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CAPPADOCIA (Coordination Action Pro “Production, Avionics, Design” on Cost-efficiency in Aeronautics) is a 4
years’ Coordination and Support Action which focuses on research activities that address solely or mainly the
SRIA goal of cost-efficiency in Aeronautics and Air Transport and in particular the following technical domains:
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Airframe Design Systems and Tools
Production and Maintenance
Avionics and other relevant domains dealing with cost efficiency, e.g. propulsion
Accordingly, the main objectives of CAPPADOCIA are a) to comply with the expectations of the European Commission and b) to contribute to a better coordination of research and innovation (R&I) in the field of Aeronautics
and Air Transport (AAT). To achieve these objectives, during the past first year of its lifetime as well as through-
out its entire duration, CAPPADOCIA has and will continue to
-Assess past and ongoing EC (and non-EC) funded projects related with cost efficiency in AAT
-Identify gaps in terms of needed Research
-Identify bottlenecks towards innovation (e.g. funding and financial mechanisms, etc.)
-Identify impact with respect to societal and market needs
These elements combined, will ultimately allow CAPPADOCIA to provide coherent strategic recommenda-
tions aiming to cover research gaps, overcome bottlenecks to innovation and justify effort with an impact on
CAPPADOCIA WP2: “Analysis of the state of the art of research and innovation for CAPPADOCIA
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targeted research area” aims to review of the state of the art of research and innovation, to identify
gaps in the research landscape and bottlenecks to innovation, and to provide strategic recommenda-
prospective update of the SRIA and future EU funded research topics;
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tions to address the gaps and bottlenecks to innovation related to cost efficiency.
discuss the impact of these developments on the overall expected achievements for Challenge 2
‘Maintaining and Extending Industrial Leadership’;
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During the past year, interviews and regional working sessions were held all over Europe to collect in-
Identify what recent developments in Aerostructures are worth being taken into account in the
identify which new measures could be proposed to the European Commission and ACARE so as
to better support the competitiveness of the whole European aviation industry.
formation and opinions from key R&D persons. For this, the questionnaire about the mentioned topics
(originally created during the first year of the project) was further improved and tailored versions were
The workshop was well attended and yielded interesting results. It offered room for an open discussion
prepared for specific target groups. Accordingly, in the second CAPPADOCIA year, interviews have been
and accordingly, several participants presented their individual standpoint through a five-minute pitch,
successfully conducted with additional members of the target group of interviewees.
on Aerostructures latest promising achievements, bottlenecks, gaps and opportunities. targeted ex-
perts and yielded valuable results.
Furthermore, two dedicated workshops as part of international meetings were organised and held. To
reach a wide audience and increase potential attendance, these dedicated CAPPADOCIA workshops
In a similar manner, as a parallel session at the Aerodays 2015 event, CAPPADOCIA has successfully or-
were held as sessions during two major European events where the RTD audience was relevant for the
ganised and held with the support of ACARE Working Group 2, a workshop on “Impact of develop-
targeted expertise: the 5th EASN Workshop on Aerostructures and Aerodays 2015.
ments on Maintaining and Extending Industrial Leadership” on October 20th 2015. Targeted participants were research and innovation strategy managers and program managers from the aviation value
chain. The workshop covered the full European competitiveness with objectives similar to those of the
previously performed CAPPADOCIA Workshop at the EASN event, and one extra objective: to provide
recommendations for updating the SRIA with respect to the identified developments. The workshop
was well attended by the targeted experts and yielded valuable results.
The Workshop started with a welcome speech given by the CAPPADOCIA coordinator, Mr. Fabien
Marty from Efficient Innovation. Then a presentation of the project concept, objectives, approach and
achievements followed. The CAPPADOCIA project officer, Michael Kyriakopoulos of the EC, and the
ACARE WG2 co-chairman shared their expectations from the Workshop. Subsequently, Eric Briole from
Efficient Innovation and Jean-Claude Dunyacn from Airbus, gave short pitches on changes and their impact on SRIA Challenge 2. Then, a very fruitful plenary discussion took place during which valuable
opinions, ideas and recommendations were shared.
