Coordinates: 43°33′47.977″N 1°29′17.446″E / 43.56332694°N 1.48817944°E / 43.56332694; 1.48817944Aerospace Valley is a French cluster of aerospace engineering companies and research centres. The cluster is located in the regions of Occitanie and Nouvelle-Aquitaine in the southwest of France and is mainly concentrated in and around the cities of Bordeaux and Toulouse.The over 500 affiliated companies (including Airbus, Air France Industries and Dassault Aviation) are responsible for some 120,000 jobs in the aviation and space flight industries. In addition, some 8,500 researchers are active within the affiliated companies and institutions.The cluster's stated aim is to create 40,000 - 45,000 new jobs by 2026. Since its inception in 2005, the cluster has initiated some 220 research projects with a total budget of 460 million euros, including 204 million euros in government funding.The headquarters of Aerospace Valley is located in Toulouse. Chair of the cluster is Jean-Marc Thomas, who is also vicechair of Airbus France. Key locations of the cluster include:Aerospace Valley is a member of the European Aviation Clusters Partnership and of Institut au service du spatial, de ses applications et technologies..
Urban Air Mobility (UAM) refers to the provision of mobility services in an urban environment using air vehicles. As this important and growing domain evolves, it is clear that new operational concepts, regulations and standards will be needed, underpinned by existing and new technologies. The whole environment will need to integrate safely with manned aviation and air traffic control. This paper discusses the design of demonstration activities within the TINDAiR project (Tactical Instrumental De-confliction And in-flight Resolution), which is performing the demonstration of four UAM use cases in real environment, aimed to deliver strategic and innovative technologies that can drive competitiveness and UAM growth using an impact-oriented approach and to demonstrate the safe integration of UAM vehicles as additional airspace users.
InnEO’Space PhD project is preparing young researchers for a successful career by developing modernised and transferable PhD courses and learning resources based on innovation skills and employers’ needs as well as in-depth knowledge of high stakes and approaches of Earth Observation in many application domains. The mains objectives of Inn’EO Space PhD are to enhance and develop researchers’ innovation-oriented mind-sets and skills through Earth Observation, raise awareness about employment opportunities in academia and industry among researchers and scientists, tackle future skills mismatches and create new synergies between PhD students and researchers and potential employers. The first action has been to develop the InnEOStartech where the program was set for European PhD students with the aim of developing their taste for entrepreneurship spirit through idea of founding a company or designing an application. The second action has been to develop a summer school that delivered both technical skills and soft skills, thus providing all the ingredients for an innovation-oriented mindset. From these activities we shall develop a series of SPOCs (Small Private Online Courses) that will be made available to the community for further dissemination and exploitation.
Facing the challenge of the development of safety system for autonomous and connected vehicles, the close collaboration of different partners from aeronautic and automotive fields is a key. By merging the competences and different technological cultures, each partner will take advantages in terms of technical and economical performances. To promote this close collaboration of all the players in Systems of Transportation Autonomous and Connected, Aerospace Valley is setting up a collaborative project (STAC).
