Drone test centres across France and neighbouring European states have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for an international strategy for European drone actors. Partners include:
Normandie AeroEspace (NAE), Philipped Eudeline
Business France, Laurent Saint-Martin
Andualucia Aerospace Cluster Empresarial, Juan Roman Gallego
AWEX Almaty, Michel De Kempeneer
Skywin, Etienne Pourbaix
Cluster Aero-Space Technologies, Research and Applications, Vesselin Vassilev
Drone Think Do, Robert Delhaye
Hamburg Aviation, Ralf Gust.
The MoU signals a common intention to develop the sectors and enhance the value of SMEs internationally, in Europe and beyond.
Among initial projects is Prestigious, a European funded project. Inspection and Security Drones (Prestigious) targets two of the most advanced market segments with strong growth potential for European SMEs: Inspection and Security, looking at both VLOS (Visual Line of Sight) and BVLOS (Beyond Visual Line of Sight) applications. The project will focus on four non-European countries (Chile, Nigeria, Sénégal and Canada), selected to meet the needs and service offer of European SMEs.
Prestigious will implement four main actions:
1 First, the UAV value chain will be assessed in Europe and in the targeted non-EU countries to identify the strengths of European SMEs.
2 The consortium will organise three fact-finding missions towards non-European countries to establish cluster-to-cluster contacts and identify stakeholders / potential end-users outside Europe.
3 Individual support will be provided to SMEs in Europe and training seminars will be organised to transfer the intelligence gathered.
4 The consortium will prepare a joint internationalisation strategy and implementation roadmap to establish an ESCP on UAVs. Through these actions, Prestigious will support at least 100 SMEs working on UAVs in Europe.
For more information visit:
www.prestigious-drone.eu