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At the 5 EASN Workshop on Aerostructures in Manchester - UK, CAPPADOCIA organised the Workshop on “Impact of the developments of Aerostructures on Maintaining and Extending the European
Aeronautical Industry Leadership” on September 4, 2015. The specific objectives of the workshop were
Overall, the input of the questionnaires, interviews, and workshops have provided the CAPPADOCIA
team with valuable information to be shared through the 2nd year recommendations report of the
project. Both, the European Commission and ACARE Working Group 2, show great interest in the expected recommendations.
Cost efficiency aims at significantly reducing costs at all levels of the industrial supply chain so as
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Create and improve education means associated with research. Skill transfer has to be
to improve overall industry profitability. The associated approach implies that cost is reduced
planned in the future to use new design tools and promote the new development, imple-
without significantly reducing the targeted product’s quality. To achieve this objective, an analysis
mentation and manufacturing processes.
has been made to compare both Cost (effort to provide the solution) and Value (a measure of the
benefit). In line with this cost efficiency approach, the CAPPADOCIA yearly recommendations report
looks at what is currently harming competitiveness of the European aviation sector.
Its main objective is to provide improvement recommendations to the sector’s main stakeholders,
including the European commission and ACARE, aimed at increasing the European aviation industry
competitiveness, as well as foreseeing its prospective impact towards how the whole supply chain
operates. The CAPPADOCIA main high-level recommendations can be summarized as follows:
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Better liaise with non-aeronautical European research sectors where cross-fertilisation could
happen. It is particularly obvious when it comes to research related with digitalisation management and complex manufacturing. New mechanisms can be explored to increase cross-
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Explore how to use future technologies to create new market opportunities at European level, inside or outside the aeronautical community.
CAPPADOCIA identified several dedicated possible European funding initiatives focusing on solving
the current supply chain bottlenecks and gaps. However, those incentives alone will not be able to
create the required favorable environment to achieve the aimed supply chain competitiveness increase. Improved process and product development activities will be even stronger if their global
ecosystem encourages such an evolution. Thus, CAPPADOCIA conducted a thorough analysis of the
overall situation of the European aviation supply chain and proposes improvement recommendations accordingly, associated action plan and expected impacts.
fertilization between the aviation research and the other industrial sectors like automotive
and shipbuilding.
The full-length CAPPADOCIA second year Recommendations Report can be viewed and downloaded
through the CAPPADOCIA public website.
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Better anticipate the use of new technologies, in particular from a standardisation and certification point of view, to avoid bottlenecks and to speed-up delivery to the market of breakthrough technologies.
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Better take into account the aviation multidisciplinary transversal approach where progress
will lead to important improvements in designing and manufacturing.
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Better integrate the manufacturing actors of the chain by OEM designers during the last de-
velopment phases. A cost efficiency analysis recommends improvement in collective approaches, along with massive learning tool implementation for the supply chain (particularly
SMEs).
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Improve integration of the overall supply chain. Modularity and standardization methods
are insufficiently used in a collaborative approach with suppliers, they require dedicated research actions.
Having completed two full years of operation and aiming at delivering a comprehensive, coherent and wellarticulated recommendations report to be provided to the European Commission and ACARE, the CAPPADOCIA Consortium has conducted a successful two-days writing session, on the 3rd and 4th of December
2015, in Madrid – Spain, at the Aernnova facilities. The meeting was chaired by the Coordinator of the
project (Efficient Innovation) and was attended by all WP Leaders and the vast majority of project partners.
