For key development projects

CNES supports projects that make the most of local resources and skills across all sectors with growth potential for French Guiana. This applies in particular to fishing, agriculture and industry (such as the establishment of a fruit pulp-processing plant or a water bottling plant, and the modernisation of agricultural or fishing equipment and machinery, etc.), as well as services and tourism (renovation of accommodation, leisure facilities, etc.). 

Roads, transport, urban planning, health: public infrastructure and facilities feature prominently among the initiatives supported by CNES. These range from the rehabilitation of access roads for agriculture or forestry (the Mélanie Road or the Crique Loutre Road) to the creation of the health-care centre in Sinnamary, as well as the construction or renovation of school and university buildings.

From the pioneering telemedicine projects of the 1990s to the creation of the Station K FabLab, and through the ongoing digitalisation of educational establishments, CNES is supporting efforts to promote connectivity and digital innovation in French Guiana. Working alongside the CTG, it is involved in the construction of Lum@link, a direct undersea link to Europe. 

CNES facilitates access to and use of space data for regional management, particularly in the field of health (forecasting mosquito-borne diseases, etc.), the study of climate, biodiversity (monitoring Sargassum, etc.), natural resource management (water reserves and quality, combatting illegal gold panning, etc.), or spatial planning (urban mapping, monitoring of coastal erosion).

Espace pour la Guyane helps professionals get to grips with the ConnectbyCNES programme to develop their business using space technologies. ESA has also set up an incubator in French Guiana to encourage project leaders to make use of space data.