AERADE newsletter - Vol 3 Issue 3


*Newsletter*		August 2004

Contents Advisory Council for Aeronautics Research in Europe The British Library: Delivering the world's knowledge Intelligence investigations Celebrating the 35th anniversary of Apollo 11 EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT: IMechE seminar: An Engineer in Court © Cranfield University 2004. Find out more about AERADE.		Advisory Council for Aeronautics Research in Europe
		This article was kindly written by Adair Swan, AECMA (European Association of Aerospace Industries)
		ACARE was launched at the Paris Airshow in June 2001. It comprises 37 members including representation from the Member States, the European Commission and stakeholders, including manufacturing industry, airlines, airports, service providers, regulators, the research establishments and academia.
		ACARE's main focus has been to establish and carry forward a Strategic Research Agenda (SRA) that will influence all European stakeholders in the planning of research programmes, particularly national and EU programmes, in line with Vision 2020 and the goals it identifies. The first edition of the SRA, the culmination of more than 5000 days of effort by the ACARE working teams comprising some 300 experts from all the stakeholders, was released in November 2002. It was subsequently praised by the European Commissioner for Research as "an excellent example of non interventionist, modern industrial policy at work". After its launch it was disseminated widely throughout Europe through structured national workshops where it received widespread support. The main message delivered was that the SRA was not only for specialists in European research collaboration but was relevant to a wide range of interests in the aviation community. This clearly had an impact and the SRA is now used as the reference for aligning European, national, regional and private research programmes. The concept for the SRA has always been a dynamic series of re-iterations over time, allowing new developments within and outside the air transport community to be absorbed. As such, work is already well advanced in preparing the second edition of the SRA, which is due out later this year. ACARE and its working teams have been concentrating their efforts in: Strengthening the knowledge for specific sectors and perspectives missing in SRA-1 Developing a range of different future scenarios and interpreting these against the challenges and the resultant technologies required ACARE is also considering the most efficient and effective institutional enablers for research to support the implementation of the Agenda. It is looking in particular into aspects such as research infrastructures and education, capabilities of the technology supply chain across the Member States, the roles of the stakeholders and characteristics of their research programmes. Many have been delighted to witness the progress ACARE has made. The collaboration among public institutions and private stakeholders, so well consolidated within ACARE, will provide a good basis for other private / public partnerships in research and technology development. Further information can be found by visiting the ACARE web site at www.acare4europe.org.