2018 Annual Activity Report In accordance with Article 20 of the Statutes of the Clean Sky 2 Joint Undertaking annexed to Council Regulation (EU) No 558/2014 and with Article 20 of the Financial Rules of the CS2 JU. The annual activity report will be made publicly available after its approval by the Governing Board. Page intentionally left blank Page 2 of 155 Table of Contents FACTSHEET ............................................................................................................................................ 5 FOREWORD ........................................................................................................................................... 6 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY .......................................................................................................................... 7 1. IMPLEMENTATION OF THE ANNUAL WORK PLAN 2018 .......................................................... 14 1.1. Key objectives 2018 and related results .............................................................................. 14 1.2. Research & Innovation activities .......................................................................................... 25 1.3. Calls for proposals and grant information ........................................................................... 28 1.4. Evaluation: procedures and global evaluation outcome, redress, statistics ....................... 34 1.5. Progress against KPIs/statistics ............................................................................................ 35 1.6. Activities carried out in Grant Agreement for Members (GAM) ......................................... 36 LPA – Large Passenger Aircraft IADP .................................................................................... 36 REG – Regional Aircraft IADP ................................................................................................ 42 FRC – Fast Rotorcraft IADP ................................................................................................... 45 AIR – Airframe ...................................................................................................................... 48 ENG – Engines ITD ................................................................................................................ 54 SYS – Systems ITD ................................................................................................................. 58 ECO – Eco-Design Transverse Activity .................................................................................. 62 SAT – Small Air Transport Transverse .................................................................................. 63 TE – Technology Evaluator ................................................................................................... 64 1.7. Call for Tenders..................................................................................................................... 66 1.8. Operational budget execution ............................................................................................. 66 1.9. In-kind contributions ............................................................................................................ 68 1.10. Synergies with the European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF) ............................ 71 2. SUPPORT TO OPERATIONS ....................................................................................................... 76 2.1. Communication activities ..................................................................................................... 76 2.2. Legal and financial framework ............................................................................................. 79 2.3. Budgetary and financial management ................................................................................. 80 2.4. Procurement and contracts .................................................................................................. 81 2.5. IT and logistics ...................................................................................................................... 85 2.6. Human Resources ................................................................................................................. 86 3. GOVERNANCE ........................................................................................................................... 87 3.1. Governing Board ................................................................................................................... 87 3.2. Executive Director ................................................................................................................ 89 3.3. Steering Committees ............................................................................................................ 89 3.4. Scientific Committee ............................................................................................................ 90 Page 3 of 155 3.5. States Representatives Group .............................................................................................. 91 4. INTERNAL CONTROL FRAMEWORK .......................................................................................... 92 4.1. Financial Procedures ............................................................................................................ 92 4.2. Ex-ante Controls on Operational Expenditure ..................................................................... 92 4.3. Ex-post Control of Operational Expenditure and Error Rates identified ............................. 94 4.4. Audit of the European Court of Auditors ........................................................................... 105 4.5. Internal Audit ...................................................................................................................... 106 4.6. Risk management and conflict of interest ......................................................................... 110 4.7. Compliance and effectiveness of Internal Control ............................................................. 114 5. MANAGEMENT ASSURANCE .................................................................................................. 117 5.1. Assessment of the Annual Activity Report by the Governing Board ................................. 117 5.2. Elements supporting assurance ......................................................................................... 119 5.3. Reservations ....................................................................................................................... 119 5.4. Overall conclusion .............................................................................................................. 119 5.5. Declaration of assurance .................................................................................................... 120 ANNEXES ........................................................................................................................................... 121 1. Organisational chart ............................................................................................................... 121 2. Staff establishment plan ........................................................................................................ 122 3. Publications from projects ..................................................................................................... 123 4. Patents from projects............................................................................................................. 123 5. Scoreboard of Horizon 2020 and common KPIs .................................................................... 124 6. Indicators for monitoring cross-cutting issues....................................................................... 125 7. Scoreboard of KPIs specific to Clean Sky 2 Joint Undertaking ............................................... 130 8. Final accounts ......................................................................................................................... 131 9. Materiality criteria ................................................................................................................. 135 10. Results of technical review ................................................................................................. 139 11. Table of significant results, deliverables and complementary actions per IADP/ITD/TA .. 140 12. List of abbreviations and project acronyms ....................................................................... 153 Page 4 of 155 FACTSHEET Name Clean Sky 2 Joint Undertaking a) To contribute to the finalisation of research activities initiated under Regulation (EC) No 71/2008 and to the implementation of Regulation (EU) No 1291/2013, and in particular the Smart, Green and Integrated Transport Challenge under Part III — Societal Challenges of Decision 2013/743/EU; b) To contribute to improving the environmental impact of aeronautical technologies, including those relating to small aviation, as well as to developing a strong and globally competitive aeronautical industry and supply chain in Europe. Objectives This can be realised through speeding up the development of cleaner air transport technologies for earliest possible deployment, and in particular the integration, demonstration and validation of technologies capable of: (i) Increasing aircraft fuel efficiency, thus reducing CO2 emissions by 20 to 30 % compared to ‘state-of-the-art’ aircraft entering into service as from