The TOICA project intends to radically change the way thermal studies are performed within aircraft design processes. It will create and manage a thermal aircraft architecture which does not yet exist today. This will be shared in the extended enterprise with design partners through a collaborative environment supporting the new advanced capabilities developed by the project, namely the architect cockpit, which will allow the architects and experts to monitor the thermal assessment of an aircraft and to perform trade-off studies. Supra integration will support a holistic view of the aircraft and allow traditional design views and the related simulation cascade to be challenged. Six cases of use illustrating new thermal strategies will demonstrate the benefits of the TOICA approach on realistic aircraft figurations. Plateaus will be organised with architects for the definition, selection and evaluation of thermally optimised aircraft figurations. These plateaus will stimulate the project. In parallel, technology readiness evaluations will assess the maturity of the developed technologies and support the deployment and exploitation of the TOICA results.