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bavAIRia e.V.
Cluster description
Role
Description of your aviation region
Bavaria has a rich aerospace tradition, with 550 companies and a €13 bn turnover in aviation and space.
Vision/ Missons
Continuing improving the level of high-tech developments in Aerospace in our region to become the “Europe’s heart of Aerospace and Navigation”.
Year of creation
2006
Region
Bavairia, Germany
Facts & Figures of regional aerospace
Number of companies
550
Number of research institutes
40
Numbers of public authorities
30
Other cluster members
Airports & cities
Number of employees of all aerospace actors
38,000
Cluster Management
Organizational form
Association registered in Germany (e.V.)
Financing
Public funding from Bavarian state government (30%), membership fees (20%), projects (40%), and others
Main Actors
Main industry actors
- Airbus Helicopters
- Airbus Defence & Space
- MTU Aero engines
- Premium Aerotec (AIRBUS)
- Deutsche Aircraft
- Diehl
- Lieherr
- IABG
- MT Aerospace
- OHB Systems
- Lilium
- Volocopter
Main research institutes
- DLR Weissling (German Aerospace Research Center)
- TU München
- Universität der Bundeswehr
- various Fraunhofer Institutes
- Max-Planck-Institutes
Cluster Competence and Strategy
Product worlds
The Bavarian aerospace cluster covers almost the complete value chains in various aerospace segments. Bavaria´s strengths are the manufacture of aero engines, aerostructures, defence systems, “more electric aircraft” components, UAVs, electronics components, cargo compartment solutions, simulation & training systems, satellites, launcher components, GMES.
Cluster management services for members
- Networking (companies, research, and political sphere)
- Setting up collaboration between members and partners
- Access to public funding (regional/national, EU programmes)
- Internationalization support
- Direct advisory services for new technological development
- Support the implementation of innovative ideas
- PR and marketing support
- Organize seminars and information events on innovative and current topics
- bavAIRia trainings academy
Best practice of International collaborations of cluster management
- Funding member of the European Aerospace Cluster Partnership (EACP)
- Partner in the CARE Project
- Identification of reliable international partners and building-up relationships of trust
- Mutual host of delegations e.g. with Quebec, Canada
- European activities both on cluster management level (such as EACP) and for our members (ESA BA)
Contact Information Cluster Management
International relations
Stefan Rhein Rhein@bavAIRia.net+49 8105 27 29 27-38
- bavAIRia e.V.
Sonderflughafen Oberpfaffenhofen Friedrichshafener Straße 1
82205 Gilching
DEU - Germany- info@bavAIRia.net