Employment, businesses and economic development

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Producing, innovating, transmitting and working with dignity in Brittany

Levrig 2027
Trajectory 2027 – 2032

NB: «For the sake of fluidity and concision, In this text, the masculine is used to encompass all genders.».

The essentials

Brittany does not lack entrepreneurs, skills or areas of excellence. It has a dense network of micro-enterprises and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), a more developed industry than the average for France, recognized agricultural, agri-food, maritime, digital and cultural activities, as well as a high-level academic and scientific community. From Nantes to Brest, from Saint-Nazaire to Rennes, from Lorient to Saint-Brieuc and from Vannes to Quimper, it can form a coherent European economic space.

Its main problem is less the absence of initiatives than their fragmentation. Responsibilities related to employment, training, innovation, land, energy, exports and financing are dispersed. Companies face multiple points of contact; training institutions are adjusting their capacities too slowly; the results of public research are still insufficiently transformed into activities; national policies rarely (if ever) prioritize a value chain approach for Brittany.

Yes Breizh offers a Breton Pact for Work and Enterprise based on five objectives: increasing the value created and preserved in Brittany; further growing the number of SMEs in medium-sized companies; bringing together skills and jobs; accelerating ecological and digital transitions; and opening Breton businesses more widely to European and international markets.

The method followed by Yes Breizh takes up what is transferable from the Scottish experience: a single entry point for investment, sectoral export plans, a public investment bank focused on missions, skills planning, proof of concept funds, the community economy, and a public evaluation of results. It excludes promises that would depend on non-allocated competencies or a different fiscal context.

For Yes Breizh, the goal is not growth for its own sake. Its purpose is to enable everyone to live and work in Brittany in dignity, to secure the productive base, to finance public services, and to pass on to future generations an economy that is more autonomous, more innovative, and less vulnerable.

1. The diagnosis: a solid economy, but not fully under control

A real industrial base

Within the administrative perimeter of the Brittany Region, the CESER counted nearly 185,000 direct industrial jobs, That is 14.3% % of regional employment compared to 11.6% % on average for France. The agro-food industry accounted for 41% % of industrial employment. The female workforce in industry reached 33.7 %%, compared to 30.5% % at the national level.

Recent signs were encouraging: 39 net openings of industrial sites in 2022 and 2023 and a 1.1 % % increase in industrial employment between 2017 and 2023. But this recovery remains fragile. The agro-food sector lost 400 jobs in 2023; the automotive, food and certain energy-intensive industries must transform; the historic decline in industrial weight has not been erased.

SMEs constitute a source of strength, flexibility and transmission. They also face a glass ceiling: insufficient equity capital, difficulty in recruiting specialized executives, complex access to innovation and export. The CESER estimates that SMEs represent two-thirds of the potential for reindustrialization. Brittany’s policy must therefore grow the existing businesses as well as attract new investments.

An economic Brittany with five departments

Administrative statistics too often isolate the Loire-Atlantique. The future dashboard that Yes Breizh intends to establish and make public will have to publish two explicit boundaries: the Brittany Region with four Départements and Brittany historique with five Départements, without, of course, adding data from different reference years or definitions.

Space	Structural economic forces	Priority issues
Côtes-d’Armor	Agribusiness, agriculture, telecommunications, tourism, industrial SMEs.	Transmission, attractiveness of the professions, mobility and access to services.
Finistère	Maritime, defense, agro-food, electronics, cybersecurity, research, tourism.	Connections, productive land, innovation and the renewal of skills.
Ille-et-Vilaine	Digital, automotive, agro-food, services, higher education.	Automotive transformation, employee housing, growth of SMEs.
Loire-Atlantique	Aeronautics, shipbuilding, marine energy, digital technology, logistics, cultural industries, viticulture and agro-food industry.	Articulation Nantes–Saint-Nazaire with the other departments, land use, decarbonization and subcontracting chains.
Morbihan	Agribusiness, nautical tourism, logistics, tourism, services and industrial SMEs.	Saisonality, transmission, housing, technical skills and the coastline.

