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MANUFACTURER

AIRBUS ACCELERATOR

PROGRAMME

irbus has selected twenty-two
Anew start-ups to join its BizLab for

the launch of the fifth accelerator pro-

gramme, providing a pla�orm to develop
previously untapped technologies and
ways of working in the aerospace sector.
During the six-month acceleration pro-

gramme, the start-ups will receive support
from an international team of experts from

various fields and have access to dedicated

coaching staff, networking opportunities

and co-working spaces.
Hailing from nine countries around the world,
the twenty-two new start-ups were selected
out of 704 applications from 59 countries.

One of the main criteria used in the

selection process were the synergies
between the start-up projects and Airbus’

sustainability, environment and innovation

strategy in the fields of reduction of emis-

sions and alternative propulsion technolo- on one of Airbus’ four BizLab campuses; formation of innovative ideas into valuable

gy, additive manufacturing, data analytics, Toulouse (France), Hamburg (Germany), businesses. Since starting in 2015, Airbus

robotics, smart protection and testing Bangalore (India) and Madrid (Spain). BizLab has used this “hybrid” concept to

systems and artificial intelligence. Airbus BizLab is a global aerospace accelerate 72 start-ups and 54 internal

The selected start-ups will join a unique business accelerator where start-ups and projects, which have raised a combined
consolidated global network and be based Airbus entrepreneurs speed-up the trans- (Euros) €23.5 million. Q
NEWS
AIRBUS TEST FACILITY

irbus chief technology officer Grazia Vitta-
Adini and Airbus defence and space CEO

Dirk Hoke officially opened the e-Aircraft systems

house test facility at Airbus’s Tau�irchen/Otto-

brunn site alongside Ilse Aigner president of the
Bavarian state parliament.
The test centre will provide a space to research

technologies for alternative propulsion systems
and energy sources - such as electric motors for un-
manned aerial vehicles, hybrid propulsion systems
and hydrogen for combustion or synthetic fuel use.

The building, which allows complete systems to
be integrated and tested, is the first test centre of Airbus Chief Technology Officer Grazia Vittadini and

its kind worldwide. Airbus Defence and Space CEO Dirk Hoke have officially

“The e-Aircraft systems house represents a real opened the E-Aircraft Systems House test facility at

competitive advantage for Airbus. With its 3,000 Airbus’s Ottobrunn site alongside Ilse Aigner, President
m² test area, we now have the infrastructure to of the Bavarian State Parliament. The test centre
move the transition to emission-neutral flight for- will provide a space to research technologies for

ward at an even faster pace,” said Vittadini. Q alternative propulsion systems and energy sources
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