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Aerospace Valley is growing
With 830 members, including the Basque Country Urban Authority and its accredited Technocité site, the Aerospace Valley competitiveness cluster links the regions of Nouvelle Aquitaine and Occitanie. This geographic area is the top employment catchment area in Europe in the field of aeronautics, space and embedded systems.
Created in 2005, the Aerospace Valley competitiveness cluster has the ambition to develop the competitiveness of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine and Occitanie regions in the aeronautics, space and embedded systems sectors at national, European and international level. Aerospace Valley is made up of more than 800 companies, research centres, training centres and the local authorities of these two regions.
The growth of the competitiveness cluster was presented during its 12th Technical Forum which was organised on 16 and 17 of last May in Arcachon. Today incorporating 25 French départements, Aerospace Valley has grown from 550 members - including 271 SMEs - in 2011, to 830 members in 2017, including 500 SMEs.
“We had an operating budget of €2.7 million and today we have more than 4.8 million” says Agnès Paillard. She has been president since 2011 of the competitiveness cluster, 62% of whose funding today comes from private sources. Ninety R&D projects have been launched and funded to the tune of €88 million since 2014. Sixteen European projects have also been awarded in three years and have enabled the innovative projects of around thirty members to be funded.
Within theBasque Country Urban Authority area, growth in the aeronautics and advanced materials sectors is also a reality. The development of the Technocité Technology Park is a good illustration of this. The recent opening of the Addimadour platform, and the establishment at the beginning of the year of Tekniaero, a production centre of parts for the aeronautics industry, and the construction of a new factory by the Aero Sud-Ouest company, reinforces the structure of this Aerospace Valley accredited site.
It should also be noted that thanks to its participation in the International Aeronautical and Space Fair, Aerospace Valley will be offering its members in the Basque country the opportunity to be present or represented in Bourget between 19 and 25 June 2017.
For more information: www.aerospace-valley.com
