
Aerospace Technology District
Distretto Tecnologico Aerospaziale
Overview
About us
The Distretto Tecnologico Aerospaziale (DTA) was created in 2009, today it count 18 members from both industry and academia. DTA is one of the most active Italian aerospace cluster organizations. Its office is settled in Brindisi (Apulia, Italy), while the cluster covers the Apulian region. With about 6000 employees (research and industrial), Apulia is the fourth region in the national ranking for the economic impact of the aerospace sector. Currently 8 projects nationally funded and 2 projects funded through FP7 and H2020 are on-going for a total value of about 50M€, they focus on research and development of innovative technologies in quite all fields covered by the regional system (innovative materials, production processes, propulsion, space technologies, digital innovation, ...).
As the regional aerospace system has weak ties with European and global partners, mainly flowing through the few largest enterprises, the DTA has the mission to enact the growth of the whole system, in particular in the technology and innovation competences and capabilities, so to reach the European and global level.
Five long-term objectives are pursued to realize this mission:
1) the development of local infrastructure nurturing European research and development initiatives (the Grottaglie Airport Test Bed, among others);
2) the diffusion of the innovation culture enabling continuous technology flow from universities to research organizations and to enterprises;
3) bridging the gap among education programs, research organizations, industrial players, governmental agencies and local and national governments;
4) the creation of high competent work force directly managing a number of initiatives and projects spanning from educational consultancy and internships to high education programs and long life programs;
5) the internationalization of local enterprises.
Established - 29 July 2009
Staff in the management team - 11-20
Cluster composition
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28Cluster Members
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12SME's
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9Large Companies
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7Research Organisations, Universities, Technology Centers
Distretto Tecnologico Aerospaziale strongly supports the civil aviation value chain by fostering collaborative innovation, business and employment. Apulia, the region in which DTA operates, is the fourth Italian region with respect to the impacts of the aerospace industry, in terms of employment and value creation.
As an example of success story, DTA was able to involve the local aerospace system, the regional government, the national government, the Italian Civil Aviation Authority, as well as other national aerospace players in the institution and development of a Airport Test Bed with the objective to foster regional and national aerospace industry. A segregated flight area was acknowledged for testing and certifying General Aviation and Remotely Piloted Airvehicle Systems.
Now, public and private national and regional actors are strongly committed to the development of the infrastructure in an european framework.
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Profile name | Location | |
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LEONARDO | ||
CETMA | ||
UNIVERSITA' DEL SALENTO | ||
AVIO AERO | ||
ENGINSOFT | ||
PLANETEK | ||
POLITECNICO DI BARI | ||
UNIVERSITA' DI BARI | ||
SALVER | ||
SITAEL |
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- PON R&C - Piano Operativo Nazionale Ricerca e Competitività (National Operative Plan Research and Competitiveness).
Regional
- Cluster tecnologici regionali (Regional Technology Cluster).
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On going National project
SMEA SIADD FLET4.0 RPASinAir TEBAKA CLOSE REDoX SAPERE Casa delle Tecnologie di Bari
On going EU project
S_User-Study (ESA) CORUS-XUAM (H2020/SESAR) ASSURED-UAM (H2020) Space2Waves (COSME) SkEye (IPA CBC Italy-Albania-Montenegro) CRUISE (ESA IAP) ECARO (EUSPA)
Completed National Projects ASIA MALET TASMA MEA MAIPCO APULIA SPACE TEMA SPIA DITECO MASTCO
Completed EU Projects PRACTICE - Provacy-Preserving Computation in the Cloud TOREADOR - Trustworty model-aware analytics data platform
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European Aerospace Cluster Partnership |
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