Central - European Aeronautical Research Initiative

30.11.2009 Máire Geoghegan-Quinn named new Research and Innovation Commissioner

Irishwoman Máire Geoghegan-Quinn has been named European Commissioner for Research and Innovation by Commission President José Manuel Barroso. Please fina a valuable quotations from her, that she said at the hearing at the European Parliament:

"We need to modernise in the smaller countries that do not seem to be able to get the take-up that they need. But it is not just in my area that we need to do that under the Framework Programme. We also need to do that, I think, by enabling Structural Funds to be used as they were very effectively in the Member State that I know best: to build up a knowledge economy. So I think in using funds from the Framework Programme but also enabling the EUR 86 billion that is available in the Structural Funds area, I think we could do a very useful job of work in building up, not just the infrastructures, but also, of course, the capacities."

(http://www.europarl.europa.eu/hearings/static/commissioners/cre/geoghegan-quinn.pdf)

More information: http://ec.europa.eu/commission_2010-2014/geoghegan-quinn/index_en.htm

20.10.2009 Announcement of the CEARES-SESAR Special Workshop

How the Central European countries can take part in the SESAR validation?

The forthcoming workshop of the CEARES Project will be held on the 9th of December 2009 in the institute of EUROCONTROL CRDS, Budapest, Hungary. This workshop will be supported by the SESAR Joint Undertaking, the European ATM Project. This time the workshop will focus on one specific field which becomes more and more actual: the implementation of the SESAR project. The event is mainly organized for ANSP provider organisations upon invitation, but if you are interested,please feel free to contact Zoltan Bilacz at zoltanbilacz@slotconsulting.hu to discuss about a possible participation.

18.09.2009 Succesful Workshop in Bucharest

The third workshop of the CEARES project has succesfully ended. The two-days event fulfilled the expectations of the organizers, many Romanian companies were represented and they had an excellent possibility to contact some of the member companies of the Equipment Industrial Management Group (EqIMG), also present at the event.

02.08.2009 Networking and brokerage activities during Transport Information Days

ETNA project would like to support FP7 Info Day by organising additional networking and brokerage activities which will be mainly on 29 September. Participation may help you to come in contact with other potential proposers and partners. You can find more information at http://www.transport-ncps.net/node/91

30.07.2009 FP7 Transport Information Days

The next round of calls for proposals under the Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development (FP7) has been published on the 29th of July 2009. In order to support the preparation of proposals, the European Commission’s Research Directorate General will hold two ‘Information Days’ on 28 and 29 September 2009 in the Charlemagne building, rue de la Loi 170, in Brussels.

The aim of the two-day event is to inform potential researchers about FP7 and the new Transport Calls for Proposals under the ‘Co-operation’ Programme. Details will also be given on the main legal and procedural conditions and we will respond to your questions. Participants will also have the chance to network with potential project partners.

You can find more information at http://ec.europa.eu/research/transport/events/infodays2009_en.html

29.07.2009 European Commission FP7 “Surface Transport incl. Aeronautics” 3rd call

The launch of the 3rd call for proposals of the 7th Framework Programme is on the 29th of July 2009. It is time to find project partners and to start to elaborate your project ideas. The aeronautics and air transport funding priorities are:

  • The “greening” of air transport
  • Increasing time efficiency Customer satisfaction and safety
  • Improving cost efficiency
  • Protection of aircraft and passengers
  • Air transport of the future

You can find all information at www.cordis.eu

18.06.2009 Information Session for the Research Networks call for proposals

On Thursday 18th June more than 75 researchers from academia, research centres and industry assembled at the SJU premises for the first public event of Workpackage E, long-term and innovative research. The objective of the meeting was to explain the modalities of the forthcoming launch of the call for networks. WP-E: SESAR Long Term and Innovative Research.

Workpackage E addresses long-term and innovative research. In contrast to the core SESAR work where there is a fixed work programme, WP-E solicits proposals from the research community for the formation of networks of expertise and for project work. Information on the first Call for Networks is available, while the first Call for Projects is expected in the third quarter of this year.

You can find all information at www.sesarju.eu

10.07.2009. Announcement of the Bucharest workshop

“Meet the aeronautical industry’s needs – Networking opportunities”

Please note that the next (3rd) workshop of CEARES will be organized on the 16-17th of September 2009 in Bucharest (Romania), the hosting organisation will be INCAS (National Institute for Aerospace Research "Elie Carafoli"). The workshop will be connected with an EqIMG meeting, the participants will have the opportunity to meet the leading European industrialists.

