Iter Business Forum 2011
Manosque December 7 & 8, 2011
Var Accueil Investisseurs participates to the next Iter Business Forum 2001 in Manosque, in collaboration with the WOIC Iter and renewable energy. This event will include: an industrial conference with a plenary session and thematic workshops, Business to Business Meetings (“One on One”) scheduled on line by companies themselves, a dinner on December 7 for networking purpose, a visit of the ITER Site at Cadarache. for further details
Defence and security
The economic weight of the Aeronautics Space Defence sector is vital to the PACA region
as it is worth over 5 billion euros. The number of direct industrial jobs generated
by this sector is about 35 000 - roughly half of which are in defence.
The Var is France's top destination department for military personnel with 30 000 forces members and almost 10 000 civilians working for defence.
A web of technology SMEs (often spin-offs) has set up industrial sites around the main contract givers, who are essentially DCNS, CNIM and ECA.
The Var is France's top destination department for military personnel with 30 000 forces members and almost 10 000 civilians working for defence.
A web of technology SMEs (often spin-offs) has set up industrial sites around the main contract givers, who are essentially DCNS, CNIM and ECA.
Some of the firms located in the Var
- AERO13
- BMTI (part of the PIB group which has some twenty high-tecnology companies
primarily specialised in aeronautics and defence). - CNIM
- DCNS
- ECA
The Pégase cometitiveness cluster
The centre known as Pôle Régional d'Innovation et de Développement Économique Solidaire (PRIDES) by the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur (PACA) region was designated as a competitiveness cluster by the French government in July 2007. It houses the region's aeronautics and aerospace industry.Pégase has a set objective to develop a competitive ecosystem in synergy with the network of major industrial concerns research and testing centres and the web of innovative SMEs and potential partners in the PACA region.
The aeronautics and space competitiveness cluster has made it its strategy to forestall the development of society's air and space travel needs. Protection, surveillance, communication, goods and passenger transport are all constantly changing. They present real growth opportunities for the aeronautics and space industry.
Surveillance missions
Development of new cheaper unmanned aircraft, primarily drones that are capable of monitoring areas, industrial, cultural and natural sites.Intervention missions
Development of rapid reaction aircraft (drones, helicopters, etc.) capable of operating in inhospitable, polluted environments, or those that are inaccessible by land.Transport missions
Development of new means of cheaper, environmentally-friendly passenger transport (wingboats, electrically-powered planes) and new possibilities for transporting exceptionally heavy or bulky loads such as pipelines or bridge piers (wide-body airships). The airship's considerable accessibility enables it to come into its own in areas where communication links have been cut, for example by catastrophes.
The industry's key figures :- leading industry in PACA
- World leader for helicopters, satellites and tests
- 30% R&D
- 8 European-ranking contract givers
- Almost 250 PMEs
- 8 test centres of excellence
The Defence and Security Industry in the Var (in French)
the Aeronautics, Space, Defence in PACA dossier in French