Who are the PCP WISE partners driving innovation in water management and climate resilience across Europe through Pre-Commercial Procurement?
Our Partner Interview Series highlights the leading organisations in the PCP WISE consortium, showcasing their expertise, contributions, and key roles in the project.
Each partner also shares its vision of how PCP WISE advances the European Green Deal’s objectives—whether by leveraging Environmental Observation (EO) data to tackle critical challenges or pioneering innovative governance and procurement approaches like PCP.
🔍 Discover our latest interview to learn more about Aerospace Valley and its impact!
Briefly introduce your organisation
Aerospace Valley is a leading French competitiveness cluster dedicated to the aerospace, space, and embedded systems sectors. It brings together over 750 members, including industrial companies, research laboratories, universities, and public authorities, fostering innovation and collaboration at regional, national, and European levels. Aerospace Valley supports the development of high-tech projects, provides expertise in technology transfer, and promotes the adoption of cutting-edge solutions in aeronautics, space, and digital systems. By connecting stakeholders across the value chain, Aerospace Valley accelerates the deployment of innovative technologies, strengthens the competitiveness of European industries, and contributes to strategic priorities such as climate resilience, sustainability, and digital transformation.
Introduce the team working on PCP WISE within your organisation
Laure VIDAL, Project Manager, has 9 years of experience in designing, managing, and coordinating European-funded projects across innovation, training, and environmental domains. She has led large consortia, multi-million-euro funding schemes for SMEs, and coordinated EU-level stakeholder communities and internation cooperation frameworks
Sylvie TEYSSEYRE, Space Data Economy Responsible & SCALE Manager, has 20 years of experience in software development for aeronautics and space, with expertise in IT, AI, and space data. She has led innovation projects in AI and quantum technologies and supports the European space downstream ecosystem
After starting her professional career in the aerospace subcontracting industry in Toulouse, Fabienne DAVERAN worked for seven years in the European Affairs department of the AIRBUS group. She then spent seven years at a consulting firm in Toulouse specialising in setting up European projects for aerospace SMEs. In 2010, she joined Aerospace Valley to develop the cluster’s European affairs. From 2014 to 2025, she served as National Contact Point for the Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe programmes, under the supervision of the Ministry of Higher Education and Research. She now heads Aerospace Valley’s European Desk, a team of four people providing European funding support to members.
What is your organisation’s role in the project? What unique contribution does it bring to PCP WISE?
Our organisation plays a central role in PCP WISE by creating and managing the Stakeholder Group, which gathers researchers, policymakers, end-users and industrial actors across Europe. We help define use-cases, guide end-user requirements, support implementation of the PCP process, and ensure that proposed solutions respond effectively to real-world water-management and climate-resilience challenges. In addition, we contribute to project communication and raise awareness of climate issues, helping align technical development with societal and environmental needs.
To what extent do you think PCP WISE will contribute to enhance Europe’s ability to adapt to and mitigate the effect of climate change?
PCP WISE will strengthen Europe’s climate-change adaptation by mobilising advanced space-based observation capabilities, a core expertise of the Aerospace Valley ecosystem. By integrating satellite data with in-situ measurements and modelling, the project will support more accurate monitoring of droughts, floods and other climate-driven water risks. This enables earlier detection, better forecasting and more efficient resource management. PCP WISE also helps public authorities adopt innovative tools derived from the space sector, reinforcing Europe’s strategic autonomy in Earth Observation technologies. Overall, it enhances Europe’s capacity to anticipate and mitigate climate impacts while supporting the competitiveness of its space industry.
To what extent do you think Environmental Observation (EO) and Innovation Procurement (IP) can help develop innovative solutions for water management and climate resilience across Europe?
Environmental Observation (EO), particularly satellite-based EO, provides continuous, large-scale insight into water availability, soil moisture, vegetation stress and climate-related hazards. Coupled with Innovation Procurement (IP), these data become the foundation for developing operational, user-driven solutions for water authorities across Europe. This approach encourages industry — including the space and geospatial sector central to Aerospace Valley — to design innovative tools aligned with concrete public needs. EO + IP accelerates technological adoption, supports SMEs in entering emerging markets, and enables more resilient water-management strategies. Together, they drive scalable innovations essential to strengthening Europe’s climate-resilience capacities.
