Ultra Performance Wing for Short and Short-medium Range Aircraft
Summary
The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (hereinafter “EuroHPC JU”), will contribute to the ambition of value creation in the Union with the overall mission to develop, deploy, extend and maintain in the Union an integrated world class supercomputing and quantum computing infrastructure and to develop and support a highly competitive and innovative High Performance Computing (HPC) ecosystem, extreme scale, power-efficient and highly resilient HPC and data technologies.
Programme Name
Programme Description
The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (hereinafter “EuroHPC JU”), will contribute to the ambition of value creation in the Union with the overall mission to develop, deploy, extend and maintain in the Union an integrated world class supercomputing and quantum computing infrastructure and to develop and support a highly competitive and innovative High Performance Computing (HPC) ecosystem, extreme scale, power-efficient and highly resilient HPC and data technologies.
Call
Detailed Call Description
The project shall also investigate the impact and features of the proposed concept(s) on operations and systems (e.g. Flight Control Systems, anti-icing) including maintenance, repair, availability, fault tolerance, reliability, and safety. Life cycle aspects should be considered in the overall environmental impact. A quantitative and qualitative estimation of future potential performance, identifying issues and potential solutions should be provided.
Proposed designs will build on, adapt, complement and add to CS-25 and any other relevant regulations to highlight any gaps and maximize the impact potential, and to enable new certification standards, while maintaining or enhancing safety levels. The project shall propose a qualification and certification plan suitable to SR/SMR aircraft and it shall support to Clean Aviation initiatives to define new certification or qualification rules as well as new standardisation efforts concerning the areas of the project and others related to them.
A number of top level goals will be the basis for performance targets, in particular:
- increased efficiency of no less than 10-13%115 for Configuration 1 and no less than 15-17%116 for Configuration 2 at integrated wing system level;
- maximum aerodynamic efficiency and minimum weight;
- wing system: installed performance contributing to the a/c performance target of 30% fuel burn reduction, to be extended as much as possible to a target of 30% GHG emissions reduction at aircraft level (possibly expressed, for instance, in terms of overall GHG emissions per passenger kilometre).
Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan
70%
Eligibility For Participation Notes
Given the illegal invasion of Ukraine by Russia and the involvement of Belarus, legal entities established in Russia, Belarus or in any occupied territory of Ukraine are not eligible to participate in any capacity.
Exceptions may be granted on a case-by-case basis for justified reasons, such as for humanitarian purposes, civil society support or people-to-people contacts.
The consortium should include newcomers to the field of aeronautics and in particular SMEs, start-ups and/or knowledge centres that can bring disruptive innovation to the project as proposed.
Programme Category
EU Competitive ProgrammesTotal Budget
€55 millionThematic Categories
- Environment and Climate Change
- Other Services
- Research, Technological Development and Innovation
Eligibility for Participation
- Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions
- Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)