What is mainly at stake with the organisational innovation process we are currently implementing is the space we allow to co-building at the expense of strict planning and excessive anticipation of the final results. The work that we are carrying out along these 3 years must allow us to clarify the future pole’s concrete missions, as well as its framework and modalities of action. It is therefore too early to announce in the detailed manner the concrete role this new organisation will take. Nevertheless, once created, the European hemp pole will have to identify and develop new and high added-value markets for the hemp sector, in particular regarding emerging markets. These will allow for stabilised and improved incomes for the farmers. Structuring hemp ecosystem will also create new synergies in terms of research and innovation on the territory and the development of new skills in cooperation with higher-education and vocational training spheres. The European hemp pole will cooperate with all the territorial actors (territorial authorities, economic development agencies…) in order to improve the attractiveness of the territory. Creating the pole will also help develop and carry out collaborative economic development projects, such as a project of improving the use of natural hemp fibres in the textile sector in Grand Est Region, developing a hemp material prefabrication unit for the building sector…

These results will be visible thanks to the physical emergence of this hemp ecosystem, through the building of the hemp territorial bioraffinery in Saint-Lyé, next to La Chanvrière. All these results will strengthen the position of the Grand Est Region as a world leader in the hemp sector.