Contact
Knut Drachsler
Nobelstr. 12
70569 Stuttgart
Germany
+49 711 -687031-41
+49 711 -687031-55
drachsler(at)gps-stuttgart.de
Website
FAN - Future Aerospace Network
Cluster Description
Facts & Figures
| Number of companies | 10 companies directly involved and committed to FAN, but also all members (60 companies) of LR BW are participating in FAN |
| Number of employees | 13.000 |
| Number of research institutes | 5 |
| Other cluster members | There are six initiators of FAN: |
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Cluster Management
| Organizational form | Independent Profitcenter of „Forum Luft- und Raumfahrt Baden-Württemberg e.V.“ |
| Financing | FAN is financed by member fees and is also funded by the Ministry of Economics in Baden-Württemberg and the European Funds for Regional Development (EFRE). |
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Cluster Competences and Strategy
Strengths & Competences
Along the whole supply chain, especially SME have got a great amount of activities in FAN and therefore are an integral part in the activities of the cluster. Their potential and innovations have to be used more in the future for the aviation and aerospace industry with products varying from equipment, cable, sensors, electronics, and components to engines.
In FAN industrial members strongly interact with R&D institutions for:
- transfering ideas quickly to products
- generating scenarios and roadmaps for reacting on future requirements of the branch
- detecting research funds for cooperative research projects within the cluster members and also on European level
- supporting of recruiting
- pushing the strategical development of the branch in the region.
Science & Research
In preparation.
International Collaboration
FAN collaborates with:
- EACP – European Aerospace Cluster Partnership <//li>NEREUS – Network of European Regions active in Space (participating in topics such as: research - Earth Observation/GMES; Education, Training, Communication)<//li>
- European Cluster Observatory (Exchange of experience among Cluster Managers)
- Cluster-Excellence.eu (Doing Benchmarking of Clusters).
Main Challenges
- Future requirements for aerospace in technology and market (method: scenarios, roadmapping)
- Shortage of skills in aerospace (Activity: promoting an academy)
- Cross-linking companies and research on a global level (by: networking , platforms, international research programs, membership in international organizations)