Clean Aviation Joint Undertaking - previously Clean Sky 2 Joint Undertaking - (other organisations)
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Clean Aviation Joint Undertaking
Who we are
The Clean Aviation Joint Undertaking is the European Union’s leading research and innovation programme for transforming aviation towards a sustainable and climate neutral future.
Pulling together the best talent and capabilities of the private and public sectors and developing cutting-edge technologies, and making these available for a transformational leap in aircraft performance in the 2030s, the new Clean Aviation Joint Undertaking will pave the way towards the EU’s ambition of climate neutrality by 2050.
Operating at the centre of a broad and diverse eco-system of players across Europe ranging from the aeronautical community, pioneering SMEs, research establishments and academia, it acts as a hub for new ideas and bold innovations.
As a European public-private partnership, Clean Aviation pushes aeronautical science beyond the limits of imagination by creating new technologies that will significantly reduce aviation's impact on the planet, enabling future generations to enjoy the social and economic benefits of air travel far into the future.
Clean Aviation Joint Undertaking builds on the success of the Clean Sky Joint Undertaking programme, which will continue to run until 2024. Clean Sky will deliver more than 34 flagship demonstrators, more than 106 other demonstrators contributing to the flagship demonstrators, and more than 1000 technologies by the end of the programme.
Mission and Values
Our Mission
The Clean Aviation JU will develop disruptive new aircraft technologies to support the European Green Deal, and climate neutrality by 2050. These technologies will deliver net greenhouse gas (GHG) reductions of no less than 30%, compared to 2020 state-of-the-art.
The technological and industrial readiness will allow the deployment of new aircraft with this performance no later than 2035, enabling 75% of the world’s civil aviation fleet to be replaced by 2050.
The aircraft developed will enable net CO2 reductions of up to 90% when combined with the effect of sustainable ‘drop-in’ fuels, or zero CO2 emissions in flight when using hydrogen as energy source.
Our Vision
- Clean Aviation’s aeronautics-related research and innovation activities, focusing on breakthrough technology initiatives, will contribute to the global sustainable competitiveness of the European aviation industry
- Our efforts will ensure that aviation remains a safe and secure, reliable, cost-effective and efficient means of passenger and freight transportation while successfully transitioning to climate neutrality
- European aviation research and innovation capacity will be strengthened through the partnership, enabling new and ambitious global standards to be set
Our Values
Clean Aviation is committed to the highest level of quality in fulfilling its mission and tasks. Our values are defined in order to provide all Clean Sky and Clean Aviation actors with what should be the essence of their behaviour. The following 6 fundamental values are defined:
- Integrity
- Independence
- Team spirit
- Shared enthusiasm
- Willingness to create economic and human value
- Responsiveness and speed of execution
Main elements of the ethical framework of the JU are:
Code of Conduct
Prevention and management of Conflict of Interest
Research integrity
Zero tolerance of fraud - antifraud measures
WHAT WE DO
Benefits: For cleaner, greener, healthier skies
The aviation industry is a key source of wealth for Europe.
If aviation were a country, it would rank 17th in the world in terms of gross domestic product (GDP), generating $691.3 billion of GDP per year, which is considerably larger than some members of the G20 (and around the same size as the Netherlands). Before the pandemic hit, nearly 88 million jobs were supported worldwide in aviation and related tourism, of which roughly 11.3 million people worked directly in the aviation industry.
In Europe, pre-pandemic, air transport supported 13.5 million jobs and accounted for $991 billion in European economic activity.
In Europe, pre-pandemic, air transport supported 13.5 million jobs and accounted for $991 billion in European economic activity. That is 3.6% of all employment and 4.4% of all GDP in European countries in 2018. Every person employed by the aviation sector directly, and in aviation enabled tourism, supported another four jobs elsewhere in Europe.
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However, aviation is also responsible for 2% of the 43 billion tonnes of CO2 produced by humans every year. 12% of all emissions from transport sources can be attributed to aviation, compared to 74% from road transport.
The carbon dioxide and NOx emissions released into the atmosphere are not only bad for the environment, they are also damaging for health. The World Health Organization estimates that 4.2 million deaths every year are caused by ambient air pollution.
In line with the European Commission’s ambitions for a EU Green Deal and a Green Recovery from the pandemic, Clean Sky’s vision is to enable citizens of the future to fly on aircraft that are both sustainable and climate-neutral.