For Yes Breizh, the return of the Loire-Atlantique to Brittany does not consist in moving a center of gravity to Nantes. It allows for the linking of complementarities: the naval and marine energy sectors between Brest, Lorient and Saint-Nazaire; the digital and cybersecurity sectors between Nantes, Rennes, Lannion and Brest; the food and agricultural industries in the five departments; cultural creation, design and audiovisual in several hubs; the ports and logistics on both coastlines.

Too concentrated exports

In 2024, the Brittany administrative region exported 12.278 billion euros of goods and imported 13.908 billion euros. It accounted for only 2.1% % of French exports. The agro-food sector remains central; the top 100 operators accounted for 70.5% % of the exported value and 3,986 companies had exported in 2023, including 2,087 for five consecutive years.

For Yes Breizh, these figures simultaneously show a capacity and vulnerability. Too many SMEs export sporadically, in few markets, without a dedicated team. Brittany must help more companies become regular exporters, diversify destinations, and strengthen services, digital, maritime, healthcare, creative industries, and environmental technologies.

Once again, these data do not include the Loire-Atlantique. A consolidation across five departments will have to be carried out with the Customs, the INSEE, and the consular chambers.

Lasting skills gaps

Agriculture, industry, construction, health care, home help, transport, hospitality and catering, cybersecurity and digital technology all face recurring recruitment difficulties. These difficulties stem from both working conditions, wages, housing, mobility and the image of the professions, as well as a lack of training.

For Yes Breizh, the answer cannot therefore be reduced to opening up places. It must bring together orientation, initial training, apprenticeships, continuing training, job quality and local needs. The regional budget for 2026 also indicated a reduction of 50% % in the national envelope allocated to apprenticeships and the end of the Regional Pact for Investment in Skills, which represented 40.9 million euros. This financial dependence prevents a stable policy.

Work changes faster than institutions

CESER calls for simultaneous anticipation of artificial intelligence, automation, aging, the ecological transition, new expectations towards work and the increase in occupational risks. By 2050, jobs will rarely disappear in a single go, but most will see their tasks, skills and organizations undergo profound transformation.

Yes Breizh believes that foresight should not be used to announce an artificially precise number of future jobs. It should create adaptability capabilities: continuous observation, social dialogue, lifelong learning, recognition of achievements, experimentation and securing professional transitions.

2. Our doctrine: a productive, open and rooted economy

Creating value and retaining it in Brittany

According to the experts at Yes Breizh, a strong economy produces goods, services, knowledge and culture. It properly remunerates work, invests, exports and finances solidarity. The goal is not to produce everything in Brittany, but to identify critical dependencies and value chains in which local strengthening is economically and ecologically relevant.

Yes Breizh appreciated the Reloc’h 2 experiment¹ which illustrates the potential of purchases. Of the eight companies and 180 million euros in purchases analyzed, 10 % were estimated to be relocable. The relocation of 18 million euros would have generated 8 million in added value, created or safeguarded 106 jobs, and avoided 4,450 tons of greenhouse gas emissions. This exploratory result should not be mechanically extrapolated; it justifies a scale-up based on the full cost, quality, and resilience.

Supporting the company, asking for conditions in return

The company takes risks, innovates, forms and creates jobs. For Yes Breizh, public action must offer it visibility, funding, expertise and infrastructure. In return, significant aid must be tied to proportionate commitments: employment and training, maintaining activity, decarbonization, gender equality, fiscal transparency and the anchoring of procurement.

For Yes Breizh, the rules must be understandable and simple to follow (no unnecessary bureaucratic complexity). The counterparty terms will be published at the time of the aid, adapted to the size of the company and controlled by few indicators. The goal is accountability, not additional bureaucracy.

Making quality employment a competitive advantage

Salary, occupational health, autonomy, social dialogue, schedule stability, equality between women and men, inclusion of disabilities and access to training directly influence recruitment, retention and productivity. An economic strategy that neglects working conditions creates its own shortages.

