A regular dialogue was maintained with 81 businesses from Asia and Europe, which were actively supported through specific matchmaking successes, adoption cases or substantial resources which were invested in market access support.
Concrete industrial cooperation cases include the organisation of a Galileo Mobility Night with a pitching session for three EU start-ups back-to-back with the ITS World Congress in Singapore; dedicated one-on-one market analysis and access support for EU SMEs in Japan and South-Korea. These activities delivered encouraging feedback from the companies involved. In terms of industry support cases, the majority of companies involved were European (45%), followed by Japan (19%), China and India (11% each), South Korea and Taiwan (7% each)
Key industry stakeholders were reached through a series of over 46 industry events (self-organised, co-organised or attended), with in total over 4000 visitors. Key highlights include the EU-Japan GNSS Week (20 participants); the Galileo Hackathon in Bangalore (81 participants); the “Europe meets India Roundtable” in Munich (50 participants); the “Galileo & Smart RTK Hackathon” in Bangkok (50 participants); the MGA Conference in Bangkok (150 participants); and the Galileo Mobility Night in Singapore (90 participants).
GNSS.asia maintained and expanded its database of over 405 contacts with GNSS stakeholders.
A regular dialogue was established with 25 GNSS institutions in Europe, India, Taiwan, China, South Korea, Japan, Thailand, Singapore and the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs. This served several objectives, including support to European GNSS institutions to establish or develop ties with counterparts in Asia; the use of Asian GNSS institutions as multipliers to promote EGNSS adoption and the identification of market opportunities in Asia for EU industry. The institutional relations saw a particular breakthrough in Japan, India, Thailand and South Korea. This reached a culminating point in Korea.
Regular briefings and updates on market and policy developments in Asia were provided to the European Commission and the European GNSS Agency.
GNSS.asia maintained and accelerated the use of its toolbox to drive EGNSS promotion in Asia, including its multi-language website, newsletter, social media accounts, a flyer, a booth for conferences and exhibitions with a separate wall on Galileo differentiators, and a redesigned PPT template (branded with Galileo satellites). These materials include GNSS.asia and EGNSS success stories, and were adapted depending on the audience to include Galileo status updates or specific differentiators. Press clippings promoting the project’s Galileo-related activities received coverage from Geoawesomeness, Inside GNSS and Geospatial World. GNSS.asia was mentioned as an example of EU-India cooperation on GNSS industry in an ESPI research paper.
EGNSS promotion in Asia took place through relevant industry events. In the second period of the project, GNSS.asia self-organised 8 events, had a booth or speaker presenting Galileo at 11 events and was present at in total 19 events to promote Galileo. The two Galileo Hackathons in Bangalore and Bangkok reached 131 participants. Speaking slots were facilitated for the European Commission and GSA at key industry events.
GNSS.asia maximised the use of its local contacts and institutions across Asia to act as multipliers to foster Galileo adoption, whereas country teams in Asia were available for industry enquiries and questions concerning the use and features of Galileo. A case in point was the enquiry by MediaTek (Taiwan) about the use of Galileo in handsets for emergency calls, which was coordinated by our team in Taiwan.
GSA outreach and initiatives, such as the latest GSA GNSS Market Report or calls for interest have been distributed. GNSS.asia proactively sought to translate the GSA GNSS Market Report 2019 to Chinese and Japanese and offered local publishers its support with fact-checks of any use of the market report as a source for their GNSS analyses. Both activities thereby strived to maximise Galileo promotion and visibility. The results of this activity are expected in 2020.
