Cerema in a nutshell
Cerema (which stands for Centre for Studies and Expertise on Risks, the Environment, Mobility and Urban Planning) is the major French public agency for developing public expertise in the fields of urban planning, regional cohesion and ecological and energy transition for resilient and climate-neutral cities and regions. It has a staff of 2,600 people out of which 500 are dedicated to research and innovation activities.
Cerema was created in 2014 by merging eleven public expertise organizations, each with decades of experience in the fields of bridges, roads and ports infrastructure, water, geotechnics, risk, land use and urban development.
As a multidisciplinary scientific and technical resource and expertise centre, Cerema provides assistance in developing, implementing and assessing public policies at national and local levels, where the challenges of the climatic and ecological transition & regional cohesion are paramount.
Climate change :
pushing forward transitions together
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It offers unique state-of-the-art high-level expertise in 6 activity areas:
Transversal Roles
Up- and downstream of your projects, Cerema can draw on multidisciplinary, transversal expertise
to help deliver sustainable regional development.
Cerema in figures
Figures valid as of December 31, 2023
More than 800
member local authorities
298
€m budget
27
sites in mainland France and overseas territories
12
research teams
50
ongoing European projects
5 000
products in the CeremaDoc website
Governance
Get to know Cerema, and the women and men who make it possible
Board of Directors
The board of directors works in good faith to set Cerema’s strategic direction.
Strategic Council
The strategic council prepares work for the board of directors that falls under the banner of strategy.
Management Committee
The management committee works to keep Cerema running smoothly, and coordinates actions within the establishment.
2023 Annual Report
Explore our work over the past year