On 10-11 March 2016, the Director of Advanced Materials-JTJ, Ing. Jan Procházka, Ph.D., participated in a trade mission led by the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Bohuslav Sobotka, to Bavaria.  PM Sobotka was accompanied on the mission by Pavel Bělobrádek, Vice-premier for Science, Research and Innovation, and a large delegation of business leaders, mainly from the aviation, space sciences and precision instrumentation sectors.  An important part of the trip was a visit by the delegation to the Ludwig Bölkow Industrial Campus on the premises of Airbus GmbH in Munich.  The Campus is a successful incubator for firms in the area of aviation and space sciences.  BIC Bavaria, one of the European Space Agency’s Business Incubation Centres, is among the firms located there.