Clean Aviation Newsletter - January 2025

Top Story

#CAAF2025 announces Bertrand Piccard’s participation!

Bertrand Piccard is the mind behind Climate Impulse and its flagship project ‘the first non-stop net-zero hydrogen aircraft’ aiming to bring together innovation leaders & key technology players to engage the economic, industrial, and educational sectors in climate action. See agenda.

Featured Clean Aviation Project

PITCH-ATHLON: Pitch & Connect!

The PITCH-ATHLON is a brand-new Call 3-related event aiming to facilitate connections across SMEs/Start-ups, Research Centres, Universities, and key industry players but also to give visibility to innovative ideas, needed to master the shift in aviation.

Clean Sky 2 Spotlight

Advanced Geared Turbofan Demonstrators

MTU Aero Engines, in collaboration with GKN Aerospace Sweden and DLR, has advanced low-pressure turbine and high-pressure compressor technologies through Clean Sky 2 demonstrators EMVAL and the two-shaft compressor rig. Watch full video.

TRAIL nacelle reduces emissions and noise – Fast Rotorcraft and Airframe

Clean Sky 2's TRAIL project has developed an eco-friendly, weight-saving nacelle for tiltrotor aircraft which is produced using sustainable manufacturing techniques and showing a 20% increase in noise damping. Read more.

On our radar

New mandate, new agenda: Will the EU live up to its promises on R&I?

Clean Aviation will closely follow the "New Mandate, New Agenda" event, with particular attention to the key messages from Marc Lema?tre (DG-RTD), Christian Ehler (MEP), and Ekaterina Zaharieva (EC). Know more.