As originally planned, the first day of the session was devoted to the compilation of previously identified
and collected materials into the proposed structure of the CAPPADOCIA 2nd Year Recommendations Report. Prior to this face-to-face meeting, a series of WEBEX meetings had taken place, with the participation
of the entire consortium, for the preparation of the relevant materials and for organizing the expected con-
Discover other Cost-Efficiency-related EC-funded projects that are being assessed by the CAPPADOCIA
consortium. Numerous additional relevant projects, can be found on the dedicated CAPPADOCIA public
database.
ACCENT: Adaptive control of
manufacturing processes for a
new generation of jet engine components
WASIS: Composite fuselage section Wafer Design Approach for
Safety Increasing in Worst Case
Situations and Joints Minimizing
http://www.accent.wzl.rwthaachen.de/
http://www.wasis.eu/
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tributions from each consortium member. The CAPPADOCIA partners exchanged information on a continu-
ous elaboration process through dedicated Workshops, meetings, interviews and questionnaires.
BOPACS: Boltless assembling Of
Primary Aerospace Composite
Structures
During the second day of this dedicated writing session a final review of the 2nd Year Recommendations
http://www.bopacs.eu/
Report took place, making sure that the produced document is fully consensual and fully representative of
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the Aeronautics and Air Transport sectors. Also, the CAPPADOCIA partners exploited this gathering by conducting a 24Months General Assembly meeting whereby an overview of the main activities, achievements
and progress performed during the second year of the project was presented, as well as the next steps to
be made throughout the upcoming months were discussed and planned ahead.
QUICOM: Quantitative Inspection
of Complex Composite Aeronautic
Parts Using Advanced X-ray Techniques
http://www.quicom.eu/
COLTS: Casting of Large Ti Structures
http://www.colts-project.eu/
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i-VISION: Immersive Semanticsbased Virtual Environments for
the Design and Validation of Human-centred Aircraft Cockpits
http://www.ivision-project.eu/
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DAPHNE: Developing aircraft
photonic networks
http://www.fp7daphne.eu/
FUTURE: Flutter-Free Turbomachinery Blades
http://www.future-project.eu/
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FANTOM: Full-field advanced non
destructive technique for on-line
thermo-mechanical measurements on aeronautical structures
MASCA: MAnaging System Change in Aviation
http://www.fantom-ndt.eu/
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http://www.masca-project.eu/
Furthermore, a brief CAPPADOCIA presentation of the project’s concept, objectives and expected
results was hosted at the EASN booth. Additionally, CAPPADOCIA flyers as well as copies of the
common CSAs Brochure were also circulated to the participant of the Aerodays Conference.
The CAPPADOCIA partners would like to thank all those who showed interest in the CAPPADOCIA project and its up-to-day findings. An even bigger thank you goes to all those
who participated at the project’s dedicated Workshop and shared their valuable viewpoint and experience with the CAPPADOCIA team.
CAPPADOCIA is thrilled to have participated at the 7th European Aeronautics Days that was held
on 20-23 October 2015 at the QEII Centre in London, UK. The Conference, attended by more than
1.000 delegates, 280 key speakers and 90 exhibitors, was a great success and has acted as a positive enabler for industry, governments, the European Commission, research institutions, academia
and many others, to come together, interact and present strategic perspectives and achievements
in aviation research and innovation.
CAPPADOCIA had a twofold role in this successful event. Firstly, it took part in the session dedicated to the four “sister” Coordination and Support Actions of the call dealing with the same topic but
different domains (i.e. CAPPADOCIA, CATER, OPTICS and FORUM AE), with a comprehensive
presentation given by the project Coordinator, Mr. Fabien Marty from Efficient Innovation.
Moreover, the CAPPADOCIA Workshop on “Impact of developments on Maintaining and Extending Industrial Leadership” was successfully held as a parallel session at AERODAYS 2015. The
Workshop was attended by key RTD people from the European aviation industry, organizations and
policy makers. The fruitful conclusions of the workshop will support CAPPADOCIA in providing recommendations for updating the SRIA (affecting concurrently the research and innovation programme in the second half of Horizon2020 and beyond). The proceedings of the Workshop will be
shortly made available to the public through the CAPPADOCIA public website.
