ESA encourages SMEs to work with space system integrators
9 May 2001 - 9 May 2001
Netherlands
The European Space Agency's (ESA) research and technology centre ESTEC in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, will host the organisation's 'industry space days' on 9 and 10 May. The initiative fosters exchanges between space agencies, established space groups and small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs), which it aims to encourage to do business with ESA.
More than 500 participants representing over 300 European and Canadian companies are scheduled to attend the event, dubbed 'ISD 2001'.
The key objectives of the event are:
- fostering innovation through exchanges between SMEs active in different fields of high technology, the large space groups and the different space agencies facilitate further opening of the European space industry to innovative ideas and technologies developed in other fields;
- fostering competitiveness through the discovery and use of skilled SMEs;
- diversification and new markets: by helping SMEs to diversify, initiate new cooperations and find new customers for their products and services;
- benchmarking and discussions organised in different categories to provide a forum for industry to express views, compare approaches to industrial challenges and to exchange new ideas and solutions.
For further information, please contact:
ESA/ESTEC
Heid Graf
Head of the communications office
Tel. +31-71-5653006
Fax +31-71-5655728
URL: http://www.esa.int(opens in new window)
More than 500 participants representing over 300 European and Canadian companies are scheduled to attend the event, dubbed 'ISD 2001'.
The key objectives of the event are:
- fostering innovation through exchanges between SMEs active in different fields of high technology, the large space groups and the different space agencies facilitate further opening of the European space industry to innovative ideas and technologies developed in other fields;
- fostering competitiveness through the discovery and use of skilled SMEs;
- diversification and new markets: by helping SMEs to diversify, initiate new cooperations and find new customers for their products and services;
- benchmarking and discussions organised in different categories to provide a forum for industry to express views, compare approaches to industrial challenges and to exchange new ideas and solutions.
For further information, please contact:
ESA/ESTEC
Heid Graf
Head of the communications office
Tel. +31-71-5653006
Fax +31-71-5655728
URL: http://www.esa.int(opens in new window)