Why create a Pôle Pépite?
The Pôle Pépite is the result of a desire to build a university policy linked to entrepreneurship in order to..:
Facilitate the professional integration...
of students by revealing and developing their talents. Entrepreneurship and innovation are powerful vectors of professional integration for graduates, enabling them to acquire essential skills for their future professional lives. Our ambition is that every student should at least be made aware of entrepreneurship, and that they should also benefit, if they so wish, from appropriate training to develop their project from conception to completion.
Contribute to the dynamism of the economic fabric...
by enriching it with skills related to autonomy, innovation, decision-making and leadership. In the medium term, the aim is to encourage more student entrepreneurship initiatives in the Southern Region.
Pépite Provence - Aix-en-Provence
- Le Cube - Aix Marseille University
- 29 avenue Robert Schuman 13100 Aix-en-Provence
- 04 13 94 95 55
Pépite Provence - Marseille
- Ilot du Bois - Aix Marseille University
- 5 boulevard Maurice Bourdet 13001 Marseille
- 04 13 94 95 55
Pépite Provence - Avignon
- Avignon University
- 74 Rue Louis Pasteur 84029 Avignon
- 06 64 26 71 07
For further information: https: //pepiteprovence.fr/contact/
350
Student entrepreneurs supported in 2025/2026
32 000
Students introduced to entrepreneurship every year
40
Companies created per year
Our missions
Raising awareness
Students can take part in a wide range of events, including challenges, masterclasses and conferences, where they can meet professionals, students and young entrepreneurs who have embarked on the entrepreneurial adventure. These events can be a great opportunity to come up with new ideas or to turn a project into reality.
Training
PÉPITE Provence offers 2 distance learning courses on business creation, innovation and the local entrepreneurial ecosystem.
1/ Esprit d'Entreprendre module (MEE): students will have the opportunity to learn these key concepts during 8 distance learning workshops (zoom), at the end of which they will be evaluated during a final pitch/jury.
2/ "Becoming an Entrepreneur" module (MDE) with 24 hours of asynchronous online training.
Support
When the entrepreneurial idea or project is more mature, PÉPITE Provence offers specific support through a special status: the Statut National d'Étudiants-Entrepreneurs. This allows you to adapt your training program to suit your project. There are 3 types of PÉPITE program: STARTER - BOOSTER - BOOSTER +.
Booster and Booster + are diploma courses (DU) and " Starter certification courses (CU)".