EREA Newsletter – April 12

EREA Newsletter – April 2012

New EREA Chairteam

In its December meeting, the EREA Board elected Prof. Rolf Henke Member of the Executive Board of DLR for Aeronautics as new Chairman of EREA. He will be supported by Michel Peters General Director of NLR, who as outgoing EREA chair has traditionally been elected to take over the EREA Vice-Chairmanship. In addition to that the EREA Board appointed Paul Eijssen, NLR, as EREA secretary and treasurer, Marcello Amato, CIRA, as head of the Aeronautical Research Group and Sylviane Pascal, ONERA, as head of the Security Research Group.

Under their leadership EREA and its groups will review and adapt the EREA strategy according to the new boundary conditions laid down in Flightpath 2050. EREA will continue to contribute and participate to ACARE in order to influence the European research and innovation strategy in Aviation (SRIA). In the implementation of the SRIA in Horizon 2020 EREA will have a special focus on a possible instrument called Joint Research Initiative, which will support and foster joint actions and the further increase of EREA’s internal and external

visibility. For the preparation of such an instrument the EREA Board set-up a dedicated Ad-Hoc Working Group which is led by Josef Kaspar, General Director VZLU.

The EREA Board (from left) Anders Blom, FOI, Josef Kaspar, VZLU, the EREA chairman Rolf Henke, DLR, Catalin Nae, INCAS, Denis Maugars, ONERA, the EREA vicechairman Michel Peters, NLR, Ryszard Szczepanik, AFIT, Carmen Rodriguez Augustin, INTA, Marcin Gawronski representing W. Wisniowski, ILOT.

EREA Annual Event 2011 The EREA Board members welcomed about 80 representatives from European Parliament, European Commission, national and regional ministries as well as from industry and research organizations at the EREA Annual Event, on 20 December 2011 in the Hotel Renaissance, Brussels.

Michel Peters, the EREA Chairman, gave a short review on the EREA activities in the last year and introduced Mr Robert-Jan Smits, Director General of the Directorate General for Research and Innovation in the European Commission as the keynote speaker. Mr Smits presented an overview on the Commission’s proposal on Horizon 2020, the first European Framework Programme for research and innovation.

As EREA was awarded approximately one fifth of the total aeronautics budget, representing approximately 150 million Euros of EC funding in the current 7th Framework Programme he appreciated the role of EREA and its members’ not only as knowledgeable and requested partners but also their contributions in defining future research strategies. Finally he asked EREA to continue in its key role in addressing the environmental, energy and resource challenges.

After the official speeches, the participants were invited to continue the evening with a buffet dinner. Robert-Jan Smits in discussion with the outgoing EREA Chairman

Michel Peters and the incoming EREA Chairman Rolf Henke.

EREA Award Each year EREA launches its Best Paper Award on evolutionary research. The award is the acknowledgment of the best EREA publication in the previous year. The award ceremony was coupled like every year with the EREA end year Event.

In 2011, 22 papers were submitted: CIRA, DLR, INCAS, INTA, NLR, ONERA and VKI submitted 3 papers each, AFIT submitted one paper. Each paper was evaluated according to four criteria: originality, scientific quality, clearness of the paper and coherence with SRA.

In 2011, the jury was composed by members from the EREA research establishments: Mr. P. Renzoni, CIRA, Mr. H. Hüners, DLR, Mr. A. Blom, FOI, Mr. R. Dorado, INTA, Mr. H. Tijdeman, NLR, Mr. E. Rosencher, ONERA, Mr. M. Bossak, ILOT, Mr. S. Radnef, INCAS, Mr. J. Fiala, VZLU and Mr. D. Knörzer representing the European Commission.

The winner of the EREA Best Paper Award 2011 was the paper “Multidisciplinary Optimization of Propeller Blades: focus on the aeroacoustic results”, written by the authors: B.G. Marinus - Royal Military Academy/VKI, M. Roger - Ecole Centrale de Lyon, R.A. Van den Braembussche – VKI, W. Bosschaerts - Royal Military Academy.

The paper was presented at the 17th AIAA/CEAS Aeroacoustics Conference, June 6-8 2011, Portland (USA) and published by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

EREA data 2010 • Intramural aeronautics research for R&T: 447 M€

• Annual Investments: 182 M€

• Annual revenues from EU projects: 55.5 M€

• PhD thesis: 1146

• Total number of publications: 8017

• Publications in refereed journals: 1144

• Total employees in the aeronautics fields: 5135

• Scientists in the aeronautics fields: 3176

EREA Newsletter – April 12

Position paper on Horizon 2020 General remarks • EREA welcomes the opening of Horizon 2020 to Research and Innovation. The chosen three pillar structure

(Excellent Science, Industrial Leadership, Societal Challenges) addresses very relevant political goals in the current social and economic scenario.

