| Author (Corporate) | European Commission |
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| Series Title | COM |
| Series Details | (2013) 505 final (10.7.13) |
| Publication Date | 10/07/2013 |
| Content Type | Policy-making |
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The Europe 2020 strategy sets out the EU’s commitment to reduce all greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 20% by 2020. The Transport White Paper ‘Roadmap to a Single European Transport Area - Towards a competitive and resource efficient transport system’ recognises that transport accounts for a large share of GHG emissions (~20%) and therefore proposes reducing transport GHG emissions by 60% between 1990 and 2050. Europe 2020 also calls for an ‘Innovation Union’ to tackle the societal challenges we face and the Horizon 2020 proposal includes the Smart, Green and Integrated Transport challenge aiming, among other things, to secure both resource-efficient transport that respects the environment and global leadership for the European transport industry. Finally, Europe 2020 also calls for action on sustainable growth and promotes a more resource-efficient, greener and competitive economy. At the same time, the current economic and financial crisis Europe is facing demands bold measures towards robust and sustainable growth. One of the main aims of Horizon 2020, the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation covering the period 2014-2020, is to strengthen European industry through actions supporting research and innovation across a range of industrial sectors. In particular, it provides for the creation of public-private partnerships that will contribute to tackling some of the key challenges Europe is facing. With reference to aeronautics and recognising the evolving challenges facing the sector, a High Level Group on Aviation Research produced in 2011 a new vision for the European aviation sector, ‘Flightpath 2050’, following the objectives of Europe 2020 and the Transport White Paper. It sets ambitious goals to reduce the environmental impact by 2050, through the implementation of a new Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda of the ACARE (Advisory Council for Aeronautics Research in Europe) Technology Platform, and aims to guide and support future actions in public and private funding programmes along a common roadmap across Europe. Clean Sky contributes to this goal in Europe through advanced research and full-scale demonstration actions in green technology for air transport in line with the strategic research agenda identified, with the involvement of all public and private stakeholders and a time horizon that runs up to 2050. This new proposal relates to a Joint Undertaking in the field of Aeronautics. It follows on from and partly builds up on the results obtained by the previous Clean Sky JTI in this area established in 2008 under the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) and partly develops new technologies and research lines. This proposal is in line with the Commission Communication 'Public-private partnerships, in Horizon 2020: a powerful tool to deliver on innovation and growth in Europe'. |
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| Source Link | Link to Main Source http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=COM:2013:505:FIN |
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| Subject Categories | Culture, Education and Research |
| Countries / Regions | Europe |
