The Regional Knowledge Centres’ Network aims at providing spaces of information, reflection and debates as well as a collection of knowledge documents for urban actors.
Regional Knowledge Centres for « politique de la ville » account for places to exchange knowledge, skills and practices.

Their activities and tools are specific for each knowledge centre and depend on the regional context :
- library and information services
- training for urban professionals
- organisation of meetings and thematic seminars
- production of case studies documents
- methodological support to urban actors
- publications

http://i.ville.gouv.fr/Data/cdrreg.html

Artfactories                                             

Artfactories is an international resource platform dedicated to art and cultural centres based on involvement within communities  and citizen artistic initiatives re-using old industrial buildings.
“Artfactories” represents, promotes and supports existing and emerging “project/spaces”. A ‘project/space’ is defined as a place of creativity, artistic production and elaboration, cross pollination, experimentation, invention, social encounters and conviviality. The intention of such spaces is to offer a step towards new possibilities, offering a vision of contemporary creation linked to community development.

La Caisse des Dépôts is a state-owned financial institution that performs public-interest missions on behalf of French central, regional and local authorities. La Direction du Développement Territorial manage investments in local development projects. 

http://www.caissedesdepots.fr/

The Urban France network is an association whose role is to initiate and implement joint technical assistance for the French partners in the Urban II community initiative. The network was created to exchange and capitalise on experience and facilitate joint training, dissemination of know-how and dialogue with other urban policy and structural fund players in France and Europe.

The urban development construction and architecture plan (Plan Urbanisme Construction Architecture, PUCA) has an inter-ministerial vocation, coordinating various research programs on urban development, construction and architecture. The plan was created by the French Ministry of public works in order to advance knowledge of territories and cities and to shed light on public action. The PUCA permanent secretariat, a part of the General Department of Urban Development, Housing and Construction, is in charge of steering the Plan. It leads and organizes calls for research and demonstration proposals from scientific and technical bodies, monitors the various programs included in the Plan and highlights their value by publishing the results of the work undertaken.

http://rp.urbanisme.equipement.gouv.fr/puca/index.htm

The National Housing Improvement Agency (Agence Nationale pour l’Amélioration de l’Habitat, ANAH) is a national public institution under the authority of the French minister for housing and the minister in charge of finance. The ANAH allocates grants - under certain conditions - to improve private housing.