The European Strategic Agenda

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• The European Strategic Agenda
• for Aeronautics Research and the 7 FP of the
• European Commission
• Liam Breslin
• DG Research - Aeronautics

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Content

• Community RTD contributions to Europes
  Aeronautics
• The Strategic Research Agenda for Aeronautics a
  joint approach of Europe
• Aeronautics and Air Transport in F.P.7 Europes
  implementation of the SRA

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2005 is an Important Year for Aeronautics

• 18 January - Roll-out of the Airbus A380
• 30 March In Brussels ACARE presented the
• 2nd Strategic Research Agenda (SRA2) for
  Aeronautics
• 6 April - the European Commission proposes
• Aeronautics and Air Transport in the
• 7th Research Framework Programme
• 13 July - Last Call for Aeronautics Research of
  F.P.6
• September Proposal for Thematic Programme on
  Transport (including Aeronautics)

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EU RTD
in AERONAUTICS ?
A Dynamic Process

• Framework Programme 2 (1990-91) 66 Mio
• A pilot phase to stimulate European RTD
  collaboration
• Framework Programme 3 (1992-95) 130 Mio
• Continue work initiated in the pilot phase
  placing the
• emphasis on key technical areas
• Framework Programme 4 (1995-98) 400 Mio
• Improve industrial competitiveness with
  increasing emphasis on
• subjects of wide public interest (environment,
  safety and ATM)
• Framework Programme 5 (1999-2002) 700 Mio
• Industrial competitiveness and sustainable growth
  of air
• transportation
• Framework Programme 6 (2002-2006) 840 Mio
• Satisfying societys needs for air transport and
• strengthening competitiveness

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EU RTD in AERONAUTICS Overall Figures of the
Effort

• Since 1990 the EU has funded some 350 RTD
  projects representing a budget of about 4
  billion (EU funding 50)
• The average size of a project varies between 2
  million and 8 million with an average
  consortium composed of some 5 to 15 partners
• 21 projects (9 technology platforms precursors
  of the Integrated Projects in FP5 and 12
  Integrated Projects in FP6) have a larger size of
  up to more than 100 million with a consortium
  of as many as 60 partners
• Currently the EU Framework Programme represents
  about 30 of all the European public funding in
  civil aeronautics RTD
• ? Networking of teams critical mass of
  resources

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Example A380 Technology Framework Programme
Origins
On-board maintenance system
Horizontal tail plane designed for relaxed
stability
Upper fuselage skin in Glare TANGO
Integrated and modular avionics architecture
(IMA) NEVADA, PAMELA, VICTORIA, NATACHA
Carbon Composite rear fuselage (Section
19) ADPRIMAS, APRICOS, TANGO
Dual air conditioning Pack concept ASICA, CABINAIR
High Reynolds Number Low drag wing
design ECARP, EUROLIFT, AWIATOR C-WAKE
Variable frequency Power generation
Skin to stringer welding (first on A318) WAFS
New low weight front fuselage structure ADPRIMAS,
APRICOS, TANGO
Electro-hydraulic Actuators EPICA, ELISA, EHA
Centre wing box in CFRP TANGO
Electric thrust reverse control
2 hydraulic (5000psi) 2 electrical channel
architecture for flight controls and landing
gear POA
New four post main landing gear (4-6-6-4 wheels
configuration) ELGAR
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European Aeronautics A Vision for 2020 Doc.
Available http//europa.eu.int/comm/research/grow
th/aeronautics2020/en/index.html

• Focused on Research / Technology / Development
• Takes a pan-European perspective with a 2020
  horizon

• Initiated and chaired by Commissioner Philippe
  Busquin
• Prepared by a group of 14 high-level
  personalities (GOP)

Indicates two Top level objectives
Responding to the Societys needs
Securing global Leadership to Europe
? Strategy objectives method
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European Aeronautics A Vision for 2020 The
Goals for 2020

• 80 cut in NOx emissions
• Halving perceived aircraft noise
• Five-fold reduction in accidents
• Air traffic system capable of handling 16 million
  flights a year
• 50 cut in CO2 emissions per pass-Km
• 99 of all flights within 15 minutes of timetable

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Advisory Council for Aeronautics Research in
Europe - ACAREStrategic Research Agenda - SRA

• The first Technology Platform

- federate stakeholders in Europe - consensus
building
Member States with aeronautical research plans

European Commission

Manufacturing industry (airframe, engine,
equipment and ATM)


Airlines

Airports
36 members

Regulators

Eurocontrol
Research establishments

Creating and maintaining a Strategic Research
Agenda (SRA)
agreed by all stakeholders
? role for each to play applied subsidiarity
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The Strategic Research Agenda The Challenges
towards the Top-level Objectives

• The top level objectives of the Vision 2020
• Responding to the Societys needs
• Securing global leadership to Europe

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2nd Strategic Research Agenda(by ACARE
developed, published on 30/31 March
2005)www.acare4europe.org

• The High Level Target Concepts (HLTC)
• The Highly Customer Oriented Air Transport
  System
• The Highly Time Efficient Air Transport System
• The Highly Cost Efficient Air Transport System
• The Ultra Green Air Transport System
• The Ultra Secure Air Transport System
• Towards the Future
• an assessment of long-term possibilities

