Next generation testing capabilities in strategic EU wind tunnels
Pays one research project up to EUR 15 million to upgrade Europe's strategic wind tunnels with new instruments and test methods for climate-neutral aircraft.
A consortium submits a single-stage Research and Innovation Action proposal, and the Commission funds only one project from this topic, worth up to EUR 15 million in EU contribution, paid as a lump sum tied to completing agreed work packages. The work has to stay within the strategic priorities and aircraft concepts set out in Clean Aviation's own updated Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda, …
The Commission wants new instrumentation, test procedures and digital tools for Europe's strategic wind tunnels so they can validate next-generation aircraft concepts — high-aspect-ratio wings, distributed hybrid/electric propulsion and new airframe-propulsion integration — on the path to climate-neutral aviation. New buildings or other physical infrastructure investments are explicitly out of scope; the focus is instrumentation and testing methods.
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