INCAS is a leading establishment of Romania in aeronautics research and development. As a national research centre the organisation has good cooperation with research establishments in the region and across Europe. Besides participation in European research projects, INCAS performs significant research at national level, including participation in aircraft design.

Equipment IMG is managed by ASD-Europe (AeroSpace and Defence – Industries Association of Europe), and is one of the four IMGs (Industry Management Groups), called IMG4. ASD-IMG4 coordinates industry's position with regard to the EU Civil Aeronautics Framework Programmes and it represents the European aeronautics industry.

INCAS www.incas.ro

25.06.2009. CEARES presentation in Vienna

Roland Guraly, the coordinator of CEARES Project was invited to Vienna, Austria by the Austrian Research Promotion Agency, and held a presentation about the Hungarian System of research funding and about the CEARES Project.

The Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) is the national funding institution for applied industrial research in Austria.

Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) www.ffg.at

15.06.2009 Open call for proposals in the CleanSky Joint Undertaking

Clean Sky launched its first Call for proposals. The Call includes 72 individual work topics, in which five of the Integrated Technology Demonstrators seek the technical capabilities of additional partners.

Companies and research bodies interested in working with Clean Sky can consult the detailed description of work topics, to see which suit their technical capabilities. Interested parties can bid to be the chosen partner for a given work topic by submitting an on-line proposal via an electronic proposal submission system. The submission deadline for proposals is 31 August 2009 at 5 pm Brussels time.

The combined value of all work topics in this call is 35,4 million Euros, with funding provided up to a level of 26.5 million Euros.

You can find all information at www.cleansky.eu

20.05.2009 Successful workshop in Zilina

CEARES has successfully held its second workshop on the 18th and 19th of May 2009 in Zilina, Slovakia. The meeting entitled “Research Potentials and Perspectives of the Central European Area” attracted many of the CEARES Network Members and even other participants. The two days long event was divided into five sessions,each of them addressing the main topic from a different point of view.

  • Keynote session 1: Air Transport (including Slovak research strategy and SESAR)
  • Keynote session 2: Aeronautics (including FP7 3rd call, ACARE and Polish aviation industry)
    • Session 1: Industry visions and needs
    • Session 2: Research achievements
    • Session 3: Research co-operation plans

01.04.2009 Aero-Ukraine Project Launch

Slot Consulting Ltd, the coordinator of CEARES Project is proud to announce that the Aero-Ukraine Project (in which it has leader role too) has officially launched. The overall concept of the Aero-Ukraine Project is to facilitate research co-operation between aeronautics actors from the EU and Ukraine by

  • assessing and publicising the aeronautics collaboration potential,
  • raising awareness and understanding of EU aeronautics collaborative research,
  • and by supporting participation in FP7 aeronautics research.

The project has started on the 01st of April of 2009 and lasts for two years. The Consortium members are Antonov ASTC, SE Ivchenko-Progress, IPMS-NASU, KhAI, Intelligentsia Consultants, Patras University and Slot Consulting

You can find more information at www.aero-ukraine.eu

10.02.2009. Zilina University is the host of the workshop

The University of Zilina is a modern university providing a full range of technological, economic, management, and a limited range of humanistic and natural science education at under-graduate, graduate and post-graduate levels. During its existence the University has become a reputable institution within the university educational system of the Slovak Republic.

More information on Zilina University is at: www.fpedas.utc.sk

06.02.2009. Announcement of the Zilina workshop

The Second CEARES Workshop will be held on the 18th and 19th of May in Zilina, Slovakia. The “Enhancing industrial research co-operations in Central Europe” workshop will focus on exploring the possibilities for matching the capabilities of the Central European research establishments with the research needs of local and European industrial players. As a follow up on the first workshop discussions will contain FP7 and Clean Sky involvement possibilities and the how to bring local research needs on General Aviation to European level. The host of the event is University of Zilina

06.10.2008. EUROCONTROL CRDS, Budapest

The mission of the Central European Research, Development and Simulation (CRDS) Centre is to support Air Traffic Management through research, simulations and appropriate development. The vision of the CRDS is to be the Central European centre of excellence in Air Traffic Management validations and studies, recognised as such through their contributions in building the Single European Sky (SES).

Please visit the CRDS website at:www.eurocontrol.int/

01.04.2008 Official launch of the CEARES project

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 The Central European Aeronautical Research Initiative (CEARES) is an FP7 project. The project started on the 1st of April 2008 and will last till the 31st of March 2010.

The main objective of creating the CEARES project is to enhance regional cooperation in aeronautical research and development among different universities and research centres from the Central European region.