International cooperation:
- Support to the management of the Chinese Galileo Center(Beijing)-Latin American Center(Argentina, Brazil)-South-East Asian Center(Hanoi)
- Assessment of Chinese-EU potential Applications GNSS market(Dragonfly)
- SBAS services (EGNOS like) in Africa: DLC main Partner of the Success EC financed Project: Interaction with Africa Organisations (ASECNA-RSA –ACAC…RECs)-Follow up of the activties of the Joint Project Office settled in Dakar-Participation to the Steering Committee…
- Industrial cooperation with Asia (Co-Coordinator of the GNSS.asia 1- EU financed project) in downstream applications: China, Taiwan, Korea, Japan, India.
Success aims at supporting the EC in implementing SBAS services in Africa .Extension of the Satellite based services over Africa is indeed a strategic partnership between EU and Africa involving number of Organizations such as the AUC, ASECNA, RECs, ACAC….Activities are very diversified and run from strategic support ,economic studies to the follow up of the JPO and technical issues
Main partner is FDC coordinator (F).
GNSS.asia in supporting GSA has the challenging objective of building industrial relationships with key Asian countries and, in doing so, contributing to European industry development and institutional interests.
Main partner is SpaceTec Capital Partners ( D), coordinator, and the EU Chambers of Commerce in corresponding countries and regions: China, Taiwan, Korea, Japan, India.
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Governance, capacity buiding, program management :
- Establishment of the Israeli R§D program in GNSS (Orientation of the call, Information Days, Evaluation and follow up of projects).
- Evaluation of several EU Public calls(GNSS-GMES-Marie-Curie grants)
- Cooperation with Africa (Success): EU-AU strategic partnership-Governance aspects: liaison with key organisations- Establishment and follow up of an African team steering activities in Africa(JPO)–
- Support to ENP South activities: liaison with ACAC…
- Support Education and Training in Europe in the GNSS sector (G-Train-setting up of a European master and Genius- emphasis on Professional involvement- Projects)
e-KnoT as an Horizon 2020 Project aims at strengthening the interaction between the areas of Education-Research-Industry in Europe with concrete actions and events for companies, students and professionals.
DLC is an important partner of a consortium of qualified institutions coordinated by Polito (I)
Downstream Applications Development:
- Reviewer(Document assessment and management support) of several Projects(Gacela, Seagal covering international activities in Latin America and South –East Asia respectively and EEGS,SIRAJ,ESESA projects linked with the evolution of EGNOS respectively in Eastern Europe, West Africa and South-Africa)
- Indoor Navigation (Strategic advice to the Private sector)
- Partner of the i-GOing EU financed project)
i-GOing FP 7 project (third Galileo call) demonstrated the benefit of Indoor Navigation based on Galileo Pseudolites.
Partners were INSITEO(F) Fraunhofer IIS (D),CSR (UK),Silicom(F)and i-Trust(L)
The French Government (Ministère du redressement productif) supported a follow on activity – Poseidon Project- aimed at improving performances in indoor environment
