Présentation
MAELE by Aerospace Valley (Environmentally responsible Light Air Mobility), an initiative launched by the Cluster in November, 2020, brings together a community of innovative regional players in the field of light, low-carbon air mobility.
Against a backdrop of major environmental and competitive challenges on a global scale, the objective shared by all players in the industry is to make France one of the most advanced countries in clean aircraft technologies, by preparing for the next technological breakthroughs.
The Aerospace Valley initiative strives to:
- To unite innovative regional companies, particularly SMEs, as well as infrastructures, schools, laboratories and research platforms, around regional integrators in order to produce the first national aircraft with a reduced environmental footprint;
- Create a genuine community dynamic to encourage exchanges;
- Helping these players to form consortia around innovation projects to ensure that they can build up their skills and win new markets.
MAELE has enabled 16 innovation and demonstrator projects to emerge, supported by the Nouvelle-Aquitaine and Occitanie regions. This initiative has helped to consolidate the French light aviation industry, opening the way to new aircraft manufacturers who are now at the certification, industrialisation and marketing stages of this new generation of aircraft.
MAELE is a coherent component of actions being carried out on the national scale by the Government and the sector’s representative bodies, which will be associated with the initiative in an advisory and guiding capacity.
MAELE is supported by the Nouvelle-Aquitaine Region and the Occitanie/Pyrénées-Mediterranée Region.