With this acknowledgement, the Commission formally recognizes the EACP’s efforts to improve global competitiveness by supporting pan-European collaboration and implementing joint strategies needed to enter new markets outside of Europe.
[1][2][3][4] The EACP is a networking hub that gives European aerospace clusters a permanent platform for information exchanges, policy studies and mutual cooperation.
After a major kick-off event organised as part of the Le Bourget Airshow at the Canadian Embassy in Paris in June 2011, four technical workshops were held on either side of the Atlantic.
Placing particular focus on SMEs and labs, this was achieved through cooperation between regional aerospace clusters and the adoption of a harmonised agenda approach.
In order to reach a sustainable degree of competitiveness, the European aviation industry - from OEMs to SMEs – must take on an increasingly ecological and innovative approach.
For SMEs in the innovative and forward-looking green aerospace sector, a sufficient balance between today’s business growth requirements and tomorrow’s stakes must be found.
An initial study identified major technological fields which bear potentially high impacts on the European aviation ecosystem and were thus of significant relevance to all participating regions and clusters.
In order to gain an overview on the strengths and weaknesses of these technological fields in our regions, the CARE project conducted a comprehensive SWOT analysis.
The ABROAD operational consortium is composed of 6 core partners who have the responsibility of ensuring the project evolution in terms of activities, studies and deliverables.
This pool of ideas helps the partners to further their cluster management excellence by allowing them to pick the most transferable and best actions for individual (or common if possible) implementation.
The Global Aerospace Cluster Summits are very well received by the participants and there is high level support in the form of speakers and from the industry and the European Commission.
There is no funding for the GAC, but will continue every year with the commitment of the EACP, great support from industry and European Commission, which has enriched us so far with very good speakers and presentations.