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n° 16 | May 2015 Innovation takes off Best Clean Sky Project Award 2015 This project is funded by the European Union www.cleansky.eu Contents 06 Editorial 3 Aerodynamic and aero-acoustic Overview of recent Clean Sky Calls: identification test of the low-speed Engines firing on all cylinders 4 business jet configuration Clean Sky 2: MTU Aero Engines takes on the role of lead partner 5 Technology Evaluation Aerodynamic and aero-acoustic identification in Clean Sky test of the low-speed business jet configuration 6 Clean Sky Forum: breaking new ground in technologies, partnerships and innovation chains 8 STARLET Project – the best Clean Sky project 2015 10 Reduced fuel consumption and emissions 14 for High Compression Engines 11 Thermal management on the way Clean Sky for more electric aircraft 12 Forum: breaking new ONERA, a major contributor ground in to the success of Clean Sky 13 technologies, Technology Evaluation in Clean Sky 14 partnerships Clean Sky on your agenda for Le Bourget 2015 16 and innovation chains 04 Overview of recent Clean Sky Calls: Engines firing on all cylinders 08 Clean Sky on your agenda for Le Bourget 10 2015 STARLET Project – 16 the best Clean Sky project 2015 EDITORIAL Eric Dautriat Executive Director of the Clean Sky Joint Undertaking lean Sky held its annual Forum on March 17th remit and the most expensive part, by definition, demonstrations, which has actually started now, Cin Brussels. I wish to highlight a pioneering of its budget. in particular in-flight! initiative in our programme: the Clean Sky But there was and will be room for such The third award went to Streit-TGA GmbH Awards, gold, silver and bronze which were upstream research in many areas of the Clean Sky (coordinator) and two other German SMEs. presented to the three winners after a JU programme. The project BESTT was about the design and selection process involving the ITD coordinators integration of the Thermal Test Bench, now and our Project Officers. The purpose was to Activities like this STARLET project, in particular through Calls for Proposals, will still be part of the under use for the Eco-Design demonstrations distinguish the best projects, completed or concerning on-board energy management, in almost completed, led by Partners or Associates. core of an ambitious Clean Sky 2 programme. As regards the participation of Research particular for business jets. This large facility is A difficult exercise indeed, with some inevitable typical of an important category of Clean Sky amount of subjectivity but very rewarding Organisations and Academia, the statistics from the first Call for Core Partners and the recently achievements: system-level test facilities, able to for all those involved. In addition, keynote test the integration of technologies at full scale, speeches – including a video recorded address closed first Call for Partners, are quite eloquent; for instance, about 70 “higher education” entities full power, like the Copper Bird for electrical by Commissioner Moedas – round tables and testing, also in Eco-Design, or the PROVEN test rig visits to the Exhibit area punctuated this day, as applied to the latter, in average to 2 different topics each. in SGO as well as others. Improving the accuracy reported by Maria-Fernanda Fau in this Skyline and representativeness of ground tests is the key issue. to simplifying and shortening the development As a matter of fact, these awards, processes. Such facilities will remain available for as well as the story-telling posters Clean Sky 2; it will be important to build on these presented that day by all the 21 There was and achievements. nominees, demonstrate the vitality will be room for Aerodynamics, engines, equipment test facilities; and the variety of Clean Sky activities. large aircraft, rotorcraft, bizjets or one research The “golden” Clean Sky Award was low TRL project organisation and several SMEs: this tierce gagnant won by the STARLET project, which is not the result of any cautious, political and well- was about investigating cutting-edge research in balanced choice, just the outcome of a technical fluidic devices for active load control; and difficult selection. How could the variety of this project was led by the Institute many areas of the innovation chain that Clean Sky is developing of Aviation of Warsaw. Because of be better illustrated? its technological ambition, this is the Clean Sky a relatively low TRL project (TRL Next year, we will have another Forum and 2-3), 3 patents pending, which may programme. another presentation of Clean Sky awards. Who give birth to further developments will be crowned the winner? At this moment it in Clean Sky 2. The future of lower is near impossible to guess. In the meantime, far TRL activities in Horizon 2020 in more of the Partners’ projects will be finalised general, and