
Pôle Mer Bretagne Atlantique
Pôle Mer Bretagne Atlantique
Overview
About us
By developing the maritime economy through innovation, Pole Mer Bretagne Atlantique (PMBA) is a Sea Innovation cluster that has a clear vision of the emerging maritime growth markets. Pole Mer Bretagne Atlantique is deeply involved in the cutting edge R&D activities of the maritime sectors and especially in topics related to Earth Observation. With a current membership of more than 360, PMBA possesses a substantial knowledge of maritime RTD capabilities and is willing to share its experience in order to consolidate RTD and business capabilities.
PMBA is a ‘triple helix’ based cluster that has been acting as a catalyst of innovation since 2005. To date, PMBA has certified more than 422 innovative maritime projects for a whole budget of more than 1.09B€, providing the necessary skills to confirm the powerful role of regional clusters in promoting innovation capacity-building.
Furthermore, PMBA with the support and expertise of the Scientific Interest Group Remote Sensing Brittany (GIS Bretel), host the Regional Contact Office Brittany (RCO) that aims to promote and support the development of maritime COPERNICUS 'liked' applications and services. RCO Brittany also aims at raising the awareness of these applications and services at the regional level. Overall the RCO Brittany, along with the Brittany’s region implication within NEREUS (Network of European Regions Using Space Technologies), helps to enhance the already existing regional COPERNICUS capabilities and skills and facilitate the development of maritime services for end users.
PMBA is a wordclass cluster labellised by French government
PMBA is Bronze graduated at Cluster Management Excellence Initiative (#FRA033201203PdC0218)
PMBA is registred to EC Transparency Register (#483615210369-78)
Established - 01 June 2005
Staff in the management team - 21-30
Cluster composition
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335Cluster Members
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220SME's
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30Number of start-ups among SME's
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45Large Companies
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52Research Organisations, Universities, Technology Centers
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18Other Ecosystem Actors
Participation to several European projects, in the following programmes: H2020, COSME, EMFF, Interreg France Channel England, Interreg Atlantic Area
Legal form of the cluster organisation
Languages spoken
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
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DCNS | ||
Thales | ||
Ifremer | ||
Veolia | ||
CLS | ||
UBO | ||
Telecom Bretagne | ||
ENSTA Bretagne |
Services
Support services provided
Support training services for cluster managers/policy makers
Upskilling and reskilling expertise
Support programmes
EU Programmes
Name & description
Project name
DORIS_Net ‐ Downstream Observatory organised by Regions active in Space ‐ Network (FP7 - SPACE)
JERICO - Towards a joint european research infrastructure Network for coastal observatories (FP7 - INFRA)
COPERNICUS - Support to the uptake of Copernicus services by users (ESA Call)
EMSAC - European Marine Science Applications Consortium (FP7 - RoK)
BlueBRIDGE - Building Research environments fostering Innovation, Decision making, Governance and Education to support Blue growth (H2020 - eINFRA)
MERiFIC - Marine Energy in Far Peripheral and Islands Communities (INTERREG IVa)
CHANNEL MOR - Marine Offshore Renewables (INTERREG IVa)
Cooperation activities
International cooperation
Targeted countries
Transnational cooperation
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International support activites
Support to collaborative activities/etc.Membership in cluster networks, meta clusters and national associations of clusters
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Seabed Mining Clusters for SMEs Internationalisation |
France
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Internationalisation & Diversification of European Earth Observation |
Belgium
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Connecting European Earth Observation to International Markets |
Belgium
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