The Best in Common
For its 2025 edition, the “Salon des Maires” exhibition is centered around the themes of community, cooperation, and shared resilience.
“The Best in Common” embodies a strong belief: territories move forward, innovate, build the future, and protect what is essential together.
It also represents:
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Collaboration between elected officials, local government teams, businesses, associations, and institutional actors
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The richness of co-created projects addressing contemporary challenges
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The power of the “commons”: housing, health, mobility, culture, nature, education, digital technology, security…
A Story of Rootedness and Renewal
Since its inception, the “Salon des Maires” exhibition has been the platform for territorial expression. It supports local authorities in the evolution of their missions by anticipating major transformations: ecological transition, longevity, attractiveness, digital innovation, resilience, inclusion…
Each edition resonates with the concrete issues faced by municipalities, metropolises, intercommunal bodies, departments, and regions.
In 2025, the exhibition is renewing itself to be even more practical, inspiring, and connected to real-world needs.
The #1 Event
Held alongside the Congress of Mayors of France, the “Salon des Maires” exhibition brings together all territorial decision-makers and their public, private, and associative partners. It is the largest national event dedicated to local authorities and local action.
1 450
exhibitors
62 000
visitors
500
speaking sessions
680
accredited journalists
79%
exclusive visitors
57%
elected officials present are mayors or deputy mayors.
3 exhibitions, 1 shared ambition
The “Salon des Maires” exhibition is held in synergy with two complementary exhibitions, offering elected officials and local decision-makers a comprehensive vision of concrete solutions to build the territories of tomorrow.
30th edition / 62,000 visitors / 1,450 exhibitors / 500 speaking sessions
Mayors, elected officials, technical service directors, development managers… key local authority decision-makers come to find new solutions for their projects and prepare the future of their territories.
Key issues: development and attractiveness, social cohesion, digital innovation, energy and climate transition, culture and leisure, security and prevention, environment, mobility, and planning.
2nd edition / 13,000 visitors / 100 exhibitors / 50 speaking sessions
Nature at the heart of territorial adaptation. This exhibition brings together all professionals for whom biodiversity is a strategic priority: local authorities, planners, urbanists, associations, industrial site managers…
Key issues: ecological corridors, urban renaturation, sustainable agriculture, ecological engineering, awareness.
3rd edition / 17,000 visitors / 180 exhibitors / 90 speaking sessions and demonstrations
The national meeting for sport for all, on every field. Designed for public decision-makers, federations, local authorities, and businesses, this exhibition promotes and unites all stakeholders in the sports sector.
Key issues: infrastructure, sport and health, connected equipment, sport tech, accessibility, sports economy.
A 360° Event Supporting Local Action
A sectorized and comprehensive exhibition
1,450 exhibitors organized around the main areas of local authority responsibilities : urban planning, mobility, security, health, energy, digital technology, education, environment, culture, development, housing…
The best ideas, practices, and local cooperation in action
Conferences, round tables, strategic debates
Awards recognizing territorial innovation
Start-up and local authority pitches
Training sessions and field testimonials
More than 500 speaking sessions in formats designed to inspire, exchange, and discover.
Areas to test, understand, and embrace innovations
“Vis ta ville” (“Live Your City”) : An immersive journey through emblematic everyday places (the connected town hall, health center, school, train station, cultural space, market, crisis unit…)
Demonstrations, scenographies, and simulations to concretely discover innovations and projects.
Directly linked with
the Congress of Mayors of France
The “Salon des Maires” exhibition takes place every year simultaneously with the Congress of Mayors and Presidents of Intercommunalities, organized by the “Association des Maires de France” (AMF).
Congress attendees can participate in the Exhibition and discover the latest innovations—all in one place, on one date, for an amplified experience.
