The call will include a €15M fast track to advance disruptive technologies, with priority given to SME and academic partners
A future hybrid-electric regional aircraft. Photo credits: Clean Aviation
The Clean Aviation joint undertaking will launch its third annual call for proposals in February 2025, with €380 million in EU funding, mostly for research related to regional and short-medium range aircraft.
For the first time, the call will dedicate €15 million to three fast track areas, in which projects must be led by SMEs, universities or research centres, who will benefit from simplified application processes.
The fast track is a way “to harvest potential solutions which are sometimes off road and not really part of the catalogue of technologies of the large [companies],” said Sébastien Dubois, head of programme development at Clean Aviation.
Whereas regular call topics will be open for three…
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