• Research and innovation needs a close cooperation of all stakeholders (academia, research organisations, SMEs and

industry) in the entire research and innovation cycle. EREA would like to see the entire research and innovation chain supported by Horizon 2020, both in the entire programme, and in the individual pillars of the programme.

More specifically:

o Industrially oriented research and test infrastructures should be part of the Research Infrastructure in Horizon 2020,

o Small and medium sized research projects should be part of both the pillars for Societal Challenges and Industrial Leadership.

A possible separation of stakeholders according to pillars (for example excellence science for academia and research centre; industrial leadership for industry) will interrupt the needed cooperation and continuous transfer of knowledge from basic research up to innovation.

• EREA would like to see a mechanism to link Horizon 2020 and the structural funds in order to support and maintain European strategic research infrastructure, including those for industrial competitiveness.

Research on (Air) Transport

• EREA welcomes the integrated approach on transport research and the focus on societal challenges and industrial leadership. According to the successful experience in aeronautics:

o Knowledge existing in one mode of transport can be transferred to other modes, e.g. materials and aerodynamics. o At the same time research and products in each mode of transport has its own characteristics and different

dynamics, life cycles, standards, certifications. The specific research challenges of the different transport modes should be addressed. The intermodality should deserve the right attention without loosing the focus on the specific modes.

o Research in air transport is characterised by long development times which is dealt with in an appropriate manner by the existing funding instruments differenciating between low and high technology readiness levels (L0 – L1 – L2 – L3).

o EREA would welcome that Europe and in particular Horizon 2020 will use the Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA) currently prepared by the Advisory Council for Aviation Research and Innovation in Europe (ACARE) as Guideline for designing the future programme contents. Specific elements should find space in all the pillars, (e.g. specific enabling technologies form the SRIA among KET of Industrial Leadership pillar).

Rules of Participation • EREA welcomes the simplification of the rules of participation in Horizon 2020, but also notices that the new

funding rules can have a negative impact for research establishments.

o The total funding of 120% of the direct costs (100% direct + 20% indirect) does not cover the large indirect costs of research establishments which run large research infrastructures and do not have the possibility to get a return on investments like industry.

o Lack of 100% coverage of the full project management costs will strongly discourage parties to lead research proposals.

• Horizon 2020 will give more attention to Public Private Partnerships (PPP’s), such as Clean Sky and Green Cars. EREA would like Horizon 2020 to also include a so-called P2P instrument for public-public partnerships. P2P could foster the co-ordination between national research establishments through a Joint Research Initiative.

o More co-ordination of national institutional research will lead to a stronger synergy of national and European research resources.

o The creation of an instrument for a focused joint research initiative in Horizon 2020 will lead to a more structured public demand for research in Europe.

• EREA has taken and is prepared to take over lead positions within a new Joint Technology Initiative on Air

Transport (Clean Sky 2?).

EREA Newsletter – April 12

Report from ARG Clean Sky Joint Undertaking (CSJU)

EREA Research Establishments are involved in the Joint Undertaking formed to manage the Clean Sky Joint Technology Initiative developed by the European aeronautical sector according to FP7´s new instrument, Level 3: CIRA, DLR, INCAS, NLR and ONERA, individually or in clusters, are Associate Members in Clean Sky´s Integrated Technology Demonstrators (ITD), except in the one for Sustainable and Green Engines (SAGE). DLR is co-leading the Technology Evaluator involving also NLR, ONERA and CIRA. SFWA

Smart Fixed

Wing Aircraft

GRA

Green

Regional Aircraft

GRC

Green

RotorCraft

SAGE

Green

Engines

SGO

Systems

for Green Ops

ED

Eco-Design

TE

Technology

Evaluator

DLR

INCAS cluster NLcluster/NLR

ONERA

CIRA+/INCAS

ONERA

CIRA

DLR Igor/ NLR

ONERA

_ DLR

GSAF/NLR

NLcluster/NLR CIRA

DLR (co-leader) NLR

ONERA

Concerning the Clean Sky Calls for Proposals (CfP), FOI, IoA, VKI, INTA and VZLU have achieved partnership in specific projects.

In 2011, ONERA (SFWA), CIRA (GRA) and DLR (SGO) were members of the Clean Sky´s Joint Undertaking (CSJU) Governing Board.

