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Euronext strengthens its support for European strategic autonomy
with New ESG focused initiatives: Energy, Security and Geostrategy
European A&D Growth Hub
Strategic initiative for Aerospace and Defence supply chains
The European A&D Growth Hub
Euronext launches the European Aerospace and Defence Growth Hub dedicated to the supply chain of aerospace and defence companies across Europe. The European Aerospace and Defence Growth Hub, powered by ELITE, Euronext’s ecosystem of private European companies, is a strategic initiative designed to:
- Support the growth and development of private small and medium companies part of A&D Supply Chains in Europe through dedicated training, access to finance and peer-to-peer sharing (networking).
- Promote collaboration with European national and regional institutions to improve and facilitate the access to capital (from equity to debt, from private to public).
Benefits for Supply Chain Leaders
The European A&D Growth Hub is a dedicated ecosystem and set of services allowing supply chains leaders to support their suppliers alongside local/industrial/institutional stakeholder with the objective of:
- Reinforce strategic connections and guarantee the business continuity through a strong alignment of their suppliers.
- Play a key role in sustaining long term resilience and be ready to accelerate based on the actual geopolitical environment.
- Collect clear needs of the businesses and offer concrete solutions.
- Facilitate the access to alternative finance funding solutions to push the suppliers’ growth to follow the leader’s strategy.
- Develop dedicated financing products/solutions and expose the suppliers to investors and funding options.
Benefits for Suppliers in the Value Chain
- Executive training: programme designed for corporates to develop best practices and improve the managerial and strategic skills of suppliers (managerialization and corporate governance).
- Support growth: improve strength and structure (corporate governance, business plan, reporting, …) of companies, scaling up to be more competitive and resilient through targeted mentoring, assessment and workshops.
- Access to alternative finance: bridge suppliers to investors (NPBs, Institutional, PE, PD, Credit Funds, …) and new sources of financing through the support of local, national and pan-European players and stakeholders.
Local and cross countries collaboration: promote peer-to-peer sharing and collaboration between institutional players (local, national, supranational), suppliers and supply chains leader for sustainable economic development of A&D cluster.
ELITE - Leonardo Experience
Since 2018, ELITE has worked with Leonardo (a global industrial group that builds technological capabilities in the aerospace, defence and security sector) and its supply chain to foster suppliers’ growth, enable the ramp-up of production, improve business management and provide access to a wide range of financial resources. As part of the European Aerospace and Defence Growth Hub, entrepreneurs and executives will explore financing options, develop managerial capabilities to scale, and benefit from peer-to-peer sharing and matching.