Yes Breizh defends a quality employment pact developed with the social partners. Voluntary companies will publish some comparable indicators and will have enhanced access to recruitment, training and advisory tools. Wage standards and labour law currently remain national; their adaptation requires explicit devolution and the respect of a protective minimum.

Embracing European and international openness

Brittany is a European maritime peninsula, not a closed economy. For Yes Breizh, Brittany must diversify its markets, strengthen its presence in Brussels and in the Atlantic networks, and welcome useful skills and investments, while avoiding dependence on a small number of groups or countries.

For Yes Breizh, the devolution of powers in this field must ensure that implantation aid prioritizes projects that complement local sectors, cooperate with research, train locally, and make sustainable commitments. The attractiveness will not be measured solely by the announced amount, but by the jobs actually created, local purchases, patents, decarbonization, and the duration of implantation.

3. What the Scottish experience can teach us

For Yes Breizh, the economic program 2026 of the ruling party in Scotland is neither a model to be copied nor a program that can be applied in its entirety. Scotland has a different institutional, fiscal, and budgetary architecture. However, in our opinion, several methods are relevant for Brittany.

Scottish inspiration	Breton adaptation	Safeguard
National investment bank focused on missions.	Brittany Investment Fund, strengthening existing tools and co-investing in priority sectors.	Independent governance, additionality and publication of results.
«InvestScotland» entry point and targeted engagement with investors.	«Invest in Brittany» portal (Brittany 5) and joint prospecting team.	No tax, social or land dumping.
Six-point export plan and sectoral plans.	Export plans for maritime, digital-cyber, food, health, creative industries and energy.	Evaluation by new regular exporters, not by the number of missions.
University fund for proof of concept.	Brittany Fund Proof of concept for prototypes, market validation and the creation of young companies.	Independent selection and transparent sharing of intellectual property.
National program for the adoption of AI by SMEs.	IA Bretagne course: diagnosis, data, cybersecurity, training and investment.	Data protection, social dialogue and measurement of real gains.
National and territorial planning of competences.	Breton conference on skills and contracts by employment basin.	Public data, annual review and employee participation.
Community Wealth Building, cooperatives and companies owned by employees.	Locally rooted economy: responsible purchasing, cooperative societies, transmission to employees and companies with a territorial mission.	Respect – intelligent – of European public procurement law and access for SMEs.
International network, diaspora and country brand.	Reseau Bretagne Monde brings together companies, universities, the diaspora and Celtic partners.	Measurable economic management, without empty institutional communication.

The lesson that Yes Breizh draws from the Scottish experience is institutional: bringing together strategy, funding, skills, innovation, exports and attractiveness under an identifiable political responsibility. Brittany will have to adapt this method to its own context and publish every year what has worked and what has failed.

4. Growing Breton businesses

A truly unique economic hub

Yes Breizh wants the creation of ² of the future Economic Service of Brittany It will bring together access to aid, financing, exports, innovation, transmission and skills. It will not necessarily merge all the organizations, but it will impose a common dossier, a single point of contact and shared monitoring.

Each company will receive guidance on the relevant tools within fifteen days. The deadlines for decision-making and payment will be published. Less frequently used or redundant arrangements will be removed after an annual evaluation of the situation.

The «SME to ETI» program»

Yes Breizh wants to ensure that 100 potential companies are supported each year over three years: governance, equity funding, recruitment of executives, productivity, exports, digital technology, succession and external growth. The selection will combine economic criteria, territorial integration and the ability to create quality jobs.

The objective is not to choose winners administratively. It is to remove the common obstacles that prevent a strong SME from reaching a certain threshold. The company will retain its decisions; public money will intervene in the form of co-financing. and with fewer and more relevant contractual objectives.

Transmit rather than close or sell without a plan

Yes Breizh has noticed that the aging of leaders threatens know-how and jobs. An observatory in five Départements will identify, in strict confidentiality, the companies to be transferred within the next five years. The sellers will benefit from an early diagnosis; the acquirers, from a coordinated process; and the employees, from information on the possibilities of cooperative takeovers.

