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Duration:

• 3 years (01.01.2010 - 31.12.2012)

• prolongation of one year: end of project: 31.12.2013

Budget:

• 1,9 Mio EUR

Consortium:

• Participating countries almost identical to AirTN FP6,

o 18 nations

o plus Hungary and Croatia

o open to new members

o information exchange process through ACARE and others

AirTN FP7 - key data:

Project Coordinator

•DLR e.V.- Programme Management Agency / Aeronautics Research

for the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology, Germany

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AirTN Landscape The AirTN

Countries:

Austria

Belgium

Croatia

France

Germany

Greece

Hungary

Ireland

Italy

Netherlands

Poland

Portugal

Romania

Slovakia

Spain

Sweden

Switzerland

United Kingdom

NORTH SEA

ATLANTIC OCEAN

MEDTERRANEAN SEA

Denmark

Finnland

Poland

France

Germany

Spain

Portugal

Greece

Italy Turkey

Switzer/ land

Autstria

Czech Republic

Estonia

Latvia

Lithuania

Belarus

Ukraine

Romania Hungary

Slovakia Moldova

Bulgaria

Russia

Ireland

Great Britain

Monte- negro

Serbia

Slovenia

Croatia Bosnia/ Herze- govina

Mace- donia

Albania

Norway

Nether-

lands

Belgium

Luxembourg

Malta

Sweden

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18 European States with 24 Partner Organisations 1 Austria BMIT Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology

FFG Austrian Research Promotion Agency

2 Belgium BELSPO Belgian Federal Science Policy Office Aeronautics

3 Croatia Uni. of Zagreb University of Zagreb

4 France ONERA Aeronautics and Space Research Centre

5 Germany BMWI Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology

DLR PT-LF German Aerospace Center - Program Management Agency/Aeronautics Research

6 Greece GSRT General Secretariat for Research and Technology

7 Hungary NIH National Innovation Office

8 Ireland EI Enterprise Ireland

9 Italy MIUR Ministry of University and Research

CIRA Italian Aerospace Research Center

10 Netherlands EZ Ministry of Economic Affairs

NLR National Aerospace Laboratory

11 Poland NCBIR National Centre for Research and Development

12 Portugal FCT Foundation of Science and Technology

13 Romania ROSA Romanian Space Agency

14 Slovakia MDPaT Ministry of Transport and Communications

Uni. of Zilina University of Zilina

15 Spain CDTI Centre for Development of Industrial Technology

16 Sweden VINNOVA Swedish Agency for Innovation Systems

17 Switzerland SER Secretariat for Education and Research

18 UK BIS Department for Business, Innovation & Skills

TSB Technology Strategy Board

Ministry

Agency

University

Research

Centre

Type of

Organization:

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To enhance synergies throughout Europe

To support transnational programmes

To act together to form an integrated community

To increase efficiency of and to avoid waste of funding the

coordination of national research programmes must be

improved

Coordination of EU Research

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No. Action Lead

WP1 Management and Coordination BMWI/DLR PT-LF;

Germany

WP2 Foundations of joint activities MDPaT/UNI Zilina;

Slovakia

WP3 Facilitators of joint activities BMVIT/FFG; Austria

WP4 Implementation of joint activities CDTI; Spain

WP5 Dissemination EZ/NLR; The Netherlands

Work-Packages:

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WP- 2 Foundations of joint activities

Objectives

• Information collection on research programmes

• Research topics for joint activities

• Establishment of a catalogue of aeronautical research infrastructures

in various EU countries and analysis of corresponding investment

policies, priorities and mechanisms

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WP- 3 Facilitators of joint activities

Objectives

• Development of documentation and processes for implementing joint

activities.

• This WP builds on the results of Work Packages 3 and 7 of AirTN-FP6.

WP 3 is providing best practise information to MS and AC aiming to set

up “joint activities” and/or “joint research programmes”. The

experiences and results of other ERA-Nets is taken into account

looking for best practices.

• This work package is supporting both modalities of joint activities:

Project-by-project basis and structured approach.

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WP- 4 Implementation of joint activities

Objectives

• Support transnational programmes/projects by developing specific

schemes and procedures.

