SAFE Cluster

Cluster description

Role
Description of your aviation region

SAFE is a key player and innovation Cluster in the south eastern part of France in the Aeronautics and Space sectors. Very active in Environmental Resilience as well as in Defence, SAFE is also the leading Security cluster at national level, gathering abo

Vision/ Missons

Leveraging low-carbon fuels, aerostatic lift, and electric aviation to achieve zero-carbon flight—spanning helicopters, airships, drones, and light aircraft—while minimizing emissions across their entire lifecycle.

Year of creation

2016

Region

Aix-en-Provence, Toulon and Sophia-Antipolis

Facts & Figures of regional aerospace
Number of companies

200

Number of research institutes

4

Numbers of public authorities

1

Number of employees of all aerospace actors

25,000+

Cluster Management
Organizational form

Association/non-profit SME

Financing

Public/private

Main Actors
Main industry actors
  • Thales Alenia Space (TAS)
  • Airbus Helicopters
  • Guimbal
  • Safran
  • Dassault
  • ADS 
Main research institutes
  • EAE (Air & Space School)
  • CEA - INRIA
  • CNRS and AMU with related laboratories
  • ONERA 

Cluster Competence and Strategy

Product worlds
  • Environmental performance (decarbonisation process)
  • Innovation (rotating canopies & supply chain)
  • Open innovation
  • MRO
  • Aircraft systems
  • Low carbon light aviation
  • Energy Aerodrome Strategy 
Cluster management services for members
  • Europe & international (several ongoing EU projects managed by SAFE)
  • Business Growth
  • Technological sourcing & experiments
  • Employment and training
  • Event and ecosystem networking - AEROSUD
  • Network promotion
  • Information system/cybersecurity
Best practice of International collaborations of cluster management
  • Member of Ensure Collaborative (Clusters network in security)
  • Member of ENDR (Clusters network in Defence)
  • Very active in European projects with expertise in FSTP/cascade funding 

Contact Information Cluster Management

Director / President
International relations
  • SAFE Cluster

  • Bâtiment Henri Poincaré – Domaine du Petit Arbois – Avenue Louis Philibert BP 100028
    13545 Aix en Provence CEDEX
    FRA - France

  • contact@safecluster.com
Get in touch with us

E-mail: info@eacp-aero.eu

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