
Aerospace Valley
Aerospace Valley
Overview
About us
Created in 2005, with today 828 members from both industry, including over 550 SMEs, and academia, Aerospace Valley is the most significant innovation competitiviness cluster in France in the field of Aeronautics, Space and Unmanned Systems, in Nouvelle-Aquitaine and Occitanie regions. With its ecosystems of excellence – Embedded and Communicating Systems, Structures, Materials and Mechanical Systems, Propulsion and Embedded Energy, Data Engineering and Artificial Intelligence, Industry of the Future, Aerospace Valley drives a supportive, competitive and attractive community, aimed at fostering innovation in view of growth. With 146,000 industrial employees, Aerospace Valley represents around 1/3 of the French aerospace workforce. Similarly, 8,500 researchers and scientists are active within the Aerospace Valley territory, thus representing 45% of French national R&D potential in the aerospace sector. As of October 2019, Aerospace Valley has obtained funding for 619 R&D projects representing an accumulated value of 1.6 billion Euro covering most scientific and technical fields related to the sectors of aerospace. Within the framework of the general French “pôle de compétitivité” program, which aims at stimulating employment by fostering local and regional competencies in technical and economic areas, Aerospace Valley strives to create an ambitious 35-40,000 new jobs by the horizon year 2025.
Since December 2020, the Institut Aéronautique et Spatial (IAS), aerospace industry agency for international professional training, has merged with Aerospace Valley. Thanks to its network of more than 130 academic, industrial and institutional experts, the IAS has accompanied more than 3,800 professionals (airlines, aeronautical and space industrials, space agencies, civil aviation authorities, armed forces, universities, laboratories or research centers) in more than 100 countries, proposing tailor-made training solutions and support services, in France and abroad.
Established - 01 January 2005
Staff in the management team - over 30
Support services for upskilling and reskilling of companies workforce
- Competence development
- On-the-job training
- Vocational training
- Mentoring
Cluster composition
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828Cluster Members
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555SME's
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100Number of start-ups among SME's
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56Large Companies
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22Research Organisations, Universities, Technology Centers
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195Other Ecosystem Actors
Aerospace Valley strongly supports the entire civil aviation value chain by fostering collaborative innovation, training, business development and employment. Beyond aviation the cluster is also active in the sectors of space (both infra and applications), drones & UAV, the defence sector, smart transportation systems or, more transversally, on embedded systems, ICT including AI, or industry 4.0.
Regarding European and international cluster cooperation, Aerospace Valley has been active consortium member of several COSME projects such as EACP-ABROAD (ESCP-4i, coordinator), EACP-EuroSME or more recently SpaceWaves and Space2Waves (ESCP-4i). Aerospace Valley strategically harnesses cross-sectoral and cross-border opportunities offered by emerging industries such as blue growth through its EU-funded (H2020 Innosup 1) projects NEPTUNE, GALATEA. UFO on or Small Flying Objects. The cluster also aims at facilitating access to global business. Aerospace Valley has also been member of Horizon 2020 CSA-type projects such as ICARe, RADIAN or Sunjet II that all aimed at fostering international cooperation regarding aerospace R&T.
Legal form of the cluster organisation
Languages spoken
Link to the team description on the cluster organisation website
Other label
Cumulated employment of cluster members
Management team
Sectorial and industrial focus
Sectoral industries
Sectoral Industries (NACE 4 digit)
Cross-sectoral industries
Industrial Alliances and Ecosystems
Technology fields
S3 EU priority areas
Key members
Profile name | Location | |
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Airbus |
France
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Digital 113 |
France
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Services
Support services provided
Support services for upskilling and reskilling of companies workforce
Support programmes
EU Programmes
Name & description
National:
- PIA: Plan d'Investissements d'Avenir
- ANR: Agence Nationale pour la Recherche
- BPI : Banque Public d'Investissement
Regional
DIRECCTE Nouvelle-Aquitaine : Direction Régionale de l'Entreprise de la Conccurence, de la Consommation, du Travail et de l'Emploi en Nouvelle-Aquitaine
DIRECCT Occitanie : Direction Régionale de l'Entreprise de la Conccurence, de la Consommation, du Travail et de l'Emploi en Occitanie
Project name
Former projects:
- THEISSUE (FP7)
- CARE (FP7)
- Apsat (INTERREG SUDOE)
- Agripir (INTERREG POCTEFA)
- CANNAPE (FP7)
- KIS4SAT (FP7)
- BeAware (FP7)
- SATURN (CIP)
- JUPITER (H2020)
- SPACE2ID (COSME)
- ESA-GDC (ESA)
- PERSEUS (FP7)
- ACCESS4SME
- ABROAD (COSME)
- RueAero (COSME)
- FabSpace 2.0 (H2020)
- Cosmos2020 (H2020)
- VIP4SME (H2020)
- MATHISIS (H2020)
- CAPADOCCIA (FP7)
- NEPTUNE (H2020)
- RADIAN (H2020)
- Sunjet II (H2020)
Ongoing projects:
- SURE 5.0
Cooperation activities
International cooperation
Targeted countries
Transnational cooperation
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Transnational support activites
International support activites
Participation at missions/events/study visits/fairsConnection to cluster organisation(s)
Profile name | Location | |
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NAE (Normandie AeroEspace - Defense) |
France
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Hamburg Aviation e.V. |
Germany
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CURPAS |
Germany
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si-Cluster |
Greece
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Space2Waves | |||
EACP | |||
ESA-BIC South France | |||
NEREUS | |||
EIT Manufacturing | |||
Association Française des Pôles de Compétitivité (AFPC) | |||
BOOSTER NOVA | |||
European Aerospace Cluster Partnership |
Germany
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