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Paris region, Groupe ADP, Air France-KLM and Airbus are launching a call for expressions of interest to explore the opportunities generated by hydrogen in Paris airports with the aim to decarbonize air transport activities.
This worldwide call for expressions of interest complies with the French government’s energy transition strategy and supported by the European Commission, which strives for zero-emission aircrafts by 2035.

In order to bring together an ecosystem around urban air mobility in the Paris region, the RATP Group, Groupe ADP and Choose Paris Region launched an international call for expressions of interest on October 1st, with the support of Paris Region. This initiative, the scope of which is unprecedented in Europe, brought together 150 applications from 25 countries.
Some 30 winners were selected, with a view to conducting experiments from June 2021 in the test area at the Pontoise-Cormeilles-en-Vexin airfield, which was inaugurated on September 30th, 2020.

Clarion Partners Europe has chosen EPA Sénart and a Nexity project for its latest investment, southeast of Paris city. France’s leading real-estate services company Nexity is to build a 70,000 sm2 logistics warehouse for the real-estate investment fund manager. This transaction is part of Clarion’s ambitious acquisition strategy in France and the rest of Europe.

Built by the will to exchange with the scientific community, the Centre Lagrange’s birth is a new step in Huawei’s continued presence in France.

Huawei announces today the opening of the Lagrange Research center for mathematics and calculus. Under the responsibility of professor Merouane Debbah, R&D Director at Huawei France, the Lagrange research center will host around thirty scientists, with around a third of them being international scientists. They will have the opportunity to evolve within a unique ecosystem, that of the Ile-de-France region which concentrates the highest number of mathematicians in the world and the best universities in the field.

Volocopter, the pioneer of Urban Air Mobility, will be the first industrial player to test their full scale electrical air taxi, the VoloCity, in the Paris Region.

In the current context of environmental transition in air transport and economic recovery, Paris region, Groupe ADP and RATP Group aim to develop an urban air mobility industry branch, with a focus on the electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL).

Groupe ADP and Choose Paris Region have announced the winners of the Safe Travel Challenge call for applications. With the support of the Ile-de-France regional authority, this initiative was launched on 27th April to tackle the shared ambition of gradually re-establishing air traffic while boosting passenger confidence.