1. Clean Sky programme
Sébastien DUBOIS, Project Officer
Rotorcraft round table – Paris Air Show 2011
22nd June 2011
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2. Unique Public‐Private‐Partnership in Aeronautics
• Focused on Greening of Aeronautics
• Europe’s largest Aeronautics Research Programme ever
• €1.6B value, split 50/50 between the Commission (cash) and Industry (in kind)
• Start February 2008; running up to 2017
• A new way of delivering R&T
• Integrated, ‘thematic’ set‐up
• Large scale and complex testing, evaluation and demonstration (up to TRL6)
• Open Calls for engaging partners in delivering the roadmap
• Industry founders and Commission working as equity partners
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3. Clean Sky is Led by European Industry
Clean Sky Technology Evaluator
DLR & Thales
Concept Aircraft
Eco-Design Smart Fixed Wing Aircraft Green Regional Aircraft Green Rotorcraft
Dassault & Eurocopter &
Fraunhofer Airbus & SAAB Alenia & EADS-CASA AgustaWestland
Systems for Green
Operations
Thales &
Liebherr
TECHNOLOGIES &
Sustainable and
Green Engines
DEMONSTRATORS
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Rolls-Royce & 3
Safran
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4. Clean Sky / Green Rotorcraft : heading toward
ACARE goals
Halving noise
REACH compliance
REACH compliance
Green Life Cycle
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5. Towards a High maturity
A high level of « technology readiness »: the technologies are
integrated into large demonstrators, in-flight or on-ground
Demonstrators definition close to the market needs: the
demonstrator is the last R&T phase, before starting a
development
Schedule is key to keep this link (be neither too early, nor too
late)
A large part of this downstream research activity lays within
big players, « integrators » - a typical feature of aeronautics
These activities must be thoroughly coordinated
A large programme focused on environment…
… and competitiveness
These features create the conditions for a Public‐ 5
Private Partnership 5
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6. Major Technology Demonstrator Programmes
 Innovative Rotor blades: Q2/2015
‐ Active twist blade
‐ Gurney flap rotor
‐ 3D blade profile optimised for dual speed rotor
 Shape optimisation and flow separation control
devices for drag reduction
Diesel Demo Q2/2014
• Diesel core engine
• Power pack integration
Systems for flight path optimisation Q1/2015
• Rotorcraft
• Aircraft
• Underpinning and complementing SESAR
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7. GRC: Participants & Global Shares
160M€ Total Budget: 10% of Clean Sky
ITD-leaders (< 50%) Associates (<25%)
 Agusta-Westland 
 DLR (D)
DLR (D)
(co-leader) 
 ONERA (F)(F)
ONERA
 PZL Swidnik (Pol)
 Eurocopter  PZL Swidnik (Pol)
 CIRA-SELEX ATS: cluster (I)
(co-leader) CIRA-SELEXmembers: (NL,
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 IGOR: cluster of 11 ATS cluster (I)
B, D)
 IGORComposite, of 10 members (NL, B, D)
Airborne
: cluster
Akustik
 Liebherr (D) Airborne Twente
Universiteit Composite, Eurocarbon, Fibre Optic
 Hispano-Suiza (F) Sensors and Sensing Systems, LMS; Microflown
Technologies, Micromega Dynamics, NLR,
 Thales Avionics Technische Universiteit Delft, Universiteit Twente
Electrical Systems (F)
Partners (>25%)
Main Stakeholders of the domain presents in the ITD GRC:
Helicopoter Manufacturers, Research Institutes, Systems suppliers
10 members composed of 23 legal entities 7
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