STAVE has performed a mapping of entities, in the 12 European New Member States, among Industry, SMEs, Research and Scientific organisms or Institutes, Universities and Laboratories,which have skills potentially usefull for Space Transportation projects in Europe.

This mapping is not exclusive to entities already working in the space domain.

The final goal of STAVE project is to enhance the capacities of the European Space Community by allowing contribution of all European capacities to the effort of independent European access to space.

STAVE has identified  existing skills and competencies and valorised them by recommended participation to Space Transportation projects in Europe (EC, ESA, National programmes, ... )

Goal:

STAVE project aims at identifying, evaluating and valorising the skills (research laboratories, universities, research institutes, SMEs, industry) of the 12 New Member States (NMS) of the European Union, in the domain of Space Transportation.

This will contribute to the overall objective of maintaining an independent access to Space for Europe.

Duration:

STAVE is a  Support Action started on 1st March 2008 and ended in May 2010

The 4 key points are :

T0 kick-off
T0+9 workshops organisation finalised
T0+13 collection of declarations of interest
T0+24 final result

Consortium

This team will gather European Space transportation scientific and technological needs for preparation of the future, in accordance with the existing National and European space agencies roadmaps. These needs will be presented to the New Member States (NMS) through a set of workshops in each interested country. The systematic use of the existing networks of National Contact Points (NCPs), embassies, agencies and institutional representatives, combined with website information, will enable identifying and contacting as many entities as possible in the 12 NMS.

Methodology

Who is concerned ? figure 1 oulines the 12 New Member States concerned by the STAVE project and the 3 Space Agencies member of the STAVE Project Team..

Figure 1 : countries concerned by the STAVE project

The figure 2 herebelow shows the 3 main steps of the STAVE project logic:
1 identify entities which are concerned
2 contact entities and give information
3 evaluate the proposed skills for valorisation in the European Space Transportation programs
in order to disseminate guidelines among eastern and western European Space Transportation actors

figure 2 : logic steps of the STAVE project

In order to be able to reach as many entities as possible, a two phase approach was chosen (see Figure 3):
1 contact official bodies (Ministry, Agencies) or well established networks (Industrial, Academic, ...)
2 reach the concerned entities (Industry, SMEs, Universities, Research entities)

Figure 3 : a 2 phase approach for reaching concerned entities

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Workshops: Once identified, the entities shall be invited to participate to a workshop in which shall be explained what are the technical skills which are useful for European Space Transportation programs. Then you can decide to apply and declare your skills in order to be oriented to the right program.
These workshops will be organised in each New Member State country which gathers sufficient entities for holding the workshop efficiently.

Evaluation: A multidisciplinary team of senior experts covering the whole Space Transportation domain, chosen among institutional organisations of the three partner countries, will then visit and thoroughly evaluate candidate entities with the aim of obtaining a qualified mapping of NMS technical skills applicable to Space Ttransportation. A particular focus will be put on novel techniques and methodologies.

Valorisation and results: Overall results and conclusions will be documented as technical guidelines enabling NMS entities to answer more easily to calls or projects from EC, ESA and/or multilateral approaches in the Space Transportation domain and to participate to existing or future Space Transportation programs.

It is envisaged that the first participation might concern research activities, when further participation could be more dedicated to participation in demonstrators design and manufacturing. The final goal is to be a full part partner in a future European large development.

Political context

The interest of the European Union on the space domain has been increasing over the last few years and today the European Space Policy (ESP) is a reality. The last communication of the Commission on the ESP, published in April 2007, which includes the European Space programme, recalls the strategic objective for Europe of an independent European access to space. In particular, preparing technological and industrial capabilities for the development of next generation launchers constitutes an important step in order to reach this objective. The Resolution on the ESP as adopted by the Council on 22 May 2007, following its endorsement by the fourth “Space Council”, emphasises the vital importance for Europe to maintain an independent, reliable and cost-effective access to space at affordable conditions and recognizes the need for Europe to take advantage in a coherent way of the launcher assets under its control.

The enlargement of the European Union to the twelve Central and Oriental European countries offers real opportunities in the space domain to reach and maintain an autonomous access to space for Europe. Up to now, no study has been carried out to identify the new Member States skills in space transportation. STAVE proposes to identify and valorise these competences in order to consolidate European independent and cost-effective access to space.

Last but not least, the Lisbon’s Treaty signed on 13th December 2007 by Member States representatives (still under ratification process) paves the way for a reliable European space policy where an autonomous Europan Acces to space becomes a reality. This European political context is sin precedent for the future of space.

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