The BELS Pproject: an opportunity for setting collaboration links between Europe and South East Asia in the field of GNSS

In 2016 the European Global Navigation Satellite System (EGNSS) Galileo should start initial services that will make it available for practical use together with other existing Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS). South East Asia (SEA), which is the Region in the world with the highest multi-GNSS coverage, but has not developed any of them, is the ideal place to promote EGNSS solutions and related technologies to facilitate business while supporting sustainable development. This paper describes the opportunities offered by the project BELS to companies, institutions, researchers from Europe and SEA working in the field of GNSS. The project is funded by the European GNSS Agency (GSA) under the European Union’s Research Framework Programme Horizon 2020.

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Building links between Europe and South-East Asia in the field of EGNSS: the BELS project and the Navis

South East Asia is growing at an impressive pace with its GDP having increased by about 350% in ten years , ri sing from 650 Billion $in 2002 to about 2300 Billion$ in 2012. Regional governments actively promote infrastructure, logistics and service development to create a favourable environment fo r sustainable growth. Within this framework, GNSS applications play a vital role. In particular, the increasing demand for better services , in both the public and private sector , and logistics is going to require increasingly reliable and trusted GNSS appl ications. South East Asia has the highest multi - GNSS coverage in the world, and is therefore the ideal place to test and compare performance and opportunities offered by the different g lobal n avigation s atellite s ystems. On the one hand, an active promotio n of E U GNSS (EGNSS) technology in this region, rising awareness on its main features while on the other hand facilitating the linking of European enterprises with South East Asian GNSS stakeholders, are extremely important so as to establish and maintain global European scientific and industrial leadership in this crucial sector. Indeed, it is also fundamental to encourage the penetration of EGNSS industry in to the South East Asian market taking into account all potential applications of EGNSS. Therefore, the BELS project exploits the opportunities presented by the NAVIS Centre, an International Collaboration Centre for Research and Development on Satellite Navigation Technology in South East Asia based in Hanoi, Vietnam, to promote visibility and to raise awareness o f EGNSS technology in the region. The next three years will be crucial for pav ing the way for Galileo services, both for European companies that can enter a new growing market and for the South East Asian countries that can discover the capabili ties of the EGNSS technology. Consequently, BELS facilitates and supports the visits of European companies for such purposes a s carrying out tests in the NAVIS Centre and hence to assist them in getting ready for the global GNSS applications market .South East Asia is growing at an impressive pace with its GDP having increased by about 350% in ten years , ri sing from 650 Billion $in 2002 to about 2300 Billion$ in 2012. Regional governments actively promote infrastructure, logistics and service development to create a favourable environment fo r sustainable growth. Within this framework, GNSS applications play a vital role. In particular, the increasing demand for better services , in both the public and private sector , and logistics is going to require increasingly reliable and trusted GNSS appl ications. South East Asia has the highest multi - GNSS coverage in the world, and is therefore the ideal place to test and compare performance and opportunities offered by the different g lobal n avigation s atellite s ystems. On the one hand, an active promotio n of E U GNSS (EGNSS) technology in this region, rising awareness on its main features while on the other hand facilitating the linking of European enterprises with South East Asian GNSS stakeholders, are extremely important so as to establish and maintain global European scientific and industrial leadership in this crucial sector. Indeed, it is also fundamental to encourage the penetration of EGNSS industry in to the South East Asian market taking into account all potential applications of EGNSS. Therefore, the BELS project exploits the opportunities presented by the NAVIS Centre, an International Collaboration Centre for Research and Development on Satellite Navigation Technology in South East Asia based in Hanoi, Vietnam, to promote visibility and to raise awareness o f EGNSS technology in the region. The next three years will be crucial for pav ing the way for Galileo services, both for European companies that can enter a new growing market and for the South East Asian countries that can discover the capabili ties of the EGNSS technology. Consequently, BELS facilitates and supports the visits of European companies for such purposes a s carrying out tests in the NAVIS Centre and hence to assist them in getting ready for the global GNSS applications market .Peer Reviewe