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Our Hub Coimbra, through Instituto Pedro Nunes, is promoting a second edition of Product Assurance & Quality Assurance (PA/QA) in Space Projects, online, fully delivered in English. This training will happen from 10 to 19 of October 2023.

Main goal of the training is to detail PA/QA roles in space projects, including sharing of experiences, covering all aspects involved.

You can apply here until October 6.

At the end of the training, trainees should be able to:

• Appropriately characterise the PA/QA role, listing its main tasks and responsibilities;
• Clearly identify specific aspects of PA/QA role in space industry-related projects;
• Identify, plan, and implement in a structured manner PA/QA activities;
• Ensure proper control of PA/QA activities, making use of reliable tools and techniques;
• Ensure effective interaction of PA/QA roles with clients, suppliers, and other stakeholders;
• Assess the impact of PA/QA activities on the organisation.

Training will last for 30 hours plus a 1-o-1 session of 1 hour with each trainee, (DGERT).

More details can be found at formacao@ipn.pt.

Training will be delivered by Rui Henriques, with more than 20 years of experience in Quality Control and Management, 14 of those in the Space area; He is a senior professional in quality related roles, in AS9100 and ISO9001 standards (management systems, audits of 1st, 2nd and 3rd party, training, consultancy). Rui holds a degree in Industrial Chemistry from the University of Coimbra and Post graduate in Space Studies Program from the International Space University. As a consultant, he cooperates with many organisations and industries related to the aerospace sector, on missions such as BepiColombo, Solar Orbiter, Sentinel-3, Sentinel-4, Sentinel-5, ExoMars, EUCLID, JUICE, PROBA-3 and HERA, some of which are already in orbit. His work has been carried out in different types of organisations, from SMEs to international organisations.

Training will also be delivered by Nuno Silva, more than 25 years of experience in software and systems engineering, 20 of those in space and aviation projects at Critical Software; Nuno has extensive experience teaching at different universities, as well as several co-authorships in scientific publications, and a few book chapters related to Software Product Assurance, amongst other related subjects; He holds a PhD in Software Engineering from the University of Coimbra.

Training will also include as Guest Speakers Professor Maria Helena Fonseca de Souza Rolim, Ph.D. and Petrônio Noronha de Souza, PhD.

The generation of new skills for technology companies is being addressed from the requalification of technical profiles from other disciplines towards software development or data management to the adaptation of unskilled profiles to the demands of the current market.

The job search and technological talent attraction platform ‘Extremadura Tech Talent’ https://techtalent.oficinaparalainnovacion.es/ , launched by the Regional Ministry of Economy, Science and Digital Agenda through FUNDECYT-PCTEX, has obtained the distinction awarded by the Association of Science and Technology Parks of Spain (APTE) during its XXI International Conference, which is currently being held in Tenerife.

The award recognises the work of the programme, which was created with the aim of helping Extremadurians who live and develop their professional careers outside Extremadura, connecting their talent with the digital employment opportunities in the region to facilitate their return.

Since it was launched in 2019, there have been more than 700 connections between candidates and job offers in science, technology and innovation from companies in the region. More than 70 technology companies are actively participating in the programme and have already published more than 200 job offers through the programme.

It should be noted that, of the candidates who have participated in ‘Extremadura Tech Talent’, more than 200 are of international origin, showing interest in working in the Extremadura technology sector, and from places such as Colombia, Peru, Venezuela, Morocco, Portugal, Argentina, the United States, Belgium and El Salvador.

Companies and entities linked to the Badajoz Hub of the Novexport project have benefited from this platform for the incorporation of talent.

Here is a summary of the most outstanding activities of our Hub Occitanie in recent weeks:

METASTARS

METASTARS objective is to promote collaboration between European clusters to support SMEs in the aerospace and defense ecosystem (ASD) and increase companies’ resilience. The project will offer SMEs financial support to develop innovative projects and to benefit from services to adapt to new technologies, to develop or strengthen their green and digital transition, their innovation potential, their internationalization strategy, and the upskilling of their work force.

Want to know more? Click here.

PROTECT

Based on the results of the EU survey “Innovation Procurement of Climate Change services & National Legal Framework” two sets of workshops will take place in March and October 2023.

These two sets of online workshops have been preceded by a general plenary session regarding the challenges in each application domain during the high-level conference in Barcelona. During this session, moderated by CORVERS CEO (Stephan Corvers), the discussions focussed on sustainable and urban communities, in particular on the importance of waste management, which is extremely expensive and usually consists in burying waste, burning waste or transporting waste. Climate services (CS) based on Earth observation (EO) could contribute to provide solutions for these pressing issues which can potentially affect other domains such as Marine and coastal environment and Civil Security and Protection.

More info, here.

CALL OF INTEREST “Innovation and new aeronautical and space solutions for forest fire prevention, control and supervision missions”

The objective of this call is to bring out innovations involving companies and laboratories by confronting them with the practitioners of the prevention and the fight against the forest fires.

More info, here.

The ESA Space Solutions Centre Portugal (ESA SSCP) celebrated its 8th anniversary on January 12th. The anniversary featured a series of activities that lasted throughout the afternoon, including a presentation of the results achieved in recent years and the companies supported.

Founded in 2014, the ESA SSCP is a center of excellence that promotes innovation and technology transfer in space, through collaboration between the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Portuguese business, academic and governmental community, allowing Portuguese companies to receive technical and financial support to create their businesses using space technology. Over the past eight years, the center has worked on research and development projects that have contributed to the advancement of technology in Portugal and Europe.

The opening session included speeches by João Gabriel Silva, President of Instituto Pedro Nunes, Fernando Guerra, Head of Space Mission Unit Principal Consultant of ANACOM – National Communications Authority, Ricardo Conde, President of the Portuguese Space Agency, and Jorge Pimenta, Director of ESA Space Solutions Portugal.

This was followed by a Microsoft workshop with Inês Marques and an intervention by Roberto Cossu of the European Space Agency (ESA).

The alumni were present at the celebration to share their experience as ESA Space Solutions Portugal incubates, among them Localista, Eptune, GAS EXPRESS, OWL Our Watch Leads, VIBO, Neuraspace, Forja, Activepoin, and Allbesmart. The winner of the ESA Challenge Patent, Allbesmart, was also presented.

ESA SSCP was the first Space Solutions Centre of the European Space Agency to bring together the three technology transfer programs promoted by ESA:

• ESA Business Incubation Centre (ESA BIC), an incubation center that supports Portuguese companies that use space technology in terrestrial applications or intend to enter the commercial space market.
• ESA Technology Broker, an ESA technology transfer network that provides support in commercializing space technologies in non-space markets.
• ESA Business Application Ambassador Platform, a network of ambassadors that publicizes programs and supports national projects that aim to improve the lives of people on Earth through the transfer of space technology.

In total, over the past 8 years, the ESA BIC has supported 45 national startups, the ESA Technology Broker has registered 10 successful business support cases, and the ESA Business Application Ambassador Platform has supported 26 small projects.