the funding of research and a good deal of demonstrations will be organisations and academia in particular, The second “silver” award was attributed to the completed, meaning undoubtedly, next year’s were repeatedly addressed in speeches and HIPEAE440 project, High Compression (Diesel) selection will once again be quite hard. round tables, as a potential matter of concern. Engine for a rotorcraft, led by Austro-Engine, It is my opinion that these concerns are not Austria. Recently, the engine integration on the entirely justified. Besides the remaining part of helicopter was successfully tested on ground “Collaborative Research” under the direct control and is scheduled to fly before summer. This is of the European Commission, mostly dedicated an industrial, high TRL project with full aircraft- to upstream research, Clean Sky 2 itself should level integration, paving the way for a potentially not be considered as exclusively dedicated to quick technology insertion into product and integrating mature technologies into full scale enabling a high CO2 reduction – in the range of demonstrators. Of course, this remains its first 40%. A good opportunity to hail the season of Eric Dautriat Skyline 16 | May 2015 3 Overview of recent Clean Sky Calls: Engines firing on all cylinders Ron van Manen Clean Sky Technology Evaluator Officer and Programme Manager for CS2 (acting) hen you receive this edition of Skyline complement of CS2 JU Members; but clearly Wwe will be approaching the milestone more will come as approximately 60% of the of one year of technical activity in Clean Sky 2. Core Partner related budget is yet to be put into All programmes and projects tend to display competition via future Calls. The JU expects the what is often referred to as the S-curve: a slow first new Members “on board” and operational start, followed by a ramp up and steeper climb during the summer, and gearing up quickly in in effort; a maturing toward a steady state, the programme’s second year of operations. and then levelling off approaching the effort The first Call for Proposals (CfP) launched in consumed and results achieved. Clean Sky December of last year and closed in March; the 2 is no different. Although perhaps its early evaluations will have concluded by the end of years of parallel activity with the most intense, May and grant preparation / negotiation should and potentially rewarding period of the initial start imminently after this Skyline is published; Clean Sky programme nearing the pinnacle of the new Partners are likely to become active in “demo time” (as Eric Dautriat has been quoted) the programme by the 4th quarter of this year. A has made a prudent approach to the start-up breath-taking record number of 220 proposals phase all the more necessary. was received for this call, in response to 53 topics Now, with nearly a full year behind us, it is clear (indicative value €48m). This strong appetite for that the engines are indeed firing on all cylinders the Partner-level topics tells us we have a keen and the operational activity has climbed to a and fired up “innovation chain” ready to join significant level. In particular with respect to the the Members and co-execute the technical Calls for Core Partners and Calls for Proposals: the programme. cycle of preparing and launching a call, receiving A second Call for Core Partners opened on and evaluating proposals, and negotiating and April 16th and will run until July 30th. Expect the preparing grants is now continuous. Two Calls evaluations to take over October / November - one for Core Partners and one for Partners and rankings / results to be available by year-end. (via the CfP) – have closed and are in their This Call is somewhat smaller than the first one at implementation phase. One is open at the roughly €92m (indicative) over 17 topics; and this time of this publication and at least two will get leaves scope for in all likelihood two further Calls underway this year. Let’s take a look at what has for Core Partners, of which one will take place in happened so far and is on the horizon for the the autumn of this year. Separately, a second Call remainder of the year. for Proposals will be launched in the summer; The first Call for Core Partners (launched in July its preparation now nearing completion. Our 2014) closed last November, and proposals were planning for the 2016 Calls: not just further submitted to evaluation through December and Calls for Core Partners and the current Calls for January. Of 29 topics published, the JU received Proposals, but potentially also some further valid / eligible proposals for 26, and the top- evolutions in terms of the type of Calls, will get ranked proposals ex-evaluation were launched underway after the summer. An area we will be into the negotiation and grant preparation looking at closely is getting the balance right phase in March.