ACHIEVEMENTS
Bricks was selected by the Government to complete two assessments of the skills and professions of the future as part of the AMI CMA component of the France 2030 recovery plan.
The first assessment focuses on the aeronautics component concerning low carbon aircraft, while the second assessment covers the entire space sector. To complete these assessments combined with a survey of the educational programs available in the Occitanie and Nouvelle Aquitaine regions, Bricks succeeded in mobilizing the entire regional ecosystem including industrial companies, schools and universities, research laboratories and government bodies.
The final reports will be delivered in June 2023. Then the educational organizations will take over to develop programs that meet the challenges and requirements identified in the assessments.
This year marked the completion of operations on behalf of the Campus des Métiers and des Qualifications (CMQ) Aéronautique et Spatial Occitanie for which Bricks intervened in two actions financed through the PIA3. The first action concerns the creation and running of a platform of alumni and foreign teachers who have either participated in or taught a course offered by a member of the CMQ. The second action involves the creation and implementation of intercultural workshops about different ways of working with the French and foreigners. The first workshops were introduced for the IUT Blagnac. Others will be developed with new training organizations.
Bricks also continued its projects abroad on behalf of leading French companies. First in Vietnam where Bricks co-developed a Bachelor’s program in Aeronautics maintenance for the USTH with support from Airbus. Bricks also worked with Bolivia where it supervised training of Bolivian air force non-commissioned officers at the UTC in Compiègne.
Bricks renewed its collaboration with the Space Command thanks to part-time secondment of the Bricks customer relations manager. His mission consists in supporting the CDE with the organization of in-house educational programs.
Finally Bricks has provided its support and expertise to all the departments in the Cluster through intervening in European projects such as Space2waves (providing export assistance to 30 European SMEs on blue growth), NovExport (providing export assistance to Latin America for European SMEs in data, space applications, the environment, agriculture…) or SMEs for Africa (support to 15 European SMEs which are developing products and solutions using Copernicus data and which are looking to internationalize, in particular in the African continent). Bricks was also involved in the launch and development of SCALE, a community of Aerospace Valley membership companies all involved in using satellite data to fight climate change.
Bricks also consolidated its expertise through supporting Aerospace Valley teams in two major hackathons: DefinSpace on behalf of the Space Commmand and ActinSpace on behalf of the CNES and the ESA.
OPPORTUNITIES
Bricks has launched a strong skills-focused initiative. From now on Bricks will ensure that the academic ecosystem continues to mobilize and work together towards the creation of new adapted, innovative courses. Particular attention will be paid to ensuring that the contents of the different training programs match the needs of our sectors in line with the assessments carried out by Bricks.
LOOKING BACK
After four years of virtual contacts and webinars due to Covid-19, Bricks was able to launch an in- person meeting with foreign professionals, members of the Bricks Community. This event took place at B612 with the “France” community and its members; Bricks was delighted to host Columbian, Peruvian, Vietnamese and Chilean alumni members. Other schemes should be launched to strengthen the bond between Bricks and its alumni members. Now the challenge facing Bricks is to develop synergies between Bricks Community members and Aerospace Valley members.
