CAPPADOCIA's main objectives have been set so as to comply with the expectations of the European Commission: to contribute to a better coordination of research and innovation in the field of Aeronautics and Air Transport.

Namely, CAPPADOCIA aims at assessing on the one hand past, on-going and future EC-funded projects focused on cost efficiency, and on the other hand, at identifying gaps and bottlenecks within the targeted research landscape, accordingly with the objectives set up in the call addressed. Both activities will lead to the edition of yearly strategic recommendation reports aiming to cover research gaps, overcome bottlenecks towards innovation, and justify effort with an impact assessment on policy, industrial market and social needs. These coherent strategic recommendation reports shall be easily used by research policy makers as well as the preparation of future EC work programme.

• Collaborative supply-chain: The latest evolution of the decision-making power within the European aviation supply chain from upstream to downstream industrial actors is challenging their respective individual and collective competitiveness. Airframers’ business is based on several industries fed by many and multisector tier one suppliers. These numerous subcontractors often generate technological innovations especially within the aircraft design step. Although recognised as leading innovators, subcontractors are most often dominated by their main client which most likely imposes severe conditions of purchase. Their weak diversification associated to a strong domestic market dependence presents a real risk for these subcontractors’ sustainability and directly for the whole European aviation supply chain. Thanks to their strategic position, airframers remained for long in a dominant position especially compared to airlines. Nevertheless, the entry of new competitors from China and India is challenging this long-time established situation. This should impact the overall worldwide aviation competition and impact European Airframers, including their subcontractors. 
• Factory of the Future: The factory of the future overall concept will strongly impact the aeronautic value-chain in the next decades. As such it already demonstrated to be a great opportunity to fulfil this change of paradigm within the downstream value chain actors and activities (like being able to quickly meet clients’ needs, propose new services etc.). Industry 4.0 will affect the entire aviation supply chain and product life cycle, from product design and development, to the operations management and logistics.
• Emerging innovation trends: As encouraged by the SRIA, there must be a stronger collaborative approach to innovation, pooling the know-how of multiple stakeholders, including educational establishments, to accelerate the innovation process and provide the best possible response to customers’ needs.” To identify pragmatically the issues encountered several interviews and workshop have been carried out to complete a previously achieved updated state of the art.