In order to make a tasty dish, you need basic ingredients, a good recipe and some talent. In this page, we are identifying the basic ingredients we need to build a project of the size of ASSERT.
Looking at the nature and scope of the challenge, that encompasses the technical objectives (the need to build a new system and software engineering approach) and the strong need to disseminate the approach to the industry, the following requirements were to be met in ASSERT :
- Strong participation of the Space Industry :
a large part of the ASSERT budget has been allocated to space companies (primes and non-primes contractors). - Large representation of research organisations covering modelling, property checking, middleware and model transformation.
- Strong implication of tool providers able to disseminate the technologies in pre-commercial versions of their development environments.
- Active participation of SMEs that may boost innovation and transfer to operational projects.
- A high level of integration between technologies and consequently partners to build a fully integrated solution knowing that no single technology can provide the answer.
- A significant space allocated to training and dissemination so that the results can be spread not only in the aerospace community but can also impact other industrial domains.
- A significant budget envelope to build a consortium with a critical mass of partners covering the different areas of the project, and ensuring for each partner a nominal level of workload.
Having those requirements in mind, ASSERT has made the following choices :
- Major primes in the space industry have been invited to participate to cover all kinds of space mission. The participation of space industrial partners represents 41% of the ASSERT budget.
- Research organisations are leading the majority of the technical work and share 26% of the ASSERT budget.
- Tool providers brought their technologies in ASSERT in order to integrate and improve them. They share 10% of the ASSERT budget.
- SMEs have been chosen for their capacity to innovate more quickly thanks to their size and are representing 12% of the ASSERT budget.
- The integration scheme has been applied since the beginning of the project with a strong involvement of the coordinator in the technical integration.
- Dissemination and training have been allocated to a specific structure in the project with a large involvement of the partners.
- The overall ASSERT budget (15 M€ with 8.3M€ of EC funding) has been distributed among partners according to their need and will to deliver results and has ensured that at least one person full time can be allocated to the project.
Share of the assert-project budget
