Workshop with Member States/Regions

Synergies with ESIF in Aviation/Aeronautics Brussels, 3 July 2017

MoU Cleansky 2- Andalusia (Spain)

Carmen Sillero Illanes

Head of Strategy and Programmes Division Agency of Innovation and Development of Andalusia Andalusian Regional Government

The dimension of Aviation/Aeronautics in Andalusia

Dimensions

EFFICIENT AND COMPETITIVE INDUSTRY

TRANSPORT-RELATED

ADVANCED INDUSTRY

Priorities

2014-2020 Andalusian Government

full Commitment

RIS3 ANDALUSIA

ANDALUSIA INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY

OP ERDF ANDALUSIA

Andalusian Aerospace Sector Report 2016 (presented at Le Bourget, June 2017)

117 aeronautical companies operate in Andalusia

1,61% Andalusian GDP

2.400 turnover million increase 55 millions € 2,37% higher than in 2015

Employing 14.463 specialists 750 more in last year 5,26% higher than in 2015

Relevant Growth of Auxiliary Enterprises

employment: increase of 5,8% turnover: 11,8% higher than in 2015

New Agreement with Tier One: Airbus to work together in new areas: FoF; Big Data; IoT;

ALM; 3D printing; advanced manufacturing,

Airbus Group's Final Assembly Line of all military aircrafts are in Seville

Aerópolis Tecnobahía

FABLAB

Activities and achievements under the MoU

Sharing Andalusia experience at Clean Sky Forums April 2016: “Looking for Efficiencies: Synergies with Structural Funds”

May 2016: Clean Sky Round Table Boosting Innovation in Aerospace Sector in Andalusia Declaración de

Sevilla

Dual Use and RIS3

2 Workshops on Calls for Proposal Clean Sky 2,

Seville – Aerópolis: September 2015

June 2017

FoF –CFA CÁDIZ

Activities and achievements under the MoU

June 2017: Andalusian new Incentives Scheme

Specific line “Promotion of International R&D&I.

February 2017: Intensive and active work with Clean Sky Andalusia reached 11 Winning Participations in succesful proposals in CS 2 calls = 19th post in the ranking of 97 regions

April 2017, Agencia IDEA is designated ERDF Intermediary body. Andalusia Global Grant

Obstacles, Barriers, Bottlenecks…

H2020 and ERDF have different timing and structure, harmonisation of the calls is no simple.

Impact of the mismatching on the rules governing the application of H2020 and ERDF: State aid and eligible expenditure.

The concerns of uncertainty of our regional auditing authority in the fully application of the compatibility between ERDF and H2020

Entrepreneurial Perspective Policy Makers Perspective

Difficulties in joining the appropriate international partners

The budget allocated to the calls could be assessed in order to better cover the investments in technology the companies have to afford when addressing the ambitious challenges

Complexity of project management and the financial/economic justification

Convenience of aligning regional programs with CS calls

Question to discuss with our peers

How are the regions dealing with the application of State Aid

Rules, in particular the Incentive Effect, to national and regional

funding schemes? Must the companies wait until the submission

of their proposal to the regional aid application in order to start the works of the complementary activities?