Andalucía Aerospace recently held its General Assembly under the slogan ‘We have reached 100 members’. The Andalusian aerospace cluster, since it started its activity in 2018, has been growing progressively and steadily every year in number of members, reaching already one hundred. That is why the Assembly served to thank the cluster’s associates for their commitment to the growth of the association, holding an event in which participated some of the companies that have been part of Andalucía Aerospace since its beginnings, such as Grupo Sevilla Control, and others that have just joined, such as Safran Electronics & Defence. A very special event for the cluster, sponsored by Lamaignere and the Sebastián Almagro Foundation.
One of the novelties approved this year by the Board of Directors of Andalucía Aerospace has been to facilitate the incorporation of startups, to encourage and support the development of new companies, promoting their participation in the cluster community from its first steps. In the words of Antonio Gómez-Guillamón, president of Andalucía Aerospace, ‘the incorporation of startups to the cluster reflects a reality that is taking place in Andalusia, which is the creation of new companies in the aerospace field, and that will be endorsed with the launch in September of the aerospace business incubator in Seville. Our cluster will be open to all those start-ups that come to join the Andalusian aerospace and defence business ecosystem’.
The Andalucía Aerospace General Assembly was opened by the Regional Minister for University, Research and Innovation of the Government of Andalusia, José Carlos Gómez Villamandos, together with the Secretary General of the Confederation of Entrepreneurs of Andalusia (CEA), Luis Fernández-Palacios, and the President of Andalucía Aerospace, Antonio Gómez-Guillamón.
During his speech, Gómez Villamandos highlighted the role of the Andalucía Aerospace cluster as an interlocutor with the institutions of the Andalusian Regional Government, with which it works in close collaboration.
The Assembly was also attended by Carlos Maestro, Director of the El Arenosillo Experimentation Centre CEDEA – CEUS, who gave a conference on the CEUS project and the opportunity it represents for the aerospace sector. Its opening ceremony is very close to becoming ‘the largest unmanned aerial systems test centre in Europe’, as Maestro pointed out.
Andalucía Aerospace has established itself as an entity representing companies in the aerospace and defence sector in Andalusia. Among its main objectives are to strengthen the positioning of companies in the national and international market, increase their competitiveness, foster collaboration and networking, promote the development of R&D, actively contribute to the training of professionals in the sector and act as an institutional representative.
