€4m invested annually to support innovation via the Seed’Innov and E-Face funds. instruments. Both are available to all business lines, without exception.The first of these funds, Seed’Innov, provides assistance from the earliest stages of R&D and proof-of-concept activities, continuing to support projects through to commercial launch. Its role is to cut the time-to-market. The second fund, E-Face, supports innovative low-carbon solutions by offering financial compensation to offset the difference in cost between a conventional carbon dioxide-emitting solution and an alternative low-carbon solution, which tends to be more costly. —