Descrizione del progetto
Rafforzare l’eccellenza regionale nel settore aerospaziale
Il settore aerospaziale svolge un ruolo cruciale nell’economia europea, con un forte accento posto sulle innovazioni legate alla ricerca e alla tecnologia. Il progetto AD-ASTRA, finanziato dall’UE, si propone di sviluppare un ecosistema di innovazione interregionale connesso tra cinque regioni di quattro paesi europei attive nella promozione dell’innovazione in questo settore. Queste regioni sono l’Occitania in Francia, l’Olanda meridionale nei Paesi Bassi, Madrid in Spagna, la Puglia e l’Emilia-Romagna. L’istituzione di una rete collaborativa solida e duratura in seno all’UE che sia in grado di sfruttare competenze complementari ed esperienza a livello accademico e industriale contribuirà a creare una massa critica in un settore così strategico per l’Unione.
Obiettivo
AD-ASTRA (Aerospace Districts: Acceleration of the Strategic Transfer of Regional Advancements) is a project about the positive interconnection among innovation ecosystems, with a focus on aerospace sectors.
The proposal aims at the development of a connected, competitive, interregional innovation ecosystem between 5 EU regions (Toulouse, South Holland, Madrid, Apulia, Emilia-Romagna) with: a shared interest in fostering aerospace sectors, enhancing the cross-contamination to and from other innovative sectors (e.g. automotive, biomedical, agri-food, big data); different innovation readiness levels; aerospace districts with different levels of maturity and consolidation.
“Diversity generates wealth”: the collaboration of these markedly diverse regions, furthermore represented by partners from different spheres of the quadruple-helix, will be a growth opportunity. The establishment of a solid and long-lasting collaborative EU network, able to exploit complementary skills, experiences, territorial and industrial vocations, will contribute to create a “critical mass” in EU strategic sectors such as innovation and aerospace, where global competition leads to a confrontation with actors of increasing size and requires innovative models and approaches.
This ambitious goal will be achieved through an iterative process: starting from the collection, analysis and systematization of the experiences (competencies, technologies, networks) of the partner regions with reference to their aerospace districts; analyzing the future evolutions of the ecosystems, in response to technological, economic, political, and social megatrends; correcting or validating hypotheses and evolution models with the support of stakeholder groups; defining an action plan for the development of each of the regional aerospace ecosystems, valuing experiences and good practices stemming from other regions and strengthening spin-in and spin-out processes to and from other industrial sector and territories.
Campo scientifico
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Meccanismo di finanziamento
HORIZON-AG-LS - HORIZON Lump Sum GrantCoordinatore
40129 Bologna Bo
Italia