ENCARDE

Contractor	European Commission (EU)

Title	ENCADRE – European Network of SatNav/Space Clusters for Application
	Development

Duration	Ongoing

Objectives	The aim of ENCADRE is to create significant
	added value from space and satellite navigation technologies for
	terrestrial applications and services. INI-Novation joined the
	consortium by signing an MoU on November 24th, 2007. The purpose
	of this MOU is to establish an informal European Platform to support
	the creation of a market strategy in the field of satellite based
	applications in general, but also in relation to Galileo, Europe’s own
	Global Navigation Satellite System. More specifically it will offer broad
	support for the creation of added value from space and satellite
	(navigation) technologies for terrestrial applications and services.
	To support this joint broadthinking in Europe a technology transfer
	programme will be established that will include a series of workshops
	across Europe.

Activities	INI-Novation will support the ENCADRE workshops which aim to:
	• Disseminate market opportunities for applications and services
	based on space technologies and global navigation satellite systems
	(GNSS) and other kind of electromagnetic or optical signals for potential
	users in non-space related markets
	• Assist solution developers in understanding the potential of the
	technologies, including the relation to competing ones, and/or their
	technological details;
	• Raise [demand expectation] with the solution developers' customers,
	ideally through an integrated approach encompassing the preceding bullet point;
	• Raise knowledge and understanding about the potential of the technology,
	and competing technologies, and complementary actors such as the media
	and financiers;


Participants	Veneta Ivanova
	Wolfgang Kniejski
	Kathrin Albert

Results	The MoU was signed by INI-Novation representatives
	on November 24th, 2007, in Leiden, The Netherlands