ASTech Paris Region’s Post

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Inflation is a sector that's very crucial both to the French economy and to the Dutch economy, and innovation and aviation is very important to reach our climate goals. So I hope that this mission will be able to build bridges and foster connections in the field of sustainable aviation. This is a very complicated topic because a lot of developments are currently taking place. We do not know yet if everything will, let's say, be successful, and your objective is to get as much as possible information so that we can. And plans together, if we do not make a plan, we are part of somebody else's plan. So that's the reason why we want to do this together. If you look at the two countries, we really have a lot of the key players that need to make this transition happen. So something that France has that we miss in the Netherlands is a aircraft thing, engine manufacturer. And that will be a part of this mission as well to, to go and visit Saffron. We need to work together with, for example, the Ministry of Economic Affairs with also with the Ministry of Climate and Green Growth. But also with industry and knowledge partners and of course, other countries, because we cannot do this alone as the Netherlands, we have to do this together with partners like France. Another example for our close collaboration is the innovation pack that we have with France. And we look forward to bringing together all relevant sectors in order to stimulate flying on sulfur hydrogen in the future. We started 15 years ago and now we are on the moment that we really do scale up and to meet together with different countries, different solutions and I'm really looking forward to the next two days to find out what is possible here. It's essential to be part of this mission because we aim to bridge the gap between fundamental research and practical applications. To develop green alternatives to kerosene as energy carrier is very complex, but it's urgent, so we need to combine our fields of knowledge and. With these within the EU, to actually address the challenges that we face to which general aviation, the mission is extremely relevant because it brings together two of the strongest innovation players that we have in Europe currently. And we can only accomplish 0 emissions if we really want to collaborate and bring the accessary resources together. And we have to do this in a cross-border approach. A key aspect of this partnership is ensuring the connection in the regulatory framework. Then Batty Curry to be sure that the connection is very strong between the national and the European framework. We can have in mind that there is a strong commitment and willingness from all the stakeholders in order to do the action plan together to achieve things in the efficient and effective way. The real question is how do we trigger investment? How do we secure investment? How do we give confidence, giving a long term view, showing that by joining forces. They can make it so many stakeholders involved in this whole process, much more than what we have in the Dutch Franco innovation pact. And I think we should capitalize on the knowledge which we have to come up with a more coherent and supported approach to take this file much quicker, further than doing it individually or with a smaller group.