Circular Economy Fund — ORMAT (Fonds Économie Circulaire; Objectif Recyclage MATières)
Supports recycling infrastructure for materials recovery and circular economy manufacturing initiatives.
Fonds Économie Circulaire is ADEME's dedicated circular economy fund, financed by a base annual envelope of €164 million supplemented by €236 million under France's ecological recovery plan, for a combined standing budget of €400 million. The fund supports sorting, recycling, and material-recovery infrastructure, waste-prevention initiatives, and circular-economy transition projects for both private operators and public bodies across France. ORMAT 2026 (Objectif Recyclage MATières) is the current sub-call within the fund specifically focused on material-recycling outcomes. Applications under ORMAT 2026 are accepted through 31 December 2026.
Eligible applicants include for-profit companies and non-profit organisations involved in waste sorting, material recycling, or recovery-infrastructure operation. The fund supported milestones such as biowaste separate collection covering four million inhabitants and incentive-based waste pricing applied by 199 local authorities as of 2020, with a national target to extend incentive pricing to 25 million inhabitants by 2025. Both enterprise and collectivité applicants may access the fund through the agirpourlatransition.ademe.fr catalog. Individual per-project award sizes under ORMAT 2026 are set through the application process with the relevant ADEME regional office.
Organisations applying under ORMAT 2026 should document the project's material-recycling or waste-recovery outcomes specifically, as the ORMAT sub-call is scoped to that objective within the broader Fonds Économie Circulaire portfolio. ADEME also co-participates in the Mission Transition Écologique portal (mission-transition-ecologique.beta.gouv.fr), a cross-funder eligibility checker that can help applicants confirm whether their project qualifies under this sub-call or an adjacent ADEME programme. The 31 December 2026 deadline is hard; applicants should initiate contact with their regional ADEME délégation well in advance to complete the pre-submission scoping that ADEME typically requires before a formal file is accepted.
Material sorting, recycling and recovery infrastructure under circular economy policy.
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