E-CAERO - European Collaborative Dissemination of Aeronautical Research and applications
Overview
Background & policy context:
In the green paper "The European Research Area: New perspectives", the European Commission concluded that fragmentation of the ERA still exists and prevents Europe from fulfilling its research and innovation potential. In particular, effective knowledge sharing should be achieved at European level.
In the field of aeronautics and air transport there are many initiatives at European level undertaking the dissemination of scientific knowledge in the different relevant disciplines. Different associations are active with different formats of events such as, large conferences, moderate size thematic conferences, symposia, workshops, short courses, etc. In addition to presentations in events, the knowledge is further disseminated in the form of journal publications, proceedings, etc. More and more publications are now electronic which gives them a large potential for an easy dissemination and allows for the use of electronic search facilities.
For this reason, several organisations active in this field decided to unite forces in order to increase their effectiveness and better materialise their objectives and address the same purpose to the European Commission by jointly submitting the proposal for this project. An ambitious goal of holding a European aeronautic/aerospace conference at the end of the programme in 2011, was planned.
Objectives:
The aim of the E-CAERO project was to harmonise the dissemination between several European associations in the aeronautics/turbo machinery sector. The main objectives were:
- Identifying existing and new areas of interest and clarifying skills, experiences and capabilities of the partners in the relevant technological areas of multi-physics Aeronautics and Aero engines;
- Developing new concepts of collaborative scientific/technical organisation of European/international events in order to ensure the high quality of events;
- Merging existing and new logistic concepts and making the activities more efficient, cheaper and more attractive to the academic and industrial audience.
Methodology:
The specific activities focused on:
- The State-of-the-Art dissemination existing in the aeronautics/turbo machinery areas in the scope of each partner for single and multi-physics simulation, experimentation and design tools;
- The development of a common database IT tool incorporating the knowledge of the relevant scientific/technical/logistic organisation and dissemination of events including proceedings, journals and websites;
- The collaborative organisation and management of existing and new academy and industry oriented events;
- The evaluation of the impact of the dissemination of the project outputs amongst universities, research centres and industries in the aeronautic/turbo machinery sector.
The starting point was the existing network of each partner. The main outcomes of the project were:
- Identification and consolidation of technical areas for dissemination;
- Collection and storage of information in a European Database including written information;
- Set-up of new events requiring the sharing of knowledge in technical network expertise and logistics;
- Common management and technical activities;
- Identification and merging of joint skills, experiences and capabilities;
- Sharing of knowledge through collaborative single/multi-physics activities of each partner;
- paving the way to management efficiency.
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