COAST network members are:

AerospaceWales Forum HEGAN Adour Compétitivité BPS Europe

AerospaceWales Forum

Contacts :

  • Suite A5, Waterton Technology Centre, Bridgend CF31 3WT
  • Country: UK
  • Tel. +44 1656 655210
  • Fax. +44 1656 655217
  • E-mail : aerospace.wales@btopenworld.com

Aerospace Wales Forum was established in March 2002 as a forum to represent the interests of the aerospace industry in Wales. It is supported by the Welsh Assembly Government and the Welsh Development Agency and was incorporated as a company limited by guarantee in February 2003. Wales is a principality within the United Kingdom and since 1999 has enjoyed a degree of devolved government. The overall population is 3 million people and the aerospace sector employs 20000. Overall sales of the sector are in the order of €3 billion per annum and the industry includes nearly 200 companies.

Aerospace Wales Forum has been established to act as the voice of the industry in dialogue with the Welsh Assembly Government, to promote the sector, to support innovation, performance improvement and business development and to support the WDA in attracting new companies to establish facilities in Wales. The development of international links is seen as a key enabler to these goals. Aerospace Wales Forum is a member of the UK Aerospace Forum, a network of seven regional associations and is a regional partner of SBAC, the UK’s national trade association. Aerospace Wales Forum is also participating in the ad-hoc European network of regional associations established under the auspices of the AECMA’s AeroSME programme.

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HEGAN

Contacts :

  • Parque Technologico de Zamudio, edif. 303 – 48170 ZAMUDIO (Bizkaia)
  • Country: Spain
  • Tel. 34 94 431 70 21
  • Fax. 34 94 431 70 20
  • E-mail : jjuez@hegan.com

HEGAN In 1992, within the framework of the COMPETITIVENESS PROGRAM of the Basque Government, MONITOR-SENER was commissioned to carry out a survey of the competitiveness of the Aerospace Industry of the Autonomous Community of the Basque Country. In 1993, the Basque Government invited the companies most closely linked to this sector to take part in the Cluster. In 1997, the Aeronautics Cluster of the Basque Country "HEGAN" was set up with GAMESA AERONÁUTICA, ITP and SENER as founder members.

The aim of the Aeronautics & Space Cluster Association of the Basque Country -HEGAN- is to carry out as many actions as necessary to promote, encourage and foster the development of an industrial, professional, technological and research framework capable of providing goods, products and services for the aerospace market.

To do this, HEGAN endeavours to achieve the maximum levels of co-ordination and synergy between the different industrial, social and institutional aerospace agents, obtain the recognition of the Basque Aerospace Strategic Sector by the international community, contribute to the strengthening of the basque economy and favour the creation of highly-specialised jobs, the scientific and technical development of the Basque society and restructuring the industry towards activities that offer a more promising future and higher added value

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Adour Compétitivité

Contacts :

  • Helioparc Pau Pyrénées – 2, avenue Pierre Angot – F - 64053 PAU Cedex 9
  • Tel: 33 5 59 84 56 90
  • Fax: 33 5 59 84 88 88
  • E-mail : ac@adour.org

ADOUR COMPETITIVITE is a non profit association located in PAU in SOUTH WEST of France, in Aquitaine Region. Our goal is to encourage and promote the performance of SME’s in the Adour region by allying technologies, human resources and network cooperation across several industrial sectors. We have bridged the gap in meeting the needs of SMEs in the fields of technical, financial and human resources. ADOUR COMPETITIVITE has been created in 1994 at the initiative of BDE Adour, ASFO BSB and the CCI (Chamber of Commerce and Industry) of Pau, SW FRANCE. Some figures : over 350 members (companies, consultants and agencies), more than 400 services delivered to societies every year, fields of response (strategy, human resources, organisation, computer-aided management, manufacturing, quality, industrial technics,…), 3,5 permanent employees.

The region of Aquitaine is a major economic centre in space and aeronautic fields, a bridge between Northern and Southern Europe. Key facts in Aeronautics and spatial sectors : 25,000 employees, 230 companies, 1/3rd of the research forces, 804 billion Euros sales on export. We manage, each year, several programs supported by national, regional and European funds. One of them was about an European collaboration, an ADAPT program, between compagnies involved in aeronautic sector of Northwest England and region of ADOUR to develop opportunities to win business in new markets, with the challenge of globalisation particularly for SME’s. We have participate to the constitution of the cluster “SPL METALADOUR” which involves several SME’s in the aeronautic sector.

From 2003 to 2005 we have lead COAST with HEGAN, AEROWALES and BPS'EUROPE as coordinator to build the conditions of a trust platform between the partners and their sme's members.

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BPSEurope

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BPSEurope is thus a company specialized in the intelligence of the influence, at the convergence of three types of intelligence: human intelligence (the trans-culural interface, the management of international teams, the lobbying), European intelligence (information and strategic analyzes about European policies and projects, evaluation), intelligence in communication (virtual network, use of ICT like the videoconférence, development and animation of Web site). To look further into its expertise on the influence, BPSEurope develops various techniques of analysis and management: Strategic analysis & evaluation, diplomatic Management and marketing of influence, operational Marketing, Communication marketing using information technologies.

The expertise in influence intelligence includes several facets. BPSEurope has to be at the same time:

  1. a European interpreter;
  2. an inter-cultural mediator;
  3. an international team leader;
  4. a European promoter
  5. a manager of virtual platform for the project group co-operation.

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