Situated in southwestern France, Nouvelle-Aquitaine is a region synonymous with innovation, economic dynamism, and strategic support for development. As a key regional funder, Nouvelle-Aquitaine actively invests in fostering growth, supporting businesses, and enhancing the competitiveness of its industries. With a commitment to sustainable economic progress, the region provides a range of financial tools to promote research, innovation, and job creation.
Nouvelle-Aquitaine boasts a rich tradition and expertise in the aerospace sector, making it one of Europe’s leading regions for aeronautics and space. With cities like Bordeaux at its core, the region is home to world-class industry leaders, pioneering SMEs, and research institutions driving cutting-edge advancements in aerospace technology. Major companies, including Dassault Aviation, Safran, and Thales, anchor this thriving ecosystem, supported by a robust network of subcontractors and innovation hubs.
S3 Nouvelle-Aquitaine is linked to the sectors of excellence of the Regional Scheme for Economic Development, Innovation and Internationalization. 12 sectors have been labeled S3, including the Aeronautics and Space Defense (ASD) sector.
List of S3 sectors:
- Transversal actions
- Agrifood Agriculture
- Health, silver economy and well-being
- Chemistry and materials
- Photonics and microwave
- Land mobility: automobile-vehicles, railway industry
- Aeronautics Space Defense
- Digital
- Durable construction
- Leather, luxury, textiles and crafts
In bold are the main sectors that are targeted by the S3 in Nouvelle-Aquitaine for the Aeronautic sector.
Nouvelle-Aquitaine region developed a specific roadmap for Aeronautics Space Defence called the “Plan Maryse Bastié”. As the Nouvelle-Aquitaine Region has the strengths, skills and means necessary to position itself on these major challenges and establish its position of excellence, particularly around the themes of maintenance and maintenance in operational conditions, aircraft interior fittings, more electric and hybrid aircraft, high performance materials and 3D printing, etc.
With this new roadmap, the ambition of Nouvelle-Aquitaine is to put in place, on its territory, the conditions for reinventing the value chain for an open-ended, innovative, agile and sustainable Aeronautics and Space sector. Thus, the Region continues its support strategy for this priority sector identified in its SRDEII around strong axes broken down into action projects:
• Success for growth, business and value chain consolidation,
• Excellence in its national, European and international positioning,
• Talents to attract, anchor talents and open up to new profiles
• Dynamism in the animation of its innovation ecosystem to promote the opening of the sector.
As a result of the previous roadmap, between 2019 and 2022, the new Aquitaine region has invested more than 105 million euros, which represents 26 million euros per year for more than 120 funded proposal
Documents:
Plan Maryse Bastié (in process of update and signature for 2023): https://www.cap-metiers.pro/actualites/21586/Plan-Maryse-Bastie-2022-fi…
Electronic roadmap: https://entreprises.nouvelle-aquitaine.fr/actualites/une-feuille-de-rou…