A business succession fund may temporarily take a minority stake when the company is viable, strategic for an employment area and lacks an immediate solution. Any intervention will include an exit strategy.

Simplifying without deregulating

Yes Breizh is aware of the French administrative complexity that, through its over-regulation and control, makes practically impossible any dynamic that is compliant. Therefore, Yes Breizh wishes that every new Breton economic regulation be subject to an accessible impact study: objective pursued, options, effects on SMEs, timeline and evaluation procedures. Companies will be consulted early on, but the general interest will remain the rule.

In this context, an engineering team will help municipalities and intermunicipalities accelerate projects without compromising on environmental requirements. The reduction of timeframes will be based on parallel instruction, the quality of dossiers and mediation, not on the removal of controls.

5. A Breton productive and industrial strategy

Choosing missions, not just sectors

Yes Breizh sees the Breton productive and industrial strategy focusing its resources on a limited number of missions involving several sectors: food sovereignty; decarbonized maritime and naval economy; energy and networks; health and aging; cybersecurity and digital trust; low-carbon mobility and logistics; sustainable housing; water and climate adaptation; cultural and linguistic industries.

For each mission, Yes Breizh proposes the establishment of a contract specifying ten-year objectives, projects, skills needs, infrastructure, public and private funding, and indicators. A company may belong to several missions; traditional sectors will be helped to transform rather than opposing emerging sectors.

Sanctifying the productive land that is useful

Yes Breizh believes that economic land should not be wasted or driven out by speculation. A five-department inventory will classify derelict sites, available areas, mobility constraints, electrical capacity and climatic risks. Priority will be given to the reuse of derelict sites, densification and the mutualization of facilities.

The major projects will be subject to a territorial and environmental assessment: direct and indirect jobs, space consumption, water, energy, mobility, subcontracting and reversibility. Acceptability is built through clarity, intellectual honesty and upstream participation.

Decarbonizing without deindustrializing

For Yes Breizh, the aid for decarbonization must combine energy efficiency, electrification, renewable heat, circular economy, and process evolution. A transition contract must protect jobs and fund the conversion when certain activities need to be reduced or changed.

Companies receiving significant support will publish a climate roadmap compatible with their sector. Emissions reductions must not come from a simple transfer of production outside Brittany.

Using purchases as an economic policy

For Yes Breizh, voluntary communities and businesses will measure the location and vulnerability of their purchases, relying in particular on the Breton Index of Local Purchasing and the total cost of ownership. Public procurement will, within the limits of European law, integrate quality, emissions, security of supply, inclusion and timeliness rather than solely on price. Brittany’s public purchasing policy must use all the opportunities offered by law and move away from the current contractual conservatism.³.

It is not about illegally reserving markets for Breton companies. It is about designing lots accessible to SMEs, publishing the needs upstream and objectively valuing the social and environmental externalities.

6. Research, innovation, digital technology and artificial intelligence

A system too fragmented

Yes Breizh has carefully read the reports of the Court of Auditors, which remind us that in France, collaborative research involves only 15 to 20 % of the companies declaring themselves innovative and represents approximately one billion euros in annual private funding for public research. France has committed nearly 19 billion euros in direct funding between 2014 and 2024, with mixed results and as usual in France, an increase in the number of funding schemes.

For Yes Breizh, Brittany must avoid repeating this dispersion. It will concentrate its efforts on a few missions, a standard partnership contract, limited deadlines, and an evaluation of the transition from the laboratory to the market.

Brittany ‘Proof of concept’ – Brittany ‘POK’

For Yes Breizh, this fund will finance prototypes, demonstrators, proof-of-concept, intellectual property and the first entrepreneurial team. It will be open to laboratories from the five departments and will involve universities, schools, CHU, research organizations and companies.

The remuneration and career of researchers will need to better recognize collaborations and the creation of companies, without subordinating fundamental research to private interests. Conflicts of interest and the ownership of the results will be governed by Breton public rules.

