A Project for the Aeronautics Research Agenda

funded by the European Commission

www.care-aero.eu

The CARE ConsortiumThe CARE proposal is executed by a consortium of mature aeronautics research-oriented regional clusters bringing together lar-ge and small enterprises, research players and local authorities and two less-mature aeronau-tics clusters to be mentored.

Aerospace Valley – Francewww.aerospace-valley.com

BavAIRia - Germanywww.bavairia.com

Capital High Tech – Francewww.chtech.fr

Ceipiemonte (Centro Estero per l‘Internazionalizzazione) – Italywww.centroestero.org

Dolina Lotnicza (Aviation Valley) – Polandwww.dolinalotnicza.pl

ESAC (Eskisehir Sanayi Odasi) – Turkeywww.esac.org.tr

Hamburg Aviation (HWF) – Germanywww.hamburg-aviation.com

HEGAN (Asociación Cluster de Aeronáutica y Espacio del País Vasco) – Spainwww.hegan.com

PEMAS (Portuguese SME for Aerospace Industry) – Portugalwww.pema.pt

Skywin Wallonie – Belgiumwww.skywin.be

Why CARE?Green technologies are key competitive advantages of future air transport systems. Major environmental challenges are at stake:

1. More energy efficient airborne systems: “greener” engines, lighter aero-structures, alternative fuels, more electric aircraft equipment, etc.

2. Eco-Design: improving the environ-mental impact of the whole product life cycle, with the manufacturing, maintenance and recycling of aircraft in full compliance with the REACH directive.

3. Greener air traffic management: capabili-ties for “green“ trajectories and missions, and improved ground operations to fully exploit the benefits of the Single European Sky while reducing disturbances around air-ports.

4. The territorial integration of air transport into an efficient and green multimodal transport system.

Objectives of CAREBeing aware of the importance of seizing those trends to ensure the competitiveness of their local actors, European regions have to careful-ly orientate their R&D funding in order to match these aviation technological and environmental challenges but also to generate economic growth and to secure and increase their level of employ-ment.

The CARE project will reinforce the R&D network-ing already instigated at regional level through research-driven clusters and will increase the competitiveness of these regions in the field of green aircraft transportation by:

• enhancing more effective investments in R&D at regional level

• stimulating the setting-up of additional regional research-orientated clusters (men-toring activity)

• catalysing synergies and public private partnerships both on finance and research agenda standpoints at the European scale

ImplementationThe CARE project tasks will be carried out in three phases from January 2012 to December 2014:

1. The analysis of the state of play, sum-marized in regional and European SWOT analyses.

2. The drafting of the Joint Action Plan and its presentation to the regional and European authorities.

3. The launching of the implementation of the Joint Action Plan.

Work PackagesWP1: Management

WP2: State of play at regional levels

WP3: Routes for European based co- operative projects

WP4: Definition of the Joint Action Plan

WP5: Awareness and Joint Action Plan implementation

WP6: First supporting measures

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