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Vastalla will participate at H2020 Space Info Day in Bruxelles, Belgium next 9-10 November. At the event representatives from the European Commission will explain the Space Work Programme for 2016-17 years.
Vastalla will take part at the brokerage session (B2B meetings) during the Space Info Day.
Vastalla took part at UIW R&D project’s Mid Term Review in Bruxelles, Belgium. Mid Term Review was held at Covent Garden on 26 May 2015. During the day-long meeting UIW partners presented the outcome so far of the project to the European Commission Project Officer. At the end of the day, the Project Officer and the Technical Project Officer made clear their satisfaction about the project work.
Vastalla joins the Italian Responsible Payment Code.
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The contents of the Code and its implementation procedures are extremely lean, in line also with its voluntary nature.
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The Italian Responsible Payment Code draws inspiration from the British Prompt Payment Code, which was strongly sponsored by the UK Government and by the Confederation of British Industry (CBI).
Vastalla announces its partnership with CartoDB, a leading company in cloud-based cartography.
CartoDB is a cloud based mapping, analysis and visualization engine that lets users build spatial applications for both mobile and the Web. Among its most important applications you can find those that visualize interactive maps with data coming from tweets exchanged on Twitter over time.
CartoDB is already used by clients like NASA, National Geographic, Wall Street Journal, Harvard University, United Nations and many others.
Vastalla is the first and sole Italian company which is CartoDB partner and reseller.
If you are interested on CartoDB solutions you can contact us writing an e-mail to sales@vastalla.com or calling us.
Vastalla will be present at ESA’s Industry Space Days 2014.
Industry Space Days (ISDs) are organised by ESA to bring together the main European players in the space sector. Their main purpose is to increase the involvement of SMEs in space activities and to foster cross-fertilisation between the different actors in the entire space sector.
The 5th edition will take place in ESTEC, ESA’s European Space Research and Technology Centre in Noordwijk, The Netherlands on 3rd & 4th June 2014.
Vastalla, together with its African partner, has been shortlisted by the African Development Bank and it can bid for a 3-years framework contract that covers Business Intelligence activities. In case the bid is successful the activities agreed with Bank will be either offshore or onsite at the Bank’s sites in Tunis (Tunisia), Abidjan (Ivory Coast) and Pretoria (South Africa).
The African Development Bank is the institution whose mission is to promote sustainable economic growth and reduce poverty in Africa.
This important result rewards Vastalla’s decision to go abroad and offer its competencies to international Clients. It is also the result of Vastalla’s important references in Business Intelligence area.
On 10th March, 2014 Vastalla was a guest at NASA AMES Research Center at Moffett Field, Mountain View, California (USA). During the morning NASA AMES Research Center described its long history and the areas of activity today. Vastalla presented its own competencies, past and present projects in Space. Vastalla had the opportunity to talk to AMES directors of Mission Design, Human Systems Integration and partnerships. During the afternoon several laboratories and structures were shown, among them Arc Jet and Wind tunnel.
During this difficult period in Italy (and not only), Vastalla is carrying on with investments. Other than all the Research & Development projects, Vastalla is now UNI EN ISO 9001:2008 certified.
These investments, together with all the planned ones, are part of a precise strategy to differentiate from competitors.
Having a third party certified quality system UNI EN ISO 9001:2008 is a further statement of Vastalla’s belief in the quality of its activities and processes. This is a clear message to all its prospect Customers who don’t know Vastalla yet.
Further info can be obtained at the following link.
Collaborative Research & Development “Use-it-wisely” (UIW) project has started on 1st September 2013. The project, which will last over 3 years, has been selected by the European Commission under the 7th Framework Programme (FP7). The FP7-2013-NMP-ICT-FoF(RTD) call was issued on December 2012 and centered on Factories of the Future (FoF).
The kick-off will be held in Tampere (Finland) on September.
Vastalla is partner in the UIW project in the Space cluster together with Thales Alenia Space Italia and ALTEC (Advanced Logistics Technology Engineering Center). VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland is the coordinator of UIW project.
Further information is available at this link.
A workshop that will deal with Industrial Property and IT security issues will be held in Turin, Italy at the Turin Chamber of Commerce on Friday 26th July 2013.
Vastalla’s managing director will speak on Cybersecurity and ISO 27001 certification issues.