New Features
& Highlights of 2025
Highlights of the 2025 Edition
The Mayors and Local Authorities Exhibition marked this edition with special days and spaces dedicated to new themes.
The Social Innovation Day
The Mayors Exhibition 2025 highlighted social innovation, an essential lever for addressing the social and environmental needs of the territories.
The Territorial Innovation Awards Ceremony
Each year, the Mayors Exhibition brought together innovations and solutions for the future of local authorities. The Territorial Innovation Awards honored public and private initiatives that have concretely transformed the territories.
Climate Sense
Climate Sense was an immersive experience that plunged visitors into extreme heat of 50 °C — a temperature France could face by 2050.
It allowed them to physically feel the effects of climate change to better understand the urgency to act. A unique sensory immersion, blending science and emotion
Top Recrutement – Employment Day
This day dedicated to employment at the Mayors and Local Authorities Exhibition aimed to recruit, promote professions, and foster innovation!A key employment event where talents met their professional future with companies and stakeholders actively hiring.
The Public Procurement Awards
Organized in partnership with the Ministry of Ecological Transition, the Public Procurement Awards honored exemplary approaches to sustainable purchasing, as part of the National Plan for Sustainable Procurement (PNAD).
New Areas of the 2025 edition
Atmosphere “Longevity and Life Path”
Faced with land scarcity and the need for sustainable development, local authorities are rethinking urban planning through land-use efficiency, urban recycling, revitalized town centers, and peripheral area redevelopment.
Lab “Urban Renewal & Territorial Attractiveness“
Land efficiency, urban recycling, town center revitalization, and suburban renewal: local authorities are reinventing urban planning for balanced, sustainable, and attractive development.
Vis ta Ville “La Cellule de crise”
Designed to reinforce anticipation, crisis management, and climate resilience, this immersive space presents solutions, expertise, and tools to help protect territories and populations from increasing risks.
The Mountain Sports Refuge
In 2025, the Salon des Sports et Parasports (Sports and Parasports Exhibition) will highlight mountain sports to raise awareness of them throughout France and to showcase the unique challenges of mountain regions and innovative solutions to these challenges.
