Search for European Projects

Over 40 European Projects Found

Searched on 125080 European Projects

 FINISHED 

European Human Rights Law for Universities of Ukraine and Moldova

Start date: Oct 15, 2016, End date: Oct 14, 2019,

Wider objective is to enable Ukraine and Moldova to face the challenges of dealing with Human Rights policies in accordance with EU and international standards through capacity and institutional building measures. By developing and introducing new Bologna-compliant case-oriented master and doctoral curricula, intensive capacity building mechanism and establishing Offices of Student Ombudsman suppo ...
Read Project

 17

 FINISHED 

Strategic and Targeted Support for Europe-Ukraine Collaboration in Aviation Research (AERO-UA)

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2019,

The overall aim of the AERO-UA project is to stimulate aviation research collaboration between the EU and Ukraine through strategic and targeted support. AERO-UA is focused solely on Ukraine, because the country has a huge aerospace potential but a low level of aviation research collaboration with the EU. Ukraine’s aerospace sector spans the full spectrum of systems and components development and ...
Read Project

 9

 FINISHED 

Facilitating Collaboration in ReseArch and Development to Foster Further Innovation in European AeroNautics (RADIAN)

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2019,

...egions are heavily involved in aviation R&D and are origin of wealth and prosperity.RADIAN is a multi-step project which intends to overcome this misbalance by identification of barriers for international collaboration in aviation research at EU level and by subsequent development and verification of solutions and measures on level of the European regions.The initial step is to assess the impact o ...
Read Project

 10

 FINISHED 

Drag Reduction in Turbulent Boundary Layer via Flow Control (DRAGY)

Start date: Apr 1, 2016, End date: Mar 31, 2019,

The proposed project “Drag Reduction via Turbulent Boundary Layer Flow Control” (DRAGY) will approach the problem of turbulent drag reduction through the investigation of active/passive flow-control techniques to manipulate the drag produced by the flow structures in turbulent boundary layers. In addition, the project aims to improve the understanding of the underlying physics behind the control t ...
Read Project

 13

 FINISHED 

Validation of Integrated Safety-enhanced Intelligent flight cONtrol (VISION)

Start date: Mar 1, 2016, End date: Feb 28, 2019,

To enhance air transport safety, the main objective of VISION is to validate smarter technologies for aircraft Guidance, Navigation and Control (GN&C) by including 1/ vision-based systems 2/ advanced detection and resilient methods. Critical flight situations are targeted, especially during near-ground operation phases (half of 169 fatal accidents in the last decade during approach or landing). Ac ...
Read Project

 6

 FINISHED 

Future Sky Safety

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

The EC Flight Path 2050 vision aims to achieve the highest levels of safety to ensure that passengers and freight as well as the air transport system and its infrastructure are protected. However, trends in safety performance over the last decade indicate that the ACARE Vision 2020 safety goal of an 80% reduction of the accident rate is not being achieved. A stronger focus on safety is required. T ...
Read Project

 32

 FINISHED 

Flight safety and airworthiness - a masters programme

Start date: Oct 15, 2015, End date: Oct 14, 2018,

The international aviation industry understandably devotes much attention to the question of Flight safety and airworthiness, stressing the need for a holistic understanding between the machines, people who use them and the environment in which they operate throughout the aircraft’s life cycle. This project addresses the issue by developing an educational programme that assists in bringing the ap ...
Read Project

 9

 FINISHED 

Building European Links toward South East Asia in the field of GNSS (BELS)

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2018,

The project implements a set of coordinated actions to promote EGNSS technology in South East Asia (SEA), meanwhile supporting the competitiveness of EU enterprises facilitating their contacts with relevant GNSS stakeholders in SEA, a fast growing market of more than 600 million people. Exploiting the facilities offered in Hanoi by the NAVIS Centre - a strategic asset for Europe, setup with FP7 EU ...
Read Project

