ACHIEVEMENTS

The activities of Bricks (international training engineering and skills) and of the International Affairs Department were merged within the Development Department, thus providing more coherence and clarity.

In terms of Skills, aligned with work carried out during the last period on the AMI CMA section of the France 2030 recovery plan, Aerospace Valley has continued to ensure that the training schemes organized following the DACSO and DECSO assessments are clearly aligned with industrial needs. To this end, an audition process was designed during which the different project sponsors pitch their projects to a panel of administrators from the Cluster in order to obtain support from Aerospace Valley in keeping with a set of clearly defined criteria (compliance with the conclusions of the assessments, respecting industrial needs, innovativeness of actions, coherence with regional strategies and consideration of the Attractiveness section). Today, there are five large-scale projects (involving over 60 M€ in France 2030 grants) in direct support of our sectors which have emerged in our territories: Cometes and Biospace for the aerospace sector and Pegase, eOle and C2A for aeronautics. The purpose of the five projects is to train 60,000 people by 2030.

Aerospace Valley is also closely watching projects related to its core sectors that can meet their requirements (Osmose for cybersecurity, Cap-IA and EFELIA ANITI for AI, Genhyo for green hydrogen, Battena for batteries…)

In terms of international actions, Aerospace Valley has expanded its cooperation with the African continent with the aim of creating synergies and collaboration actions for its ecosystem. In particular, the Cluster helped an African space agency to define its skills gap. It also organized a matchmaking week with the Kenyan space agency with a program including site visits, company pitches, and BtoB meetings. An identical, equally successful week-long event was carried out for the Senegalese space agency. These actions should enable our ecosystem to better understand the African context, to promote our ecosystem and its companies, and to be better equipped to develop sustainable cooperation actions with actors from these areas.  

 

Aerospace Valley has been working since 2016 with HAL (Hindustan Aeronautics Limited). As part of this partnership, the Cluster created and set up a 15-day program including industrial site visits, workshops and conferences on production digitalization, SCM, lean management and market diversification strategies.

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Aerospace Valley completed its cooperation project with Vietnam for which a Bachelor’s degree program in aeronautics maintenance was jointly-created with the USTH for Airbus, concluding over 7 years of design and deployment with 180 people trained. At the same time, the project for Bolivia in which Aerospace Valley is overseeing the training program of Air force non-commissioned officers within the UTC continues to be deployed.

The Cluster also mobilized its expertise to organize hackathons through the European SCAIRA project and management of its Hack4Scaira event. The latter features challenges related to the issue of sustainable innovation and mobilizes over 100 participants in three European countries.

Finally, Aerospace Valley continues to support training organizations, members of the Campus des Métiers et des Qualifications Aéronautiques et Spatiales, through its intercultural workshops, « How to work with foreigners”, funded by the PIA3. Two new entities benefited from this action: IPSA and l’Université de Toulouse Paul Sabatier.

PERSPECTIVES

The activities of Bricks (international training engineering and skills) and of the International Affairs Department were merged within the Development Department, thus providing more coherence and clarity.

In terms of Skills, aligned with work carried out during the last period on the AMI CMA section of the France 2030 recovery plan, Aerospace Valley has continued to ensure that the training schemes organized following the DACSO and DECSO assessments are clearly aligned with industrial needs. To this end, an audition process was designed during which the different project sponsors pitch their projects to a panel of administrators from the Cluster in order to obtain support from Aerospace Valley in keeping with a set of clearly defined criteria (compliance with the conclusions of the assessments, respecting industrial needs, innovativeness of actions, coherence with regional strategies and consideration of the Attractiveness section). Today, there are five large-scale projects (involving over 60 M€ in France 2030 grants) in direct support of our sectors which have emerged in our territories: Cometes and Biospace for the aerospace sector and Pegase, eOle and C2A for aeronautics. The purpose of the five projects is to train 60,000 people by 2030.

Aerospace Valley is also closely watching projects related to its core sectors that can meet their requirements (Osmose for cybersecurity, Cap-IA and EFELIA ANITI for AI, Genhyo for green hydrogen, Battena for batteries…)

In terms of international actions, Aerospace Valley has expanded its cooperation with the African continent with the aim of creating synergies and collaboration actions for its ecosystem. In particular, the Cluster helped an African space agency to define its skills gap. It also organized a matchmaking week with the Kenyan space agency with a program including site visits, company pitches, and BtoB meetings. An identical, equally successful week-long event was carried out for the Senegalese space agency. These actions should enable our ecosystem to better understand the African context, to promote our ecosystem and its companies, and to be better equipped to develop sustainable cooperation actions with actors from these areas.  

Aerospace Valley has been working since 2016 with HAL (Hindustan Aeronautics Limited). As part of this partnership, the Cluster created and set up a 15-day program including industrial site visits, workshops and conferences on production digitalization, SCM, lean management and market diversification strategies.

Aerospace Valley completed its cooperation project with Vietnam for which a Bachelor’s degree program in aeronautics maintenance was jointly-created with the USTH for Airbus, concluding over 7 years of design and deployment with 180 people trained. At the same time, the project for Bolivia in which Aerospace Valley is overseeing the training program of Air force non-commissioned officers within the UTC continues to be deployed.

The Cluster also mobilized its expertise to organize hackathons through the European SCAIRA project and management of its Hack4Scaira event. The latter features challenges related to the issue of sustainable innovation and mobilizes over 100 participants in three European countries.

Finally, Aerospace Valley continues to support training organizations, members of the Campus des Métiers et des Qualifications Aéronautiques et Spatiales, through its intercultural workshops, « How to work with foreigners”, funded by the PIA3. Two new entities benefited from this action: IPSA and l’Université de Toulouse Paul Sabatier.

 

LOOKING BACK

Aerospace Valley launched a test initiative as part of high school internships, creating two pilot programs in Toulouse and Bordeaux. Two 11th grade classes (Lycée Kastler in Talence for Nouvelle-Aquitaine and Lycée Simone de Beauvoir in Gragnague for Occitanie) which had the opportunity to visit companies, schools and universities as well as research laboratories for 15 days and to talk with professionals about their jobs and backgrounds.

50 high school students visited organizations including Airbus, Dassault Aviation, Thales, Thales Alenia Space, Airbus Atlantic, Sabena Technics, and Capgemini, among others.

Aerospace Valley also showcased the research world through the ONERA, CEA Tech, CEA CESTA and by presenting educational organizations such as ISAE SUPAERO, Elisa Aerospace, ENSAM, and Evering.

This operation which was praised by all of the stakeholders (industrial firms, labs, schools, universities, GIFAS and especially the young people who participated in the program), was carried out in partnership with les Campus des Métiers et des Qualifications (CMQ Aerocampus for Nouvelle-Aquitaine) and CMQE AS for Occitanie and with support from GIFAS. Discussions are underway to try to sustain and expand this scheme, notably in more isolated employment pools. However, sustaining and developing the scheme requires financial support.