IA Bretagne for SMEs

For Yes Breizh, the use of AI is inevitable and must be considered an asset as long as – as with everything else – the way it is used is reasonable. A responsible adoption program will offer four steps: process diagnosis; data quality and governance; short-term experimentation; investment and training. The priority uses will be administrative productivity, maintenance, design, translation, customer relations, and energy efficiency.

The aid will be conditional on cybersecurity, information for employees, and measuring the impact on employment, working time, and quality. The goal for Yes Breizh is to increase human capacity, not subsidize tools without use.

Connected poles, not competing

Nantes, Rennes, Brest, Lannion, Lorient, Saint-Nazaire, Quimper, Vannes and Saint-Brieuc must form a network of complementary specialties for Yes Breizh. Funding will prioritize consortia involving at least two basins and one SME. Rare equipment will be pooled and its access conditions published.

7. Employment, skills and lifelong learning

A Breton conference on skills

Yes Breizh hopes that this conference will bring together social partners, communities, sectors, institutions, universities, training organizations and employment actors. This conference will publish a map every year for five Départements: strained professions, three-year and ten-year needs, training capacities, integration rates, dropouts and needs for re-training.

The data will not automatically dictate individual orientation. They will provide fair information on opportunities, salaries, working conditions and territorial prospects. Summaries will be published to show the developments and lessons will be drawn from them and passed on to the Breton public authorities for consideration.

An effective right to re-training

Yes Breizh believes that, as today, every economically active person should be able to obtain a skills assessment, have their achievements recognized, and access modular training. Brittany must generalize skill blocks, the validation of experience gains, and digital badges when they are recognized by employers and linked to certifications.

Yes Breizh wishes the creation of a Breton account for professional transition It will complement the rights acquired for the professions identified by Brittany as strategic or threatened. It will fund training, support, mobility, and, where available within the available competences, a share of the loss of income.

Apprenticeship as a reciprocal commitment

Even though French aid is currently decreasing, Yes Breizh believes that specific Breton aid should prioritize training in rare, emerging, industrial, maritime, agricultural, healthcare, social, energy and digital sectors. In this context, Breton vocational training centers will have to publish apprenticeship termination rates, six-month and twelve-month placement rates, and the quality of the support provided.

In return, the companies receiving assistance will commit to mentoring, preventing job disruptions, and ensuring the quality of the tasks entrusted to them. Small businesses will be able to share apprenticeship supervisors and HR functions.

Unlocking the peripheral brakes

For Yes Breizh, returning to employment often requires housing, mobility, childcare, health care, or digital skills. The Finistère RSA plan highlights the importance of quick contact, intensive training, mobility solutions, and guidance towards in-demand professions. This plan could be extended to the entire Brittany region, provided that the evaluation focuses on the actual duration of return to employment and the stability of the contract, rather than solely on administrative exits.

For Yes Breizh, the accompaniment must remain as individualized as possible and respectful of rights. The obligations will only be credible if an adapted offer, a readily available contact person, and solutions to material obstacles actually exist.

8. Businesses, languages and economic identity

For Yes Breizh, Breton and Gallo should not be either a uniform requirement for businesses or a folkloric decoration. They can become skills, tools of differentiation and factors of anchoring. The practices will be voluntary, professional and evaluated.

A program Starting a business in the languages of Brittany It will offer translation, brand advice, signage, training and commercial testing. Ten pilot companies will experiment for three to six months with specific uses: packaging, reception, digital service, communication or product name. The results will be documented: understanding, memorization, commitment, sales and employee satisfaction.

In line with this, the development of bilingual training programs and adult education will also create jobs in teaching, translation, the media, tourism, the digital sector and the creative sector. Brittany’s public subsidies will not reward mere display; they will support real and lasting use through certification.

9. Export, invest and expand

A Yes Breizh export plan in six actions

• Create a common export diagnosis and a reference point for each SME that has been supported.
• Develop sectoral strategies for the maritime, food, digital and cybernetic sectors, as well as for health, energy and creative industries.
• Organizing focused missions to selected markets after analysis, with prepared buyer appointments.
• Welcoming more buyers and order-givers in Brittany.
• Share the initial export functions between SMEs and fund volunteers or part-time executives.
• Mobilizing the diaspora and European and Celtic partners into a Bretagne Monde network.

