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SMR aircraft architecture and technology integration project

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The sky’s the limit in the future of green flight

The EU is committed to developing solutions for reducing the environmental footprint of air transport. In line with the Clean Aviation Joint Undertaking, research and industry will join forces to accelerate the evolution of innovation. With this in mind, the EU-funded SMR ACAP project will focus on the small/medium range (SMR) aircraft architecture and technology. Specifically, it will steer and manage the definition of the targeted SMR aircraft configurations with all key performance features required for the SMR architecture. It will provide the digital collaborative framework with tools, means and skills needed to achieve the Clean Aviation goals: reduce emissions by 30 % compared to a 2020 state-of-the-art technology and replace 75 % of the fleet by 2050.

Objective

"The SMR Aircraft Architecture and Technology Project (SMR ACAP) shall be the central place to assess and integrate all technologies at aircraft level, from across the projects in the SMR pillar. Establishing the link to projects with relevant technologies in the other Clean Aviation ""Pillars"" and transverse projects associated with novel certification methods is part of the work plan of the project. The setup of the ACAP project is tailored to steer and manage the definition of the targeted SMR aircraft configurations with all key performance features required for the SMR architecture.
In order to accelerate the maturation of the SMR aircraft technologies, ACAP will provide a digital collaborative framework with tools, means and skills enabling to continuously link all R&T activities within the SMR pillar (strongly linked to other Clean Aviation pillars) to deliver solutions meeting the Clean Aviation high level goals: reduce the greenhouse gases by -30% compared to a 2020 state of the art technology; support the launch of new product by 2035, to replace 75% of the fleet by 2050, and exploit the synergies with other national and European related programmes.
Coordinated by Airbus, the project consortium is composed of a well balanced mix of innovative actors from the aeronautical industry covering almost all technical disciplines of aircraft R&T complemented by a strong foundation of Academia and Research and Technology Organisations, which will be further widened with the planned linking to other CA projects.
The ACAP project is aiming to identify ""best athlete"" SMR aircraft concepts before the end of CA phase 1 and, based on sound analysis of the expected impact with respect to the CA objectives, to propose which technologies shall be further developed and demonstrated in a Clean Aviation phase 2."

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Call for proposal

HORIZON-JU-Clean-Aviation-2022-01

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Funding Scheme

IA - Innovation action

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AIRBUS OPERATIONS GMBH
Net EU contribution
€ 6 569 899,00
Address
Kreetslag 10
21129 Hamburg
Germany

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Hamburg Hamburg Hamburg
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€ 2 815 671,00

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EC signature date 13 December 2022
Last update: 23 December 2022

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