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1 abr 2020
Space2IDGO, the fast-track internationalization project (January 2018 – March 2020), has contributed to boost European space service providers and application developers’ access beyond Europe. The Basque Energy Cluster is part of the consortium which has selected 13 European SMEs to export in 5 third countries. One of them, is member of the Basque Energy Cluster: Alerion. The project is co-funded by the European Union’s COSME Programme.
The Space2IDGO (Space Clusters International Diversification Go) project, is the second step of a two-stand process started with Space2ID (Space Clusters International Industrial Diversification) the first structured action for Space Service Providers and Application Developers to directly address the huge economic potential of several industrial sectors, carefully selected at European and International level with a clear “market pull” orientation. These sectors are: Mobility, Energy, Logistics, Creative industries and Agriculture (MELCA sectors) where the use of satellite data provides strong added value and accelerates the development of new value chains.
Space2IDGO has consolidated the ambitions to go international stronger and faster by proposing an innovative support towards SMEs willing to go international, helping to disseminate the added value of space data in MELCA value chains and developing business between European SMEs and new abroad partners and customers.
The Project, that ends now, has offered to European SMEs - in particular space service providers, application developers or working in MELCA sectors and looking to develop a service using space-based technologies or data-, a whole internationalization process in cooperation with Price Waterhouse and Cooper (PwC).
The fast-track to internationalization programmes has involved several steps:
The missions result to several meetings, either with academics, institutionals or business stakeholders, and were an opportunity to first explore a new country and to comeback with good contacts to develop partnerships and business. The results will be concretized in the coming months but promising developments for some of the companies can already be seen.
Thirteen innovative European SMEs were selected having benefited from the support of the programme, involving four countries: France, Spain, Italy and Greece, and five targeted country markets: United Arab Emirates, Canada, China, Chile and Colombia.
Space2IDGO: a cluster collaboration project
The project has brought together nine European Clusters, four of them are active in the space industry: Madrid Aerospace Cluster, TeRN, si-Cluster, Skywin, another four active in the MELCA sectors: Basque Energy Cluster, gi-Cluster, Logistics in Wallonia, Alsia and Aerospace Valley, the coordinator of the Project, which is active in both.
Space2IDGO is co-funded by the the European Union’s COSME Programme, the Europe’s programme for small and medium-sized enterprises.
What comes next?
The creation of the Space4Globe Partnership, in which all the Project members are involved, aims to foster the Space2IDGO initiative and to develop international activities supporting European SMEs using space based data to export.
Space4Globe will intensify the cluster synergies between space clusters and other sectoral clusters to implement a joint international strategy.
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