Success will be measured by the proportion of companies that remain exporters after three and five years, the diversification of markets, and the value added exported, not by the number of trips.

Invest in Brittany

For Yes Breizh, this portal will provide investors with a five-department overview of sites, expertise, laboratories, subcontractors and infrastructure. A unique team of perfectly bilingual (English) speakers will coordinate public responses and ensure confidentiality.

Investments will be sought based on the needs of the sectors, not solely on their size. Projects that simply move an activity from one part of Brittany to another will not be counted as new businesses.

The order and European standards

For Yes Breizh, it is essential that Brittany strengthens its presence among European institutions, similar networks in Europe (in countries similar in size to Brittany: Ireland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, the Baltic countries, Portugal, etc.) and research programs. A Breton cell must be able to help SMEs access European funding, consortia and markets. Breton positions on standards will be prepared with companies, employees, researchers and environmental associations.

10. An economy that benefits all the countries of Brittany

Economic basin contracts

Yes Breizh has concluded the first part of its reflections on this topic by thinking that each employment basin should develop a five-year contract linking companies, skills, housing, mobility, energy, land and public services. This contract would identify three to five priorities, a responsible person and expected results.

Of course, for Yes Breizh, decisions will not be concentrated in Rennes or Nantes. Local economic teams will have room for maneuver; medium-sized cities, rural areas, islands, and popular neighborhoods will be represented in governance.

Social, cooperative and wage-transmission economy

For Yes Breizh, this topic is important because it corresponds to our mentality. Thus, we consider that cooperatives, mutuals, employers’ associations, social enterprises and companies owned by their employees contribute to the anchoring process. A resource center, on the other hand, will offer legal engineering, financing and support for the takeover.

Additionally, Breton public procurement and economic aid authorities will consider the quality of governance when it produces a demonstrable benefit, without creating arbitrary preferences.

Entrepreneurship open to all

For Yes Breizh, women, young people, residents in rural and working-class neighborhoods, people with disabilities and people with migration backgrounds face specific obstacles to creation and growth. The measures will be evaluated based on real access to funding, three-year sustainability, and development capacity.

An annual challenge will support innovative projects led by underrepresented people, inspired by the Scottish Start-up Challenge. It will combine mentoring, first funding, networking, and access to buyers.

11. The competencies to be allocated

The program distinguishes what can be undertaken with current competencies and what requires legislative or constitutional changes.

Level of action	Main levers	Conditions
From now on	Regional assistance, training, guidance, economic land use with the local public authorities, exports, innovation, public procurement, basin contracts.	Coordination between five departments and agreements between local authorities and organizations.
Legislative devolution	Integrated management of employment and training, simplification for operators, increased investment capacity, economic adaptation and experimentation.	Transfer of budgets, personnel, data and evaluation responsibility.
Constitutional revision or European/national agreement	Normative power and economic fiscal policy, adapted labor law within a common framework, territorialized economic immigration, certain rules for ordering or providing aid.	Social guarantees, solidarity, judicial control and respect for the rights of the European Union.

For Yes Breizh, economic autonomy without own resources would remain fictitious. Conversely, fiscal power without discipline or transparency would be dangerous. The status must combine dynamic resources, equalization, rules for borrowing, and the publication of off-balance sheet commitments.

12. Eighteen commitments from Yes Breizh

1. Publish an annual economic diagnosis of Brittany in five départements, with the two statistical areas clearly distinguished.

