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INDEX
• The Cluster
– Mission & Role
– Partners
– Path to excellence
• Networks and Collaborative
Environments
• Recent Projects
– Studies and Reports
– Other activities
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INGENIO Satellite (HISDESAT)
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CLUSTER MISSION
• Contribute to the development of the
aerospace sector in the Madrid Region
• Promote innovation and development of
the aerospace industry and technology
• Help aerospace companies get involved in
European projects
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Formation flying NH90 and TIGER (AIRBUS HELICOPTERS)
PAZ Satellite (CSIC)
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• The Cluster acts as the axis of the triple
helix model
CLUSTER ROLE
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CLUSTER ROLE
• Cluster role:
– Natural liaison of innovative companies
– Neutral liaison with universities and research &
technology centres
– Institutional contact facilitator:
• National Government
• Regional Government
• City Councils
– Members compete and cooperate with each
other
– Highly professionalized management
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CLUSTER ROLE
• Manage contacts with public
administration in different levels:
– National
– Regional
– Local
• Help external entities to:
– Identify projects of their interest in the
scope of the aerospace technologies
– Connect the appropriate
cluster partners
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CLUSTER PARTNERS: DISTRIBUTION
• More than 50 highly innovative and
technological partners
– 4% Public administration
– 26% Large companies
– 6% Universities & Research centres
– 64% SME’s
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CLUSTER PARTNERS: KNOWLEDGE
CENTRES
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Special Collaborations
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PATH TO EXCELLENCE. MILESTONES
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The Cluster
Establishment
2006
Awarded as Excellent by the Spanish
Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade
2007
2008
Registered as an
Innovative Business Grouping
First Spanish Aerospace Cluster awarded with the
Cluster Management Excellence Label Bronze
2014
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CLUSTER’S NETWORKS AND
COLLABORATIVE ENVIRONMENTS
• Partner of the European Aerospace
Cluster Partnership
– Network of aerospace clusters within Europe
• Partner of the Network of European
REgions using Space technologies
– Initiative by regions from all over Europe
emphasized in the use of space technologies
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Networks
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CLUSTER’S NETWORKS AND
COLLABORATIVE ENVIRONMENTS
• Participating in Copernicus Programme
– European programme for the establishment of
a European capacity for Earth Observation
• Member of EEN (through Madrid Network)
– European initiative, with more than 600
business support organizations spread over 50
countries, providing specialized professional
assistance to companies and research groups
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Networks
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CLUSTER’S NETWORKS AND
COLLABORATIVE ENVIRONMENTS
• Member of SME4SPACE
– Panel of SMEs Associations of the ESA
Member States
• Honorary member of SPACE (Supply
chain Progress towards Aeronautical
Community Excellence)
– Association with the aim of improve and
develop sustainably the industrial performance
and competitiveness of supply chains of the
civil aeronautical industry
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Networks
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STUDIES AND REPORTS
• Contribution to the 2012 h&z study:
– Study if the current state of aerospace
suppliers within an increasingly globalized
supply chain
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INTERNATIONALIZATION AND COMPETITIVENESS
OF AEROSPACE SUPPLIERS
Projects
Report Cover (2012)
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STUDIES AND REPORTS
• Development of the study:
– Analysis of the current state of such a relevant
sector in Spain and Madrid Region
– Development of recommendations so that the
Space Sector continue to be as important as it
is nowadays
– The study is going to be publically presented,
and published very soon
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Projects
EL SECTOR ESPACIO EN LA COMUNIDAD DE MADRID.
ANÁLISIS Y PERSPECTIVAS
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STUDIES AND REPORTS
• Collaboration with the General Direction
for Industry, Energy and Mines in the study
on the aeronautic sector within Madrid
Region
– Technical support
– Link between aeronautic companies and study
developers
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Projects
RAAF A330 MRTT refuelling two F18 (AIRBUS DEFENCE & SPACE)
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OTHER ACTIVITIES
• UAVs Working Group
– Fully formed by Cluster partner entities
– Study on the international regulation on UAVs
• Used as a base to make suggestions to the AESA
while developing RD-l 8/2014
– Study on the radio frequency allocation
towards the integration of civil Remotely-
Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS) in the
European airspace
• Ongoing activity developed in close collaboration
with the SETSI
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USOL K1-II (UNMANNED SOLUTIONS)
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OTHER ACTIVITIES
• Lean Management workshops
– Application of the Lean philosophy along the
aeronautic supply chain
– After the successful first edition, Madrid
Aerospace Cluster is preparing a new one
• Covering a wider scope, taking into account even
auxiliary processes that affects in the main one.
– To begin in January, 2015.
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Airbus A400M altitude tests (AIRBUS DEFENCE & SPACE)
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OTHER ACTIVITIES
• Finalising the setting of new working
groups and initiatives
– Embarked Systems
– Supply Chain
– Training
– …
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