Programme Category
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.
Identifier Code
Call
Summary
The hybrid-electric propulsion system will come with challenges in system integration (e.g. wingengine, controls, energy distribution) and in aircraft integration. Therefore, a wing design and the enabling technologies need to be developed and validated in close connection with solutions and choices at aircraft, system and component level, and taking into account interdependencies.
Detailed Call Description
Air vehicles operating in this range and operational environment (including regional aircraft with a capacity of up to 100 seats) are considered the first application in the scheduled air transport system that will adopt hybrid-electric propulsion technologies and associated complementary solutions for reducing the environmental footprint, toward climate-neutral aviation. Air vehicles operating at smaller distances or on thinner routes will also benefit from electric propulsion solutions tested on regional aircraft testbeds, by sharing the development of power modules and making use of different approaches to air vehicle integration.
The future potential use of hydrogen as energy source requires the development and demonstration of compatible technologies and sub-systems that will have an impact on the wing system, as well as on the aircraft architecture.
A number of top-level goals will be the basis for performance targets, in particular:
- No less than 15% fuel burn reduction target at integrated wing level (taking into account the wing-fuselage effects but excluding the engine installation effects);
- Targeting 20% structure weight reduction at full wing level (excluding propulsion system)
- Maximum aerodynamic efficiency
- wing system: installed performance contributing to the a/c performance target of 50% fuel burn reduction, to be extended as much as possible to a target of 50% GHG emissions reduction at aircraft level (possibly expressed, for instance, in terms of overall GHG emissions per passenger kilometre);
- It is implicit that targets must be compatible with safety (compliant with certification aspects) as an overarching requirement.
The top level goals shall be broken down in a consistent manner at the different levels: from aircraft top level requirements to systems, sub-systems and components level requirements, from where pertinent performance targets including key performance indicators shall be derived.
Call Total Budget
Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan
70%
Thematic Categories
- Other Services
- Other Thematic Category
- Research, Technological Development and Innovation
Eligibility for Participation
- Large Enterprises
- Private Bodies
- Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions
- State-owned Enterprises
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.
Applicants should identify and include the additional expertise needed to complement the traditional aeronautical domain, in order to effectively address the incorporation of new/disruptive technologies. Where appropriate, 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.
(Further details in the call document)