 13

 FINISHED 

"""2nd Generation Active Wing“ – Active Flow- Loads & Noise control on next generation wing" (AFLONEXT)

Start date: Jun 1, 2013, End date: May 31, 2018,

AFLoNext is a four year EC L2 project with the objective of proving and maturing highly promising flow control technologies for novel aircraft configurations to achieve a quantum leap in improving aircraft’s performance and thus reducing the environmental footprint. The project consortium is composed by forty European partners from fifteen countries. The work has been broken down into seven work p ...
Read Project

 41

 FINISHED 

Aeroelastic Gust Modelling (AEROGUST)

Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Apr 30, 2018,

Encounters with atmospheric turbulence are a vitally important in the design and certification of many manmade structures such as aircraft and wind turbines. Gusts cause rapid changes in the flow about the structures which leads to rigid and flexible unsteady responses. Knowledge of aircraft/gust interactions is therefore vital for loads estimation during aircraft design as it impacts on control s ...
Read Project

 13

 FINISHED 

High Altitude Ice Crystals (HAIC)

Start date: Aug 1, 2012, End date: Jan 31, 2017,

... 34 partners representing the European stakeholders of the aeronautical industry from eleven European countries and 5 partners from Australia, Canada and the United States.HAIC will also develop international cooperation and collaboration thanks to the involvement of key international organisations and companies as partners of the project or through the HAIC Advisory Board.Letters of support from ...
Read Project

 40

 FINISHED 

Cold Spray Radical Solutions for Aeronautic Improved Repairs (CORSAIR) (CORSAIR)

Start date: Jun 1, 2013, End date: Nov 30, 2016,

CORSAIR project is a wide investigation concerning the capabilities of Cold Spray Technology for maintenance and repair of aeronautic frames and components. Today, deep and systematic investigation in Cold Spray is required to better understand the capabilities and fully validate the technology in aeronautics. In this scenario, the activities planned in CORSAIR project are (1) Explore the real cap ...
Read Project

 13

 FINISHED 

More Affordable Aircraft structure through eXtended, Integrated, and Mature nUmerical Sizing (MAAXIMUS)

Start date: Apr 1, 2008, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

Even though composite materials are more and more used in modern airframes, many significant improvements are still achievable. Firstly, the substitution of the assembly of many small composite parts by a single one-shot large part provides additional weight reduction. Secondly, the final assembly line process must be adapted to composite properties (lack of ductility, stiffness). Thirdly, if the ...
Read Project

 60

 FINISHED 

Thermal Overall Integrated Conception of Aircraft (TOICA)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

Thermal behaviour of aircraft has recently become a crucial subject due to many factors: increasing number of complex systems required by modern, more electric, commercial aircraft, the introduction of hotter engines with higher by-pass ratios, the increased use of composite material in aircraft structures, or the confinement of highly dissipative equipment and systems in smaller areas to earn spa ...
Read Project

 34

 FINISHED 

UKraine Replication, Awareness and INnovation based on EGNSS (UKRAINE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

The objective of the UKRAINE project, in line with GALILEO-3-2014 Call, are to foster application development through international cooperation and to create a broad acceptance of EGNSS in Ukraine, creating at the same time opportunities both for knowledge building and at commercial level. The contribution of the UKRAINE project with respect to the aforementioned objectives relates to the achievem ...
Read Project

 10

 FINISHED 

RELIABILITY AND SAFETY ENHANCED ELECTRICAL ACTUATION SYSTEM ARCHITECTURES (RESEARCH)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

The main objective of RESEARCH project is the definition of an electrical architecture for Flight Control System capable of controlling a flight control surface on an Aircraft with the help of electrically operated actuators, thus replacing the hydraulic actuators commonly used in current Aircraft designs.This architecture will be designed with the main objective of being electrical, as this is th ...
Read Project

 7

 FINISHED 

A European volcanological supersite in Iceland: a monitoring system and network for the future (FUTUREVOLC)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Mar 31, 2016,