This will yield benefits in terms of health, the environment and also competition. Technologies developed by Clean Sky are cutting-edge and will place Europe at the forefront of the race to design emission-free aircraft. Sustainable aircraft will be in high demand in a future where climate-friendly policies are not a luxury, but a necessity.
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The road to climate-neutral aviation is not easy – developing new aircraft technology has traditionally been a long process, thanks to technical complexities, stringent certification and safety rules, and large timeframes.
But the climate emergency is not waiting for traditional aviation technology development timescales. In order to have a climate-neutral fleet by 2050, we must begin introducing climate-neutral aircraft into the global fleet by 2035 at the absolute latest. A major investment in sustainable aviation technologies is crucial to our success.
In addition, there is no one “silver bullet” solution – a variety of avenues need to be explored, which is why Clean Sky has focused on a range of different technology streams.
History
The seeds that would become Clean Sky were planted in the year 2000, when the European Commission set up the Advisory Council for Aviation Research and innovation in Europe (ACARE). The need for reducing aviation’s environmental footprint had become clear, and Clean Sky would soon become the European Commission’s flagship public-private partnership for developing sustainable aviation technologies.
The purpose of ACARE was to provide guidelines that could be commonly accepted across Europe's aviation sector as a basis for moving the industry towards greener standards, increased industrial competitiveness and societal benefits.
Stakeholders from a wide range of backgrounds were invited to join ACARE - from the manufacturing industry, airports, airlines, regulators, service providers, research establishments and academia.
Its members finally developed a Strategic Research Agenda (SRA) for European aeronautics, ‘a roadmap outlining the strategic orientations which should be taken if Europe is to meet society's needs for aviation as a public mode of transport as well as noise and emissions reduction requirements in a sustainable way’.
A roadmap outlining the strategic orientations which should be taken if Europe is to meet society's needs for aviation as a public mode of transport as well as noise and emissions reduction requirements in a sustainable way
A report was published in 2001 by ACARE that outlined a 2020 vision for the European Air Transport System, which highlighted the importance of developing environmentally-friendly aviation technologies.
Clean Sky Joint Undertaking was subsequently created as an act of the European Council in 2007 in the first wave of Joint Technology Initiatives (JTI). The new public-private-partnership was tasked with implementing an ambitious programme of green and innovative technology development.
JTIs are a key mechanism for performing research at EU level; they are long-term Public-Private Partnerships; and are managed within dedicated structures based on Article 187 TFEU (ex Article 171 TEC). The EU explains that JTIs ‘support large-scale multinational research activities in areas of major interest to European industrial competitiveness and issues of high societal relevance’.
Support large-scale multinational research activities in areas of major interest to European industrial competitiveness and issues of high societal relevance
The salient term here is ‘long-term’. For it’s the relatively long-term nature of JTIs that synchronises with the extended timescales that are typically required in commercial aviation – across research, design, technology demonstrators (in the case of Clean Sky), prototyping, development, manufacture, certification and deployment into service.
The first Clean Sky programme ended in 2014, having exceeded the expectations set in 2007. To read more about the results of the first years of Clean Sky, click here.
The successor to Clean Sky, the Clean Sky 2 Joint Undertaking, was launched in 2014 and will end in 2024. The final Call for Proposals was launched in January 2020 and is now closed. Read more about Clean Sky 2’s results here.
The European Partnership for Clean Aviation, or the Clean Aviation Joint Undertaking, launched in 2021. Building on the success of Clean Sky and Clean Sky 2, it will endeavour to explore cutting-edge technologies that will make aviation climate-neutral by 2050. Learn more about Clean Aviation here.
Who benefits?
- The public – thanks to less noise pollution and lower emissions, better travel options and improved industrial competitiveness in Europe.
- The economy - aeronautics is among the EU's most successful industries. Clean Aviation will help shape a European labour force able to develop the cutting-edge technology necessary to remain on top of the market.
- Small & medium-sized businesses - growing numbers of such firms are getting involved through calls for project proposals offered under Clean Aviation. This opens up new opportunities for them and new potential supply chains for established industry players.
- Scientific community & academia - Clean Aviation offers ways of speeding up the application of novel technologies. It gives industry and science a chance to jointly address challenges and priorities.
Previously: Clean Sky 2 Joint Undertaking