• Make available a Call Calendar through MSs

• Provide tools for the transnational calls.

• Implement multinational pilot actions, joint activities and joint calls.

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WP- 5 Dissemination

Objectives

• Maintenance of the public website: http://www.airtn.eu

• Organisation of thematic fora

1st Forum: Aviation Safety Forum, 9th November 2011, in Köln,

Germany, EASA

2nd Forum: Greening and Independence from Fossil Fuels, 8th-9th

October 2012, Frankfurt, Germany

3rd Forum: Enabling and promising technologies for achieving the

goals of Europe's Vision Flightpath 2050, 26-27 September, Cranfield

University, UK

The AirTN Web page contains, among others, the following information:

National and Transnational Programmes

o Actual Information on National and Transnational Programmes

Actual Information on National and Transnational Calls

o Actual National and Transnational Call Calendar and Call Topics

o Presentations of national programmes within Europe

International RTD Landscape

Aeronautical Research Facilities Catalogue

National Inventories of Capabilities within Europe

Events

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Workshops AirTN-FP6

The Forum on

Green Air Transport System 31 October 2007 – Bonn - DLR

The Forum on

Single European Sky 31 January 2007

Brétigny EUROCONTROL

The Forum on

UAS & General Aviation Role in the future ATS

R&TD needs and current trends

February 6th 2009– Capua - CIRA

AirTN Forum

Organised by CIRA, EARPG-EASA and DLR

Aviation Safety Forum 9th November 2011, in Köln, Germany,

at Horion House, near by EASA Premises

Workshops AirTN-FP7

AirTN-FP7 14

2nd AirTN Forum in cooperation with DLR

Greening and independence from fossil fuels

8th - 9th October 2012

Frankfurt Airport, Germany

The Forum brought together different actors (researchers, airplane manufacturer, airlines, operators, fuel producers, regulators) presenting recent results and experiences providing a wide perspective on greening and discuss about the real possibility for aviation to reduce dependency from fossil fuels.

An updated view was provided on: aviation impact on climate; aviation fuel demand; oil peak forecast; EC policy on greening; international activities on rules and standards for emissions and alternative fuels; alternative fuels R&TD activities, production alternatives, expected impacts over the full life cycle.

Workshops AirTN-FP7

Most important successes

Establishment of a well-connected network

o Good cooperation within the consortium, with other consortia and countries.

o The network is exploited by members also for cooperation out of the specific AirTN project

Three transnational Calls

o LuFo –Take Off

o Austria, Ireland, Spain and Sweden

o Austria, Ireland, Italy, Spain, Sweden

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Coordinated Call

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Funding mode: Virtual Common Pot

• The virtual common pot, in which countries and regions pay for their

own participants and which does not involve trans-national flows of

national funding. Each country will fund its own national project

partners in successful proposals and covers its own administrative

effort.

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1. Call planning

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First transnational projects beetwen LuFo and Take Off

• Funding is being provided for a period of 3-4 years

• Combined overall funding budget of approx. 36.3 Mio EUR, shared

between LuFo (German Aerospace Programme) and TAKE-OFF

(Austrian Aerospace Programme).

ERA-Net AirTN (FP6)

1st Transnational Call for Proposals www.airtn.eu

ERA-Net AirTN (FP7)

2nd Transnational Call for Proposals

Funding of Cooperative R&TD Projects in Aeronautics

Austria, Ireland, Spain and Sweden

www.airtn.eu

24th May – 24th September, 2012.

www.airtn.eu

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4 proposal submitted

Alignment of funding programmes…timeframe:

Austria

Submission of proposal

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3 months

evaluation

2 months

Funding decision

2 weeks

Sweden

Spain

Sub pre-prop

1 month

Eval pre-prop

1 month

Sub full-prop

1 month

eval full-prop

2 months

Fund decision

1 month

Ireland

Submission of proposal

3 months

evaluation

2 months

Funding decision

2 weeks

www.airtn.eu

ERA-NET AIRTN (FP7) opens the 3rd Transnational Call for proposals

FUNDING OF COOPERATIVE R&TD PROJECTS IN AERONAUTICS

PARTICIPATING COUNTRIES

• Austria

• Ireland

• Italy

• Spain

• Sweden

Organisations from other countries are welcomed to participate in

transnational projects but won’t be funded within the national

programmes of the above mentioned countries.