2. Create a Breton economic service with a single point of reference and a common file.

3. Strengthen a Brittany investment fund focused on missions and publicly evaluated.

4. To accompany 100 SMEs each year towards scale-up.

5. Establish an anticipatory transmission plan and a temporary recovery fund.

6. Adopt a productive strategy around Brittany's missions ten years from now.

7. Sanctify the productive land that is useful and prioritize the reuse of abandoned land.

8. Generalizing the procurement diagnosis, the full cost and access of SMEs to public procurement.

9. Create Bretagne ‘Proof of Concept’ to link research, prototypes and companies.

10. Deploying IA Bretagne for SMEs and micro-enterprises, with cybersecurity and social dialogue.

11. Set up a Breton Conference of Competences and publish an annual map of needs.

12. Create a Breton professional transition account complementary to national rights.

13. Condition important aid on proportionate commitments to employment, training and transitions.

14. Launch a quality employment pact with the social partners.

15. Implement a sectoral export plan and the Bretagne Monde network.

16. Create Invest in Brittany, a common gateway for five departments.

17. Support cooperative economy, employee buyouts and underrepresented entrepreneurship.

18. Make the languages of Brittany a voluntary, modern and measurable professional tool.

13. Roadmap 2027-2032

Year	Priorities	Verifiable deliverables
2027	Measure, coordinate and simplify.	Observatory in five départements; audit of aid; single-window pilot; conference of competences; ten pilot linguistic companies.
2028	Invest and experiment.	Enhanced fund; first batch of SMEs towards intermediate-sized enterprises (ETIs); Brittany Proof of Concept; IA Bretagne; four pilot basin contracts.
2029	Change the scale.	Sectoral export plans; Invest in Brittany portal; transmission program; diagnosis of public and industrial purchases.
2030	Deploying in all parts of Brittany	Economic contracts covering Brittany; transition account; network of shared research equipment; independent interim report.
2031	Consolidating the channels and rights.	Second wave of productive missions; devolution agreements; integrated financing and skills tools; corrections resulting from the evaluation.
2032	Report back and decide on the next steps.	Public report 2027-2032; employment-value-climate review; counterparties audit; consultation on the new programming.

The timetable depends on available powers and democratic decisions. Each measure will be accompanied by a responsible person, a budget, a starting value, and a publicly adopted target.

14. Dashboard and indicators

Conditions of implementation

No transformation is generalized without a budget, a market opportunity, revenue and evaluation. No objective is imposed without a budget, a timeline, support, and accessible technical solution. No transfer takes place without resources. In the event of failure, the system is corrected rather than maintained for appearances’ sake. A code green, orange, red It will indicate the trajectory, but will never replace the figures and their explanation. A temporary increase in an indicator may correspond to a transition or to a better census: each evolution will be interpreted before a decision is made.

Domain	Key indicators	Methodological precaution
Employment	Employment rate, unemployment, jobs created and safeguarded, permanent contracts for twelve months.	Distinguish between gross and net job creation, deadweight effects, and internal movements.
Quality of work	Median salaries, accidents, absenteeism, turnover, access to training.	Compare by profession, size, gender and department.
Companies	Business creation, survival after three and five years, successful successions, SMEs becoming intermediate-sized enterprises (ETIs).	Exclude purely legal changes and double-counting.
Productivity and value	Added value, productive investment, value retained locally.	Adjust the amounts for inflation and distinguishing volume and price.
Industry	Jobs, openings and closures, consumption of land and energy.	Measuring indirect channels and transfers of activity.
Innovation	Research-business partnerships, prototypes, patents, young companies and license revenues.	Do not reduce innovation to the number of patents.
Competences	Inclusion, apprenticeship terminations, completed job transitions, positions not filled.	Follow up at six, twelve and thirty-six months.
Export	Regular exporters, new markets, exported added value, concentration.	Publish separately property, services and facilities.
Investment	Private capital mobilized, jobs created, local purchases, duration of the investment.	Compare ads and achievements after three and five years.
Transition	Direct and value-chain emissions, energy, water, materials and circularity.	Avoid the reductions achieved through relocation.
Departments	Disparities in employment, income, access to training, mobility and land ownership.	Publish by basin without stigmatizing small-scale operations.
Equality	Gender gaps, access for people with disabilities, diversity among the creators supported.	Use data compatible with individual freedoms.
Languages	Engaged companies, trained employees, real usage patterns, and commercial effects.	Measuring usage, not just the signature of a charter.
Public action	Timelines, management costs, payment rates, obligations on the part of the parties, satisfaction.	Have a sample audited by an independent authority.