In 2012, INCAS (SFWA and vice chair of CSJU), ONERA (GRC), NLR (SGO) and DLR as observer will take part in CSJU´s Governing Board. SESAR Joint Undertaking (SJU)

Since the beginning of SESAR, Onera is affiliate of DSNA, the French Air Navigation Service Provider (ANSP) and member of SESAR; later NLR became associate partner of three ANSPs, DFS (D), DSNA (F) and ENAV (I).

In 2011, the evaluation of proposals received in response to the invitation to apply for becoming “Associate Partners of the SJU” resulted in four consortia with EREA participation becoming associate to the SJU, which are thus enabled to be subsequently selected for future projects.

Participation of EREA members in selected Consortia:

• AT-One consortium (DLR-NLR), in Information Management (lot1);

• MAGNITUDE consortium involving CIRA, INTA and ONERA AT-One consortium, in Airborne and CNS Systems (lot 4);

• INNOVATE consortium involving INTA and ONERA, in Modelling Support to validation (lot 5);

• AT-One consortium and ATM fusion consortium coordinated by ONERA with CIRA, INTA, INCAS and ILOT, in UAV/UAS integration in SESAR (lot 6). ICONUS coordinated by ONERA was recently launched on this last topic.

5th Call AAT/FP7 EREA REs are well represented in four selected L2 projects (HAIC, E-BREAK, LOCOMACHS, ACROSS) dealing respectively with: high altitude icing conditions, innovative technologies for engines, composite materials, and innovative cockpit technology.

EREA is widely represented in fifteen successful L1 proposals. Additionally, EREA is involved in a proposal selected within the EU Japan coordinated Call, the subject of which is high speed aircraft.

EREA is also involved in two selected CSA-SA. The CSAs are considered important for their strategic goals.

Overall EREA had a success rate of about 23%; it is worth noting that the average scoring of EREA lead proposals was 11.7.

EREA Young Researchers event 2011 The Young Researchers event is becoming a more and more important date for EREA REs researchers, as an occasion to meet their colleagues and to discuss their ideas out of the usual scheme of projects and of the rigid environment of labs; an interesting opportunity to have some thematic exchange of point of views contributing efficiently, together with the exchange of personnel, to the improvement of a common base of knowledge on the long way of EREA REs “integration”. The 2011 appointment for EREA young researchers was organized in the interesting venue of the European Parliament in Brussels, on December, 20th where 25 young researchers from nine EREA REs (CIRA, DLR, ILOT, INTA, ITWL, NLR, ONERA, VKI and VZLU) were welcomed and informed about the latest discussions going on in the European Parliament related to the next research programmes by Mr. Philippe de Backer, MEP (ALDE). After a short introductory briefing about “Flightpath 2050” they had the opportunity to discuss in groups four topics:

• Recyclable aircrafts, • Reduction of Co2, NOx and perceived noise, • Emission free taxiing, and • How to attract youngsters for a career in aeronautics.

With the aim to come up with some proposals presenting their fresh, innovative ideas, thus contributing directly to the preparation of the incoming EU research programme. The 25 young researchers, organized in three groups and supported by some moderators/stimulators, freely discussed the selected topics, identifying some possible short, medium and long term actions to move ahead to the solution of the main problems envisaged, then they autonomously elected the rapporteurs that were in charge for the homogenization of the proposals and the presentation of the outcome of the workshop for each topic. Facing the discussion and the preparation of the proposals, all the young researchers demonstrated a remarkable mix of consciousness of the real research environment and their fresh fantasy in the definition of the possible research goals, identifying both already envisaged solutions, like the adoption of more efficient engines (including the recommended “retrofit” on already flying aircrafts) to reduce CO2 and NOx, and rather “unconventional” ones, as the use of electric/electromagnetic tracks on runways to reduce the fuel burnt on ground, or the “landing gear-less airplane” to improve the aircraft efficiency, and the use of “bio-degradable” (note: under very peculiar and rare conditions) materials to reduce the environmental impact of end-of-life airframes disposal. Common points for all the suggested solutions, were the attention to the identification of the main advantages and difficulties for their development, and the precise identification of the logical steps and the enabling technologies needed for their implementation.

At the conclusion of the “workshop” the young researchers had the opportunity to present their work to Mr. Gerben Jan Gerbrandy, MEP (ALDE) and to the attending EREA Board Members: the work done was really appreciated; the EREA Chairman, in order to keep the valuable contribution of the young researchers, promised to put the outcome of the workshop to the attention of ACARE working groups for the inclusion in the SRIA.