The European Aeronautics Science Network has successfully carried out the 5th, out of a series of annu-
CATER -Coordinating Air transport Time Efficiency Re-
al specialized Workshops, in the field of Aerostructures. The Workshop was hosted by the University of
search:
Manchester, on 2-4 September 2015. The EASN International Workshops, every year, aim to share
Experts consultation survey re-launched!
high quality, current achievements and new upstream ideas for future research and in the same time
With two years of operation under its belt, CATER assesses the state of the art of R&I on time efficiency
to offer their participants a forum to meet and present among relative audience, their latest advance-
and identifies existing gaps & bottlenecks within the targeted research landscape according with the
ments. In this frame, the event proved to be a unique opportunity for the participants to obtain an
objectives set up in the call addressed. Both activities then lead to the edition of insightful recommen-
overview of the recent advancements in the research scene, with presentations from 21 ongoing re-
dations reports that will be utilized by research policy makers and Air Transport time efficiency stake-
search projects and support actions which were performed in three parallel sessions. Furthermore,
holders. The CATER team is currently launching a dedicated online consultation survey aiming to gather
distinguished speakers updated the delegates about the future Industrial trends and European priori-
the views of high profile R&I experts and key aviation stakeholders on:
ties with respect to the medium and long-term goals, as set by the aviation stakeholders and partici-
- The main Time Efficiency shortfalls in today’s European Air Transport System
pants had the opportunity to engage into fruitful discussions and networking with more than 100 rep-
- What innovations could most help the ATS community regarding Time Efficiency
resentatives of the Academia, research community and industry.
- The soundness of ACARE’s stated Time Efficiency goals
If you want to share your valuable expertise and insight, kindly fill-in the relevant questionnaire which
Aiming to exploit this ideal context, CAPPADOCIA organized and held its first dedicated mini-Workshop
can be found here. The process is very simple and should not take you more than 15 minutes to com-
in the frame of the EASN event. The CAPPADOCIA mini-Workshop on «Impact of the developments of
plete. The outcomes of the questionnaire will be handled anonymously and aggregated into CATER
Aerostructures on Maintaining and Extending the European Aeronautical Industry Leadership» was
“stakeholder consultation” reports.
a great success. Attended by key Aerostructures RTD persons, offered room for an open discussion and
accordingly, several participants presented their individual standpoint through a five-minute pitch, on
Aerostructures latest promising achievements, bottlenecks, gaps and opportunities.
The acquired experts’ consultation input will support the CAPPADOCIA activities within WP2: “Analysis
of the state of the art of research and innovation for CAPPADOCIA targeted research area”, as well as
will feed the project’s 2nd year recommendations report.
OPTICS: Observation Platform for Technological and Institutional Consolidation of research in Safety
EASA-OPTICS CONFERENCE ON AVIATION SAFETY RESEARCH – DO POLITICS
AND SAFETY MIX WELL?
The EASA-OPTICS Conference on Aviation Safety Research “Do Politics and Safety mix well?” will be
held the 12-13 April 2016 in Cologne, Germany. This 2-day event is organised in cooperation with
the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), the Advisory Council of Aviation Research & Innovation in
Europe (ACARE) and the European Commission. It offers the opportunity to engage with policy and decision makers, as well as leading aviation safety researchers, to confirm promising research avenues
and define the ongoing and future Air Safety Research and Innovation Strategy. The workshops aim to
provide an answer to the following questions:
- How do we set and monitor targets that improve both business and safety?
- How do we see around the corner, when new issues arise and we can’t wait for regulation?
- Are we implementing the good safety research?
- Are we making efficient use of European safety research resources?
The research leading to these results has gratefully received funding from the
European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under
grant agreement 605414.