...mistry, infrasound, eruption monitoring, physical volcanology, satellite studies of plumes, meteorology, ash dispersal forecasting, and civil defence. This European consortium leads the way for multi-national volcanological collaboration with the aim of mitigating the effects of major eruptions that pose cross-border hazards. Iceland is selected as a laboratory supersite area for demonstration bec ...
Read Project

 27

 FINISHED 

Transition Location Effect on Shock Wave Boundary Layer Interaction (TFAST)

Start date: Feb 1, 2012, End date: Jan 31, 2016,

Vision-2020, whose objectives include the reduction of emissions and a more effective transport systems, puts severe demands on aircraft velocity and weight. These require an increased load on wings and aero-engine components. The greening of air transport systems means a reduction of drag and losses, which can be obtained by keeping laminar boundary layers on external and internal airplane parts ...
Read Project

 16

 FINISHED 

"Non-Destructive EValuation, Inspection and Testing of Primary Aeronautical Composite Structures Using Phase Contrast X-Ray Imaging" (EVITA)

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: Nov 30, 2015,

"The objective of this proposal is to further focus on the application and appropriate adaptation of Phase Contrast X-ray imaging technology for the Non-Destructive Evaluation and Inspection of primary aeronautical composite structures, both during the manufacturing process and during the repair and re-use of key components. The introduction of this new methodology is expected to provide the aeron ...
Read Project

 5

 FINISHED 

Aviation Noise Research Network and Coordination (X-NOISE EV)

Start date: Dec 1, 2010, End date: Nov 30, 2015,

The X-NOISE EV Coordination Action, through its network structure and comprehensive workplan involving experts groups, scientific workshops, international cooperation seminars and a common information system, addresses the noise challenges faced by Aviation. To this end, it will more specifically:- Evaluate EU-funded projects results and assess their contribution to the state-of-the-art.- Formulat ...
Read Project

 28

 FINISHED 

Smart Intelligent Aircraft Structures (SARISTU)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Aug 31, 2015,

The project proposal concerns the challenges posed by the physical integration of smart intelligentstructural concepts. It addresses aircraft weight and operational cost reductions as well as animprovement in the flight profile specific aerodynamic performance.This concerns material concepts enabling a conformal, controlled distortion of aerodynamicallyimportant surfaces, material concepts enablin ...
Read Project

 68

 FINISHED 

"Integrating the National Aerospace University ""KhAI"" into ERA" (KhAI-ERA)

Start date: Dec 1, 2011, End date: May 31, 2015,

The overall aim of the KhAI-ERA project is to integrate the National Aerospace University (KhAI) into ERA, by reinforcing its cooperation capacities and twinning with European research and innovation organisations in its 3 strongest aerospace and IT research topics: A) Composite Materials, B) Advanced Manufacturing for Aircraft Assembly, and C) Dependable Embedded Systems. These are topics highly ...
Read Project

 6

 FINISHED 

Composite fuselage section Wafer Design Approach for Safety Increasing in Worst Case Situations and Joints Minimizing (WASIS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

"Aeronautics is a key asset for the future of Europe, but nowadays the industry has to face the challenge of “More Affordable, Safer, Cleaner and Quieter” while at the same time accounting for a demand that will triple over the next 20 years. WASIS project aims to rise to this challenge with the development of a composite fuselage structure based on the lattice stiffening concept, optimizing geome ...
Read Project

 14

 FINISHED 

Smart Aircraft in Emergency Situations (SMAES)

Start date: Feb 1, 2011, End date: Oct 31, 2014,

"Ditching analysis is requested for large transport aircraft by EASA. The respective requirements are specified under § ‘’CS 25.801 Ditching’’. They are primarily devoted to a minimisation of risks for immediate injuries and the provision of fair chances for an evacuation. A significant part of average air travel is over water and historically a planned or unplanned water-landing event occurs gros ...
Read Project

 16

 FINISHED 

OPtimisation for low Environmental Noise impact AIRcraft (OPENAIR)

