Hautes-Alpes Development Agency

Role and missions

With a committed team and an annual budget of more than €4 million, it implements promotional and engineering actions to serve companies and regions.
With the 2030 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games just around the corner, the Agency is continuing on its course: transforming assets into opportunities, encouraging transitions and affirming the Hautes-Alpes as an attractive, sustainable region proud of its identity.

10 years
of attractiveness

Our future is in our hands”. With these words, Jean-Yves Dusserre, President of the Département, launched the idea of the Hautes-Alpes Development Agency. A few months later, in 2015, a public interest grouping, commonly known as the ADDET, was born. 10 years ago already!

P. Domeyne – AD05

The Hautes-Alpes has never lacked assets or talent, yet the decade 2015-2025 will remain a pivotal moment in our history, despite repeated national and international crises. In recent years, the people of the Hautes-Alpes have succeeded in transforming divisions into unity, fatalism into demands, inferiority complexes into pride, and what were long perceived as the region’s weaknesses into strengths.

OT Serre-Ponçon

The summit of Aiguilles de Chabrières

The Hautes-Alpes is one of France’s highest departments, the most unspoilt in the Alpine arc, the water tower of Provence, one of Europe’s leading sources of renewable energy thanks to hydroelectricity, France’s leading organic department, a terroir, a tourist destination, a beautiful place to live. Many know all this, but few have an accurate grasp of the changing development drivers of this vast, sparsely populated département.

10 years
unit

Over the past ten years, tourism and agriculture, the pillars of our wealth and identity, have taken a quantum leap forward, while remaining sober and sustainable. At the same time, the local economy has become much more diversified: three out of every ten private-sector jobs are now in agri-food, renewable energies, construction, aeronautics or light industry. Just one step to the side, despite tensions and a very unfavorable national context, the health and care professions are holding their own. So many reasons for satisfaction, even if we mustn’t forget the distress of some or the housing crisis which is holding back demographics and the settlement of young working people. The trajectory of microeconomic indicators between 2014 and 2024 proves this (departmental GDP grew by +50.3%). This is no accident, but the fruit of a shared vision and a collective effort.
The Agence de Développement is an atypical structure, a link between local authorities and companies. We work alongside you, keeping quibbles at bay, to encourage collective dynamics, structure sectors, support activity, strengthen the attractiveness of companies and regions, and raise the profile of the Hautes-Alpes. We do this with clear-sightedness when climate change is damaging natural environments and human activities, by encouraging transitions, and by endlessly seeking a point of balance between preserving and promoting exceptional nature, our greatest asset, so that we can continue to do business and live here.

10 years
of ambition

With the 2030 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games in our sights, we will continue our efforts with enthusiasm and determination, succeeding and building a legacy that lives up to everyone’s expectations if we remain united, mobilized and ambitious. Filled with hope, an immense future is opening up before our very eyes, so let’s take it by the handful.

Alpes Photographies

A new paradigm
Strike the right balance between preserving and enhancing the exceptional natural environment that is the Hautes-Alpes’ greatest asset. Going even further in the ecological transition.

Patrick Ricou
Chairman of the Development Agency

“Our responsibility: to strike a balance between preserving and enhancing an exceptional natural environment.”

Roadmaps

  • Tourisme
  • Agriculture
  • Économie
  • Mission et organisation

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