AERODAYS-06 - Fifth Aeronautics Conference- Transport Technologies for the Future
Overview
Background & policy context:
As was the case with previous Aeronautics Days, the Fifth Community Aeronautics Days 2006 addressed the technological and industrial development of the European Aeronautics sector providing a high-level, future oriented perspective coming from politics, the industry and the research community, in response to Europe's social needs and expectations. Moreover, the Conference offered a unique forum for government officials, decision makers, managers, researchers, engineers and journalists from all over Europe to discuss and reflect on an RTD roadmap for aeronautics in line with the concept and objectives of the European Research Area.
Objectives:
On 1 May 2004 the EU expanded with ten new members. One of the main issues of the enlargement process was to foster the integration of the New Member States into the social, economic and political life in Europe. The strategic objective of the AERODAYS-06 conference was to make a significant contribution for reaching this goal by organising the Fifth Community Aeronautics Days in Vienna, Austria. Like its predecessors, this Conference brought together all relevant stakeholders, political and public authorities, decision makers, research community from the old and new member states together to exchange ideas, develop and support jointly the road for reaching the goals of the Vision 2020.
This approach supported building networks and tight co-operations.
The date of the conference was set to mark the start of the 7th Framework Programme. While attracting a large part of the European aeronautics community it offered the European Commission a platform to disseminate their strategic view on the 7th Framework Programme while at the same time receiving feed back from community. This had been achieved by e.g. organising specific plenary and parallel sessions. This approach allowed a wide distribution of crucial information on FP7 and provided engineers and scientist with first hand information necessary to effectively use the possibilities for their work and for support of the aeronautics priorities. The conference facilitated the growth of the knowledge society in aeronautics.
Methodology:
The Aerodays-06 project management was based upon the structure of the project. The project was broken down into four major work packages:
- WP1 - cost management;
- WP2 - dissemination and communication;
- WP3 - coordination of all matters related to the conference facility;
- WP4 - coordination of the conference itself including the scientific/technical structure of the event.
Each Work package contained a number of tasks as shown. The management structure was intentionally kept simple. Emphasis had been put on cost management (WP1) in order to assure a tight and careful control of the expenditures.
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