Start date: Apr 1, 2009, End date: Sep 30, 2014,

Reducing noise from aircraft operations perceived by airport neighbouring communities is a major challenge facing the aircraft manufacturing industry, social society and the air transport business. By adopting a whole aircraft approach based on the latest developments in active / adaptive technologies, flow control techniques and advances in computational aero-acoustics applied to the major causes ...
Read Project

 51

 FINISHED 

Fire risks assessment and increase of passenger survivability (AircraftFire)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2014,

The project aims for the increase of passenger survivability in the case of fire aboard aircraft focused on the next generation of aircraft. The composite materials and other combustible materials are increasingly used in order to reduce the weight of the aircraft or to higher the passenger comfort, but they raise the fire load significantly. Although these materials have passed the certification ...
Read Project

 13

 FINISHED 

All Condition Operations and Innovative Cockpit Infrastructure (ALICIA)

Start date: Sep 1, 2009, End date: Aug 31, 2014,

"ALICIA addresses the ACARE objective of increasing time efficiency within the future air transport system. The aim will be to develop a new and scalable cockpit application which can extend operations of aircraft in degraded conditions – “All Conditions Operations”. A key objective will be to deliver an extensible application that can be applied to many aircraft types. This will necessarily enta ...
Read Project

 42

 FINISHED 

Manipulation of Reynolds Stress for Separation Control and Drag Reduction (MARS)

Start date: Oct 1, 2010, End date: Mar 31, 2014,

"Reynolds stress is the most important quantity affecting the mean flow as it is responsible for a major part of the momentum transfer in the wall bounded turbulent flow. It has a direct relevance to both skin friction and flow separation. Manipulation of the Reynolds stress can directly lead to changes in the viscous stress at the wall so as to effectively control the flow for effective flow cont ...
Read Project

 19

 FINISHED 

"SEAMLESS AERONAUTICAL NETWORKING THROUGH INTEGRATION OF DATA LINKS, RADIOS, AND ANTENNAS" (SANDRA)

Start date: Oct 1, 2009, End date: Dec 31, 2013,

"Air traffic in Europe is expected to double by 2025 according to the last forecast of Eurocontrol. Future passenger and freight fleets will bring better efficiency and improved environmental performance, and will allow people to benefit from the connections that only air transport can deliver. In this context, an integrated aircraft communication system is of paramount importance to improve effic ...
Read Project

 34

 FINISHED 

HIRF Synthetic Environment (HIRF SE)

Start date: Dec 1, 2008, End date: May 31, 2013,

"The HIRF SE research project has the goal of providing the aeronautics industry with a framework which can be used during the development phase to mitigate the EM aspects. In addition it will provide a considerable reduction in the certification/qualification tests required on air vehicle. The HIRF SE main objectives can be summarized by the two followings items: • Full validated and integrated s ...
Read Project

 45

 FINISHED 

Tool Suite for Environmental and Economic Aviation Modelling for Policy Analysis (TEAM_Play)

Start date: Dec 1, 2010, End date: Mar 31, 2013,

...and points of view primarily set by the US. TEAM_Play will create a modelling framework to combine and advance European modelling capabilities in order to support the European perspective in the international policy arena.TEAM_Play deals with interdependencies and trade-offs between noise, gas emissions, environmental and economic impacts of the air transport sector. The objective of TEAM_Play is ...
Read Project

 19

 FINISHED 

Advanced Turbulence Simulation for Aerodynamic Application Challenges (ATAAC)

Start date: Apr 1, 2009, End date: Jun 30, 2012,

"The ATAAC project aims at improvements to Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) methods for aerodynamic flows used in today’s aeronautical industry. The accuracy of these is limited by insufficient capabilities of the turbulence modelling / simulation approaches available, especially at the high Reynolds numbers typical of real-life flows. As LES will not be affordable for such flows in the next 4 d ...
Read Project

 22

 FINISHED 

Alternative Fuels and Biofuels for Aircraft Development (ALFA-BIRD)