CIRA Centro Italiano Ricerche Aerospaziali ONERA Office National d'Études et de Recherches Aérospatiales DLR Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt NLR Nationaal Lucht- en Ruimtevaartlaboratorium FOI Totalförsvarets FOrskiningsInstitut VZLU Výzkumný a Zkušební Letecký Ústav, a.s. INCAS National Institute for Aerospace Research “Elie Carafoli” ILOT Institute of Aviation INTA Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial

To end properly their special European day the 25 young researchers proudly and happily attended the EREA Annual Event.

Mobility Programme

Within EREA Mobility programme, Andreea Bobonea, a young engineer from INCAS is undertaking a 3 month stay at DLR Institute of Aerodynamics and Flow Technology in Braunschweig. The stage started at the beginning of February 2012 and will be completed at the beginning of May 2012. The

chosen topic is “Accompanying numerical studies including introduction to DLR CFD tools for AFC analysis and design applications”. Following topics cover the designated work: theoretical studies on active flow separation control, introduction into the numerical flow simulation using DLR-TAU code, numerical simulation of the flow for numerous actuation’s slot widths and analysis of unsteady effects, reporting. **** In the framework of the ONERA-DLR SIMCOS joint research project on helicopter, the ONERA PhD student Gilles Joubert has been undertaking a 3-month stay at the DLR Institute of Aerodynamics and Flow Technology in Göttingen between September and December 2010. This exchange has been completed by the stay of the DLR PhD student Benjamin Heine at the ONERA DAAP/H2T department in Meudon between January and March 2011.The selected research project was the investigation of several Dynamic Stall Control actuators, which was included in both thesis topics of Gilles Joubert and Benjamin Heine. This common work has been commented as extremely fruitful, and greatly appreciated by both partners. Large comparison of experimental work by DLR and elsA numerical simulation by ONERA led to several common publications, and among them the last European Rotorcraft Forum best paper Award, in September 2011.

EREA for UAS Enabling UAS (Unmanned Aircraft Systems) to operate alongside General Air Traffic is the key enabler to expanding the use of UAS beyond the battlefield into military training flights, military UAS support to civil authorities, state UAS for security or civil UAS for commercial uses and to creating the scale of demand around which European industry can unite.

UAS Air Traffic Insertion (ATI) has been identified as one promising area for enhanced cooperation between the European Defence Agency (EDA), the European Commission (EC) and the European Space Agency (ESA) launching the European Framework Cooperation (EFC). Beginning 2011 the European Defence Agency (EDA) contracted a consortium formed by EREA members, ‘EREA for UAS’ (E4U), for a 9-month study with the aim to provide essential advice and recommendations on prioritisation of technical topics for a better informed decision making process by the EDA and the participating Member States (pMS) in preparation of the UAS programme under the European Framework Cooperation (EFC). Study results and recommendations have been delivered and presented to EDA and Member States who were very satisfied with the study findings. Among the documents delivered in the study, a memorandum was devoted to define and suggest the role the EREA establishments are ready to play in order to support the oncoming activities of the EDA and pMS on the UAS programme under the EFC.

The document presents a high-level overview of the capabilities that the EREA establishments have, relevant to military UAS airspace insertion. Detailed descriptions of individual and joint capabilities are presented in the Annexes. These individual and joint capabilities can be deployed for the benefit of the EDA and the pMS and provide non-biased scientific based knowledge support in several ways: • Translate operational capabilities desired by pMS to the

required technology. • Identify technology gaps, suggest and cluster future actions

(executed in the E4U study). • Catalyse, through research, the development of standards for

UAS. • Support military /national regulatory bodies with rulemaking

and developing of new Verification & Validation(V&V) tools and methods, and, where desired by EDA and pMS, aid the harmonisation of UAS regulations throughout Europe.

• Perform Research, Development, Testing, Flight Demonstration and Evaluation of technological solutions for UAS in terms of technology, systems and procedures.

• Support the European Industrial Base in their process of maturing systems and solutions required for UAS ATI.

EDA and Member States are now finalizing the EDA JIP UAS (EDA Joint Investment Programme on Unmanned Aircraft Systems) with recommendations for the selection of technical topics in the context of UAS Air Traffic Insertion and Capabilities from a Military Perspective. EREA members also attended the five workshops of the UAS Panel Process launched by the European Commission aiming at preparing a Strategy for UAS in Europe. The workshops were respectively dedicated to:

1) UAS industry and market, 2) UAS insertion into air traffic and radio frequencies, 3) Safety of UAS and the societal dimension of the use of UAS for civil applications, 4) Technology needs to develop UAS civil applications and their safe insertion into the airspace, and 5) Research on UAS where results of the E4U study were presented.

The first conclusion at the end of this process was that "doing nothing is not an option". A Strategy Paper is being drafted by the European Commission and will be released soon.