COVID-19 Innovative Response Tracker

France's Defense Innovation Agency (AID) launched a dedicated call, as part of the government's plan to fight COVID-19. It relates to the search for innovative solutions, whether technological, organizational, managerial or adapting industrial processes, which could be directly mobilized in order to: protect the population, support patient care, test the population, monitoring the evolution of the disease at the individual level and the evolution of the pandemic, or helping to limit constraints…

The Hauts-de-France hub for civic, social and citizen engagement is an online platform created by the Hauts-de-France government and SiiLab which details all the possible initiatives in which citizens can get involved in this region. It lists the various initiatives, describes the problems that they are addressing, how they attempt to solve those problems, and how citizens can get involved.

France has launched a €7bn bailout to help Air France deal with the economic fallout, but with various innovative environmental conditionalities attached. The support will include a state guarantee on loans and a subordinated shareholder loan to the company by France. The money is contingent on the carrier reducing pollution by scrapping certain domestic flights, in which travelling by train is a viable option. Economy and Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire  said the coronavirus crisis provided…

The Ministry of Solidarity and Health (through Santé publique France) is publishing several COVID-19 related datasets on the national open data portal: 1) Daily hospital data by department and sex of the patient: number of hospitalized patients, number of people currently in intensive care, cumulative number of people who returned home, cumulative number of deceased people. 2) Daily data relating to hospitals by department: cumulative number of services having declared at least one case. 3)…