AAMI, Economic Expansion Committee of Val d’Oise (CEEVO) Sign MOU agreement “to Advance Sustainable UAM in France”

The Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty Insti­tute (AAMI) announced this week the sign­ing of a Mem­o­ran­dum of Under­stand­ing (MOU) with the Eco­nom­ic Expan­sion Com­mit­tee of Val d’rise (CEEVO), to advance the Urban Air Mobil­i­ty (UAM) sec­tor in France, reports a press release. 

The part­ner­ship aims “to lever­age the exper­tise and resources of both organ­i­sa­tions to dri­ve inno­va­tion, pub­lic accep­tance and reg­u­la­to­ry advance­ments in the field,” explains the release.

The two organ­i­sa­tions will focus on devel­op­ing pol­i­cy frame­works at the Pon­toise-Cormeilles-en-Vex­in air­port with CEEVO aim­ing to posi­tion the region as a leader in advanced trans­porta­tion solu­tions. 

The Île-de-France Region, Choose Paris Region, RATP Group and Groupe ADP launched an Euro­pean ini­tia­tive in Octo­ber, 2020, to pro­mote the French UAM sec­tor. This attract­ed 150 appli­ca­tions from 25 coun­tries, focus­ing on vehi­cle devel­op­ment, urban infra­struc­ture, oper­a­tions, air­space inte­gra­tion and pub­lic accept­abil­i­ty.

Jean-François Benon, MD of CEEVO, com­ment­ed, “This agree­ment will be one of the vec­tors for facil­i­tat­ing knowl­edge exchange between CEEVO, The Val d’Oise Eco­nom­ic Devel­op­ment Agency, Paris region and Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty Insti­tute by explor­ing use cas­es, while shar­ing tech­no­log­i­cal exper­tise to fos­ter the air mobil­i­ty decar­bon­i­sa­tion on both local and glob­al scale.”

Jean-François Benon

Dan Sloat, AAMI’s Founder and Pres­i­dent, added, “French avi­a­tion pio­neers con­tributed sub­stan­tial­ly to the progress of pow­ered flight in the ear­ly 1900s so it’s only nat­ur­al that France has tak­en a strong lead­er­ship role in this new era of elec­tri­fi­ca­tion. CEEVO is a wel­come part­ner in the greater Paris region as eco­nom­ic devel­op­ment is essen­tial to our mis­sion of broad pub­lic ben­e­fit and pub­lic accep­tance of AAM.”

Impor­tant fea­tures of CEEVO’s mis­sion include col­lab­o­ra­tions with indus­try lead­ers Air­bus, EHang and Safran Elec­tron­ics & Defence to devel­op inno­v­a­tive VTOL air­craft. Sky­ports and Green Motion have also part­nered to cre­ate ver­ti­ports and charg­ing sys­tems. Via work­ing along­side Air France and CAE, this Group is involved with the inte­gra­tion and main­te­nance of future UAM sys­tems.

CEEVO also col­lab­o­rates with ENAC and Thales SIX on the advance­ment of air traf­fic man­age­ment sys­tems, part­ner­ing with UC Berke­ley and École Poly­tech­nique to research solu­tions for social and envi­ron­men­tal chal­lenges.

For more infor­ma­tion

https://aaminstitute.org

https://www.ceevo95.fr/en

(Top image: AAMI and CEEVO)

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