Nouvelle-Aquitaine was the first region in France convinced of the potential of a drone sector, creating the AETOS cluster in 2010. Within a few years thanks to collaboration between public authorities, innovative start-ups and SMEs, industrial players and universities, new solutions have been proposed in this fast-growing sector, with countless businesses using drones daily.
So, in partnership with the AETOS cluster, the region is looking to bolster its support for the drone sector. Nouvelle-Aquitaine will launch at the UAV Show 2016 a call for Expressions of Interest entitled Drone City to make Nouvelle-Aquitaine the pilot region of the real use of drones in the city.
Innovation in this sector has become a key differentiator in attracting new business. The region has an ecosystem capable of designing, developing and experimenting new drone services in real conditions in urban zones.
This call for Expressions of Interest embraces a wide field of applications for the whole of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, the projects placing the city at the heart of these innovative drone practices.
By bringing the drone into the everyday life of its inhabitants, the region will become the biggest European center of ‘Open Sky’ drone experiments.
About AETOS: Created in July 2010 by a common initiative supported both by THALES and the Aquitaine Regional Council, AETOS aims at creating the favourable conditions for the development of the RPAS sector in Aquitaine. AETOS gathers a dynamic network of 80 industrial companies, laboratories, researchers, with a strong support of the public regional authorities. Thus, collaborative R&D projects can find highly qualified and trained partners among the cluster. Furthermore, thanks to the AETOS network, global offers, including several different systems and sub-systems, can be easily elaborated with only one contact for the customer.
Source: Press Release