The dashboard will include a reference year of 2026 or, if the data does not exist, an initial measure in 2027. The targets will be set after this consolidation. The results will be published in open data, with a note explaining the limitations and any revisions.

Conclusion — Economic power as a responsibility

A more autonomous Brittany will not be able to attribute its difficulties to the French state while claiming its successes. It will have to choose, finance, arbitrate and account for itself. Its economic policy will be judged on concrete results: more people in sustainable employment, companies that grow and are passed on, an industry that decarbonises, research transformed into innovations and territorial disparities that decrease.

The Yes Breizh project is based on a voluntary contract, but it’s not that complicated to implement:

• for companies: visibility, skills, financing, infrastructure and international openness;
• for employees: dignity, security, training and the power to participate in transformation; for territories: capacity for initiative and an equal share of investment;
• in the Breton institution: public responsibility for the results.

Economic sovereignty is not isolationism. It is the ability to recognize our dependencies, to protect our essential skills, to cooperate freely and to decide at the right level. This is how Brittany can produce more value, share it more equitably, and hold its place in Europe.

Mobilized resources and precautions

Transmitted parts

• Region Bretagne, Employment, training and professional guidance, initial budget 2026, Mission 2.
• CESER from Brittany, Industry(ies) in Brittany: what model(s) to use to enter the transition?, Synthesis, December 2024.
• CESER from Brittany, The future of work in Brittany by 2050, Synthesis, March 2026.
• CESER from Brittany, Employment-training dialogue, Synthesis, October 2023.
• Court of Auditors, Partnerships between public research and companies, Synthesis, July 2026.
• CCI Bretagne and Bretagne Commerce International, Breton companies in international markets, Edition 2025.
• Regional Chamber of Accounts, Metropolitan CCI Bretagne Ouest — Essentiel, December 2025.
• Finistère Department, RSA Action Plan.
• Yes Breizh, working documents Diverse employment and business opportunities, Business and Brittany, Entrepreneurs and the languages of Brittany and Yes Breizh questionnaire.
• Scottish Government / SNP, Growing the Economy, Government Programme 2025-2026.

Probes and checks before publication

Most of the data from CESER, the Region, the CCI Bretagne, and Bretagne Commerce International relate to the administrative Region of Brittany, namely four Départements. They should not be presented as automatically covering the Loire-Atlantique. The passages concerning the 44 are therefore qualitative; the consolidated values for five Départements will have to be produced before the next edition of Levrig in October 2027 with a uniform methodology.

Economic data is sensitive to revisions, changes in nomenclature and price effects. The figures must be periodically updated based on the data produced by the Insee, the Customs, the Urssaf, the Dares, France Travail and the relevant observatories.

Notes and clarifications

1. A study conducted by the ‘Bank of the Territories’ in 2024. ↩

2. Any creation of an observatory or agency etc. will have to be linked to the disappearance of at least one other equivalent public entity with the full reinstatement of the staff. Adjustments may be made subsequently.
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3. Successful experiments have been implemented by certain French public institutions such as the CEA (Commission for Atomic Energy and Alternative Energies) between 2002 and 2008. ↩

The thematic dossiers of Levrig 2027 by Yes Breizh

• 1. Statute, institutions, devolution and Constitution
• 2. Public finances, budget and fiscal autonomy
• 2 bis. Budgetary analysis France – Brittany 5
• 3. The public service in Brittany
• 4. Health in Brittany
• 5. Disability in Brittany
• 6. Education, training and higher education
• 7. Culture, languages and media
• 8. Breton identity, transmission and cohesion
• 9. Housing in Brittany
• 10. Employment, businesses and economic development
• 11. Economy, trade and mobility
• 12. Agriculture and food
• 13. Sea, coast and fishing
• 14. Energy, climate and the ecological transition
• 15. Digitalization and sovereignty
• 16. Security, justice and defense
• 17. Europe and internationally
• 18. Breton Diaspora and international outreach