• Call opens on 1st July, 2013.

• Deadline for submission: 15 October 12:00 CET, 2013

• The submission of proposals via the AirTN website is

possible since 1st September

AAT.2013.7-6. Enhancing coordination and stimulating cooperation in research and

innovation among EU Member States and Associated States to the EU Framework

Programme

CIRA is coordinating the proposal

Participant

organisation name Country

CIRA Italy

APRE Italy

CDTI Spain

FFG Austria

DLR Germany

ONERA France

UNIZA Slovakia

NLR The Netherlands

BIS UK

EI Ireland

CROSS-CUTTING ACTIVITIES FOR IMPLEMENTING THE SUB-THEME PROGRAMME (2.a)

WP2013 - VI Call – AAT/FP7

AirTN NextGen

Goal

A platform of national representatives acting towards the

support of joint trans-national initiatives within the Horizon

2020 framework

Instrument • CSA • National Funding Mechanisms

Time Frame • 24 months (if CSA is funded) • Horizon 2020 if a new ERA-NET

Content

• transnational cooperation / joint programming • international cooperation • research infrastructures • education and workforce mobility

Core partners

Agencies/Ministries/Research Centres that are funding/managing research and innovation programmes/projects relevant to Aeronautics and Air Transport

Communication Coordination of National Programmes

AirTN NexGen

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To perform Transnational Calls we need to climb over difficulties

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If we keep climbing over difficulties We might reach our goals!

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Definition of targeted projects

• Elegible organizations:

– National rules concerning eligible organisations have to be taken into

account

• Minimum requirement for the composition of consortia

– Project partners from at least two participating countries (Austria, Ireland,

Spain, Sweden)

– In addition, national eligibility criteria may differ from country to country and

have to be taken into account (for details see national call regulations)

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1. Call planning

Supporting documents common proposal

• Call announcement, call text

• Guidelines for applicants

• Proposal Forms

• Profile form…. Partner search facility

• Checklist for applicants

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2. Call preparation

Submission of proposals

• Common proposal of the project partners submitted by the consortium

coordinator to the central ERA-NET call secretariat.

– Notification to applicants

– All submitted proposals will be forwarded to Call secretariat

members.

• Additional separate national/regional application must be submitted to

the national agency according to national rules.

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3. Submission

Centralised evaluation carried out by AirTN call secretariat.

– Simple eligibility check

– Check for national/regional requirements

• Consensus meeting: compiling results

• Feedback to applicants

Decentralised evaluation carried out by national programmes.

• Assessment of full proposals (national funding applications)

• Consensus meeting: compiling results of full-proposal assessment

• Communication of result to coordinators

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4. Evaluation

Outcome of evaluation: joint recommendation

• Common centralised recommendation & decentralised funding

decisions: the outcome of the evaluation process at the ERA-NET level

is a jointly agreed list of proposals that are recommended for funding. The

panel or body that produces the common list of proposals suitable for

funding or ranking list issues a recommendation to the decision makers at

the national/regional level.

• The final decision should be at national/regional programme owner

level

WP4

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5. Funding decisions

Challenges of national contract preparation

• In the case of a VCP, separate contracts are concluded by the

single agencies. Each agency should therefore see for an efficient

and timely contract preparation. The agencies should achieve

agreement on the following points:

– Agreed duration for the participation of all participants

– Requirements for additional joint reporting

– Rules for IPR distribution and the exploitation of results

– The binding necessity of a consortium agreement for contracting

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5. Funding decisions

Distribution and monitoring of funds

• In the VCP model funds are usually provided directly by the

respective national/regional agency to successful applicants.

Consequently, monitoring of funds, too, is effected by the

agencies in this direct inter-relationship.

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5. Funding decisions

• Monitoring of funded projects

– National level

– AirTN level:

• Additional joint reporting by the coordinator

• Necessary a letter signed by the funding entities involved in

the call for success finalised projects.

• Monitoring of call implementation.

• Call results.

• Dissemination of call results.

• Analysing impact of joint call.

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6. After the call