Why you should set up your self-driving car company in León

If your SME specialises in the sector of self-driving vehicles and you are looking for a place to establish yourself, León is your city.

León has used its new Exhibition and Convention Centre for the first time with ‘Unvex Security&Defense,’ the European Summit on Unmanned Systems for Security and Defense.  During the summit the Secretary of State for Defense, Agustín Conde Bajén, took the opportunity to announce new laws for the SMEs to be able to join the drone sector.

If you are looking for a place to set up your self-driving vehicle company, in this post we give you 6 reasons why you should choose León:

1. León is the headquarters of AUVSI in Spain. AUVSI is the biggest world organisation for self-driving vehicles, the head office of which being located in the United States.
2. The city has enough infrastructures to promote the development of projects devoted to self-driving vehicles. These infrastructures are:
3. Airfield in Pajares de los Oteros
4. SCAYLE Supercomputing Centre
5. Controlled airspace to test aircrafts, CTA (control area). Spain has only eight CTAs, being León one of these.
6. One of the military bases close to the capital is GROSA, a unit of the Spanish Army responsible for drones, based in the Military Base of Conde de Gazola.
7. León, cradle of talent. The Engineering School of the University of León offers the specialisation programme of Aeronautical Engineering, students admitted with a cut-off mark of 10 or above. Out of the total of 11,000 students in the University of León, more than 2,000 belong to the areas of specialisation of the Engineering School.
8. Airfield in La Virgen del Camino
9. León can boast about having the Spanish National Cybersecurity Institute, INCIBE. Cybersecurity is key to the development of self-driving systems.

Last but not least, León has the Investment Promotion Bureau (Centro de Atracción de Inversiones), LeónUP, on which the company wishing to establish in León city can rely to solve all the problems emerging when setting up and developing your project. You can contact us by calling 987 875 875, writing an email to leonup@ildefe.es or filling in this form.