Hellenic Space Technologies and Applications Cluster (si-Cluster)

The Hellenic Space Technologies and Applications Cluster (si-Cluster), is an emerging, industrially-led and user-driven innovation cluster in Greece, with a sizeable potential to compete worldwide in the challenging and fast-growing sector of space technologies and applications.

Currently, the si-Cluster consists of more than 20 industrial members -including both large businesses and SMEs- while it is expanding rapidly not only its industrial base but also its cooperation ties with all the innovation ecosystem actors, including academia, research institutes, European, regional and central governmental and other stakeholders involved in this demanding technological field.

Mission

The Hellenic Space Technologies and Applications Cluster (si-Cluster) is an emerging, industrially-led and user-driven innovation cluster in Greece, with a strong geographical concentration in the region of Attica and a sizeable potential to compete worldwide in the challenging and fast-growing sector of space technologies and applications.

Aiming to develop Greece as a leading region for Space Technologies and Applications with a high international visibility, capable of developing and attracting high impact research, development and innovation and business activities, the Hellenic Space Technologies and Applications Cluster (si-Cluster) brings together private and public actors in the field of space technologies and applications and provides an efficient framework around themes of common interest in order to reinforce the competitive advantage of its members.

Currently, the si-Cluster consists of more than 20 industrial members -including both large businesses and SMEs- while it is expanding rapidly not only its industrial base but also its cooperation ties with all the innovation ecosystem actors, including academia, research institutes, European, regional and central governmental and other stakeholders involved in this demanding technological field.

The Hellenic Association of Space Industry (HASI) in collaboration with the Corallia Clusters Initiative have been instrumental in the si-Cluster's initiation and development and are driving it towards achieving a World-Class Cluster status.

Cluster Facilitator

Corallia

Corallia is the Cluster Facilitator of the Space Technologies and Applications Cluster (si-Cluster), instrumenting the creation of a world class cluster on space technologies and applications that it will be able to compete at the international level and attract direct foreign investments.

Corallia is the first organisation established in Greece for the structured and systematic management and development of innovation clusters, with the strategic aim to develop cohesive and productive innovative ecosystems within which actors operate in a coordinated manner, in specific sectors and regions of the country, and where a competitive advantage and export orientation exists.

With the Vision "A Greek environment with the right framework conditions to allow sciences, innovation and entrepreneurship to flourish (again)", Corallia aims to boost competitiveness, entrepreneurship and innovation, in knowledge-intensive, exports-oriented and high-technology fields where Greece has the capacity to build a sustainable innovation ecosystem and can attain a worldwide competitive advantage.

Corallia has obtained valuable experience in the development and coordination of innovation clusters, possessing examples of success stories, such as the Nano/Microelectronics-based Systems and Applications Cluster (mi-Cluster).