FabSpace 2.0: Access to open data (open data) with an emphasis on satellite navigation and earth observation, to open software (open software) for their processing, to educational materials (MOOCS) and other tools that allow collaboration and open exchange to highlight social challenges and ideas and to address them and therefore innovation, seeks European κοινοπραξία, με τη συμμετοχή του si-Cluster, με την ανάπτυξη της platforms FabSpace 2.0, in the eponymous project co-financed by the EE Horizon 2020 Program and launched in March at the headquarters of the coordinator, Paul Sabatier University, in Toulouse.
FabSpace 2.0 seeks to bring together civil society, industry, the academic and research community and the public sector, in a region research with a high expected socio-economic impact.
Το FabSpace 2.0 στοχεύει, μεταξύ άλλων και, στη δημιουργία 13 Κέντρων Ανοικτής Καινοτομίας (Open Innovation Centres) σε πανεπιστήμια της Ευρώπης, μεταξύ των οποίων και στο Εθνικό Μετσόβιο Πολυτεχνείο σε στενή συνεργασία με τις επιχειρήσεις και τους δημόσιους φορείς. Τα Κέντρα Ανοικτής Καινοτομίας θα παρέχουν free services a one-stop shop for students, researchers and the general public, giving access to a range of materials, tools, machines and data with the aim of creating new innovative applications.
Within the three-year duration of the project, training seminars for students and researchers will also be carried out, 18 hackathons will be organized at local level and 3 at European level to develop new applications that will help to enhance the entrepreneurship of the domestic space industry .
Corallia, the helper of the si-Cluster, is responsible for organizing all the hackathons that will highlight the best ideas that can be transformed into business. The NTUA is responsible for the operation of the Greek Open Innovation Center and the access of students and researchers to the tools and the training it will provide, while the Greek company Terra Spatium will contribute to the development of the platform.
The following organizations are also involved in the project: University Paul Sabatier Toulouse, Aerospace Valley, University Degli Studi Di Roma Torvergata, ESA BIC Lazio, University De Liege, WSl – ESA BIC Wallonie Redu, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, ESA Bic Darmstadt, Politechnika Warszawska, Opegieka, EBG.
Dr. Jorge Sanchez, Corallia's CSFO and Si-Cluster BoD member said: "A major success factor for an innovation is the effective and comprehensive coverage of a need at the right time, as well as the time required to conceive the idea until it is implemented. With Open Innovation Platforms, such as FabLabs, open data and processes such as hackathons, we are trying to speed up business discovery and innovation to an extent that was not possible a few years ago. With the Greek FabSpace, we estimate that we will help train many students from all Greek universities, create new innovations and startups based on space technologies and applications, and create many new highly skilled jobs. "
O Dr. Dimitrios Soundris, a professor of the NTUA and a member of the Si-Cluster Board, said: "The support of innovation through multiple strategies and actions as reflected in the framework of the European Union Horizon 2020 have the final goal of the effective connection and cooperation of industry, small and medium-sized enterprises, academic institutions, as well as public and private policy-making and/or implementation organizations. In the context of FabSpace, EMTU will carry out actions for the information and training of young scientists but also their active participation in activities where a realistic connection will be made with all the above components of innovation, with the final goal of a more holistic and global understanding of today's and future working conditions".
Mr. Evangelos Veronikatis, Chairman and Managing Director of Terra Spatium SA and member of the Board of Directors. of EBIDITE, said that "Greek FabSpace is a sustainable development lever and a springboard for actions leading to innovation and modernization. The partnership of universities with private and public bodies is the cradle for business development in our country. Terra Spatium SA is always a supporter of such actions and strongly supports these efforts. "