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Towards the Seventh Framework ProgrammeBased on
six main pillars

• Creating European centres of excellence through
  collaboration between laboratories (networks of
  excellence and integrated projects)
• Launching European technological initiatives
• (Technology Platforms)
• Stimulating the creativity of basic research
  through competition between teams at European
  level
• (European Research Council)
• Making Europe more attractive to the best
  researchers
• Developing research infrastructures of European
  interest
• (ESFRI Forum)
• Improving the coordination of national research
  programmes
• (ERA-NET)

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7th Framework Programme

• Four Specific Programmes
• Corresponding to four major objectives of
  European research policy
• Cooperation
• Support will be given to the whole range of
  research activities carried out in trans-national
  cooperation, from collaborative projects and
  networks to the coordination of research
  programmes. International cooperation between the
  EU and third countries
• Ideas
• An autonomous European Research Council will be
  created to support investigator-driven frontier
  research carried out by individual teams
  competing at the European level, in all
  scientific and technological fields, including
  engineering, socio-economic sciences and the
  humanities.
• People
• The activities supporting training and career
  development of researchers, referred to as Marie
  Curie actions, will be reinforced with a better
  focus on the key aspects of skills and career
  development and strengthened links with national
  systems.
• Capacities
• Key aspects of European research and innovation
  capacities will be supported research
  infrastructures research for the benefit of
  SMEs regional research driven clusters
  unlocking the full research potential in the EUs
  Convergence regions Science in Society
  issues horizontal activities of international
  co-operation.

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7th Framework Programme Budget Breakdown
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Environment
Collaboratie research JTIs Coordination of
research programmes International co-operation
? 3rd theme in budget importance
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7th Framework Programme
Cooperation
? continuity
? novelty
? ERA-net underway

• focused

• declared European

industrial interest
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7th Framework Programme

• Cooperation
• Health
• Food, Agriculture and Biotechnology
• Information and Communication Technologies
• Nano-sciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and
• new Production Technologies
• Energy
• Environment (including Climate Change)
• Transport (including Aeronautics)
• Socio-economic Sciences and the Humanities
• Security and Space

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7th Framework Programme
7. Transport (inc. Aeronautics)
Aeronautics and air transport
? largest share of the theme
Surface transport (rail, road and waterborne)

• links (e.g. intermodality)

Support to the European global satellite
navigation system (Galileo)
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7th Framework Programme Aeronautics and Air
Transport

• Objectives
• ? 2 pillars
• Further develop an air transport system for the
  benefit of the citizen and society, which
  protects the environment and natural resources
  and meets the requirement for reliability,
  safety, quality and economic viability.
• Secure and further develop the leading role
  attained by the aeronautics industry in the world
  market competitiveness

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7th Framework Programme Aeronautics and Air
Transport
? (cf. ACARE / SRA)

• Rationale
• More stringent society demands in response to air
  transport growth (environment, safety, travel
  cost, security,..)
• High socio-economic impact of the aeronautics
  and air transport industry.
• Significant market opportunities (14000 new
  aircraft needed in the next 15 years worth 1
  trillion)
• Technology-dependent sector ( RD 15 of
  turnover), but in disadvantage with respect to
  its main competitors with regard to public
  support to its RTD effort
• All the stake holders have agreed in ACARE a
  Strategic Research Agenda, which calls for
  implementation in order to realise the Vision
  2020 goals

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Aeronautics and Air Transport

• Proposed Research Themes (in line with SRA-2)
• The greening of air transport (also as a
  competitive advantage)
• Increasing time efficiency
• Ensuring customer satisfaction and safety
• Improving cost efficiency
• Protection of the aircraft and passengers
• Pioneering the air transport of the future
• In addition to Collaborative Research, one (or
  several) Joint Technology Initiative(s) is/are
  expected on subjects of major industrial/public
  interest

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Joint Technology Initiatives

• May Take the Form of Joint Undertakings Article
  171 of the Treaty
• The Community may set up joint undertakings or
  any other structure necessary for the efficient
  execution of Community research, technological
  development and demonstration programmes

? - high flexibility - not very many cases
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Joint Technology Initiatives

• Identification criteria include
• market failure
• Added value of European-level intervention E
  interest
• Degree and clarity of definition of objective ?
  prototype
• Strength of commitment from industry
• Scale of impact on industrial competitiveness and
  growth
• Importance of contribution to broader policy
  objectives (e.g. Single Sky)
• Capacity to attract additional national support
  and leverage industry funding
• Inability of existing instruments to achieve
  objective

• no one-size-fits-all bottom-up definition

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Conclusions

• Aeronautics and air transport a European success
  and asset
• ? functions well real policy and strategy
• ? implement the strategic research agenda
• Room for new Member States and for a focussed
  international cooperation
• Senior challenges ahead of us
• - own European (traffic growth, environment,
  security, ...)
• - US competition and newcomers
• - spiraling cost of RD (cf. 11 Billion for
  A380)
• ? 7th Framework Programme
• New approach new challenges (and new
  instrument JTI) needs strong budget !

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Europe has to strengthen its efforts to tackle
the challenges in Aeronautics and Air Transport
for the 21st Century
Thanks to J.-L. Bonafe, Toulouse