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Capacity Building in Space Technologies

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The Start

Not so long time ago in a SMALL PLANET

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• Young Entrepreneur

Name: Mr. Dimitris Matsakis, Age: 34 (2009)

Company Name: Grace Ltd, created in 2008

Place: Athens, Greece

Mission: Promote the use of Space in the Eastern Mediterranean.

Consulting activity in building and developing Space

applications

Profiles

• Host Entrepreneur

Name: Dr. Pierre Engel, Age: 49 (2009)

Company Name: Mea Intuis SARL, created in 2002

Place: Nimes, France

Mission: International Expert in Earth Observation

Former CEO and CCO in major industries

Consulting activity in using Earth Observation Satellites

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The Development• When

Between Q4 2009 and Q2 2010 Dimitris visited Pierre and stayed

one month in total in Nimes

working hard together…

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• What

Pierre had little idea about the South-eastern Europe market

Dimitris had no specific background in Remote Sensing

Pierre needed more projects

Dimitris needed projects

• P.L.A.N. Europe Ltd started its operations

in the summer of 2010, based in Athens

� Both Pierre and Dimitris among the co-owners

� Consulting activity in the same line of business with Grace and Mea Intuis

� Gathering forces, skills and networking capabilities

� Dimitris as Managing Director

� Geographic zone of interest covering Greece and the Balkans

The Aftermath: A newborn company

� Geographic zone of interest covering Greece and the Balkans

� Focusing on Middle East, Southeastern Europe and North Africa

� Mission: Assist anyone who wish to get involved in a Space programme,

project or activity, including but not limited to the use of the existing or

forthcoming Earth Observation Satellites

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• Typical projects/applications deal with topographic or geologicalmapping, environment monitoring, maritime surveillance, land use and urban development, natural risks and disasters management…

• Our offer comprises consultancy in larger scale as space policyissues, mission definition, feasibility studies, tender preparation and industrial proposals assessment, supervision of the development…

The Offer

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• More markets and new markets (Southeastern Europe, Asia..)

• More partners and new partners (industries, research centers..)

• Synergies of all kind in all levels

� Both Dimitris and Pierre brought their network

� Dimitris has seen its role on management and commercial issues growing while Pierre

can offer his unique expertise on new prospects and customers

The Added value of the cooperation

� Additionnal opportunities (e.g proposals for the European Space Agency and the

European Commission) have arisen

� The initial idea of cooperation has been pushed even beyond:

• P.L.A.N. Europe Ltd Consulting Group (P.C.G) has been created in

2012, and gathers now a team of top-calibre international experts

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The new company already faced a number of challenges and drawbacks

• Financial crisis in the Balkans

• Wars and instability in North Africa and Middle East

• Recession of the world economy

• Greek situation

Despite those facts we move forward, relying on cooperation and human value

The future

• Supported now by a team of 20 people worldwide

• 2012 (6 months) is a record year for P.L.A.N. Europe as for the number of

agreement s signed with industrial, commercial and research partners

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