• Overview
• Data and Facts
• Sectors
• Services
• Members
• Location
• Technology transfer
• Research and Development
• Incubator and Incentives

Adress

Via della Conciliazione, 22
00193 - Rome
(Latium)

Telephone

+39 06 32885 -1/ -250/ -257/ -258

Fax

+39 06 96519957

World Wide Web

www.lazio-aerospazio.it; www.filas.it

Data and Facts

Key data

• Founded in: 2004
• Seats: 1
• Companies: 250
• Employees: 30.000
• Research facilities: 10
• Universities: 5

Specifications:

• Turnover: 5 billion Euros
• 250 significant companies from the different industrial areas of the sector.
• 10 Research facilities: Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI), Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Centro Sviluppo Materiali (CSM), Ente per le Nuove Tecnologie, l’Energia e l’Ambiente (ENEA), sede di Frascati (Roma) dell’European Space Agency/Centre for Earth Observation (ESA/ESRIN), Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Istituto Nazionale di Fisica della Materia (INFM), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV).
• 5 Science and Technology Parks
• Universities: 5 (La Sapienza, Tor Vergata, RomaTre, Cassino, Viterbo)
• 4 Faculties for Engineering, 12 subject areas and 30 study course programmes (first degree, masters, and doctorate) in the aerospace segment, numerous research projects run by CNR, CSM, ESRIN ENEA, IFN, ASI.
• About 3.000 specialists are employed including professors, researchers and other specialists.

Sponsors

Public sponsors.

Companies and institutions

In the region, there are aerospace companies active in the following areas: supplier area (electronics and EDP, flight electronics and communications) and services in the aerospace sector, in maintenance and airports.

Objectives

The DTA task is the promotion of stable cooperation between public spending and private companies in the research, economics and funding fields. Thereby an 'advanced industry system' with specialists should be built up, who are competitive at international level. This aim should be achieved by means of the following actions:

• Support of research and development projects, which should assist industry and, above all, the SMEs in Latium to play an important role in the goods and services market. These projects are based thematically on new technologies for materials, components and equipment in aerospace and for the development of future European satellite systems (Galileo, Egnos for satellite navigation and Copernicus/GMES for earth observation, environmental monitoring and safety);
• For the district and its members, a platform for legal and organisational questions will be developed, which standardises values, rules and modes of behaviour. Thus the close cooperation between demand, offer and research in the aerospace technologies should be improved. Mergers between SMEs and SMEs and large companies are promoted and also public-private cooperation in industrial research and test development;
• Assistance with application for European funds from the 7. EU-Framework Research Programme and for growing European investment programmes in the aerospace sector;
• In cooperation with institutes concentrating on internationalisation, DTA and the Latium Region should thereby be supported to foster contacts between Italian and worldwide CEOs. From this SMEs and the regional research institutes should profit: access to international markets, new strategic partnerships and access to new technologies.

Main intervention area:

• Aerospace industry
• Electronic
• Airborne electronics
• Information technology
• Communication

In DTA, many firms design and assemble satellites, solid fuel engines, parts for the Ariane and Vega launch vehicles and for launching pads for air-to-air and ground-to-air missiles and systems, sub-systems and components for equipment for air and space vehicles and helicopters. The DTA cluster coordinated by Filas is engaged in addition in European ICT projects and international matchmaking projects and the formation of cooperation platforms by extended and/or virtual enterprises (e.g. Space2.Land and Lazio Connect) and in international network projects.

• Foundation of new companies
• Enhancement of the competitiveness of companies
• Intensification of relations between universities and companies
• Build-up of new research activities
• Enhancement of the technology level of companies and institutions
• Creation of new jobs
• Enhancement of job quality
• Site support
• Attracting investors
• Economic exploitation of the scientific results
• Technological consulting for companies and institutions

Networks

• ENCADRE – Network of the European aerospace districts – is coordinated by the General Directorate for Companies of the EU. DTA belongs to the network MOU, which promotes cooperation between the European aerospace districts.
• ERRIN – Non-profit association with 58 European regions. ERRIN promotes the exchange of best practices and networking formation between the regions to promote the realisation of joint projects in the fields of biotechnologies, transport, energy, health, ICT, aerospace and financing tools for innovations.
• SIDEREUS – the SIDEREUS project is coordinated by Filas and co-funded by the European Commission via the Asia Invest programme. The Asia Invest programme is an initiative of the European Union with the aim of promoting cooperation between companies in the EU and Asia, to increase trade and investment between the two economic areas. The individual partners are: BavAIRia(Germany), GAIA (ICT Association of Basque Country, Spain), HBIC (Hertfordshire Business Incubation Centre- UK). Partners in Asia: ITSMA (Interact. Technology, Software and Media Ass.-India), CCA (China Consulting Association-China), TTC (Thales Technology Centre, Singapore).
• COIN - COllaboration and INteroperability for networked enterprises. COIN aims at planning and developing an integrated, open and flexible ICT platform and also producing a corresponding prototype. The basis for this is formed both by the existing research results from Enterprise Interoperability (available results of Enterprise Interoperability DG INFSO D4 Cluster, and, in particular, the European projects ATHENA, INTEROP, ABILITIES, SATINE and RUSTCOM) and also from Enterprise Collaboration (results available from the European projects ECOLEAD, DBE, E4 and ECOSPACE). An "Open Source und Business Oriented" platform should evolve, on which in secure and commensurate form, existing or innovative services still to be developed are drawn together and offered. The process described guarantees thereby the optimum combination of the services in relation to the respective business field (branch, size of the companies involved, openness and dynamics in the cooperation, etc.).
• AIDA - Computer analysis of the companies with the following contents: 1. Research programme and finance analysis; 2. Finance databank; 3. Direct activation of the online-access and training of the users.
• NEREUS - Regions active in space technology have teamed up to form a European network. The network comprises 22 European reigons in 9 countries).
• Filas maintains, together with the professional association, systematic contacts to cluster managers in international aerospace districts. Toulouse, Sophia, Antipolis, Bavaria, Hertfordshire, the Basque country, Holland, Benelux, Canada, Abu Dhabi, Morocco, Mexico, China, India and Singapore; new contacts are currently being built up (Japan, Morocco and Korea).
• KORANET - The European KORANET project is a research project in the 7. Framework Programme. It deals with an initiative involving 11 partners from 10 countries and the following aims: · Recognition and furtherance of a joint support schema for scientific cooperation projects; · As part of the IV. R&D Framework Programme, it is intended to promote cooperation between Korean and European companies · Stimulation of the cooperation between European and Korean technology districts.