Start date: Jul 1, 2008, End date: Jun 30, 2012,

"ALFA-BIRD aims at developing the use of alternative fuels in aeronautics. In a context where the price of oil is increasing and with impact of fossil fuels on climate change, the sustainable growth of the civil aviation is conditioned by the respect of the environment. In this context, using biofuels and alternative fuels in aeronautics is a great challenge, since the operational constraints (e.g ...
Read Project

 24

 FINISHED 

EXTreme ICing Environement (EXTICE)

Start date: Jun 1, 2008, End date: May 31, 2012,

...oud droplet). The main concern is the presence of super-cooled large droplets (SLD) such as freezing drizzle, in the range of 40-400 μm, or freezing rain, with droplet diameter beyond 400 μm. International airworthiness authorities, namely are intending to jointly develop and issue updated regulations for certification in SLD: “Appendix X”. If implemented, the proposed new rules will require aircr ...
Read Project

 14

 FINISHED 

HeliconPlasmaHydrazine.COmbinedMicro (HPH.com)

Start date: Dec 1, 2008, End date: May 31, 2012,

The objective of the research program is to design, optimize and develop a space plasma thruster based on helicon-radio-frequency technology and its application to a nano-satellite for attitude and position control. Moreover a detailed feasibility study will be also conducted to evaluate the possibility of using the plasma thruster to heat and decompose a secondary propellant. The feasibility stud ...
Read Project

 15

 FINISHED 

SCAlable & ReconfigurabLe Electronics plaTforms and Tools (SCARLETT)

Start date: May 1, 2008, End date: Apr 30, 2012,

"The first generation of Integrated Modular Avionics (IMA1G) has been researched via European funded research projects; PAMELA, NEVADA and VICTORIA. This technology supported a revolutionary step away from federated architectures and their classical bespoke electronics to a modular architecture with common resources. IMA1G was introduced to the market on the A380, A400M and B787 aircraft. IMA1G re ...
Read Project

 39

 FINISHED 

valiDation of Radical Engine Architecture systeMs (DREAM)

Start date: Feb 1, 2008, End date: Jan 31, 2012,

"Since the publication of the ACARE goals, the commercial and political pressure to reduce CO2 has increased considerably. DREAM is the response of the aero-engine community to this pressure. The first major DREAM objective is to design, integrate and validate new engine concepts based on open rotor contra-rotating architectures to reduce fuel consumption and CO2 emissions 7% beyond the ACARE 2020 ...
Read Project

 46

 FINISHED 

More Integrated Systems Safety Assessment (MISSA)

Start date: Apr 1, 2008, End date: Jun 30, 2011,

"The increase of aerospace systems complexity has meant that by using existing methods for systems development, industry has reached a barrier to innovation and a risk to the competitiveness of products. This is characterised by an increasing time to market for new technologies, increasing costs to demonstrate proof of safety, a greater demand for skilled resources and a limitation on design itera ...
Read Project

 13

 FINISHED 

Strengthening education in space-based remote sensing for monitoring of eco systems in Israel, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan

Start date: Dec 1, 2013,

The project consortium includes the following partners: three HEI`s from EU; nine Universities from AZ, IL and KZ; four stakeholders of related field from PCs; MHE from AZ and KZ; Ministry of Environmental protection from IL. Wider objective of the project is ensuring that the target Universities in AZ, IL and KZ can offer two cycle programmes in Space Based Remote Sensing Techniques to improve ...
Read Project

 20

 FINISHED 

Highway and Traffic Engineering: Curricular Reform for Mediterranean Area

Start date: Dec 1, 2013,

The project objective is to design, develop and implement a new curriculum programme in Highway and Traffic Engineering in a joint effort between EU and Mediterranean Universities in line with Bologna requirements. The former will transfer EU best practices, experiences and methodologies according to the Bologna process to support the development and diffusion of an innovative experience in techni ...
Read Project

 17